Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Many are the victims she has brought down; her slain are a mighty throng. New Living Translation For she has been the ruin of many; many men have been her victims. English Standard Version for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng. Berean Standard Bible For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number. King James Bible For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. New King James Version For she has cast down many wounded, And all who were slain by her were strong men. New American Standard Bible For many are the victims she has brought to ruin, And numerous are all those slaughtered by her. NASB 1995 For many are the victims she has cast down, And numerous are all her slain. NASB 1977 For many are the victims she has cast down, And numerous are all her slain. Legacy Standard Bible For many are the slain whom she has cast down, And numerous are all those killed by her. Amplified Bible For she has cast down many [mortally] wounded; Indeed, all who were killed by her were strong. Christian Standard Bible For she has brought many down to death; her victims are countless. Holman Christian Standard Bible For she has brought many down to death; her victims are countless. American Standard Version For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host. Contemporary English Version Such a woman has caused the downfall and destruction of a lot of men. English Revised Version For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, all her slain are a mighty host. GOD'S WORD® Translation because she has brought down many victims, and she has killed all too many. Good News Translation She has been the ruin of many men and caused the death of too many to count. International Standard Version For many are the victims whom she has conquered, and many are her slain. Majority Standard Bible For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number. NET Bible for she has brought down many fatally wounded, and all those she has slain are many. New Heart English Bible for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. Webster's Bible Translation For she hath cast down many wounded: yes, 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionFor many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, "" And mighty [are] all her slain ones. Young's Literal Translation For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones. Smith's Literal Translation For she cast down many wounded, and the strong all being slain by her. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleFor she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her. Catholic Public Domain Version For she has tossed aside many wounded, and some of those who were very strong have been slain by her. New American Bible For many are those she has struck down dead, numerous, those she has slain. New Revised Standard Version For many are those she has laid low, and numerous are her victims. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor she has cast down many wounded; yea, many mighty men have been slain by her. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Because she has cast down a multitude of the slain and mighty ones; they all have been killed by her. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917For she hath cast down many wounded; Yea, a mighty host are all her slain. Brenton Septuagint Translation for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Warnings about the Adulteress…25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths. 26For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number. 27Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.… Cross References Proverbs 6:26-29 For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. / Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned? / Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet? ... Proverbs 5:3-5 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, / in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword. / Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol. Proverbs 2:18-19 For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits. / None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life. Proverbs 9:18 But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared. Judges 16:4-21 Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. / The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.” / So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.” ... 1 Kings 11:1-4 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. / These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love. / He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away. ... Genesis 39:7-12 and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.” / But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care. / No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?” ... 2 Samuel 11:2-5 One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman. / So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” / Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home. ... Hosea 4:11 to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding. Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. James 1:14-15 But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. / Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; / each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, / not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God; Galatians 5:19-21 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Treasury of Scripture For she has cast down many wounded: yes, many strong men have been slain by her. Proverbs 6:33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. 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. 2 Samuel 3:6-8,27 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… Jump to Previous Army Cast Caused Great Host Laid Mighty Numerous Ones Slain Strong Throng Thrown Victim Victims WoundedJump to Next Army Cast Caused Great Host Laid Mighty Numerous Ones Slain Strong Throng Thrown Victim Victims WoundedProverbs 7 1. Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom6. In an example of his own experience he shows 10. the cunning of a harlot 22. and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton 24. He detests such wickedness For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number For she has brought many down to death This phrase begins with a warning about the consequences of succumbing to the temptations of the adulterous woman, a recurring theme in Proverbs. The Hebrew word for "brought down" is "הִפִּילָה" (hippilah), which implies a forceful action, suggesting that the fall into sin is not merely a passive slip but a deliberate act that leads to spiritual and sometimes physical demise. The "death" here is not only physical but also spiritual, symbolizing separation from God. Historically, the wisdom literature of the Bible often uses vivid imagery to convey the dangers of moral and spiritual failure, emphasizing the severe consequences of straying from God's path. her slain are many in number Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction she has brought many רַבִּ֣ים (rab·bîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 7227: Much, many, great down הִפִּ֑ילָה (hip·pî·lāh) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 5307: To fall, lie to death; חֲלָלִ֣ים (ḥă·lā·lîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2491: Pierced, polluted her slain הֲרֻגֶֽיהָ׃ (hă·ru·ḡe·hā) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 2026: To smite with deadly intent are many וַ֝עֲצֻמִ֗ים (wa·‘ă·ṣu·mîm) Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 6099: Powerful, numerous in number. כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every Links Proverbs 7:26 NIVProverbs 7:26 NLT Proverbs 7:26 ESV Proverbs 7:26 NASB Proverbs 7:26 KJV Proverbs 7:26 BibleApps.com Proverbs 7:26 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 7:26 Chinese Bible Proverbs 7:26 French Bible Proverbs 7:26 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 7:26 For she has thrown down many wounded (Prov. 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