Matthew 12:43

Now when the ruach hatameh (unclean spirit) goes out from the man, it goes through dry places seeking a manoach (resting place) and it does not find one.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

In Context

42The Queen of the South will be made to stand up alive at the Yom HaDin with this generation and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the chochmah of Sh'lomo and, hinei, something much greater than Sh'lomo is here.

44Then it says, Into my haunt I will return from where I came out. And having come out, it finds the bais standing empty, having been swept and having been put beseder (in order).

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Cross References

Job 2:2And Hashem said unto HaSatan, From where comest thou? And HaSatan answered Hashem, and said, From going to and fro through ha'aretz, and from walking up and down in it.

Isaiah 35:6Then shall the pisei'ach (lame) leap like the deer, 1 and the leshon (tongue) of the illem (the mute, the people unable to utter speech) sing for joy; 1 for in the midbar shall mayim break forth, 1 and streams in the Aravah. 1

Ezekiel 47:8Then said he + 47:8 the angelic being unto me, These mayim issue out toward the east country, and go down into the Aravah, and go into the + 47:8 Dead Sea; which being brought forth into the Sea, the mayim shall be healed.

Matthew 8:29And they screamed, saying, Mah lanu valach, Ben HaElohim? (What to us and to you, Ben HaElohim?) + 8:29 i.e., What business do you have with us, Ben HaElohim Have you come here to torture us before the time? + 8:29 of the Yom HaDin, the Day of Judgment

Luke 8:28And having seen Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach and having cried out, he fell down before him and said in a kol gadol, Mah li ulchah, Yehoshua Ben El Elyon? (What to me and to you, Yehoshua Son of the Most High G-d?) I beg you, do not torment me.

Acts 8:13And Shim'on himself also had emunah, and, having submitted to Moshiachʼs tevilah of teshuva, was following Philippos, and, seeing otot and nifla'ot and moftim hagedolim taking place, he was constantly nispoyel (standing in awe).

Matthew Henry on Matthew 12:39-46

The Pharisees Ask a Sign. 38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this… Read the whole commentary →

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