Explain these verses To keep you from the woman who belongs to another from the stranger with her wheedling words She has left the partner of her younger days she has forgotten the covenant of her God?

Answer 1

This is from Proverbs 2:17, and this is the case where you can't isolate the one scripture. You need to look at the surrounding scriptures to understand the context.

Proverbs 2:16, 17 "16It will save you from the wayward*woman, From the smooth words of the immoral*woman,17Who abandons the close companion*of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God;"

The 2nd chapter of Proverbs is to inspire us to use our thinking abilities and acquire wisdom. This will help us to discern right from wrong and to avoid being selfish. Verses 1-6 says ""My son, if you will receive my sayings and treasure up my own commandments with yourself, so as to pay attention to wisdom with your ear, that you may incline your heart to discernment; if,moreover, you call out for understanding itself and you give forth your voice for discernment itself, if you keep seeking for it as for silver, and as for hid treasures you keep searching for it, in that case you will understand the fear of Jehovah, and you will find the very knowledge of God. For Jehovah himself gives wisdom; out of his mouth there are knowledge and discernment."

So the admonishment is to make wise choices so we can succeed in observing God's commandments.

The "wayward woman" is a warning. She has failed to remember "the covenant of her God".

So likewise, anyone could be this wayward woman - by worshipping false gods, or doing other things that cause them to fail to observe the Mosaic law.

Answer 2

Proverbs 2:16-17 "To deliver you from the strange woman, from the foreign woman who talks smoothly; who forsakes the master of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God."

These verses are warning against committing adultery with an unfaithful woman, but are chiefly alluding to the cloying appeal of philosophy and heresy, which draw one way from God (Rashi commentary).

Answer 3

This English Commentary explains both the literal and spiritual aspects of Psalm 2:16-19 as follows:

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(16) To deliver thee from the strange woman. Another work of wisdom, to save from profligacy. Of the two epithets here used, strange (zaÂrah) and stranger (nokhriyyah), the first implies that she belonged to another family, the second to another nation. It would seem as if the evil example of Solomon (1Kings 11:1), in marrying foreign women, had become common in Israel, and that they, by their vicious lives, had become a deadly source of corruption. Brought up in the lax views of morality which prevailed among heathen nations at this time, they would not consider themselves bound by the high standard of purity which was enjoined upon Hebrew women by the Law.(16-19)

Besides the literal sense of this passage, as given above, commentators have very generally found in it a spiritual meaning, a warning against idolatry and apostasy. The union of Israel to God is so frequently spoken of in the prophets under the figure of a marriage, and their rejection of Him for idols as adultery, that the passage may well bear this further sense, especially as Jeremiah (Jeremiah 3:4) has borrowed this very phrase, guide of her youth, for a passage in which he is reproving the Jews for their faithlessness. The figure is also very common in the New Testament, as descriptive of the union of Christ and the Church.