Matthew 4:16
the people sitting in CHOSHECH RAU OHR GADOL (darkness saw a great light), YOSHVEI V'ERETZ TZALMAVET (the ones living in the land of the shadow of death), a light has dawned among them.
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Job 3:5As for that lailah, 1 let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the yamim of the shanah, 1 let it not come into the number of the months. 1
Job 34:22There is no choshech, nor tzalmavet, 1 where the po'alei aven (evildoers) may hide themselves. 1
Psalms 107:10Such as sit in choshech and in tzalmavet, 1 being bound in oni and barzel (iron); 1
Isaiah 42:6I Hashem have called Thee in tzedek, 1 and will take hold of Thine yad, and will keep Thee, 1 and give Thee + 42:6 Moshiach for a Brit + 42:6 Mt 26:28 (Covenant) of the Am (People), 1 for an Ohr Goyim; 1
Jeremiah 13:16Give kavod to Hashem Eloheichem, 1 before He cause darkness, 1 and before your raglayim stumble 1 upon the dark mountains, 1 and, while ye look for ohr, 1 He turn it into the tzalmavet (shadow of death), 1 and make it gross darkness. 1
Micah 7:8Don't joyously gloat over me, O mine enemy; 1 when I fall, I shall rise; 1 when I sit in choshech, Hashem shall be ohr unto me. 1
Matthew Henry on Matthew 4:13-18
Opening of Christ's Ministry. 12 Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; 13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: 14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; 16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the… Read the whole commentary →