Proverbs 7:26 “For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.”

Proverbs 7:26

For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

World English Bible

for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

American Standard Version

For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.

Geneva Bible 1599

For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.

Darby Translation

for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.

Young's Literal Translation

For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.”

Nehemiah 13:26 1 Peter 2:11 Proverbs 6:33 1 Corinthians 10:8 Judges 16:21 2 Samuel 3:6–8

Nehemiah 13:26 · BSB

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.

1 Peter 2:11 · BSB

Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

Proverbs 6:33 · BSB

Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.

1 Corinthians 10:8 · BSB

We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

Judges 16:21 · BSB

Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

2 Samuel 3:6–8 · BSB

During the war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner had continued to strengthen his position in the house of Saul.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

27Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

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