Bible Strands
Proverbs 7:26
For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The wisdom teacher addresses a young man, issuing this warning immediately after describing the seductress's tactics and directly before describing the fatal destination of her house.
The words — The Hebrew verb הִפִּילָה (hiphilah) literally means "she has made fall," paired with חֲלָלִים (chalalim), which denotes "slain ones" or "wounded victims."
The thread — The text states that the seductress has killed many, a pattern the teacher links to Solomon's historical compromise in 1 Kings 11:1, later echoed in Nehemiah 13:26 as a warning against foreign alliances and in 1 Peter 2:11 regarding fleshly desires.
Why it lands — The passage requires the reader to immediately abandon attractive but destructive paths, recognizing that short-term allure produces permanent loss.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Cross-references
- Nehemiah 13:26 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 Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
- 1 Kings 11:1 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.
- Proverbs 6:33 Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.
- 1 Corinthians 10:8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
- Judges 16:21 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 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.
- 2 Samuel 3:27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.
- 2 Samuel 12:9 Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
- 2 Corinthians 12:21 I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.