Proverbs 5:20
Proverbs · Old Testament · Chapter 5
“And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?”Proverbs 5:20
What Does Proverbs 5:20 Mean?
Proverbs 5:20 is found in the book of Proverbs, chapter 5, verse 20 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 12 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (12)
These passages are connected to Proverbs 5:20 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Psalms 139:3“Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.”Proverbs 6:24“To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.”Proverbs 7:5“That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.”Judges 11:2“And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.”1 Kings 11:1“But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;”Ezra 10:44“All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.”Proverbs 21:15“It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.”Proverbs 22:14“The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.”Proverbs 23:27“For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.”Proverbs 23:33“Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.”Deuteronomy 13:6“If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;”Proverbs 2:16“To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;”
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