Matthew 4:6

and 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).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

In Context

5Then HaSatan takes Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to the Ir Hakodesh (the Holy City) and sets him atop the pinnacle of the Beis Hamikdash,

7Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to HaSatan, Again, it is written, LO TENASSU ES HASHEM ELOHEICHEM + 4:7 Dt 6:16 (Do not test Hashem your G-d).

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Cross References

Job 5:23For thou shalt be in league with the avanim of the sadeh, 1 and the chayyat sadeh shall be hashelemah (at peace) with thee. 1

Psalms 34:20Many are the afflictions of the tzaddik; 1 but Hashem delivereth him out of them all. 1

Matthew 4:4But 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).

2 Corinthians 11:14And no wonder! For even HaSatan transforms himself into a malach ohr (an angel of light);

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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