Proverbs 7:26
She has caused many men to be ruined; truly, no one can count the men she has killed.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:6While those who wanted Saul’s son to rule over them and those who wanted David to rule over them continued to fight against each other, Abner was becoming more influential among those who wanted Saul’s son to be the king.
2 Samuel 12:9So why have you despised my commandment about not committing adultery? You have done what I consider to be very evil! You have arranged for Uriah to be killed in a battle by the Ammon people-group’s soldiers, and you have taken his wife to be your wife!
Nehemiah 13:26I said to them, “Solomon, the king of Israel, sinned [RHQ] as a result of marrying foreign women. He was greater than any of the kings of other nations. God loved him, and caused him to become the king of all the Israeli people, but his foreign wives caused even him to sin.
Proverbs 6:33That woman’s husband will wound him badly, and other people will despise him. His shame will never end.
1 Corinthians 10:8We should not have sexual relations with someone to whom we are not married, as many of them did. As a result, God punished them by causing 23,000 people to die in only one day.
1 Peter 2:11You people whom I love, I urge you to consider that you are like foreigners [MET, DOU] whose real home is in heaven. As a result, avoid doing the things that your self-directed nature desires, because those desires ◄fight against/always oppose► your souls.
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 →