Luke 19:21

For I was fearing you, because you are a big machmir (stickler), you take what you did not deposit, and you reap what you did not sow.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

In Context

20And the other came saying, Adoni, hinei! Your mina which I had put away in a tichel (kerchief).

22He says to him, From your own mouth I will judge you, eved rasha (bad servant). You had daas that I am a big machmir (stickler), taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

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Cross References

Exodus 20:19And Hashem said unto Moshe, Thus thou shalt say unto the Bnei Yisroel, You yourselves have seen that from Shomayim I have spoken with you.

1 Samuel 12:20And Shmuel said unto HaAm, Fear not; ye have done kol hara'ah hazot (all this wickedness); yet turn not aside from following Hashem, but serve Hashem with kol levavchem;

Job 21:14Therefore they say unto El, Depart from us; 1 for we desire not the da'as of Thy ways. 1

Malachi 3:14Ye have said: Avod Elohim is vain; 1 and what profit is it that we have been shomer over His mishmeret, 1 and that we have walked as mourners 1 before Hashem Tzva'os? 1

Romans 8:7Because the way of thinking of the basar is hostility, eyvah + 8:7 Gn 3:15 (enmity) toward G-d, for it does not submit itself to the Gezetz of G-d; for it cannot.

2 Timothy 1:7For Hashem did not bestow upon us a ruach of pachad (terror), but of gevurah (miraculous power) and of ahavah (love) and of sound havchanah (judgment).

Matthew Henry on Luke 19:12-28

The Nobleman and His Servants. 11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. 12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. 13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this… Read the whole commentary →

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