Matthew 24:40 Cross References - ISV

⁴⁰ At that time, two people will be in the field. One will be taken, and one will be left behind.

¹² But when he was in trouble, he sought the face of the LORD his God, humbled himself magnificently before the God of his ancestors, ¹³ and prayed to him. Moved by Manasseh’s entreaties, the LORD heard his supplications and brought him back to his kingdom in Jerusalem. That’s how Manasseh learned that the LORD is God.
¹⁴ Later on, Manasseh reinforced the outer wall to the City of David on the west side overlooking the Gihon Valley as far as the Fish Gate. He encircled the Ophel, raising it to a great height. ¹⁵ He also eliminated the foreign gods and idols from the LORD’s Temple, along with all of the altars that he had built in Jerusalem and on the mountain where the LORD’s Temple was located, and he discarded them outside the city. ¹⁶ He set up an altar to the LORD, sacrificed peace offerings on it, and ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel. ¹⁷ Even so, the people continued to sacrifice in the high places, but only to the LORD their God.
¹⁸ The Death of Manasseh
Now as to the rest of Manasseh’s accomplishments, including his prayer to God and what the seers had to say to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, they are included among the Acts of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁹ His prayer, how God was moved by him, all of his sin and unfaithfulness, and a record of the sites where he constructed high places, erected Asherim and carved images before he humbled himself are written in the Acts of the Seers. ²⁰ So Manasseh died, as had his ancestors, and they buried him in his own palace while his son Amon became king in his place.
²¹ Amon’s Reign and Death
Amon was 22 years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. ²² He practiced what the LORD considered to be evil, just as his father Manasseh had done, sacrificing to and serving all the carved images that his father Manasseh had made, ²³ except that he never humbled himself to the LORD like his father Manasseh had done. In fact, Amon multiplied his own guilt ²⁴ until his servants finally conspired against him and executed him in his own palace.

³⁴ I tell you, two will be seated on the same couch that night. The one will be taken, and the other will be left behind. ³⁵ Two women will be grinding grain together. The one will be taken, and the other will be left behind.”
^{36 37} Then they asked him, “Where, Lord, will this take place?”
He told them, “Wherever there’s a corpse, there the vultures will gather.”

³⁹ Now one of the criminals hanging there kept insulting him, “You are the Messiah, aren’t you? Save yourself…and us!”
⁴⁰ But the other criminal rebuked him, “Aren’t you afraid of God, since you are suffering the same penalty? ⁴¹ We have been condemned justly, because we are getting what we deserve for what we have done, but this man has done nothing wrong.” ⁴² Then he went on to plead, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!”
⁴³ Jesus told him, “I tell you with certainty, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

⁷ For who makes you superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not receive it?

⁵ and if he did not spare the ancient world but protected Noah, a righteous preacher, along with seven others when he brought the flood on the world of ungodly people;

⁷ and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was greatly distressed by the immoral conduct of lawless people— ⁸ for as long as that righteous man lived among them, day after day he was being tortured in his righteous soul by what he saw and heard in their lawless actions— ⁹ then the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials and to hold unrighteous people for punishment on the day of judgment,