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21 She beguiled him by the fulness of her talking,
By the smoothness of her lips she drew him away.
Here is a climax. First she brought him to yield, overcoming the resistance of his mind to the last point (cf. 1Ki 11:3); then drove him, or, as we say, hurried him wholly away, viz., from the right path or conduct (cf. Deu 13:6, Deu 13:11). With הִטַּתּוּ (= הִטַּתְהוּ) as the chief factum, the past imperf. is interchanged, 21b. Regarding לֶקַח, see above, p. 56. Here is the rhetoric of sin (Zöckler); and perhaps the לקח of 20a has suggested this antiphrastic לֶקַח to the author (Hitzig), as חֵלֶק (the inverted לֶקַח, formed like שֵׁפֶל, which is the abstr. of שָׁפָל as that is of חָלָק) and תַּדִּיחֶנּוּ are reciprocally conditioned, for the idea of the slippery (Psa 73:18) connects itself with חלק.