Acts 10:4

And having looked intently at him and having become afraid, Cornelius said, What is it, Adon? The malach said to him, Your tefillos and your giving tzedakah have ascended as a zikaron (memorial) before Hashem. + 10:4 Ps 20:3

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.

In Context

3Cornelius clearly saw in a chazon (vision) lav davka (approximately) at the ninth hour of the day (three o'clock in the afternoon) a malach Hashem having come to him and having said to him, Cornelius! + 10:3 Ps 55:17

5Now dispatch some anashim to Yafo and send for a certain Shim'on who is also called Kefa.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:33Then hear Thou from Shomayim, even from Thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the nokhri calleth for to Thee, that kol Amei Ha'aretz may know Shmecha, and fear Thee, as doth Thy people Yisroel, and may know that this Beis which I have built is called by Shimcha.

Psalms 141:2Let my tefillah be set forth before Thee like ketoret; 1 and the lifting up of my hands as the minchat erev. 1

Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken baseter (in secret), 1 in a makom eretz choshech; 1 I said not unto the zera Ya'akov: 1 Seek ye Me tohu (in chaos); 1 I am Hashem, the One speaking tzedek, 1 proclaiming meisharim (upright things). 1

Malachi 3:16Then they that feared Hashem 1 spoke often one to another; 1 and Hashem paid heed, and heard it, 1 and a Sefer Zikaron (book of remembrance) was written before Him 1 for them that feared Hashem, 1 and that meditated upon Shmo (His Name). 1

Luke 1:12And, seeing the malach, Zecharyah was terrified, and pachad (fear) fell on him. + 1:12 Judg 6:22,23; 13:22

Luke 24:5And having become terrified, the nashim bowed their faces to the ground. They said to the nashim, Why are you seeking HaChai (the One living) among HaMesim?

Matthew Henry on Acts 10:2-9

The Case of Cornelius. 1 There was a certain man in Cæsarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, 2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. 3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. 4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a… Read the whole commentary →

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