for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
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for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
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For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
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For she hath cast down many wounded; yea, a mighty host are all her slain.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 7:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Nehemiah 13:26 Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.
- 1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- 1 Kings 11:1-2 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.
- Proverbs 6:33 He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.
- 1 Corinthians 10:8 Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
- Judges 16:21 The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
- 2 Samuel 3:6-8 While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house. Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ishbosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?” Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!
- 2 Samuel 3:27 When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
- 2 Samuel 12:9-11 Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’ “This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
- 2 Corinthians 12:21 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Neither wit nor strength can deliver them that fall…
Neither wit nor strength can deliver them that fall into the hands of the harlot.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 7:26 For she hath cast down many wounded:…
Pro 7:26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her.
Ver. 26. For she hath cast down many.] That have let in death at those windows of wickedness, those loop holes of lust; that have died of the wound in the eye. Aliorum perditio tua sit cautio - Seest thou another man shipwrecked, look well to thy tacklings.
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Yea, many strong men have been slain by her.] The valour of man hath oft been slaved by the wiles of a woman. Witness many of your greatest martialists, who conquered countries, and were vanquished of vices, being captivarum suarum captivi. The Persian kings commanded the whole world, and were commanded by their concubines. So was Alexander, Samson, Hercules, whom some make to be the same as Samson.
“ Lenam non potuit, potuit superare leaenam:
Quem fera non potuit vincere, vicit hera. ”
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Strong men; men that excel others, either,
Strong men; men that excel others, either,
1. In bodily strength, upon which they presume, which yet is wasted, and by degrees ruined, by these courses. Or,
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2. In wisdom, and fortitude, and resolution; whereby he implies how much more necessary it is for a weak and foolish young man to use all possible care and diligence to avoid this mischief.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Her house is the way to hell,.... Or "ways"…
Her house is the way to hell,.... Or "ways" (p); the broad highway to it; either to the grave, as "sheol" often signifies; or to hell itself, the place of the damned: to go into her house, and commit wickedness with her, is to take a step to destruction, a large stride towards hell; and, if grace prevent not, will bring a man thither. Who would go into such a house, and much less dwell there, which is the very suburbs of hell?
going down to the chambers of death; to enter her chamber, to step into her bed, howsoever decked and adorned, entertaining and inviting it is, not only leads to the chambers of the grave, as the Targum; but to the lowest and innermost parts of hell; the apartments of the second death, the lot of all unclean and idolatrous persons, without repentance and faith. The Phoenicians called Pluto, the god of hell, by the name of Moth (q), a word similar to this used here; and so those chambers are no other than the chambers of hell. Plautus (r) also calls the gate of a whore's house the gate of hell; which agrees with the first clause of the verse.
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(p) "viae", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c. (q) Sanchoniatho apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 1. p. 38. (r) "Januam hane orci", Bacchides, Act. 3. Sc. 1. v. 1.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 26. For she hath cast down many wounded:…
Verse 26. For 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 soldiers 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.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The house of the harlot is now likened to…
The house of the harlot is now likened to a field of battle strewn with the corpses of the many slain.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Her. Solomon gave a melancholy proof of this, as…
Her. Solomon gave a melancholy proof of this, as well as David, and Amnon. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Even the mightiest fail to resist her deathly allurements.
Even the mightiest fail to resist her deathly allurements.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 26. For she — That is, such women. She…
26. For she — That is, such women. She is taken representatively. The sentiment is: Innumerable mighty men, or mighty hosts, have thus been brought to ruin. If the strong are slain, how can you escape, if enticed into the snare? Miller, “For mighty men, when polluted, she has hurled down,” etc. “The most valiant heroes, the most puissant soldiers, that never yielded, but stood undaunted against all other assaults, have generally been vanquished, and frequently destroyed, by the allurements of women.” — Hammond. The fall of Hannibal’s army in Italy is an example in point. Compare Num_22:5, etc.; Pro_25:1, etc.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 26. many strong] This is the rendering of a…
26. many strong] This is the rendering of a single Heb. word, which may mean mighty, as it usually does, or (comp. the use of the verb in Psa_40:5; Psa_40:12 [Hebrews 6, 13]) many. Lit. mighty ones, or numerous ones, are all her slain, i.e. the whole number of those slain by her amount to a mighty host, as it is happily rendered in R.V. The thought is not so much of the individual strength of her victims as of their great number, as the parallelism indicates: ἀναρίθμητοί εἰσιν οὒς πεφόνευκε, “numberless are they whom she has slain,” LXX.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For she hath east down many wounded. Delitzsch, "For…
For she hath east down many wounded. Delitzsch, "For many are the slain whom she hath caused to fall." The harlot marks her course with ruined souls, as a ruthless conqueror leaves a field of battle strewn with corpses. Yea, many strong (atsum) men have been slain by her. One thinks of Samson and David and Solomon, the victims of illicit love, and suffering for it. Vulgate, et fortissimi quique interfecti sunt ab ea. But the Septuagint and many moderns take atsum in the sense of "numerous," as Psa_35:18; anariymhtoi , "innumerable are her slain," The former interpretation seems preferable, and avoids tautology.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 She has caused many people to fall down pierced
She has caused many people to fall down pierced
Being pierced by spears or arrows represents being killed. AT: "She has caused many people to fall dead" (See: Metonymy)
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Her house is on the paths to Sheol ... they go down
Here "paths" represents the kinds of behavior that foolish people participate in. Sheol was the name for the world of the dead.
on the paths to Sheol ... down to the dark bedrooms of death
These two phrases basically mean the same thing and are repeated to emphasize that the woman's victims will be destroyed. (See: Parallelism)
the dark bedrooms of death
This expression pictures the dead as sleeping in many different rooms in Sheol. (See: Metaphor)
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Hades
die
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