20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-23)Solomon, having shown the great evil that there is in adultery and fornication, and all such lewd and filthy courses, here prescribes remedies against them. I. Enjoy with satisfaction the comforts of lawful marriage, which was ordained for the prevention of uncleanness, and therefore ought to be made use of in time, lest it should not prove effectual for the cure of that which it might have preven…
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