Proverbs 7:26
What does Proverbs 7:26 mean?
A plain-English look at Proverbs 7:26 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For many <FI>are<Fi> the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty <FI>are<Fi> all her slain ones.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 11:1
Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
- 2 Corinthians 12:21
lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.
- Nehemiah 13:26
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.
- Proverbs 6:33
Wounds and dishonor shall he get; And his reproach shall not be wiped away.
- Judges 16:21
And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.
- 2 Samuel 3:6
And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong in the house of Saul.
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