Matthew 24:6 Cross References - MLV

⁶ But you are about to hear of wars and reports of wars; behold, do not alarmed; for it is essential for all these things to happen, but the end is not yet.

¹ Jehovah is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
² When evildoers came upon me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. ³ Though an army should encamp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

¹ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
² Therefore we will not fear, though the earth changes and though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas, ³ though the waters of it roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with the swelling of it. Selah.

⁷ He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is fixed, trusting in Jehovah.

¹² Do not say, A conspiracy, concerning all of which this people will say, A conspiracy, nor fear their fear, nor be in dread of it. ¹³ Jehovah of hosts, him you* will sanctify and let him be your* fear and let him be your* dread.
¹⁴ And he will be for a sanctuary, but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a net and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

² Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and will not be afraid, for Jehovah, even Jehovah, is my strength and song and he has become my salvation.

³ You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. ⁴ Trust in Jehovah forever, for in Jehovah, even Jehovah, is an everlasting rock.

²⁰ Come, my people, enter you into your chambers and shut your doors around you. Hide yourself for a little moment until the indignation have passed over.
²¹ For, behold, Jehovah comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood and will no more cover her slain.

¹⁹ My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart. My heart is in an uproar in me. I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. ²⁰ Destruction upon destruction is cried, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed and my curtains in a moment.
²¹ How long shall I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet? ²² For my people are foolish. They do not know me.
They are foolish sons and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but they have no knowledge to do good.

²² Jehovah says thus, Behold, a people comes from the north country and a great nation will be stirred up from the outermost parts of the earth. ²³ They lay hold on bow and spear. They are cruel and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea and they ride upon horses. Each one set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, O daughter of Zion.
²⁴ We have heard the report of it. Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us and pangs as of a woman in travail.

¹⁵ We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
¹⁶ The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles. For they have come and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell in it.

⁶ O you sword of Jehovah, how long will you be quiet? Put up yourself into your scabbard. Rest and be still.

²⁴ Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease and their holy places will be profaned.
²⁵ Destruction comes. And they will seek peace and there will be none.
²⁶ Mischief will come upon mischief and rumor will be upon rumor.
And they will seek a vision of the prophet, but the law will perish from the priest and counsel from the elders.

¹⁷ Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and beast, ¹⁸ though these three men were in it, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only would be delivered themselves.
¹⁹ Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast, ²⁰ though Noah, Daniel and Job, were in it, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, they would deliver neither son nor daughter, they would but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
²¹ For thus says the lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four severe judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword and the famine and the evil beasts and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

⁹ Son of man, prophesy and say, Jehovah says thus: Say, A sword, a sword. It is sharpened and also furbished. ¹⁰ It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Shall we then rejoice? It scorns the scepter of my son, every tree. ¹¹ And it is given to be polished, that it may be handled. The sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
¹² Cry and wail, son of man, for it is upon my people. It is upon all the rulers of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Strike therefore upon your thigh. ¹³ For there is a trial and what if even the rod that scorns will be no more? says the lord Jehovah.
¹⁴ You therefore, son of man, prophesy and kill* your hands together. And let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded. It is the sword of the great man who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers.
¹⁵ I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made as lightning. It is pointed for slaughter.

²⁸ And you, son of man, prophesy and say, The lord Jehovah says thus concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach. And you say, A sword, a sword is drawn. It is polished for the slaughter, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning,

²⁴ Seventy weeks are decreed upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy.
²⁵ Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the anointed one, the Prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troublesome times.
²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one will be cut off and will have nothing. And the people of the prince who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary and the end of it will be with a flood. And even to the end will be war; desolations are determined. ²⁷ And he will make a firm covenant with many for one week. And in the midst of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. And upon the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate. And even to the full end and that determined, wrath will be poured out upon the desolate.

