Luke 10:15

And *thou*, Capernaum, who hast been raised up to heaven, shalt be brought down even to hades.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.

In Context

14But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

16He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:28Whither shall we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, [They are] a people greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

Isaiah 14:13And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north;

Ezekiel 26:20then will I bring thee down, with them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and will cause thee to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 31:18To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden, unto the lower parts of the earth; thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel 32:20They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword. The sword hath been given: draw her out, and all her multitudes.

Amos 9:2Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to the heavens, thence will I bring them down;

Matthew Henry on Luke 10:2-17

The Mission of the Seventy. 1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. 2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. 3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. 4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. 5 And into… Read the whole commentary →

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