Bible Cross References
as for a prey
Proverbs 2:16-19
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You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk,
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who is faithless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows.
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If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead.
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No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life.
Proverbs 7:12
or stood waiting at a corner, sometimes in the streets, sometimes in the marketplace.
Proverbs 7:22-27
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Suddenly he was going with her like an ox on the way to be slaughtered, like a deer prancing into a trap
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where an arrow would pierce its heart. He was like a bird going into a net---he did not know that his life was in danger.
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Now then, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to what I say.
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Do not let such a woman win your heart; don't go wandering after her.
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She has been the ruin of many men and caused the death of too many to count.
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If you go to her house, you are on the way to the world of the dead. It is a shortcut to death.
Proverbs 9:18
Her victims do not know that the people die who go to her house, that those who have already entered are now deep in the world of the dead.
Proverbs 22:14
Adultery is a trap---it catches those with whom the LORD is angry.
Judges 16:4-22
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After this, Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in Sorek Valley.
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The five Philistine kings went to her and said, "Trick Samson into telling you why he is so strong and how we can overpower him, tie him up, and make him helpless. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver."
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So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me what makes you so strong. If someone wanted to tie you up and make you helpless, how could he do it?"
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Samson answered, "If they tie me up with seven new bowstrings that are not dried out, I'll be as weak as anybody else."
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So the Philistine kings brought Delilah seven new bowstrings that were not dried out, and she tied Samson up.
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She had some men waiting in another room, so she shouted, "Samson! The Philistines are coming!" But he snapped the bowstrings just as thread breaks when fire touches it. So they still did not know the secret of his strength.
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Delilah told Samson, "Look, you've been making a fool of me and not telling me the truth. Please tell me how someone could tie you up."
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He told her, "If they tie me with new ropes that have never been used, I'll be as weak as anybody else."
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So Delilah got some new ropes and tied him up. Then she shouted, "Samson! The Philistines are coming!" The men were waiting in another room. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like thread.
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Delilah said to Samson, "You're still making a fool of me and not telling me the truth. Tell me how someone could tie you up." He told her, "If you weave my seven locks of hair into a loom, and make it tight with a peg, I'll be as weak as anybody else."
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Delilah then lulled him to sleep, took his seven locks of hair, and wove them into the loom. She made it tight with a peg and shouted, "Samson! The Philistines are coming!" But he woke up and pulled his hair loose from the loom.
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So she said to him, "How can you say you love me, when you don't mean it? You've made a fool of me three times, and you still haven't told me what makes you so strong."
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She kept on asking him, day after day. He got so sick and tired of her bothering him about it
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that he finally told her the truth. "My hair has never been cut," he said. "I have been dedicated to God as a nazirite from the time I was born. If my hair were cut, I would lose my strength and be as weak as anybody else."
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When Delilah realized that he had told her the truth, she sent a message to the Philistine kings and said, "Come back one more time. He has told me the truth." Then they came and brought the money with them.
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Delilah lulled Samson to sleep in her lap and then called a man, who cut off Samson's seven locks of hair. Then she began to torment him, for he had lost his strength.
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Then she shouted, "Samson! The Philistines are coming!" He woke up and thought, "I'll get loose and go free, as always." He did not know that the LORD had left him.
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The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with bronze chains, and put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison.
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But his hair started growing back.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
I found something more bitter than death---the woman who is like a trap. The love she offers you will catch you like a net, and her arms around you will hold you like a chain. A man who pleases God can get away, but she will catch the sinner.
Jeremiah 3:2
Look up at the hilltops. Is there any place where you have not acted like a prostitute? You waited for lovers along the roadside, as an Arab waits for victims in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution.
increaseth
Numbers 25:1
When the Israelites were camped at Acacia Valley, the men began to have sexual intercourse with the Moabite women who were there.
Hosea 4:11
The LORD says, "Wine, both old and new, is robbing my people of their senses!
1 Corinthians 10:8
We must not be guilty of sexual immorality, as some of them were---and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell dead.
Revelation 17:1
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came to me and said, "Come, and I will show you how the famous prostitute is to be punished, that great city that is built near many rivers.
Revelation 17:2
The kings of the earth practiced sexual immorality with her, and the people of the world became drunk from drinking the wine of her immorality."