Acts 14:17

And yet Hashem did not leave himself without an eidus (witness) in doing hatovim to you, giving geshem from Shomayim and seasons of bearing p'ri, filling you with okhel and your levavot with simcha. + 14:17 Dt 11:14; Job 5:10; Ps 65:10; 4:7; 147:20

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

In Context

16In the dorot having passed, Hashem allowed all the Goyim to go their own way. + 14:16 Ps 81:12; Mic 4:5

18And even saying these things, it was with difficulty that Moshiachʼs Shlichim restrained the multitudes from offering pagan korbanot to them. + 14:18 Am 9:11 TARGUM HASHIVIM; Jer 12:15; Isa 45:21

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:4Then I will give you geshem in due season, and HaAretz shall yield her increase, and the etz hasadeh shall yield his pri.

Deuteronomy 11:14That I will give you the matar (rain) of your land in its due season, the yoreh (early rain) and the malkosh (latter rain, spring rain), that thou mayest gather in thy dagan (grain), and thy tirosh (new wine), and thine yitzhar (fresh oil).

1 Kings 18:1And it came to pass after yamim rabbim, that the Devar Hashem came to Eliyahu in the shanah hashlishit, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ach'av; and I will send matar upon the face of ha'adamah.

Job 5:10Who giveth matar upon eretz, 1 and sendeth mayim upon the fields; 1

Job 38:26To cause it to rain on eretz, where lo ish is; 1 on midbar, wherein there is lo adam; 1

Psalms 36:5He deviseth evil upon his mishkav (bed); 1 he setteth himself in a derech that is not tov; 1 he abhorreth not rah. 1

Matthew Henry on Acts 14:9-19

The Lame Man Healed at Lystra; Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. 8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: 9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, 10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. 11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the… Read the whole commentary →

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