Proverbs 7:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Proverbs 7:21 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Proverbs 7:5
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
2 Kings 4:8
And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
Psalms 12:2
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Luke 24:29
But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-23)

Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing would be so entertaining to the audience, nor give them so much di…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. caused ... yield--or, “inclines.” flattering--(Compare Pr 5:3). forced him--by persuasion overcoming his scruples.