From Nave’s Topical Bible
Harlot (Prostitute)
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.
- 16Passages listed
- 6Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Shamelessness ofProverbs 2:16Proverbs 7:11–27Proverbs 9:13–18
- Machinations ofProverbs 7:10Proverbs 9:14–17Isaiah 23:15Isaiah 23:16Hosea 2:13
- To be shunnedProverbs 5:3–20Proverbs 7:25–27
- Hire of, not to be received at the templeDeuteronomy 23:18
- RahabJoshua 2:3–6Joshua 6:17Joshua 6:23Joshua 6:25Hebrews 11:31
- See Adultery
- See Harlotry
The passages, in Bible order (16)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Deuteronomy 23:18
You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:182 voices
The hire of a whore, or the price of a dog - Many public prostitutes dedicated to their gods a part of their impure earnings; and some of these prostitutes were publicly kept in the temple of Venus Melytta, whose gains were applied to the support of her abominable worship.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
Thou shall not bring the hire of a whore,.... Which was given to her as a reward for the use of her body: or the price of a dog; not of the firstborn of a dog, the price for the redemption of it, as some; nor for the loan of a hunting dog, or a shepherd's dog for breed, as Josephus (z) interprets this law.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Joshua 2:3–6
So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole land.”
Commentary on Joshua 2:3–62 voices
The king of Jericho sent unto Rahab - This appears to be a proof of the preceding opinion: had she been a prostitute or a person of ill fame he could at once have sent officers to have seized the persons lodged with her as vagabonds; but if she kept a house of entertainment, the persons under her roof were sacred, according to the universal custom of the Asiatics, and could not be molested on any trifling grounds.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Joshua 6:17
Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
Commentary on Joshua 6:172 voices
And the city shall be accursed,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Accursed - Better as in margin, (devoted (Lev 27:28 note). In other cases the inhabitants only of the towns were slain; their cattle and property became the booty of the victors. But Jericho, as the first Canaanite city that was captured, was devoted by Israel as first-fruits to God, as a token that Israel received all the land from Him. Every living thing was put to death (Rahab and her household excepted) as a sacrifice to God, and the indestructible goods were Jos 6:19 brought into the treasury of the sanctuary.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Joshua 6:23
So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.
Commentary on Joshua 6:232 voices
And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab,.... Not only went into the city, but into Rahab's house, which they knew again by the scarlet thread hung out at the window of it. But here a difficulty occurs, how they could be said to go into her house, when it was built on the town wall, Jos 2:15; and that was now fallen down flat.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Let us prepare ourselves for the sacrifice of the lamb.… Nor let us be under the impression that this yearling lamb can be eaten anywhere.
Jerome· HOMILY ON THE EXODUS 91, 420Patristic
- Joshua 6:25
And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.
Commentary on Joshua 6:252 voices
And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive,.... From perishing by the sword, as the rest of the inhabitants did.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Therefore, our Lord Jesus will come, and he will come with the sound of trumpets. But just now let us pray that he may come and destroy "the world that lay in wickedness" and all things that are in the world, because "everything that is in the world is the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes." May he destroy that, may he dissolve it again and again, and save only this one who received his spies and who placed his apostles, received with faith and obedience, in the high places.
Origen of Alexandria· HOMILIES ON JOSHUA 6.4, 253Patristic
- Proverbs 2:16
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Commentary on Proverbs 2:162 voices
To deliver you from the strange woman, etc. This verse depends on what was said earlier, where it was said, Prudence will watch over you. And the meaning is, Prudence will watch over you, to deliver you from the strange woman. Therefore, because previously Solomon …
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735Patristic
To deliver thee from the strange woman,.... As the Gospel of Christ and its doctrines, or the instructions of wisdom, are a means of delivering persons from the evil man, his company, ways, and works; so from a naughty woman, an adulteress, called a "strange" woman; not because of another nation, or unknown, but because she belongs to another person, and not to him whom she entices into her embraces.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Proverbs 5:3–20
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
Commentary on Proverbs 5:3–202 voices
Even when the sinner looks for gratification, he doesn't find the fruit of his sin pleasant. As the wisdom of God says in another place, "Bread of deceit is pleasant to a man, but after he eats it, his mouth will be filled with gravel." And, "Honey drips from the lips of an adulteress, and for a time it tastes sweet, but in the end you will find it more bitter than gall and sharper than a two-edged sword." So he eats and is quite pleased for a little while.
