Proverbs 7:26
For she has tossed aside many wounded, and some of those who were very strong have been slain by her.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
In Context
25Do not let your mind be pulled into her ways. And do not be deceived by her paths.
27Her household is the way to Hell, reaching even to the inner places of death.
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:6Then, while there was a battle between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner, the son of Ner, was reigning over the house of Saul.
2 Samuel 12:9Therefore, why have you despised the word of the Lord, so that you did evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword. And you have taken his wife as a wife for yourself. And you have put him to death with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
Nehemiah 13:26“Did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin in this kind of thing? And certainly, among many nations, there was no king similar to him, and he was beloved of his God, and God set him as king over all of Israel. And yet foreign women led even him into sin!
Proverbs 6:33He gathers shame and dishonor to himself, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
1 Corinthians 10:8And let us not commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and so twenty-three thousand fell on one day.
1 Peter 2:11Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle 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 →