Proverbs 7:27
The road to her house is the road to the grave. Those who enter her bedroom [PRS] will die as a result.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
In Context
26She has caused many men to be ruined; truly, no one can count the men she has killed.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:5If you go where she goes [MTY], you will go down to where the dead people are. Her steps will lead you straight to the grave.
Ecclesiastes 7:26One thing I learned was that ◄allowing a woman to seduce you/having sex with a woman to whom you are not married► is worse than dying. A woman who tries to seduce men is as dangerous as a trap [MET]. If you allow her to put her arms around you, it will be as though she will be fastening you with chains. Women like that will capture sinful men, but men who please God will escape from such women.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:25-27
The Seduction of a Youth. 24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. We have here the application of the foregoing story: " Hearken to me therefore, and not to such seducers ( v. 24 ); give ear to a father, and not to an enemy." 1. "Take good… Read the whole commentary →