One day when Elisha passed through Shunem, where there was a prominent woman who persuaded him to eat some food. And so it was, whenever he passed through, he would stop for a meal.
Proverbs 7:21 - Tree of Life Version With her persistent pleading she entices him, with smooth talk she seduces 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 when Elisha passed through Shunem, where there was a prominent woman who persuaded him to eat some food. And so it was, whenever he passed through, he would stop for a meal.
They sent me the same message four times, and each time I returned a similar response to them.
Help, Adonai! For no one godly exists. For the faithful have vanished from the children of men.
For a seducing woman’s lips drip honey and her mouth is smoother than oil.
keeping you from the immoral woman, from a wayward wife’s smooth tongue.
Suddenly he follows her like an ox going to the slaughter, like a stag bounding toward a trap,
They will keep you from a seducing woman, from the foreign woman with her seductive speech.
“So the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the thoroughfares and fenced areas, and press them to come in so my home may be filled.
But they urged Him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is already gone.” So He went in to stay with them.
When she was immersed, along with her household, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she insisted.
For the love of Messiah compels us, since we have concluded that One died for all; as a result all died.
But she wept before him the seven days while their banquet lasted. So it was on the seventh day he told her, because she nagged him. Then she told the riddle to the sons of her people.
But he refused and said, “I won’t eat.” But when his courtiers and the woman urged him, he listened to them. So he got up from the ground and sat on the bed.