Proverbs 7:26

For she hath cast down many chalalim (wounded); 1 indeed, many strong men have been slain by her. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 thine lev turn aside to her drakhim; 1 go not astray in her netivot (trodden paths). 1

27Her bais is the drakhei Sheol, 1 going down to the chadarim (chambers, rooms) of mavet (death). + 7:27 T.N. The off-stage character here in chapter 7 has been the cuckold. Because of her Ba'al affair, Hashem became the cuckold of Israel even as Hosea became the cuckold of Gomer.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 3:6And it came to pass, while there was milchamah between the Bais Sha'ul and the Bais Dovid, that Avner was strengthening his grip on the Bais Sha'ul.

2 Samuel 12:9Why hast thou despised the Davar Hashem, to do the rah in His eyes? Thou hast killed Uriyah the Chitti with the cherev, and hast taken his isha to be thy isha, and hast slain him with the cherev of the Bnei Ammon.

Nehemiah 13:26Did not Sh'lomo Melech Yisroel sin by these things? Yet among many Goyim was there no melech like him, who was beloved of Elohav, and Elohim made him melech over kol Yisroel. Nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

Proverbs 6:33A nega + 6:33 See Isa 53:8 for Moshiachʼs nega taken for unfaithful Israel and dishonor shall he get; 1 and his cherpah (reproach) shall not be wiped away. 1

1 Corinthians 10:8Neither should we commit zenut as some of them committed zenut and fell in one day twenty-three thousand. + 10:8 Num 25:1,9 . T.N. if Rav Sha'ul is not giving the number that died in one day, a very famous and devastating twenty-four hour period, (with Num 25:4 mentioning other executions and the subsequent total being 24,000, Num 24:9 ), then Rav Sha'ul is referring to those who died in Ex 32:35 , quoting as he does Ex 32:6 in 1C 10:7

1 Peter 2:11Chaverim, I say “Chazak!” (Be Strong) to you as aliens and exiles, + 2:11 1:1,17 exhorting you to abstain from fleshly ta'avot (lusts) which make milchamah (war) against the neshamah.

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 →

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