Jude 1:14
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
- KJV
- And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
- WEB
- About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
- ASV
- And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
- DARBY
- And Enoch, [the] seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to these, saying, Behold, [the] Lord has come amidst his holy myriads,
- BLB
- And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied as to these, saying: “Behold, the Lord came amidst myriads of His holy ones,
- ÅB
- Disse var det også Enok, den syvende fra Adam, spådde om da han sa: Se, Herren kommer med sine mange tusen hellige
- OTB
- Det var om disse menneskene at Enok, den syvende fra Adam, profeterte, og sa: "Se, Herren kommer med tusener på tusener av sine hellige,
- B1930
- Disse var det også Enok, den syvende fra Adam, spådde om da han sa: Se, Herren kommer med sine mange tusen hellige
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 33:2
And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Read in contextPsalms 50:3–5
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Read in contextHebrews 11:5–6
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 1:7–8
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
Read in context1 Thessalonians 3:13
To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
Read in contextMatthew 16:27
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Read in contextMatthew 24:30–31
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Read in contextMatthew 25:31
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
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