Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 7:16
She designs to inflame his lust by the mention of the bed, and by its ornaments and perfumes. read more
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Matthew Poole
Joseph Exell
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 7:6-27
CRITICAL NOTES. Proverbs 7:7. Simple, “inexperienced.” Proverbs 7:8. Went, “moved leisurely, sauntered.” Proverbs 7:9. In the black and dark night, literally, “in the apple,” or “pupil” of the night. Proverbs 7:10. Literally, “a woman, the attire of a harlot,” with no connecting word between, as though the woman were nothing but such a dress. Subtil, “guarded.” Wordsworth renders “her heart is like a walled fortress.” Proverbs 7:11. Stubborn, rather “boisterous, ungovernable.” Proverbs 7:14.... read more
Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 7:1-27
Chapter 7He continues his exhortation to the son in chapter 7. Still talking about these women that are the wrong sort.My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the pupil of your eye. Bind them upon your fingers, write them on the table of your heart. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, and from the stranger who flatters with her words (... read more
Joseph Sutcliffe
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 7:1-27
Proverbs 7:1 . Keep my words lay up my commandments. These terms being of constant occurrence in the didactic scriptures, will be found explained in the beginning of the hundred and nineteenth psalm. Proverbs 7:2 . Keep my law, as the apple of thine eye; a most precious, beautiful, and tender sense. The idea is often repeated, as in Deuteronomy 32:10. Psalms 17:8. Proverbs 7:3 . Bind them upon thy fingers, as the phylacteries. Deuteronomy 6:8. Love them, have them always at hand,... read more
Joseph Exell
The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 7:16
Proverbs 7:16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry.A luxurious bed“I have exhausted the toil of myself and bought the toil of others to increase the luxury of my rest. Come and see the courtly elegance with which my bed is decked. Long and weary days have I laboured at the counting-house, at the workshop, or at the desk. And now my bed is decked. Come and look. Place yourself at my chamber window and tell me what you see now and what you will see next year.”1. “I see thee lying on... read more
John Trapp
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:13
Pro 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him, Ver. 13. So she caught him, and kissed him. ] Strange impudence in this "strange woman," who hath not her name for nought. Potiphar’s wife was such a beast; so was Messalina the empress, wife to Claudius, Joan, queen of Naples, and other prodigious strumpets, of the kind of those whom they call Borboritae. We have heard, saith a grave divine, a of virgins, which at first seemed modest, blushing at the... read more
John Trapp
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:14
Proverbs 7:14 [I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. Ver. 14. I have peace offerings. ] Sacris abutitur, ut sceleratis mos est; a she pretends religion to her filthy practices. So did those wicked women that lay with Eli’s sons at the door of the tabernacle. 1Sa 2:22 So did King Edward IV’s holy whore, as he used to call her, b that came to him out of a nunnery when he used to call for her. And such were those kedesheth, or common whores, so called in Hebrew,... read more
John Trapp
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:15
Pro 7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. Ver. 15. Therefore came I forth. ] As having much good cheer at home, as at all peace offerings they had. Gluttony is the gallery that lustfulness walks through. a Diligently to seek thy face. ] Or, Thy person, not thy purse; thee, not thine do I seek. Quis credit? who belives that? And I have found thee. ] By a providence, no doubt; God must have a hand in it, or else it is marvel. "God hath... read more
John Trapp
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:16
Pro 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt. Ver. 16. I have decked my bed. ] Lest haply by being abroad so late he should question where to have a bed, she assures him of a dainty one, with curious curtains. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 7:15
Diligently to seek thy face; as not being able to take any pleasure in my feast without thy company. I have found thee, by a happy providence of God complying with my desires. read more