Proverbs 23:28

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Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

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  • Prov 7:12 : 12 at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.
  • Jer 3:2 : 2 “Look up at the hilltops and consider this. Where have you not been ravished? You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the wilderness. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.
  • Hos 4:11 : 11 Judgment of Pagan Idolatry and Cultic Prostitution Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.
  • 1 Cor 10:8 : 8 And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.
  • Rev 17:1-2 : 1 The Great Prostitute and the Beast Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke to me.“Come,” he said,“I will show you the condemnation and punishment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.”
  • Prov 7:22-27 : 22 Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare 23 till an arrow pierces his liver– like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life. 24 So now, sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words I speak. 25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways; 26 for she has brought down many fatally wounded, and all those she has slain are many. 27 Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But they do not realize that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.
  • Num 25:1 : 1 Israel’s Sin with the Moabite Women When Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab.
  • Judg 16:4-9 : 4 After this Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley. 5 The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her,“Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.” 6 So Delilah said to Samson,“Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated.” 7 Samson said to her,“If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become weak and be just like any other man.” 8 So the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried and she tied him up with them. 9 They hid in the bedroom and then she said to him,“The Philistines are here, Samson!” He snapped the bowstrings as easily as a thread of yarn snaps when it is put close to fire. The secret of his strength was not discovered. 10 Delilah said to Samson,“Look, you deceived me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued.” 11 He said to her,“If they tie me tightly with brand new ropes that have never been used, I will become weak and be just like any other man.” 12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him,“The Philistines are here, Samson!”(The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) But he tore the ropes from his arms as if they were a piece of thread. 13 Delilah said to Samson,“Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be subdued.” He said to her,“If you weave the seven braids of my hair into the fabric on the loom and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man.” 14 So she made him go to sleep, wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric on the loom, fastened it with the pin, and said to him,“The Philistines are here, Samson!” He woke up and tore away the pin of the loom and the fabric. 15 She said to him,“How can you say,‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.” 16 She nagged him every day and pressured him until he was sick to death of it. 17 Finally he told her his secret. He said to her,“My hair has never been cut, for I have been dedicated to God from the time I was conceived. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men.” 18 When Delilah saw that he had told her his secret, she sent for the rulers of the Philistines, saying,“Come up here again, for he has told me his secret.” So the rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her, bringing the silver in their hands. 19 She made him go to sleep on her lap and then called a man in to shave off the seven braids of his hair. She made him vulnerable and his strength left him. 20 She said,“The Philistines are here, Samson!” He woke up and thought,“I will do as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not realize that the LORD had left him. 21 The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison. 22 His hair began to grow back after it had been shaved off.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words; 17 who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God. 18 For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits. 19 None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.

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    25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways;

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  • Prov 1:16-18
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    11If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

  • Prov 2:18
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    18For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits.

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    33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.

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    28When the wicked gain control, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

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