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To deliver thee from thez strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

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Prov. 5:20• ²⁰And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? (Prov. 5:20)

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Prov. 5:3‑20• ³For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
⁴but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
⁵Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol.
⁶Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not whither.
⁷And now, children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
⁸Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
⁹lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;
¹⁰lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil come into the house of a stranger;
¹¹and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
¹²and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
¹³and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;
¹⁴I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
¹⁶Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.
¹⁷Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
¹⁹As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.
²⁰And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? (Prov. 5:3‑20)

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Prov. 6:24• ²⁴to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. (Prov. 6:24)

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Prov. 7:5‑23• ⁵that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
⁶For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
⁷and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
⁸passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
⁹in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
¹⁰And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
¹¹She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
¹²now without, now in the broadways,--and she lieth in wait at every corner.
¹³And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
¹⁴I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
¹⁵therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
¹⁶I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
¹⁷I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
¹⁸Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
¹⁹For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
²⁰he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
²¹With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
²²He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks serve for the correction of the fool;
²³till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life. (Prov. 7:5‑23)

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Prov. 22:14• ¹⁴The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein. (Prov. 22:14)

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Prov. 23:27• ²⁷For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. (Prov. 23:27)

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Gen. 39:3‑12• ³And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and that Jehovah made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
⁴And Joseph found favour in his eyes, and attended on him; and he set him over his house, and all that he had he gave into his hand.
⁵And it came to pass from the time he had set him over his house and all that he had, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Jehovah was on all that he had in the house and in the field.
⁶And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and took cognizance of nothing with him, save the bread that he ate. And Joseph was of a beautiful form and of a beautiful countenance.
⁷And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and said, Lie with me!
⁸But he refused, and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master takes cognizance of nothing with me: what is in the house, and all that he has, he has given into my hand.
⁹There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he withheld anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife; and how should I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
¹⁰And it came to pass as she spoke to Joseph day by day and he hearkened not to her, to lie with her and to be with her,
¹¹that on a certain day he went into the house to do his business, and there was none of the men of the house there in the house.
¹²Then she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me! But he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran out. (Gen. 39:3‑12)

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Neh. 13:26‑27• ²⁶Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.
²⁷And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives? (Neh. 13:26‑27)

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Eccl. 7:26• ²⁶and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her. (Eccl. 7:26)

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Prov. 7:21• ²¹With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him. (Prov. 7:21)

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Prov. 29:5• ⁵A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his steps. (Prov. 29:5)

• She is the ensnaring enemy of morality and virtue, who today, as in Solomon’s time, pursues her nefarious traffic in the bodies and souls of the young and unwary. Forsaking the guide of her youth, forgetting the covenant of her God, she gives herself up to impure pleasures and soul-destroying lusts. (“Proverbs Two” by H.A. Ironside)

• But having considered all this, is there not another meaning also to be taken from these many warnings concerning the strange woman? In a secondary sense it seems evident that as in the evil man we have set forth independency of God-rationalism run riot; so in the strange woman we see false religion as eventually to be headed up in Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations that be upon the face of the earth. How devious are her ways! How subtle and deceptive her solicitations! (“Proverbs Two” by H.A. Ironside)

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To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;