21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
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For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
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.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
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.
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…
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