Matthew 24:40 Cross References - CLV

⁴⁰ Then two shall be in the field; one is taken along and one left:

¹² And when he is in distress he has appeased the face of Yahweh his Elohim, and is humbled exceedingly before the Elohim of his fathers, ¹³ and prays unto Him, and He is entreated of him, and hears his supplication, and brings him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom, and Manasseh knows that Yahweh--He [is] Elohim. ¹⁴ And after this he has built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west of Gihon, in the valley, and at the entering in at the fish-gate, and it has gone round to the tower, and he makes it exceeding high, and he puts heads of the force in all the cities of the bulwarks in Judah. ¹⁵ And he turns aside the elohims of the stranger, and the idol, out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and casts [them] to the outside of the city. ¹⁶ And he builds the altar of Yahweh, and sacrifices upon it sacrifices of peace-offerings and thank-offering, and said to Judah to serve Yahweh, Elohim of Israel;" ¹⁷ but still the people are sacrificing in high places, only--to Yahweh their Elohim. ¹⁸ And the rest of the matters of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his Elohim, and the matters of the seers, those speaking unto him in the name of Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, lo, they are [on the book of] the matters of the kings of Israel;" ¹⁹ and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he had built high places, and established the shrines and the graven images before his being humbled, lo, they are written beside the matters of Hozai. ²⁰ And Manasseh lies with his fathers, and they bury him in his own house, and reign does Amon his son in his stead. ²¹ A son of twenty and two years [is] Amon in his reigning, and two years he has reigned in Jerusalem, ²² and he does the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father, and to all the graven images that Manasseh his father had made has Amon sacrificed, and serves them, ²³ and has not been humbled before Yahweh, like the humbling of Manasseh his father, for Amon himself has multiplied guilt. ²⁴ And his servants conspire against him, and put him to death in his own house,

³⁴ I am saying to you, in this night there will be two on one couch; the one shall be taken along and the other shall be left." ³⁵ There will be two grinding at the same place; the one shall be taken along, yet the other shall be left." ³⁶ -³⁷ And answering, they are saying to Him, "Where, Lord?Yet He said to them, "Wherever the body is, there the vultures also will be assembled."

³⁹ Now one of the hanged malefactors blasphemed Him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!" ⁴⁰ Yet answering, the other one, rebuking him, averred, "Yet you are not fearing God, seeing that you are in the same judgment!" ⁴¹ And we, indeed, justly, for we are getting back the deserts of what we commit, yet this One commits nothing amiss." ⁴² And he said to Jesus, "Be reminded of me, Lord, whenever Thou mayest be coming in Thy kingdom." ⁴³ And Jesus said to him, "Verily, to you am I saying today, with Me shall you be in paradise."

⁷ For who is making you to discriminate? Now what have you which you did not obtain? Now if you obtained it also, why are you boasting as though not obtaining?

⁵ and spares not the ancient world, but guards Noah, an eighth, a herald of righteousness, bringing a deluge on the world of the irreverent;"

⁷ and rescues the just man, Lot, harried by the behavior of the dissolute in their wantonness" ⁸ (for the just man dwelling among them, in observing and hearing from day to day, tormented his just soul by their lawless acts), ⁹ the Lord is acquainted with the rescue of the devout out of trial, yet is keeping the unjust for chastening in the day of judging,