Proverbs 7:26
for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
In Context
25Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:6While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house.
2 Samuel 12:9Why have you despised the LORD’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Nehemiah 13:26Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet amongst many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.
Proverbs 6:33He will get wounds and dishonour. His reproach will not be wiped away.
1 Corinthians 10:8Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts 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 →