Proverbs 7:26
For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.
Bible in Basic English
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 your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.
27Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:6Now while there was war between Saul's people and David's people, Abner was making himself strong among the supporters of Saul.
2 Samuel 12:9Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Nehemiah 13:26Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.
Proverbs 6:33Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
1 Corinthians 10:8Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.
1 Peter 2:11My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make 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 →