Ecclesiastes 7:26

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.

I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.

therefore wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you had, and none after you will have.”

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.’

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.

Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for Yahweh your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,

know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”

he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”

You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.

Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;

and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh’s sake.

Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight above all that were before him.

You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.

“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.

I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.

A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.

About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

“ ‘Everything that she lies on in her impurity shall be unclean. Everything also that she sits on shall be unclean.

The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse among her people.

Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

She made him sleep on 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.

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

He walked in the way of Ahab’s house, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house; for he was the son-in-law of Ahab’s house.

Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.