Matthew 22:7
But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
KJV
ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς ὠργίσθη, καὶ πέμψας τὰ στρατεύματα αὐτοῦ ἀπώλεσεν τοὺς φονεῖς ἐκείνους καὶ τὴν πόλιν αὐτῶν ἐνέπρησεν.
Greek NT
Rex autem cum audisset, iratus est : et missis exercitibus suis, perdidit homicidas illos, et civitatem illorum succendit.
Vulgate
But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
ASV
But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βασιλεύς
basileus
noun · 115×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πέμπω
pempo
verb · 79×
πόλις
polis
noun · 164×
στράτευμα
strateuma
noun · 8×
φονεύς
phoneus
noun · 7×
ἀπόλλυμι
apollumi
verb · 90×
ἐκεῖνος
ekeinos
demonstrative · 240×
ἐμπρήθω
empretho
verb · 2×
ὀργίζω
orgizo
verb · 8×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς | WH/Treg/NIV: ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς | RP: Καὶ ἀκούσας ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐκεῖνος
- ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς — SBLGNT
- ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Καὶ ἀκούσας ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐκεῖνος — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Parable
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§546Jesus' invitation to enter his kingdom comes in the form of parables, a characteristic feature of his teaching.261 Through his parables he invites people to the feast of the kingdom, but he also asks for a radical choice: to gain the kingdom, one must give everything.262 Words are not enough, deeds are required.263 The parables are like mirrors for man: will he be hard soil or …
§796The unity of Christ and the Church, head and members of one Body, also implies the distinction of the two within a personal relationship. This aspect is often expressed by the image of bridegroom and bride. the theme of Christ as Bridegroom of the Church was prepared for by the prophets and announced by John the Baptist.234 The Lord referred to himself as the "bridegroom."235 T…
The prophets were sent from one and the same Father from whom the Son was sent. 1. Which [God] the Lord does not reject, nor does He say that the prophets [spoke] from another god than His Father; nor from any other essence, but from one and the same Father; nor that any other being made the things in the world, except His own Father, when He speaks as follows in His teaching: …
Cross-references
- 1Pet 4:17 — For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
- Acts 13:41 — Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
- Hos 10:10 — It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
- Isa 63:10 — But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
- Isa 66:15 — For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
- Jer 5:10 — Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD’s.
- Jer 51:20 — Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
- Joel 2:25 — And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
- John 11:48 — If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
- Luke 13:3 — I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
- Luke 14:21 — So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poo
- Luke 19:27 — But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
- Luke 19:27 — But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
- Luke 21:24 — And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
- Mal 4:6 — And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
- Zech 11:6 — For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land,
- Zech 13:8 — And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
- Zech 14:2 — For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the resid