For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
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Gill's Exposition
Her house is the way to hell,.... Or "ways" (p); the broad highway to it; either to the grave, as "sheol" often signifies; or to hell itself, the place of the damned: to go into her house, and commit…
Barnes' Notes
The house of the harlot is now likened to a field of battle strewn with the corpses of the many slain.
We have here the application of the foregoing story: "Hearken to me therefore, and not to such seducers (Pro 7:24); give ear to a father, and not to an enemy." 1. "Take good counsel when it is given…
Cambridge Bible
many strong This is the rendering of a single Heb. word, which may mean mighty, as it usually does, or (comp. the use of the verb in Psa 40:5; Psa 40:12 [Hebrews 6, 13]) many. Lit. mighty ones, or…
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