Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Proverbs 7:8
Verse Proverbs 7:8. He went the way to her house.] She appears to have had a corner house sufficiently remarkable; and a way from the main street to it.
Verse Proverbs 7:8. He went the way to her house.] She appears to have had a corner house sufficiently remarkable; and a way from the main street to it.
CHAPTER 7 The entire chapter is a continuation of the strange woman and the warning against her. The Word and the law of the Lord will keep the obedient son from her. If Solomon had obeyed the Word of...
The longest and most elaborate description of the adulteress, the fate of her victim, and the value of wisdom as a safeguard. PROVERBS 7:1. General advice to the young man to observe the commandment...
STREET. back street. WENT. sauntered....
CHAPTER 7 TEXT Proverbs 7:1-12 1. My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee. 2. Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye. 3. Bind them upon thy fin...
Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, PASSING THROUGH THE STREET NEAR HER CORNER - in violation of the precept, "Pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away...
THE BAD WOMAN A picture drawn from life of the enticing of a young man by a wicked woman....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 7 PROVERBS CHAPTER S 7 TO 9 The last, and greatest, of Solomon’s lessons, begins here. Since chapter 1, we have read the words that Solomon t...
We want to shout to the young man, ‘Stop!’ He walked along the wrong road. Down that road, there was danger. He approached the place where the woman would tempt him. The young man was simple. He did...
AND HE WENT THE WAY... — The word is used of the slow step of a religious procession (2 Samuel 6:13), here of the sauntering of the idle youth up and down the street within view of the temptress’s hou...
עֹבֵ֣ר בַּ֭ † שּׁוּק אֵ֣צֶל פִּנָּ֑הּ וְ...
CHAPTER 8 REALISM IN MORAL TEACHING "I looked forth through my lattice; and I beheld." Proverbs 7:6 THE three Chapter s which close the introduction of our book (7-9) present a lively and picturesqu...
This is a second parental exhortation, and consists of a warning against the allurements of the strange woman. A graphic picture of the seduction of a youth void of understanding is given. The woman w...
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corne...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
PASSING THROUGH THE STREET NEAR HER CORNER,.... The house of the harlot that stood in a corner to take in persons that came both ways; to come near which is dangerous; this was putting himself in the...
Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, Ver. 8. _Near her corner._] Which he should have balked, according to Proverbs 5:8. _See Trapp on "_ Pro 5:8 _"_ Men's ow...
_For I looked through my casement_ Hebrew, בעד אשׁנבי, _per fenestellam meam, my little window_, or _lattice_, rather. For “in Palestine they had no glass to their windows: they closed them with latti...
passing through the street near her corner, where harlots were accustomed to linger for the purpose of accosting; AND HE WENT THE WAY TO HER HOUSE, the very slow sauntering, strolling, or pacing being...
CONDEMNATION OF FORNICATION AND ADULTERY. On account of the terrible devastation wrought by sins of adultery and by every gratification of sexual desires outside of holy wedlock, affecting not only t...
6-27 Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after...
PASSING THROUGH THE STREET; idle and careless. NEAR HER CORNER; near the corner of the street in which her house stood; such places being most convenient for that wicked purpose, as giving opportunity...
Proverbs 7:8 along H5674 (H8802) street H7784 near H681 corner H6434 took H6805 (H8799) path H1870 house...
A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE SEDUCTION OF THE NAIVE YOUNG MAN BY THE ‘STRANGE WOMAN' (PROVERBS 7:6). This account divides up into three, what the father observes of the naive young man's actions (Pro...
CONTENTS: Warning against all approaches to the sin of adultery. CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: The Word of God, if used for a defense and armor, will keep one from the strange woman and...
Proverbs 7:1. _Keep my words lay up my commandments._ These terms being of constant occurrence in the didactic scriptures, will be found explained in the beginning of the hundred and nineteenth psalm....
_He went the way to her house._ OCCASIONS OF SIN I. Many occasions of sin present themselves unlooked for. 1. All places afford temptations. 2. All times have theirs. 3. All things afford it. 4....
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 7:6 The SIMPLE and the YOUNG stumble into adultery by putting themselves in the wrong place (v. Proverbs 7:8
CRITICAL NOTES. PROVERBS 7:7. SIMPLE, “inexperienced.” PROVERBS 7:8. WENT, “moved leisurely, sauntered.” PROVERBS 7:9. IN THE BLACK AND DARK NIGHT, literally, “in the apple,” or “pupil” of the night...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 7:1 13. _Thirteenth admonitory discourse, _containing a warning against adultery, treated under a different aspect from previous exhortations, and strengthened by an example. In...
He continues his exhortation to the son in chapter 7. Still talking about these women that are the wrong sort. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and li...
1 Corinthians 6:18; 2 Samuel 11:2; 2 Samuel 11:3; 2 Timothy 2:22;...
Passing — Idle and careless, near the corner of the street in which her house stood....