Proverbs 7:26
24 Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
27 Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
- KJV
- For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
- 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.
- DARBY
- for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.
- BLB
- For many wounded ones she has made fall; and numerous [are] all her slain ones.
- ÅB
- For mange som har fått ulivssår, har hun fellet, og mangfoldige er de hun har slått ihjel;
- OTB
- For hun har felt mange ofre; hennes drepte er en stor mengde.
- B1930
- For mange som har fått ulivssår, har hun fellet, og mangfoldige er de hun har slått ihjel;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Nehemiah 13:26
Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.
Read in context1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:8
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
Read in contextProverbs 6:33
Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.
Read in context1 Kings 11:1–2
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
Read in context2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.
Read in context2 Corinthians 12:21
I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
Read in context2 Samuel 12:9–11
Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
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