One day Elisha was passing through Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to have a meal. So whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for a meal.
Proverbs 7:21 - New Revised Standard Version With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, With the flattering of her lips she forced him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition With much justifying and enticing argument she persuades him, with the allurements of her lips she leads him [to overcome his conscience and his fears] and forces him along. American Standard Version (1901) With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along. Common English Bible She seduces him with all her talk. She entices him with her flattery. Catholic Public Domain Version She enmeshed him with many words, and she drew him forward with the flattery of her lips. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips. |
One day Elisha was passing through Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to have a meal. So whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for a meal.
They sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner.
They utter lies to each other; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Right away he follows her, and goes like an ox to the slaughter, or bounds like a stag toward the trap
that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
Then the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the roads and lanes, and compel people to come in, so that my house may be filled.
But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over.” So he went in to stay with them.
When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.” And she prevailed upon us.
For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.
She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted; and because she nagged him, on the seventh day he told her. Then she explained the riddle to her people.
He refused, and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, urged him; and he listened to their words. So he got up from the ground and sat on the bed.