Proverbs 7:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For 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.

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  • Neh 13:26 : 26 Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.
  • Prov 6:33 : 33 Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
  • 1 Cor 10:8 : 8 Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.
  • 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
  • Judg 16:21 : 21 So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.
  • 2 Sam 3:6-8 : 6 Now while there was war between Saul's people and David's people, Abner was making himself strong among the supporters of Saul. 7 Now Saul had among his wives a woman named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Why have you taken my father's wife? 8 And Abner was very angry at the words of Ish-bosheth, and he said, Am I a dog's head of Judah? I am this day doing all in my power for the cause of your father Saul and for his brothers and his friends, and have not given you up into the hands of David, and now you say I have done wrong with a woman.
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.
  • 2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. 11 The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1-2 : 1 Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites: 2 The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.

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    27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

  • Prov 7:25
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    25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

  • Prov 2:18-19
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    18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

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  • Prov 7:10-13
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    10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

    11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

    12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

    13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

  • Prov 7:21-22
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    21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

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  • Prov 5:3-6
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    3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

    4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

    5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

    6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

    25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

    26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

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    20 Among those who have been put to the sword: they will give a resting-place with them to all their people.

  • Prov 9:1-4
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    1 Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.

    2 She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.

    3 She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,

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  • Prov 23:27-28
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    27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

    28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

  • Jer 6:7
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    7 As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

  • Prov 7:8
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    8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

  • Prov 3:17
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    17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

  • Prov 5:8
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    8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

  • Isa 3:25-26
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    25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

    26 And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

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    14 The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

  • Prov 9:14
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    14 Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,

  • Hab 2:10
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    10 You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.

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    10 By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right.

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    32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

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    27 How have the great ones been made low, and the arms of war broken!

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    5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

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    16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

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    27 Bent at her feet he went down, he was stretched out; bent at her feet he went down; where he was bent down, there he went down in death.

  • Jer 49:26
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    26 So her young men will be falling in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord of armies.

  • Prov 1:21
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    21 Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

  • Prov 14:1
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    1 Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20 This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

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    4 Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.

  • Prov 8:3
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    3 Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

  • Ezek 32:23
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    23 Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living.