Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
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Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
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Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
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Her house is the way to the nether-world, going down to the chambers of death.
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Proverbs 7:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
- Proverbs 9:18 But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- Proverbs 2:18-19 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits. None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.
- Revelation 22:15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 7:27 Her house [is] the way to hell,…
Pro 7:27 Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Ver. 27. Her house is the way to Hell.] The shortest cut to utter destruction. This, if well believed, would make the young man stop or step back, as if he had trod upon a serpent.
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“ Sed vivunt homines tanquam mors nulla sequatur:
Aut velut infernus fabula vana foret. ”
Going down to the chambers of death.] Both temporal and eternal. Lo, those hosts that welcome men into their inn with smiling countenance will cut their throats in their beds. The syrens are said to live in green meadows, and to have by them ever a heap of dead men’s bones. {a}
{a} Natal. Comes.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To hell; or; to the grave; for the word…
To hell; or; to the grave; for the word is used in both senses; and this sense seems better to agree both with the foregoing and following words. Although, without repentance, hell will certainly be their portion, and their first death will be followed by the second.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 27. Her house is the way to hell]…
Verse 27. Her house is the way to hell] שאול sheol, the pit, the grave, the place of the dead, the eternal and infernal world. And they who, through such, fall into the grave, descend lower, into the chambers of death; the place where pleasure is at an end, and illusion mocks no more.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Death. There can be no precaution too great, chap.…
Death. There can be no precaution too great, chap. ii. 18. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 27. Her house is the way to hell —…
27. Her house is the way to hell — שׁאול, (sheol,) the infernal world. It is the way par excellence — the surest and most direct road to perdition. Comp. Pro_2:18; Pro_9:18; Pro_16:25. Miller renders, “The ways to sheol are at her house.”
Commentators generally regard this woman as the representative of the adulteress. It is more probable that she is the type of dissolute women in general. Her tricks and ways are rather those of the open harlot than of the secret adulteress. True, she speaks of the man of the house as being absent, as if she had a husband, but this may be only a specimen of the artifice commonly used to give assurance of safety.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. the way] Lit. the ways. The plural may…
27. the way] Lit. the ways. The plural may perhaps be used here, and in the similar phrase, the ways of death (Pro_14:12, Pro_16:25), to denote that however the paths may differ, the end is the same.
hell] Heb. Sheol. See Pro_5:5, note, and comp. Pro_2:18.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Her house is the way to hell (sheol). A…
Her house is the way to hell (sheol). A warning fontal in Pro_2:18 and Pro_5:5. Viae inferi domus ejus. The plural ykerD is well expressed by Hitzig: "Her house forms a multiplicity of ways to hell." Manifold are the ways of destruction to which adultery leads; but they all look to one awful end. Going down to the chambers of death. Once entangled in the toils of the temptress, the victim may pass through many stages, but he ends finally in the lowest depth destruction of body and soul Spiritual writers see here an adumbration of the seductions of false doctrine, and the late to which it brings all who by it are led astray.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Her house is the way to hell.
Pro_7:27
Her house is the way to hell.
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The way to hell
An energetic expression. It is not the place itself, but the way to it. In this ease what is the difference between the way and the destination? The one is as the other, so much so that he who has entered the way may reckon upon it as a fatal certainty that he will accomplish the journey and be plunged into the chamber of death. No man means to go the whole length. A mans will is not destroyed in an instant; it is taken from him, as it were, little by little, and almost imperceptibly; he imagines that he is as strong as ever, and says that he will go out and shake himself as at other times, not knowing that the spirit of might has gone from him. Is there any object on earth more pathetic than that of a man who has lost his power of resistance to evil, and is dragged on, an unresisting victim, whithersoever the spirit of perdition may desire to take him? It is true that the young man can plead the power of fascination; all that music, and colour, and blandishment, and flattery can do has been done: the cloven foot has been most successfully concealed; the speech has been all garden, and paradise, and sweetness, and joy; the word hell, or perdition, has not been so much as mentioned. This is what is meant by seduction: leading a man out of himself, and from himself, onward and onward, by carefully graded processes, until fascination has accomplished its work, and bound the consenting soul in eternal bondage. (J. Parker, D. D.)
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Heb. "Sheol," (See Scofield "Hab 2:5")
hell
Heb. "Sheol," (See Scofield "Hab 2:5")
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