Athanasius of Alexandria· LETTER 7:5, 373Patristic
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb,.... "Mulsa dicta", "honey words", as is Plautus's (e) expression.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Proverbs 7:10
Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.
Commentary on Proverbs 7:102 voices
With a provocative movement of a prostitute, with a disrupted gait through delights, with wandering eyes, and with playful darting of her eyelids, she captures the precious souls of young men (for the eye of a prostitute is a snare of a sinner), and with doubtful perception, she accosts anyone passing by in the corner of her house, with charming words, causing the hearts of young men to flutter, restless at home, wandering in the streets, prodigal with kisses, cheap in modesty, rich in attire, painted cheeks.
Ambrose of Milan· On Cain and Abel, 397Patristic
And, behold, there met him a woman,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Proverbs 7:11–27
She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.
Commentary on Proverbs 7:11–272 voices
With a provocative movement of a prostitute, with a disrupted gait through delights, with wandering eyes, and with playful darting of her eyelids, she captures the precious souls of young men (for the eye of a prostitute is a snare of a sinner), and with doubtful perception, she accosts anyone passing by in the corner of her house, with charming words, causing the hearts of young men to flutter, restless at home, wandering in the streets, prodigal with kisses, cheap in modesty, rich in attire, painted cheeks.
Ambrose of Milan· On Cain and Abel, 397Patristic
Unable to remain at home with her feet. There is no heresy content with its first disciples: for they are its house, but it always seeks new ones to deceive.
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735Patristic
- Proverbs 7:25–27
Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
Commentary on Proverbs 7:25–271 voice
Let not thine heart decline to her ways,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Proverbs 9:13–18
The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.
Commentary on Proverbs 9:13–182 voices
A foolish woman is clamorous,.... Some by this woman understand folly itself, as opposed to wisdom; others blind reason, ignorant of divine things; others carnal sensual pleasure, which entices and draws men to that which is evil; others heresy and superstition; others the old serpent, the devil; she seems to be the same with the strange woman and harlot before described, Pro 2:16, &c. and being set in direct opposition to Wisdom, or Christ, seems to design antichrist, who is described in the book of the Revelation as the great whore; and all the characters here agree with the same.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
A foolish woman, clamorous and full of allurements, etc. This woman is heresy, clearly opposed to wisdom, which above sang her sacraments. But she also sits at the doors of her house, that is, in the teachers of falsehood, who introduce the miserable to the …
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735Patristic
- Proverbs 9:14–17
She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,
Commentary on Proverbs 9:14–171 voice
On a high place of the city. He speaks of wisdom as giving her voice in the high and elevated places; but she rises in the sublimity of virtues, this one elevates herself in the arrogance of pride.
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735Patristic
- Isaiah 23:15
At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
Commentary on Isaiah 23:152 voices
(Verse 15 and following) And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years, Tyre shall sing as a harlot. Take a harp, go about the city, O harlot that has been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered. After seventy years, the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
And it shall come to pass in that day,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Isaiah 23:16
“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”
Commentary on Isaiah 23:162 voices
(Verse 15 and following) And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years, Tyre shall sing as a harlot. Take a harp, go about the city, O harlot that has been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered. After seventy years, the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
(Verse 16.) After seventy years, Tyre will be like the song of a prostitute. Take up the lyre, go around the city, forgotten prostitute, sing well, sing often, so that there will be a memory of you. Because you have prostituted yourself with many nations, and you have been left desolate, naked, and filthy with the filth of captivity, your former lovers have despised you.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Hosea 2:13
I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
Commentary on Hosea 2:131 voice
"And I will visit upon her the days of the Baals, wherein she burnt incense to them, and adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers: and she forgot me, saith the Lord." LXX: "And I will take vengeance upon her during the days of the Baals, when she sacrificed to them and adorned herself with her earrings and necklaces.
Jerome· Commentary on Hosea 2:13, 420Patristic
- Hebrews 11:31
By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.
Commentary on Hebrews 11:311 voice
Thus also did Rahab the harlot, while condemning herself, inasmuch as she was a Gentile, guilty of all sins, nevertheless receive the three spies, who were spying out all the land, and hid them at her home; [which three were] doubtless [a type of] the Father and the Son, together with the Holy Spirit.
Irenaeus· AGAINST HERESIES 4.20.12, 202Patristic