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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Proverbs 5:17

Let them be only thine own, that is, the waters of this fountain in lawful wedlock, and not strangers' with thee, in illegitimate intercourse.

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See also Proverbs 5:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 5:17. _LET THEM BE ONLY THINE OWN_] The off-spring of a legitimate connection; a _bastard brood_, however numerous, is no credit to any man....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Shun the strange woman and sinful passion (Proverbs 5:1)_ 2. The life of chastity (Proverbs 5:15) Proverbs 5:1. It is a warning against literal fornication and the accompanying spirit...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 5:1; PROVERBS 5:10; PROVERBS 5:20. Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The remedy against sin is to be found in the holy estate which God has ordained. "The resemblance between the two Books (the Song of Solomon and the Book of Proverbs) in their treatment of this subjec...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LET THEM BE ONLY THINE OWN— _Possess them alone:_ "Love only your wife, and give not to her any occasion, by your irregularity, to charge you with infidelity; guard her in such a manner, that she may...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 5:15-23 15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. 16. Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets? 17....

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. LET THEM BE ONLY THINE OWN, AND NOT STRANGERS' WITH THEE. Let thy children know thee alone as their parent, and do thou know them as the ch...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    UNHOLY PASSION. HALLOWED LOVE A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss of honour, property, life, oppo...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Here, Solomon talks about water. In dry countries, water is valuable. Clean water is very precious. You should not waste water. It should not flow into the streets. It should not pour out, into the to...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 5 Chapter 5 is a poem. The poem has two subjects: 1. A married woman tempts a man who is not her husband. 2. Evil things are like this woman,...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (15-20) DRINK WATERS OUT OF THINE OWN CISTERN... — In these verses Solomon urges his disciples to follow after purity in the married life; he pictures in vivid terms the delights which it affords as c...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LET THEM BE ONLY THINE OWN. — The deepest joys and sorrows of each heart are sacred, and cannot be shared with others (Proverbs 14:10), and so it is with the various relations of family life also, str...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יִֽהְיוּ ־לְךָ֥ לְ בַדֶּ֑ךָ וְ אֵ֖ין לְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 6 THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN "His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his fo...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural t...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Let them be only (i) thine own, and not strangers' with thee. (i) Distribute them not to the wicked and infidels, but reserve them for yourself, your family and them who are of the household of faith...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Thee. Stick to thy own wife. In a moral sense, let those who instruct others, take care not to neglect themselves._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strange...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LET THEM BE ONLY THINE OWN, AND NOT STRANGERS' WITH THEE. Or "they shall be thine own" u, as the Targum; meaning not the cistern, the well, or the wife, but the fountains and rivers, or the children;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee._ Ver. 17. _Let them be only thine own._] _Sint, vel erunt; _ Let them be, or they shall be. It is both an exhortation and a promise; _q.d.,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Let thy fountains_ Rather, _thy streams_, as Dr. Waterland renders the word, that is, thy children, proceeding from thy wife, called _thy fountain, Proverbs 5:18_, and from thyself; _be dispersed abr...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-23 Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these destructive vices. But we are not properly united, except as we attend to God's word, seeking his direction and blessing, and act...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Hereby thou mayst be secured, that thou dost not father and leave thine estate to other men's children; whereas the parents of harlots children are common or uncertain....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 5:17 strangers H2114 (H8801)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SOLOMON CALLS ON HIS SON TO BE FAITHFUL TO HIS TRUE WIFE, AND TO OBTAIN HIS SEXUAL ENJOYMENTS FROM HER (PROVERBS 5:15). In contrast Solomon now brings home to ‘his son' (Proverbs 5:20) the joys of sex...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Caution against the sin of whoredom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: We ought industriously to avoid everything that might be an occasion of the sin of adultery or a step to...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 5:3. _The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb._ She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woman....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee._ STRANGERS WITH THEE Strangers with thee in life! Those united in Christ are those only who are united in truth. Strangers with thee in deat...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 5:15 The wife is pictured as a source of water (WELL, FOUNTAIN, etc.). The man who is tempted to commit adultery should think about how he would feel if his wife were to do t...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19_ Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures those gazelles are, and how gracefully they bound. We...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 5:1 8. _Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. _The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced at before in...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now my son, attend unto my wisdom, bow your ear to my understanding: That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge (Proverbs 5:1; Proverbs 5:2). And now he's going to warn his...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 11:1; Genesis 34:27; Proverbs 5:10; Proverbs 5:20; Proverbs 5:3

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