¹ And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.
² And now I will show you the truth. Behold, there will stand up yet three kings in Persia and the fourth will be far richer than them all. And when he has grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all against the realm of Greece. ³ And a mighty king will stand up, who will rule with great dominion and do according to his will.
⁴ And when he will stand up, his kingdom will be broken and will be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled, for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.
⁵ And the king of the south will be strong and one of his rulers. And he will be powerful over him and have dominion. His dominion will be a great dominion. ⁶ And at the end of years they will join themselves together. And the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make a smoothly agreement, but she will not retain the strength of her arm, nor will he stand, nor his arm. But she will be given up and also those who brought her and he who fathered her and he who strengthened her in those times.
⁷ But out of a shoot from her roots will a man stand up in his place, who will come to the army and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north and will deal against them and will prevail. ⁸ And also their gods, with their molten images and with their desirable vessels of silver and of gold, he will carry captive into Egypt and he will refrain from the king of the north some years.
⁹ And he will come into the realm of the king of the south, but he will return into his own land. ¹⁰ And his sons will war and will assemble a multitude of great forces, which will come on and overflow and pass through. And they will return and war, even to his fortress.
¹¹ And the king of the south will be moved with anger and will come out and fight with him, even with the king of the north. And he will set forth a great multitude and the multitude will be given into his hand. ¹² And the multitude will be lifted up and his heart will be exalted. And he will cast down tens of thousands, but he will not prevail.
¹³ And the king of the north will return and will set forth a multitude greater than the former and he will come on at the end of the times, even of years, with a great army and with much substance. ¹⁴ And in those times many will stand up against the king of the south. Also the sons of the violent among your people will lift themselves up to establish the vision, but they will fall.
¹⁵ So the king of the north will come and cast up a mound and take a well-fortified city. And the forces of the south will not stand, nor his chosen people. Neither will there be any strength to stand. ¹⁶ But he who comes against him will do according to his own will and none will stand before him. And he will stand in the glorious land and in his hand will be destruction.
¹⁷ And he will set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom and with him equitable conditions and he will perform them. And he will give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her, but she will not stand, nor be for him.
¹⁸ After this he will turn his face to the isles and will take many. But a ruler will cause the reproach offered by him to cease. Yes, moreover, he will cause his reproach to turn upon him. ¹⁹ Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and will not be found.
²⁰ Then someone will stand up in his place, a tax oppressor to pass through, for the glory of the kingdom, but within a few days he will be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.
²¹ And in his place he who is contemptible will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom. But he will come in time of security and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries. ²² And the overwhelming forces will be overwhelmed from before him and will be broken, yes, also the ruler of the covenant.
²³ And after the league made with him, he will work deceitfully, for he will come up and will become strong, with a small people. ²⁴ He will come in time of security even upon the fattest places of the province and he will do what his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers. He will scatter among them prey and spoil and substance. Yes, he will devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.
²⁵ And he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south will war in battle with a very great and mighty army, but he will not stand, for they will devise devices against him. ²⁶ Yes, those who eat of his food will destroy him and his army will overflow and many will fall down slain.
²⁷ And as for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief and they will speak lies at one table. But it will not prosper, for yet the end will be at the time appointed. ²⁸ Then he will return into his land with great substance. And his heart will be against the holy covenant and he will do his pleasure and return to his own land.
²⁹ At the time appointed he will return and come into the south, but it will not be in the latter time as it was in the former. ³⁰ For ships of Kittim will come against him. Therefore he will be grieved and will return and have indignation against the holy covenant and will do his pleasure. He will even return and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.
³¹ And forces will stand on his part and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress and will take away the continual burnt offering and they will set up the abomination that makes desolate. ³² And he will pervert by flatteries such as do wickedly against the covenant. But the people who know their God will be strong and do exploits. ³³ And those who are wise among the people will instruct many, yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, many days.
³⁴ Now when they will fall, they will be helped with a little help, but many will join themselves to them with flatteries. ³⁵ And some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them and to purify and to make them white, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.
³⁶ And the king will do according to his will. And he will exalt himself and magnify himself above every god and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. And he will prosper till the indignation be accomplished, for what is determined will be done. ³⁷ Neither will he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god, for he will magnify himself above all.
³⁸ But in his place he will honor the god of fortresses. And a god whom his fathers did not know, he will honor with gold and silver and with precious stones and desirable things. ³⁹ And he will deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god. Whoever acknowledges him he will increase with glory and he will cause them to rule over many and will divide the land for a price.
⁴⁰ And at the time of the end, the king of the south will contend with him and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships and he will enter into the countries and will overflow and pass through.
⁴¹ He will also enter into the glorious land and many countries will be overthrown. But these will be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the chief of the sons of Ammon.
⁴² He will stretch forth his hand also upon the countries and the land of Egypt will not escape. ⁴³ But he will have power over the treasures of gold and of silver and over all the desirable things of Egypt. And the Libyans and the Ethiopians will be at his steps.
⁴⁴ But news out of the east and out of the north will trouble him and he will go forth with great fury to destroy and to utterly sweep away many. ⁴⁵ And he will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain, yet he will come to his end and none will help him.

¹⁶ I heard and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
¹⁷ For though the fig tree will not flourish, nor will fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food; the flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls; ¹⁸ yet I will rejoice in Jehovah. I will joy in the God of my salvation.

¹⁴ And this good-news of the kingdom will be preached in the whole inhabited-earth, for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will be coming.

⁵⁴ Therefore how might the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it is essential to happen as thus?

⁷ Now whenever you hear of wars and reports of wars, do not be alarmed; for it is essential for these things to happen, but the end is not yet. ⁸ For nation will arise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be earthquakes in different places; there will be famines and disturbances. These things are the beginnings of travail.

⁹ But whenever you^\'b0 hear of wars and unrest, do not be terrified; for it is necessary for these things to happen first, but the end is not immediately here.

¹⁹ You^\'b0 will procure your souls in your endurance.

³⁷ For I say to you, that it is essential for this to still be completed in me, which has been written, ‘And he was counted with the lawless'; for the things concerning me must have an end.

¹ Do not let your heart be disturbed; you believe in God, believe also in me.

²⁷ I am leaving peace with you. I am giving my peace to you; not like the world gives, I am giving to you. Let your heart not be disturbed, nor let it be cowardly.

²⁴ saying, Do not fear, Paul; it is essential for you to stand-before Caesar and behold, God has granted to you all those who are sailing with you. ²⁵ Hence, be cheerful, men; for I believe God, that it will be so according to the manner it has been spoken to me. ²⁶ But it is essential for us to fall onto a certain island.

² that you might not be quickly shaken from your mind, nor be alarmed, (either through spirit, or through word, or through letter, as if it came through us), as that the day of the Christ is present.

¹⁴ But even if you should suffer because of righteousness, you are fortunate. But do not fear because of their fear, nor should you be disturbed; ¹⁵ but make the Lord God holy in your hearts, and be ready habitually with a defense to everyone who is asking you for a reason concerning the hope which is in you, with meekness and fear;