Proverbs 7:26
For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.
27Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:6Now while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner the son of Ner ruled the house of Saul.
2 Samuel 12:9Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Nehemiah 13:26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing? and surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: m and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin.
Proverbs 6:33He gathereth to himself shame and dishonour, and his reproach shall not be blotted out:
1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires 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 →