The Abomination of Desolation
Matthew 24:17
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.
- KJV
- Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
- WEB
- Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.
- ASV
- let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house:
- LSV
- he on the housetop—do not let him come down to take up anything out of his house;
- YLT
- he on the house-top — let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house;
- DBY
- let not him that is on the house come down to take the things out of his house;
- DRC
- And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house:
- GNV
- Let him which is on the house top, not come downe to fetch any thing out of his house.
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Where the editions differ
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read καταβάτω (“he should come down”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read καταβαινέτω (“he should come down”).
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text read τὰ (“the [things]”); Textus Receptus read τι (“anything”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: καταβάτω. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read καταβάτω; Robinson–Pierpont read καταβαινέτω.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ δώματος μὴ καταβάτω ἆραι τὰ ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ,
- RP2018
- ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ δώματος μὴ καταβαινέτω ἆραι τὰ ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ·
- TR-Boyd
- ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ δώματος μὴ καταβαινέτω ἆραί τι ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ·
- SCR1894
- ο επι του δωματος μη καταβαινετω αραι τι εκ της οικιας αυτου
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Cross-references most cited first
- Luke 17:31–33On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind. Remember Lot’s wife! Whoever tries to save his life will lose it,…
- Mark 13:15–16Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house. And let no one in the field return for his cloak.
- Matthew 10:27What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.
- Acts 10:9The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
- Luke 12:3What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.
- Luke 5:19but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
- Deuteronomy 22:8If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
- Matthew 6:25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
- 1 Samuel 9:25And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.
- Proverbs 6:4–5Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
- Job 2:4“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
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