Proverbs 7:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Neh 13:26 : 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.
Prov 6:33 : 33 Wounds and dishonor shall he get; And his reproach shall not be wiped away.
1 Cor 10:8 : 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
2 Cor 12:21 : 21 lest again when I come {G3825} 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.
1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Judg 16:21 : 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 {H631} prison-house.
2 Sam 3:6-8 : 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. 7 Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and [Ish-bosheth] said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine? 8 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongeth to Judah? This day do I show kindness unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David; and yet thou chargest me this day with a fault concerning this woman.
2 Sam 3:27 : 27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. 11 Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house; and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
1 Kgs 11:1-2 : 1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; 2 of the nations concerning which Jehovah said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Prov 7:27
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27Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
Prov 7:25
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25Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.
Prov 2:18-19
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18For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;
19None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
Prov 7:10-13
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10And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
11(She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:
12Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)
13So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] with an impudent face she said unto him:
Eccl 7:26
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26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Prov 7:21-22
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21With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.
22He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;
Prov 5:3-6
4 verses
75%
3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;
6So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.
Prov 6:24-26
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24To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
26For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
Ezek 32:20
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20They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.
Prov 9:1-4
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1Wisdom hath builded her house; She hath hewn out her seven pillars:
2She hath killed her beasts; She hath mingled her wine; She hath also furnished her table:
3She hath sent forth her maidens; She crieth upon the highest places of the city:
4Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
Prov 23:27-28
2 verses
73%
27For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
28Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
Jer 6:7
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7As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
Prov 7:8
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8Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,
Prov 3:17
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17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.
Prov 5:8
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8Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;
Isa 3:25-26
2 verses
70%
25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.
Prov 22:14
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14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
Prov 9:14
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14And she sitteth at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,
Hab 2:10
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10Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul.
Ezek 23:10
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10These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments upon her.
Ezek 16:32
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32A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!
2 Sam 1:27
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27How are the mighty fallen, And the weapons of war perished!
Prov 7:5
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5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
Prov 21:22
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22A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, And bringeth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
Nah 3:10
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10Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Rev 18:7
68%
7How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.
Prov 2:16
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16To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
Judg 5:27
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27At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Jer 49:26
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26Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Prov 1:21
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21She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
Prov 14:1
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1Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.
Prov 30:20
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20So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.
Nah 3:4
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4because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Prov 8:3
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3Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:
Ezek 32:23
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23whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.