Matthew 24:7
For there will be an intifada of ethnic group against ethnic group, and malchut against malchut. There will be famines, pestilences, earthquakes in various places.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8But all these things are but the beginning of the Chevlei. + 24:8 Moshiach
Cross References
2 Chronicles 15:6And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city, for Elohim did trouble them with every tzuris.
Isaiah 19:2And I will set the Mitzrayim against the Mitzrayim; 1 and they shall fight every ish against his brother, and every ish against his neighbor; 1 ir against ir, and mamlachah against mamlachah. 1
Ezekiel 14:21For thus saith Adonoi Hashem: How much worse will it be when I send My four severe judgments upon Yerushalayim — the cherev, and the ra'av (famine), and the chayyah ra'ah (wild beast), and the dever — to cut off from it adam and behemah?
Zechariah 14:2For I will gather kol HaGoyim against Yerushalayim for milchamah (battle, war); and HaIr (the city, Yerushalayim) shall be taken, and the batim (houses) plundered, and the women ravished; and half of HaIr shall go forth into the Golus (exile), and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from HaIr.
Luke 21:11There will be great earthquakes and in various places, raav (famine) and makkot (plagues), both horrible portents and great moftim (signs) in Shomayim. + 21:11 Isa 29:6; Yoel 3:3
Matthew Henry on Matthew 24:5-32
Awful Predictions. 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall… Read the whole commentary →