Why Be Ravished with a Strange Woman? - Proverbs 5:20

In the book of Proverbs Solomon said to his son, “Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love”, and in chapter five and verse twenty of Proverbs Solomon asked his son, “why will you … be ravished with a strange woman?” where we read,

And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

The verse begins, “And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, ...”. Solomon began with the words, “and why will you” or “and for what reason and cause shall you, Solomon's son”, “my son” which means “my, Solomon's male offspring and progeny”, “be ravished” or “exist as errant, strayed, intoxicated and drunken” “with a strange woman” which means “beside and alongside a foreign and loathsome prostitute or harlot”. Solomon questioned the reason that his son would be intoxicated with a woman who is a loathsome prostitute or harlot.

The verse continues, “... and embrace the bosom of a stranger?” Solomon added the words, “and embrace the bosom” or “and clasp and fold the arms around the teats, breasts or chest” “of a stranger?” which means “belonging to a foreign, unfamiliar, unknown, adulterous and alien person”. Solomon continued to question the reason that he would fold his arms around the chest of an adulterous and foreign person.

When we meditate upon the words in this verse, we learn how Solomon questioned his son as to what would be the reason that his son would be drunken with a foreign and adulterous woman. He did not want his son to experience all the troubles and difficulties that “embracing” a “stranger” causes. Solomon loved his son, and God loves us as well. God puts limitations upon us because they are harmful, and He wants to save us and not to see us destroyed. God sent His Son Jesus into the world to be crucified on the cross for our sins, and now we have access to Him to be forgiven of our sins when we believe and trust in Him as our personal “Savior and Lord”. Solomon wanted to protect his son, and God wants to protect us, and when we surrender our lives to Him, we will be “ravished” with Him and “embrace” that which He knows is best for our lives.

Next time Solomon says to his son, “the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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