Luke 16:25

But Avraham Avinu said, Beni, have zikaron (recollection) that you received your tov in the span of your days, and El'azar likewise received the ra'ah. But now he is given nechamah (comfort) here, but you, yisurim (sufferings, torments). + 16:25 Ps 17:14

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

In Context

24And he called, Avraham Avinu! Chaneni na and send El'azar that he may dip the tip of his finger into the mayim and cool my tongue, because I am in torment in this moked (fire). + 16:24 Isa 66:24

26And, in addition to all these things, there has been fixed between us and you a tehom gedolah (a great abyss, chasm), so that the ones wishing to come over from here to you are not able, neither from there to us may they cross over.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:17Arur shall be thy basket and thy kneading bowl.

Job 22:18Yet He filled their batim (houses) with tov; 1 but the etza (counsel) of the resha'im is far from me. 1

Psalms 37:35I have seen the violently powerful rashah, 1 spreading himself like an indigenous green tree. 1

Psalms 73:7Their eyes bulge with chelev; 1 they have more than levav could imagine. 1

Lamentations 1:7In the yamim (days) of her affliction 1 and of her persecutions, 1 Yerushalayim remembers all her pleasant things 1 that she had miymei kedem (in the days of old). 1 When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, 1 and there was no ozer (helper) for her, 1 the adversaries saw her, 1 and did mock at her downfall. 1

Daniel 5:30In that night was Belshatzar the king of the Kasdim slain.

Matthew Henry on Luke 16:20-31

The Rich Man and Lazarus. 19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lift up… Read the whole commentary →

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