Warning Against the Adultress
Questions for Study 7
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I. They Keep You From the Wayward Wife (7:1-5)
1. What does the father instruct his child? What is "the apple of your eye" mean?
2. How can we "bind them on our fingers"? How can we "write them on the tablet of your heart"? (Jeremiah 31:33; 2 Corinthians 3:3)
3. What is the parent try to say to their child in verse 4?
II. The Trap (7:6-20)
4. What did the parent notice that they decided to tell their child? (6-7) What does the simple's direction and timing tell us about the young man?
5. What did it mean in those days to be "dressed like a prostitute? What does this say about her intent towards the young man? What is the spiritual equivalent to allowing ourselves to be seduced away from the love of God? (2 Peter 2:13-15)
6. What does her brazen face say about her heart? (13) What is a fellowship offering in the Law of Moses? (14, Leviticus 7:12-15) How does the introduction of religion and worship shed new light on this teaching? (Ezekiel 14:3-5, 23:48-49; 1 Corinthians 10:14-22; Colossians 3:5)
7. What does she tell him that she had prepared for him? (16-17) Is sexual union always love as she proposes to the young man? What is she promising when she says her husband will be gone and never know of their night of sexual encounters? How is this the same as spiritual adultery?
III. The Slaughter (7:21-27)
8. What does it mean that she led the young man astray? How are we led astray from a covenant with God? (1 Peter 4:1-6)
9. Why is the young man's decision equated with the ox going to the slaughter? What happens when an arrow pierces the liver?
10. How is the heart the source of decisions? (24-25) When we decide in our heart to sin what happens to us? (26) What happens to all when we decide to follow evil sudduction of the heart? (27)
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