2 Peter 2:7

And if Hashem delivered Lot, a tzaddik distressed by the hitnahagut (conduct) of the mufkarim + 2:7 2:8,10; 3:17 (lawless) walking in darchei zimah (the ways of licentiousness)

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

In Context

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;

8— For that tzaddik, living among them day after day, was tortured in his nefesh hayesharah (honest soul) by the darchei mufkarim (the ways of lawless ones) that he saw and heard

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Cross References

Genesis 19:7And said, Now, achai (my brethren), do not so wickedly.

Genesis 19:22Haste thee, flee to escape there; for I cannot do anything till thou arrive there. Therefore the shem of the Ir was called Tzoar. + 19:22 sounds like mitzar

Psalms 120:5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, 1 that I dwell in the ohalim of Kedar! 1

Jeremiah 23:9Mine lev within me is broken 1 because of the nevi'im; 1 all my atzmot shake; 1 I am like an ish shikkor, 1 and like a gever (man) whom yayin hath overcome, 1 because of Hashem, 1 and because of Divrei Kadsho (His Holy Devarim). 1

2 Peter 3:17Chaverim, you therefore, knowing beforehand, be shomer over yourselves lest with the toyus (error) of the mufkarim (lawless ones) having been led away, you fall from your own stability.

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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