Proverbs 7:26
For she has cast down many wounded. Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
In Context
25Let not thy heart decline to her ways. Go not astray in her paths.
27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:6And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong in the house of Saul.
2 Samuel 12:9Why have thou despised the word of LORD, to do that which is evil in his sight? Thou have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be thy wife, and have slain him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
Nehemiah 13:26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.
Proverbs 6:33Wounds and dishonor he shall get, and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
1 Corinthians 10:8Nor should we fornicate as some of them fornicated, and three thousand fell in one day.
1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:25-27
The Seduction of a Youth. 24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. We have here the application of the foregoing story: " Hearken to me therefore, and not to such seducers ( v. 24 ); give ear to a father, and not to an enemy." 1. "Take good… Read the whole commentary →