Matthew 24:40 Cross References - NSB

⁴⁰ »Two will be in the field. One will be taken, and one will be left.

¹⁸ Everything else about Manasseh, including his prayer to his God and the words that the seers spoke to him in the name of Jehovah the God of Israel are in the records of the kings of Israel. ¹⁹ His prayer and how God accepted it are written in the records of Hozai. The things he did before he humbled himself are also written there. This includes all his sins and unfaithfulness and the places where he built illegal worship sites and set up idols and poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah. ²⁰ Manasseh lay down in death with his ancestors. They buried him in his own palace. His son Amon succeeded him as king. ²¹ Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king. He ruled for two years in Jerusalem. ²² He did what Jehovah considered evil, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon sacrificed to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and he worshiped them. ²³ He did not humble himself in front of Jehovah as his father Manasseh had humbled himself. Instead, Amon continued to sin. ²⁴ His officials conspired against him and killed him in his palace.

¹² When he experienced distress, he begged Jehovah his God to be kind and humbled himself in front of the God of his ancestors. ¹³ He prayed to Jehovah. And Jehovah accepted his prayer and listened to his request. Jehovah brought him back to his kingdom in Jerusalem. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah is God. ¹⁴ Then Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon Spring in the valley to the entrance of Fish Gate. He made the wall go around the Ophel. He built it very high. He put army commanders in every fortified city in Judah. ¹⁵ Manasseh also removed the foreign gods and the idol in Jehovah’s Temple. He eliminated the altars he had built in the Temple on Jehovah’s mountain and in Jerusalem. ¹⁶ He built Jehovah’s altar and sacrificed fellowship offerings and thank offerings on it. And he told Judah to serve Jehovah the God of Israel. ¹⁷ However the people continued to sacrifice at the illegal places of worship. But they sacrificed only to Jehovah their God.

³⁴ »I tell you, that on that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken (learn) (be received) and the other will be left (omited) (forsaken). ³⁵ »There will be two grinding together. One will be taken and the other will be left. ³⁶ »There will be two men in the field. One will be taken and the other will be left.« ³⁷ They asked him: »Where, Lord?« And he said to them: »Where the body is the eagles will also gather.«

³⁹ One of the criminals who were hanged complained bitterly to him saying: »Are you the Christ? Save yourself and us.« ⁴⁰ The other rebuked him saying: »Do you not respect God, seeing you are also condemned? ⁴¹ »We are indeed justly condemned for we receive the due reward of our deeds. But this man has done nothing wrong.« ⁴² He said: »Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom.« ⁴³ He replied: »Today I tell you this. You will be with me in paradise.«

⁷ For who made you superior to (different than) another? What do you have that you did not receive? If you did receive it, why do you brag, as if you did not receive it?

⁵ He did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly!

⁷ He delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked. ⁸ That righteous man that dwelled among them was tormented by the lawless deeds he saw and heard. ⁹ Jehovah knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to preserve the unrighteous for the Day of Judgment. (Psalm 34:19) (Matthew 25:46)