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Text -- Proverbs 7:1-11 (NET)
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Admonition to Avoid the Wiles of the Adulteress
7:1 My child , keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.
7:2 Keep my commands so that you may live , and obey my instruction as your most prized possession .
7:3 Bind them on your forearm ; write them on the tablet of your heart .
7:4 Say to wisdom , “You are my sister ,” and call understanding a close relative ,
7:5 so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman , from the loose woman who flatters you with her words .
7:6 For at the window of my house through my window lattice I looked out
7:7 and I saw among the naive – I discerned among the youths – a young man who lacked wisdom .
7:8 He was passing by the street near her corner , making his way along the road to her house
7:9 in the twilight , the evening , in the dark of the night .
7:10 Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent .
7:11 (She is loud and rebellious , she does not remain at home –
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Young Men |
Adultery |
Ignorance |
Lasciviousness |
Women |
Chastity |
Temptation |
Blindness |
Commandments |
Wisdom |
Hypocrisy |
HARLOT |
Bitumen |
APPLE, OF THE EYE |
Prostitute |
Tablets of Law |
Apple of the Eye |
Children |
Flattery |
House |
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NET Notes: Pro 7:1 Heb “within you” (so NASB, NIV); KJV, ASV, NRSV “with you.” BDB 860 s.v. צָפַן Qal.1 suggests th...
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NET Notes: Pro 7:2 Heb “the little man in your eye.” Traditionally this Hebrew idiom is translated into English as “the apple of your eye” (so KJ...
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NET Notes: Pro 7:3 This is an allusion to Deut 6:8. Binding the teachings on the fingers and writing them on the tablets here are implied comparisons for preserving the ...
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NET Notes: Pro 7:4 The metaphor is meant to signify that the disciple will be closely related to and familiar with wisdom and understanding, as close as to a sibling. Wi...
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NET Notes: Pro 7:5 Heb “she makes smooth her words.” This expression means “she flatters with her words.”
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NET Notes: Pro 7:7 This young man who lacked wisdom is one of the simpletons, lacking keen judgment, one void of common sense (cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT) or understanding...
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NET Notes: Pro 7:8 Heb “way of her house.” This expression uses an adverbial accusative of location, telling where he was marching along. The term “hou...
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NET Notes: Pro 7:9 Heb “in the middle of the night, and dark”; KJV “in the black and dark night”; NRSV “at the time of night and darkness.&...
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NET Notes: Pro 7:10 Heb “kept secret of heart”; cf. ASV, NRSV “wily of heart.” The verbal form is the passive participle from נָצ...
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