Proverbs 7:26
For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.
27Her house is the way vnto ye graue, which goeth downe to the chambers of death.
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:6Nowe while there was warre betweene the house of Saul and the house of Dauid, Abner made all his power for the house of Saul.
2 Samuel 12:9Wherefore hast thou despised the commandement of the Lord, to doe euill in his sight? thou hast killed Vriah the Hittite with ye sworde, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slaine him with the sworde of the children of Ammon.
Nehemiah 13:26Did not Salomon the king of Israel sinne by these thinges? yet among many nations was there no King like him: for he was beloued of his God, and God had made him King ouer Israel: yet strange women caused him to sinne.
Proverbs 6:33He shall finde a wounde and dishonour, and his reproch shall neuer be put away.
1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twentie thousand.
1 Peter 2:11Dearely beloued, I beseeche you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstaine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soule,
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 →