For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
Parallel translations
- WEB for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
- KJV For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
- NKJV For she has cast down many wounded, And all who were slain by her were strong men.
- NASB For many are the victims she has brought to ruin, And numerous are all those slaughtered by her.
- NLT For she has been the ruin of many; many men have been her victims.
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Quick answer
She has destroyed countless victims; her casualties are a vast multitude. Sexual sin has ruined many strong people.
Overview
The father warns that the adulteress has cast down many and slain a mighty host. Her many victims testify to the deadly power of this sin to ruin even the strong. The sobering tally urges humility and vigilance rather than overconfidence.
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- Neh 13:26Did 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 Pet 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
- Prov 6:33Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.
- 1 Cor 10:8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
- 1 Kgs 11:1–2King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
- 2 Sam 3:27When 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 Sam 12:9–11Why 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, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
- 2 Sam 3:6–8During the war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner had continued to strengthen his position in the house of Saul.
- Judg 16:21Then 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 Cor 12:21I 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.
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