For she has cast down many wounded, And all who were slain by her were strong men.
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.
- BSB For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
- 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 13:26Didn’t 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 foreign women caused even him to sin.
- 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
- Prov 6:33He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.
- 1 Cor 10:8Let us not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
- 1 Kgs 11:1–2Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
- 2 Sam 3:27When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
- 2 Sam 12:9–11Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
- 2 Sam 3:6–8While there was war between Saul’s house and David’s house, Abner made himself strong in Saul’s house.
- Judg 16:21The 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 ground at the mill in the prison.
- 2 Cor 12:21that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
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