Matthew 4:5

Then HaSatan takes Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to the Ir Hakodesh (the Holy City) and sets him atop the pinnacle of the Beis Hamikdash,

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

In Context

4But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered, Katuv (It is written), LO AL HALECHEM LVADOH YCHEYEH HAADAM, KI AL KOL MOTZAH FI HASHEM + 4:4 Dt 8:3 (Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of Hashem).

6and says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, If you are the Ben HaElohim, then throw yourself down, for katuv (it is written), MALACHAV YTZAV-VEH LACH (His angels he will command concerning you) and upon their hands they will lift you up lest you strike your foot against a stone ( Ps 91:11,12).

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 3:4And the Ulam that was in the front of the Bais (porch or vestibule in front of the Holy Place), the length of it was according to the width of the Bais, twenty cubits, and the height was twenty, and he overlaid it within with zahav tahor.

Nehemiah 11:18All the Levi'im in the Ir HaKodesh were two hundred fourscore and four.

Isaiah 52:1Awake, awake; 1 clothe thyself with thy strength, O Tziyon; 1 put on thy garments of splendor, 1 O Yerushalayim, Ir HaKodesh; 1 for henceforth there shall no more come into thee 1 the arel (uncircumcised) and the tameh (unclean). 1

Daniel 9:24Shivi'im heptads is decreed upon thy people and upon thy Ir Kodesh (Holy City), to restrain the peysha (transgression), and to make an end of chattat (sin), and to make kapporah for avon, and to bring in Tzedek Olamim (Everlasting Righteousness), and to seal up the chazon and navi, and to anoint the Kodesh HaKodashim.

Luke 4:9And HaSatan led him to Yerushalayim and set him atop the pinnacle of the Beis HaMikdash, and said to him, If you are Ben HaElohim, throw yourself down from here;

Revelation 11:2But do not measure the outer court of the Beis Hamikdash; leave that out, and measure it not, for it was given over to the Goyim, and the Ir HaKodesh they will trample upon arba'im and shenayim chodashim. + 11:2 Ezek 40:17,20; Dan 7:25; 12:7

Matthew Henry on Matthew 4:2-12

The Temptation of Christ. 1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a… Read the whole commentary →

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