Luke 10:15
And you, K'far-Nachum, surely not up to Shomayim will you be exalted? To Gehinnom you will descend!
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.
In Context
14But for Tzor and Tzidon it will be more bearable in the Yom HaDin than for you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:28Where shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged levavenu (our hearts), saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to Shomayim; moreover we have seen the Bnei Anakim there.
Isaiah 14:13For thou hast said in thine lev, 1 I will ascend into Shomayim, 1 I will exalt my kisse 1 above the kokhavim (stars) of El (G-d); 1 I will sit also upon the har mo'ed (mount of assembly), 1 on yarketei Tzafon (on the heights of Tzafon); 1
Ezekiel 26:20When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the bor (pit), with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of ha'aretz, in places desolate from of old, with them that go down to the bor (pit), so that thou be not inhabited; but I shall bestow splendor on Eretz Chayyim;
Ezekiel 31:18To whom art thou thus like in kavod and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the depths of ha'aretz; thou shalt lie in the midst of the arelim (uncircumcised) with them that be slain by the cherev. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith Adonoi Hashem.
Ezekiel 32:20They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the cherev; she is delivered to the cherev; drag her off and all her multitudes.
Amos 9:2Though they dig down to Sheol, 1 thence shall Mine hand take them; 1 though they climb up to Shomayim, 1 thence will I bring them down; 1
Matthew Henry on Luke 10:2-17
The Mission of the Seventy. 1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. 2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. 3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. 4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. 5 And into… Read the whole commentary →