“ Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. ”
Her (c) feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. (c) All her doings lead to destruction.
Proverbs 5:1-9 ; Proverbs 5:10-19 ; Proverbs 5:20-23 . Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and Proverbs 5:3 . The subject is the praise of Wisdom, and the desc...
hell . the grave. Hebrew. sheol. App-35.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Her feet go down to death - She first, like a serpent, infuses her poison, by which the whole constitution of her paramour is infected, which s...
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell - in awful contrast to "taking hold of the paths of life" ( Proverbs 2:19 ). Dea...
Unholy Passion. Hallowed Love A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss of honour, property, life, o...
Take hold on hell. — They lead straight to it.
CHAPTER 6 THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN "His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his...
Quicksands! Keep Off! Proverbs 5:1-14 It is a matter for great thankfulness that the Bible, which is God's book rather than man's, deals so strongly and wisely with one great evil, which has ma...
This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural...
Her feet go down to death ,.... The ways in which she walks, and in which she leads others, issue oftentimes in corporeal death; and always in eternal death, if grace prevent not; and unless men are...
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Ver. 5. Her feet go down to death. ] The Romans were wont to have their funerals at the gates of Venus's temple, to signify that lust was th...
For the lips of a strange woman , &c. It concerns thee to get and to use discretion, that thou mayest be able to resist those manifold temptations to which thou art exposed; drop as a honeycomb...
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understa...
Her feet; her course or manner of life.
The Need To Listen To Solomon's Wisdom And Not To Be Enticed By The Words Of The Strange Woman Which Lead To Death And Slavery ( Proverbs 5:1-14 ). The constant reference to the need to avoid the...
ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19 Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures those gazelles are, and how gracefully they bound....
hell Hebrew, "Sheol," ( See Scofield) - ( Habakkuk 2:5 ).
Proverbs 5:3 . The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb. She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woma...
My son, attend unto my wisdom. Caution against sexual sins The scope of the passage is a warning against seventh-commandment sins, which youth is so prone to, the temptations to which are so vi...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 5:1-20 8. Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced...
Warning against Wantonness
Proverbs 2:18 ; Proverbs 2:19 ; Proverbs 7:27
Feet — Her manner of life.