Matthew 24:19
How awful it will be for those who are pregnant, and those who are nursing babies at that time!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
In Context
18Anyone who is out in the fields must not go back to get a coat.
20Pray that you don't have to run away in winter, or on the Sabbath day.
Cross References
2 Samuel 4:4Jonathan, son of Saul, had a son lame in both feet. He was five years old when the news about the deaths of Saul and Jonathan had come from Jezreel. His nurse had picked him up and run away, but as she rushed to get away, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
Lamentations 4:3Even jackals nurse their young at their breasts, but the women of my people have become cruel, like an ostrich in the desert.
Hosea 13:16The people of Samaria will have to bear the consequences of their guilt, because they rebelled against their God. They will be slaughtered by the sword; their children will be dashed to the ground; their pregnant women will be ripped open.
Luke 21:23How hard it will be for those who are pregnant or nursing babies at that time! For terrible trouble is coming on the land and punishment against this people.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 24:5-32
Awful Predictions. 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall… Read the whole commentary →