Matthew 24:7
5 For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.
6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.
9 Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
- KJV
- For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
- WEB
- For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.
- ASV
- For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places.
- DARBY
- For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.
- BLB
- For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
- ÅB
- For folk skal reise seg mot folk, og rike mot rike, og det skal være sult og jordskjelv både her og der.
- OTB
- Folk skal reise seg mot folk, og rike mot rike. Det skal bli hungersnød og jordskjelv mange steder.
- B1930
- For folk skal reise sig mot folk, og rike mot rike, og det skal være hunger og jordskjelv både her og der.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 21:11
There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
Read in contextRevelation 6:8
Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.
Read in contextIsaiah 19:2
“So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Read in contextZechariah 14:13
On that day a great panic from the LORD will come upon them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.
Read in contextActs 11:28
One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
Read in context2 Chronicles 15:6
Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
Read in contextRevelation 6:12
And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
Read in contextLuke 21:25–26
There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
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