Proverbs 7:26
For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, || And mighty [are] all her slain ones.
Literal Standard 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 heart turn to her ways, || Do not wander in her paths,
27The ways of Sheol—her house, || Going down to inner chambers of death!
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:6And it comes to pass, in the war being between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner has been strengthening himself in the house of Saul,
2 Samuel 12:9Why have you despised the word of YHWH, to do evil in His eyes? You have struck Uriah the Hittite by the sword, and you have taken his wife for a wife for yourself, and you have slain him by the sword of the sons of Ammon.
Nehemiah 13:26By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? And among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God makes him king over all Israel—even him [whom] the strange women caused to sin.
Proverbs 6:33He finds a stroke and shame, || And his reproach is not wiped away,
1 Corinthians 10:8neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them committed whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;
1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I call on [you], as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires that 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 →