2 Peter 3:9

But Hashem is not slow concerning his havtachah (promise), as some consider slowness, but is demonstrating savlanut (patience) + 3:9 3:15 toward you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to teshuva (repentance).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

In Context

8Chaverim, let not this one thing escape your notice, that “A thousand years in the eyes of Hashem is like one day” + 3:8 Ps 90:4 and one day like a thousand years.

10But the Yom Hashem will come as a ganav (thief), in which the Shomayim with great suddenness will pass away and the elements, burning up, will be destroyed, and the Olam Hazeh and its ma'asim will be found ou. + 3:10 Num 32:23

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Cross References

Exodus 18:23If thou shalt do this thing, and Elohim command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and kol HaAm hazeh shall also go to their place in shalom.

Exodus 33:11And Hashem spoke unto Moshe face to face, as an ish speaketh unto his re'a. And he returned into the machaneh; but his mesharet Yehoshua ben Nun, a na'ar, departed not out of the Ohel.

Psalms 86:15But Thou, Adonoi, art El Rachum and Channun, 1 slow to anger, and plenteous in chesed and emes. 1

Isaiah 46:13I bring near My tzedakah; 1 it shall not be far off, 1 and My Teshuah (Salvation) shall not tarry; 1 and I will place Teshuah in Tziyon 1 for Yisroel Tife'arti (My Glory).

Luke 18:7Now will not Hashem by all means do mishpat for his Bechirim crying out to him yomam valailah? Will he delay long in bringing them help? + 18:7 Ex 22:23; Ps 88:1

Romans 9:22But what if naniach (supposing) Hashem, willing to demonstrate His Charon Af Hashem (burning anger of G-d) and to make known His ko'ach (power), + 9:22 1:16,18 put up with and endured with savlanut (patience) vessels which are objects of G-dʼs Charon Af (burning anger), objects made ready for Churban, + 9:22 Ro 9:3

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 3:9

Conception of Eternity. ( a. d. 67.) 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The apostle comes in these words to instruct and establish Christians in the truth of the coming of the Lord, where we may clearly discern the tenderness and affection wherewith he speaks to them, calling them beloved; he had a compassionate concern and a love of good-will for the ungodly wretches who refused to believe divine revelation, but he… Read the whole commentary →

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