Proverbs 7:21
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him.
Webster Bible
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 a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
Cross References
Judges 16:15And she said to him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? Thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me in what thy great strength lieth .
2 Kings 4:8And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a distinguished 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 vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and 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 servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Acts 16:15And when she was baptized, and her household, 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 →