Proverbs 7:26
For she hath cast down many wounded: yes, many strong men have been slain by her.
Webster 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 thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:6And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.
2 Samuel 12:9Why hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Nehemiah 13:26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
Proverbs 6:33A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let us commit lewdness, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, 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 →