Seduction

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerning2 Timothy 3:62 Timothy 3:13
• Laws concerningExodus 22:16Exodus 22:17Deuteronomy 22:23–29
• See Rape
• INSTANCES OF
• Of DinahGenesis 34:2
• Of Tamar2 Samuel 13:1–14

The passages, in Bible order (7)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 7 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 34:2

   When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 34:22 voices

   “According to JOSEPHUS, she had been attending a festival; but it is highly probable that she had been often and freely mixing in the society of the place and that she, being a simple, inexperienced, and vain young woman, had been flattered by the attentions of the ruler's son.

   “And when Shechem the son of Hamor,.... From whom the city had its name, near which Jacob and his family now were: the Hivite, prince of the country; Hamor was an Hivite, which was one of the nations of the land of Canaan, and this man was the prince or a principal man of that nation, as well as of Shechem.

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2. Exodus 22:16

   If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 22:162 voices

   “If a man entice a maid - This was an exceedingly wise and humane law, and must have operated powerfully against seduction and fornication; because the person who might feel inclined to take the advantage of a young woman knew that he must marry her, and give her a dowry, if her parents consented; and if they did not consent that their daughter should wed her seducer, in this case he was obliged to give her the full dowry which could have been demanded had she been still a virgin.

   “And if a man entice a maid, that is not betrothed,....

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3. Exodus 22:17

   If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 22:172 voices

   “If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him,....

   “If she was betrothed to another, it was death to debauch her ( Deut. xxii. 23, 24 ); but the law here mentioned respects her as single. But, if the father refused her to him, he was to give satisfaction in money for the injury and disgrace he had done her.

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4. Deuteronomy 22:23–29

   If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:23–292 voices

   “For surely by this ceremony was set forth what Paul teaches, that all things are "sanctified by the word of God, and prayer," (1 Timothy 4:5;) not that anything is in itself impure, but because the earth has contracted pollution from the corruption of man, it is just, as regards us, that the harmless fruits also should be accounted to be in uncircumcision.

   “If a man take a wife, &c.--The regulations that follow might be imperatively needful in the then situation of the Israelites; and yet, it is not necessary that we should curiously and impertinently inquire into them.

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5. 2 Samuel 13:1–14

   After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 13:1–142 voices

   “And it came to pass after this,....

   “Whose name was Tamar - Tamar was the daughter of David and Maacah, daughter of the king of Geshur, and the uterine sister of Absalom. Amnon was David’s eldest son by Ahinoam. She was therefore sister to Amnon only by the father’s side, i.e., half-sister; but whole sister to Absalom.

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6. 2 Timothy 3:6

   They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,

   ›Commentary on 2 Timothy 3:62 voices

   “Some of his disciples, too, addicting themselves to the same practices, have deceived many silly women, and defiled them. They proclaim themselves as being "perfect," so that no one can be compared to them with respect to the immensity of their knowledge, nor even were you to mention Paul or Peter, or any other of the apostles. They assert that they themselves know more than all others, and that they alone have imbibed the greatness of the knowledge of that power which is unspeakable.

   “For of this sort are they which creep into houses,.... Privily and unawares, in a clandestine manner, and insinuate themselves into families, by fawning and flattering, and under specious pretences to knowledge and virtue. The Syriac version uses a word, from whence comes חולדא, "Chulda", which signifies "a weasel"; suggesting, that their entrance into houses was like to the way of that creature, which is sometimes covered, and sometimes open: there was also a gate of the temple, which was called "Huldah"; whether there is any allusion in the word to that, may be inquired (k).

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7. 2 Timothy 3:13

   while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

   ›Commentary on 2 Timothy 3:132 voices

   “Not contradictory to that verse: there the diffusion of the evil was spoken of; here its intensity [ALFORD]. deceiving, and being deceived--He who has once begun to deceive others, is the less easily able to recover himself from error, and the more easily embraces in turn the errors of others [BENGEL].

   “These ignorant men are drunk, not with wine but with their own wickedness. They make a profession of priesthood and glory in their threats. Do not believe them. When we are tried, let us humble ourselves, not being made captive by them.… So we, when we are tried by these things, must not become separated from the love of God.

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