Jude 1:11

Oy to them! Because they walked in the Derech Kayin + 1:11 Gn 4:3-8 and to the Toyus Bil'am + 1:11 Ex 31:16 (Error of Balaam) they surrendered for revach (gain), and in the mered (rebellion) of Korach against HaMemshalah + 1:11 Ex 16:1-35 they were destroyed!

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

In Context

10But, on the one hand, these [men] slander whatever they do not understand; on the other hand, what they do have binah of instinctively, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

12These [men] are hidden reefs [moored at] your seudas (agape-feasts), feasting with you without yires-hakoved, shepherding themselves, waterless clouds being carried away by winds, autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, torn up from their shorashim (roots),

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Cross References

Genesis 4:3And in ketz yamim it came to pass, that Kayin brought of the p'ri haadamah a minchah unto Hashem.

Numbers 22:1And the Bnei Yisroel set forward, and encamped in the plains of Moav on the bank of the Yarden by Yericho. 1 [BALAK]

Numbers 31:16Hinei, these caused the Bnei Yisroel, through the davar Balaam, to turn unfaithful against Hashem in the matter of Pe'or, and there was a magefah (plague) among the Adat Hashem.

Joshua 24:9Then Balak ben Tzippor Melech Moav arose and warred against Yisroel, and sent and summoned Balaam ben Be'or to curse you;

Isaiah 3:9The show of their countenance doth testify against them; 1 and they make known their chet like S'dom; 1 they conceal it not. 1 Oy to their nefesh! For they do ra'ah unto themselves. 1

Jeremiah 13:27I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, 1 the lewdness of thy zenut (whoredom), 1 and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. 1 Woe unto thee, O Yerushalayim! Wilt thou not be made tahor (clean)? 1 Until when?

Matthew Henry on Jude 1:9-16

Contumacious Professors. ( a. d. 66.) 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of… Read the whole commentary →

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