Matthew 4:9

And then he said to him, “I will let you rule all these nations and give you the magnificent things in them if you bow down and worship me.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

In Context

8Then the devil took him on top of a very high mountain. There he showed him all the nations in the world and the magnificent things in those nations.

10But Jesus said to him, “ No, I will not worship you, Satan, so go away! It is written in the Scriptures, ‘It is the Lord your God whom you (pl) must worship, and you (pl) must serve only him!’”

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:7Yahweh, you cause some people to be poor and you cause some people to be rich, you humble some people and you honor some people.

Psalms 113:7Sometimes he lifts poor people up so that they no longer sit in the dirt; he helps needy people so that they no longer sit on heaps of ashes

Jeremiah 27:5‘With my very great power [MTY, DOU] I created the earth and the people and the animals that are on the earth. And I can give my power to anyone whom I want to.

Daniel 4:32Your advisors will force you to live away from other people. You will live in the fields with wild animals, and you will eat grass like cows do. You will live that way for seven years, until you learn that it is I, the Supreme God, who rules over the kingdoms of this world, and I appoint the ones whom I have chosen to rule them.”

Daniel 5:26This is what those words mean: Mene means ‘numbered/counted’. That means that God has been counting the days that you will rule, and he has now decided that you will not rule any more.

John 12:31Now is the time for God to judge the people in [MTY] the world. Now is the time when I will destroy the power of Satan, the one who rules this world.

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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