Proverbs 7:26
For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones.
Young's Literal Translation
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 turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,
27The ways of Sheol — her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:6And it cometh to pass, in the war being between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner hath been strengthening himself in the house of Saul,
2 Samuel 12:9'Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do the evil thing in His eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou hast smitten by the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to thee for a wife, and him thou hast slain by the sword of the Bene-Ammon.
Nehemiah 13:26'By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel — even him did the strange women cause to sin.
Proverbs 6:33A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,
1 Corinthians 10:8neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;
1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I call upon [you], as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that 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 →