Proverbs 2:18
For her bais inclineth toward mavet, 1 and her ma'agalot (paths) to the refa'im (spirits of the dead). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
In Context
19None that go unto her return again, 1 neither attain they to the orkhot chayyim (paths of life). 1
Cross References
Proverbs 5:4But her end is marah (bitter) as wormwood, 1 sharp as a two-edged cherev. 1
Proverbs 7:22He goeth after her and followeth immediately, 1 as a shor (ox) goeth to tavach (stock yard, slaughter-house), 1 or as if bound with fetters to the musar (punishment) of the fool; 1
Proverbs 7:27Her bais is the drakhei Sheol, 1 going down to the chadarim (chambers, rooms) of mavet (death). + 7:27 T.N. The off-stage character here in chapter 7 has been the cuckold. Because of her Ba'al affair, Hashem became the cuckold of Israel even as Hosea became the cuckold of Gomer.
1 Corinthians 6:9Or do you not have da'as that the resha'im (unrighteous ones) will not inherit the Malchut Hashem? Do not be deceived! Neither zannayim (fornicators), nor ovdei elilim (idolaters), nor mena'afim (adulterers), nor effeminate call boys nor homosexuals, + 6:9 Job 13:9; Lv 18:20; Dt 22:22; Lv 18:22
Ephesians 5:5For of this you have da'as vada (with certainty), that every zoneh (fornicator) or impure person or covetous person — chamdanut is avodah zarah, avodah elilim — does not have a nachalah in the Malchut of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and of Hashem.
Revelation 22:15Outside are the kelevim (dogs) and the mekhashfim (sorcerers, abusers of drugs); + 22:15 T.N. the original language “pharmakoi” is where we derive the word for “drugs”; sorcerers often abused drugs to hallucinate or induce a passive state when they worked their magic and witchcraft; see Ga 5:20 and Rv 21:8 and the zonim (sexually immoral) and the rotzkhim (murderers) and the ovdei haelilim (idolaters) and everyone loving and practicing sheker. + 22:15 Dt 23:18
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 2:11-22
The Benefits Conferred by Wisdom. 10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: 16 To deliver thee from the strange… Read the whole commentary →