Proverbs 7:26
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Proverbs 7:26 in other translations
| BSB | For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number. |
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| WEB | for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. |
| ASV | For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host. |
| YLT | For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones. |
| DARBY | for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong. |
| BBE | For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army. |
| Webster | For she hath cast down many wounded: yes, many strong men have been slain by her. |
What does Proverbs 7:26 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 7:26-27
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 7:6-27
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…
Proverbs 7:26 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 7:26
- Nehemiah 13:26
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
- 1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- 1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
- Proverbs 6:33
A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
- 1 Kings 11:1-2
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
- 2 Samuel 3:27
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
- 2 Corinthians 12:21
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
- 2 Samuel 12:9-11
Wherefore 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. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
- 2 Samuel 3:6-8
And 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. And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish–bosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father’s concubine? Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish–bosheth, and said, Am I a dog’s head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?
- Judges 16:21
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
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Context
- Proverbs 7:25
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
- Proverbs 7:26
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
- Proverbs 7:27
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Proverbs 7:26 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque á muchos ha hecho caer heridos; y aun los más fuertes han sido muertos por ella. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | car elle a fait tomber beaucoup de blessés, et ceux qu’elle a tués sont très nombreux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn viele Erschlagene hat sie niedergestreckt, und zahlreich sind alle ihre Ermordeten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | multos enim vulneratos dejecit, et fortissimi quique interfecti sunt ab ea. |