Proverbs 23:28 Cross References - MLV

²⁸ Yes, 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 prostitute with the daughters of Moab,

⁴ And it happened 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 you every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
⁶ And Delilah said to Samson, I beseech you, tell me in what your great strength lies and with what you might be bound to afflict you. ⁷ And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green withes that were never dried, then I will 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 you, 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, you have mocked me and told me lies. I beseech you, now tell me with what you 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 will 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 you, Samson. And the ambush was abiding in the inner chamber. And he broke them off his arms like a thread.
¹³ And Delilah said to Samson, Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound. And he said to her, If you 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 you, 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 you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times and have not told me with what your great strength lies.
¹⁶ And it happened, when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul was distressed 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 am shaven, then my strength will go from me and I will 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 you, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as at other times and shake myself free, but he did not know that Jehovah 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 you from the strange woman, even from the foreign woman who flatters with her words, ¹⁷ who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God ¹⁸ (because 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 immediately, 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, you* sons, listen to me and attend to the words of my mouth. ²⁵ Do not let your heart decline to her ways. Do not go-astray in her paths. ²⁶ Because she has cast down many wounded. Yes, 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 does not know because the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

¹⁴ The mouth of a strange women is a deep pit. He who is indignant of Jehovah will 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 will escape from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

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

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

⁸ Neither should we fornicate, like some of them fornicated, and twenty three thousand fell in one day.

¹ And one out of the seven messengers who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, Come-here. I will be showing you the judgment of the great prostitute who is sitting upon many waters; ² with whom the kings of the earth fornicated and those who are dwelling in the earth were made drunken from the wine of her fornication.