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2 Peter 2:16 KJV
2 Peter · chapter 2 · verse 16
But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.2 Peter 2:16 · King James Version
2 Peter 2:16 in context
14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- speakingphthengomaito give out a sound, noise or cry, of any sort of sound or voice, whether of man or of…G5350 →
- prophetprophētēsin Greek writings, an interpreter of oracles or of other hidden things, one who, moved by…G4396 →
- forbadkōlyōto hinder, prevent forbid, to withhold a thing from anyone, to deny or refuse one a thingG2967 →
- man'santhrōposa human being, whether male or female, generically, to include all human individuals, to…G444 →
- voicephōnēa sound, a tone, of inanimate things, as musical instruments, a voice, of the sound of…G5456 →
- dumbaphōnosvoiceless, dumb, without faculty of speech, of idolsG880 →
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The apostle's design being to warn us of, and arm us against, seducers, he now returns to discourse more particularly of them, and give us an account of their character and conduct, which abundantly justifies the righteous Judge of the world in reserving them in an especial manner for the most severe and heavy doom,…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-22