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Luke 4:10 KJV
Luke · chapter 4 · verse 10
For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:Luke 4:10 · King James Version
Luke 4:10 in context
8And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
10For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
11And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
12And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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Key words (Strong's)
- writtengraphōto write, with reference to the form of the letters, to delineate letters on a tablet…G1125 →
- angelsangelosa messenger, envoy, one who is sent, an angel, a messenger from GodG32 →
- giveentellōto order, command to be done, enjoinG1781 →
- keepdiaphylassōto guard carefully, the LXX used this esp. of God s providential careG1314 →
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The last words of the foregoing chapter, that Jesus was the Son of Adam, bespeak him to be the seed of the woman; being so, we have here, according to the promise, breaking the serpent's head, baffling and foiling the devil in all his temptations, who by one temptation had baffled and foiled our first parents.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13