Proverbs 9:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

Proverbs 9:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 9:3
She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
Proverbs 7:10-12
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. …

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Adultery Commandments Concupiscence Copulation Crime Fool Fornication Harlot (prostitute)

Commentary

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

(vv. 13-18)

We have heard what Christ has to say, to engage our affections to God and godliness, and one would think the whole world should go after him; but here we are told how industrious the tempter is to seduce unwary souls into the paths of sin, and with the most he gains his point, and Wisdom’s courtship is not effectual. Now observe, I. Who is the tempter— a foolish woman, Folly herself, in opposition…

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

(vv. 14)

14. on a seat--literally, “throne,” takes a prominent place, impudently and haughtily.