Proverbs 7:26
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 Version
For 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 Bible
For 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 Bible
For 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 1917
For 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 ...
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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…

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Proverbs 7
1. Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom
6. 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
The term "slain" in Hebrew is "חֲלָלִים" (chalalim), which refers to those who have been killed or destroyed. This word choice underscores the lethal nature of the seductress's influence, likening her victims to casualties of war. The phrase "many in number" highlights the widespread impact of such temptations, suggesting that countless individuals have fallen prey to similar sins throughout history. This serves as a sobering reminder of the pervasive nature of sin and the importance of vigilance and adherence to God's wisdom. In the broader scriptural context, this warning aligns with the teachings of Jesus and the apostles, who frequently cautioned against the dangers of immorality and the need for spiritual discernment.

Verse 26. - 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 Psalm 35:18; ἀναρίθμητοι, "innumerable are her slain," The former interpretation seems preferable, and avoids tautology.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (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


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