‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
Galatians 4:25 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now Hagar is (stands for) Mount Sinai in Arabia and she corresponds to and belongs in the same category with the present Jerusalem, for she is in bondage together with her children. American Standard Version (1901) Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children. Common English Bible Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and she corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because the city is in slavery with her children. Catholic Public Domain Version For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, which is related to the Jerusalem of the present time, and it serves with her sons. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For Sina is a mountain in Arabia, which hath affinity to that Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. |
‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
They will crush you and your children among you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone on another in your midst, because you did not recognise the time when God visited you.’
They said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen him going into heaven.’
I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me; instead, I went to Arabia and came back to Damascus.
These things are being taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery #– #this is Hagar.
He said: The Lord came from Sinai and appeared to them from Seir; he shone on them from Mount Paran and came with ten thousand holy ones, with lightning from his right hand for them.
For you have not come to what could be touched, to a blazing fire, to darkness, gloom, and storm,
The mountains melted before the Lord, even Sinai, before the Lord, the God of Israel.