26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; …
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-27)We have here the application of the foregoing story: “ Hearken to me therefore , and not to such seducers (Pr. 7:24); give ear to a father, and not to an enemy.” 1. “Take good counsel when it is given you. Let not thy heart decline to her ways (Pr. 7:25); never leave the paths of virtue, though strait and narrow, solitary and up-hill, for the way of the adulteress, though green, and broad, and cro…
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