Proverbs 7:21
With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
In Context
20he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
Cross References
Judges 16:15Then she said to him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? these three times hast thou mocked me, and hast not told me in what is thy great strength.
2 Kings 4:8And it came to pass on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a wealthy 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 12:2They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.
Proverbs 6:24to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Luke 14:23And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the ways and fences and compel to come in, that my house may be filled;
Acts 16:15And when she had been baptised and her house, she besought [us], saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide [there]. And she constrained us.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:7-24
The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now… Read the whole commentary →