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Gill's Exposition
For at the window of my house,.... This is either an historical account of a matter of fact known to Solomon, or a parable made by him, setting forth the cunning artifices of an harlot, the folly and…
Barnes' Notes
Casement - The latticed opening of an Eastern house, overlooking the street (compare Jdg 5:28).
Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such…
Cambridge Bible
casement Or, lattice, R.V., as the same Heb. word is translated in A.V. in Jdg 5:28, the only other place in which it occurs.
Pro 7:7-9. A few graphic strokes draw the picture of the victim. He is…