American Standard Version
Proverbs 7:26
26For she hath cast down many wounded:Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
Proverbs 7:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
- New International Version (NIV)Many are the victims she has brought down; her slain are a mighty throng.
- English Standard Version (ESV)for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For she has cast down many wounded, And all who were slain by her were strong men.
Context of Proverbs 7:26
24Now therefore, mysons, hearken unto me, And attend to the words of my mouth. 25Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host. 27Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
Read all of Proverbs 7Proverbs 7:26 word by word
כִּֽי־רַבִּ֣ים חֲלָלִ֣ים הִפִּ֑ילָה וַ֝עֲצֻמִ֗ים כָּל־הֲרֻגֶֽיהָ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 7:26
- Proverbs 6:33Wounds and dishonor shall he get; And his reproach shall not be wiped away.
- Judges 16:21And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.
- 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 in the house of Saul.
- 2 Samuel 12:9Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten 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.
- 1 Kings 11:1Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
- Nehemiah 13:26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.
- 1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
- 2 Corinthians 12:21lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.
- 1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Commentaries on Proverbs 7:26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her - That is, such like women have been the ruin of many. חללים chalalim, which we render wounded, also signifies solsliers or men of war; and עצמים atsumim, which we render strong men, may be translated heroes. Many of those who have distinguished themselves in the field and in the cabinet have been overcome and destroyed by their mistresses. History is full of such examples.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26The house of the harlot is now likened to a field of battle strewn with the corpses of the many slain.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-27Verses 6-27 Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after Solomon has set before his eyes in so lively and plain a manner, the danger of even going near them? Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of a lofty rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the same place. The misery of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24-27The father emphasizes thr lesson: An adulteress may seem attractive, and a relationship with her is tempting, but it will lead to harm or even death.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 26-2726-27. Even the mightiest fail to resist her deathly allurements.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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