From Nave’s Topical Bible
Ditch
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 1Passages listed
- 1Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- FIGURATIVEProverbs 23:27
The passages, in Bible order (1)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 1 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Proverbs 23:27
For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
Commentary on Proverbs 23:272 voices
For a whore is a deep ditch,.... Or, "as a deep ditch", so Aben Ezra; to which she may be compared for the filthiness of her whoredoms, and for her insatiable lust, as well as for her being never satisfied with what she receives from her lovers. Plautus compares (g) her to the sea, which devours whatever you give, and yet nothing appears; and another (h) calls a whore Charybdis, from her swallowing up and devouring all a man has.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
It is like a deep ditch and a narrow pit, which it is almost impossible to get out of; and therefore it is wisdom to keep far enough from the brink of it. Take heed of making any approaches towards this sin, because it is so hard to make a retreat from it, conscience, which should head the retreat, being debauched by it, and divine grace forfeited.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan