Proverbs 23:28 Cross References - ACV

²⁸ Yea, she lies in wait as a robber, and increases the treacherous among men.

¹ And Israel abode in Shittim. And the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab,

⁴ And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. ⁵ And the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see in what his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him. And we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. ⁶ And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, in what thy great strength lies, and with what thou might be bound to afflict thee. ⁷ And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green withes that were never dried, then I shall become weak, and be as another man. ⁸ Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. ⁹ Now she had an ambush abiding in the inner chamber. And she said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he broke the withes, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known. ¹⁰ And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, thou have mocked me, and told me lies. Now tell me, I pray thee, with what thou might be bound. ¹¹ And he said to her, If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then I shall become weak, and be as another man. ¹² So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him with it, and said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And the ambushment was abiding in the inner chamber. And he broke them off his arms like a thread. ¹³ And Delilah said to Samson, Until now thou have mocked me, and told me lies. Tell me with what thou might be bound. And he said to her, If thou weave the seven locks of my head with the web. ¹⁴ And she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web. ¹⁵ And she said to him, How can thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? Thou have mocked me these three times, and have not told me with what thy great strength lies. ¹⁶ And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed to death. ¹⁷ And he told her all his heart, and said to her, There has not come a razor upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man. ¹⁸ And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand. ¹⁹ And she made him sleep upon her knees, and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head. And she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. ²⁰ And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free, but he knew not that LORD was departed from him. ²¹ And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes. And they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass, and he did grinding in the prison-house. ²² However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

¹⁶ to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words, ¹⁷ who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God ¹⁸ (for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead; ¹⁹ none who go to her return again, nor do they attain to the paths of life),

¹² Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lies in wait at every corner.

²² He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, ²³ till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life. ²⁴ Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth. ²⁵ Let not thy heart decline to her ways. Go not astray in her paths. ²⁶ For she has cast down many wounded. Yea, all her slain are a mighty host. ²⁷ Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

¹⁸ But he knows not that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

¹⁴ The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of LORD shall fall in it.

²⁶ And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

² Lift up thine eyes to the bare heights, and see. Where have thou not been lain with? By the ways thou have sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness, and thou have polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

¹¹ Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.

⁸ Nor should we fornicate as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

¹ And one of the seven agents who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, Come, I will show thee the judgment of the great whore who sits upon the many waters ² with whom the kings of the earth fornicated, and those who inhabit the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.