Genesis 39:7
And it comes to pass after these things, that his lord’s wife lifts up her eyes to Joseph and says, “Lie with me”;
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Genesis 6:2and the sons of God see that they, the daughters of men, [are] beautiful, and they take women for themselves of all whom they have chosen.
Job 31:1“I made a covenant for my eyes, || And how do I attend to a virgin?
Proverbs 2:16To deliver you from the strange woman, || From the stranger who has made her sayings smooth,
Proverbs 6:26For a harlot consumes to a cake of bread, || And an adulteress hunts the precious soul.
Proverbs 7:15Therefore I have come forth to meet you, || To earnestly seek your face, and I find you.
Ezekiel 16:25At every head of the way you have built your high place, || And you make your beauty abominable, || And open wide your feet to everyone passing by, || And multiply your whoredoms,
Matthew Henry on Genesis 39:2-7
The History of Joseph. ( b. c. 1721.) 1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither. 2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand. 4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he… Read the whole commentary →