As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said, ‘Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away! ’
Luke 21:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those inside the city must leave it, and those who are in the country must not enter it, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then let them which are in Judæa flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside [the city] get out of it, and let not those who are out in the country come into it; American Standard Version (1901) Then let them that are in Judæa flee unto the mountains; and let them that are in the midst of her depart out; and let not them that are in the country enter therein. Common English Bible At that time, those in Judea must flee to the mountains, those in the city must escape, and those in the countryside must not enter the city. Catholic Public Domain Version Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and those who are in its midst withdraw, and those who are in the countryside not enter into it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then let those who are in Judea, flee to the mountains; and those who are in the midst thereof, depart out: and those who are in the countries, not enter into it. |
As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said, ‘Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away! ’
A sensible person sees danger and takes cover, but the inexperienced keep going and are punished.
However, when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched into the land, we said, “Come, let’s go into Jerusalem to get away from the Chaldean and Aramean armies.” So we have been living in Jerusalem.’
Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his portion there among the people.
‘Run for cover out of Jerusalem, Benjaminites. Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; raise a smoke signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster threatens from the north, even a crushing blow.
He warned the community, ‘Get away now from the tents of these wicked men. Don’t touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.’
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
A man on the housetop must not come down or go in to get anything out of his house,
Then I heard another voice from heaven: Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins or receive any of her plagues.