2 Peter 2:5

And if Hashem, when he brought a mabbul (flood) upon the world of resha'im (evildoers), did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noach, the eighth of the nefashot + 2:5 in the Teva (Ark) and a maggid of Tzidkanut (Righteousness);

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

In Context

4For if Hashem did not spare malachim that sinned, but cast them into Gehinnom, consigning them to the sharsherot (chains) of choshech to be kept for Mishpat;

6And if Hashem judged the cities of S'dom and Amora, reducing them to ashes by a churban catastrophe, making them a mofet (an example) for the ones intending to be resha'im;

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Cross References

Genesis 6:1And it came to pass, when HaAdam began to multiply on the face of ha'adamah, and banot were born unto them,

Job 22:15Wilt thou note the orach olam 1 which wicked men have trodden? 1

Luke 17:26And just as it was in the yamim of Noach, thus will it be also in the yamim of the Bar Enosh. + 17:26 Moshiach, Dan 7:13-14; Gn 6:5-8; 7:6-24

1 Peter 3:19In which also to the ruchot (spirits) now in mishmar (prison), having gone, Moshiach made the hachrazah (proclamation, kerygma),

Jude 1:14But also it was about these [men] that Chanokh, in the seventh [generation] from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Hinei, Adonoi comes with His ten thousands of malachim,

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 2:2-7

False Prophets and Corrupt Leaders. ( a. d. 67.) 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you— I. In the end of the former chapter there is… Read the whole commentary →

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