Acts 19:27

And this is not only a danger to us, that our part, our trade, will fall into disrepute, but also the temple of the elah hagedolah Artemis may be considered as nothing, and also may be about to suffer the loss of her majesty, which all Asia and the Olam Hazeh worship.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

In Context

26And you see and hear that not only here in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Rav Sha'ul has persuaded and drawn away a large multitude saying, Elilim made with human hands are not Elohim. + 19:26 Dt 4:28; Ps 115:4; Isa 44:10-20; Jer 10:3-5

28And having listened and having become full of ka'as, the idol makers were crying out, saying, Gedolah is Artemis of the Ephesians!

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Cross References

Zephaniah 2:11Hashem will be terrible unto them; 1 for He will reduce to nothing all the elohei ha'aretz (g-ds of the land); 1 and men shall worship Hashem, everyone from his place, 1 even all the coasts and islands of the Goyim. 1

Acts 19:21And when these things were fulfilled, Rav Sha'ul resolved in his ruach to travel through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Yerushalayim, saying After I have gone there, it is necessary for me also to see Rome.

1 John 5:19We have da'as that we are of Hashem and the whole Olam Hazeh lies under HaSatan.

Revelation 13:8And all the ones dwelling on ha'aretz (the earth) will worship the Chayyah (Beast, Anti-Moshiach), all the ones whose name has not been written in the Sefer HaChayyim of the SEH (Lamb) + 13:8 Ex 12:3; Isa 53:7 , Moshiach having been slain from lifnei hivvased tevel (before the foundation of the world).

Matthew Henry on Acts 19:22-41

The Tumult at Ephesus. 21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. 22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season. 23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way. 24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain… Read the whole commentary →

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