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Proverbs 7:27
Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The passage records a father’s instruction to his son regarding the immediate peril of the adulterous woman’s dwelling.
The words — בֵּיתָ֑הּ (bei.Ta/h) = her house and שְׁאֹל (she.'ol) = Sheol.
The thread — The equation of a woman’s dwelling with death appears in Proverbs 2:18 and Proverbs 9:18, while Proverbs 5:5 similarly warns that her feet and steps lead to Sheol.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that proximity to this specific dwelling carries a fatal destination, requiring the reader to treat the warning as a literal boundary.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.
- Proverbs 9:18 But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- Proverbs 2:18 For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
- Revelation 22:15 But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.