Proverbs 7:21
Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.
Cross References
Judges 16:15Againe shee sayde vnto him, Howe canst thou say, I loue thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked mee these three times, and hast not tolde me wherein thy great strength lieth.
2 Kings 4:8And on a time Elisha came to Shunem, and there a woman of great estimation constrained him to eate bread: and as he passed by, he turned in thither to eate bread.
Psalms 12:2They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.
Proverbs 6:24To keepe thee from the wicked woman, and from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.
Luke 14:23Then the master sayd to the seruaunt, Goe out into the hie wayes, and hedges, and compell them to come in, that mine house may bee filled.
Acts 16:15And when she was baptized, and her houshold, she besought vs, saying, If ye haue iudged me to be faithfull to ye Lord, come into mine house, and abide there: and she constrained vs.
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 →