For manyare the victimsshe has castdown,And numerousare allher slain.
So when Abnerreturnedto Hebron,Joabtookhim asideinto the middleof the gateto speakwith him privately,and therehe struckhim in the bellyso that he diedon account of the bloodof Asahelhis brother.
"Did not Solomonkingof Israelsinregardingthesethings?Yet among the manynationsthere was nokinglikehim, and he was lovedby his God,and Godmadehim kingoverallIsrael;neverthelessthe foreignwomencaused evenhim to sin.
For her housesinksdownto deathAnd her tracks[lead] to the dead;
Surelyshe lurksas a robber,And increasesthe faithlessamong men.
Woundsand disgracehe will find,And his reproachwill not be blottedout.
Her houseis the wayto Sheol,Descendingto the chambersof death.
But he does not knowthat the deadare there,[That] her guestsare in the depthsof Sheol.
Norlet us actimmorally,as someof them did,and twenty-threethousandfellin oneday.
I am afraid that when I comeagainmy Godmay humiliateme beforeyou, and I may mournover manyof thosewho have sinned in the pastand not repentedof the impurity,immoralityand sensualitywhichthey have practiced.
Beloved,I urgeyou as aliensand strangersto abstainfrom fleshlylustswhichwage waragainstthe soul.
Then the Philistinesseizedhim and gougedout his eyes;and they broughthim downto Gazaand boundhim with bronzechains,and he was a grinderin the prison.
