Luke 6:48

He is likened to the man building a bais who dug and went down deep and laid a yesod upon the av sela (bedrock). And a flood having come, the river struck against that bais, and the flood was not strong enough to shake it, because its binnuy was firm.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

In Context

47Everyone coming to me and hearing my divrei torah and putting them into practice, I will show you to whom he is likened.

49Now the one having heard, + 6:49 Rebbe Melech HaMoshiachʼs divrei torah and not having put them into practice, is like a man having built a bais (house) upon the ground without a yesod (foundation), which the river struck against, and ofen ort (immediately) the bais collapsed, and gadol (great) was the churban of that bais.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:15But Yeshurun grew fat, and kicked; 1 thou art grown fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; 1 then he forsook G-d which made him, 1 and lightly esteemed the Tzur of his Yeshu'ah (Salvation). 1

Deuteronomy 32:31For their tzur is not like Tzureinu, 1 even our enemies themselves being conceders. 1

2 Samuel 22:2And he said, 1 Hashem is my rock, and my matzadah, 1 and my deliverer; 1

2 Samuel 22:32For who is G-d, save Hashem? 1 And who is Tzur, save Eloheinu? 1

2 Samuel 23:3The Elohei Yisroel said, 1 the Tzur Yisroel spoke to me, 1 He that ruleth over adam, 1 Tzaddik, ruling in the yirat Elohim. 1

Psalms 46:1(For the one directing. Of the Bnei Korach. Al-alamot. + 46:1 after the manner of virgins, i.e., in the treble Shir) 1

Matthew Henry on Luke 6:38-49

Exhortations to Justice and Sincerity. 37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: 38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. 39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above… Read the whole commentary →

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