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Luke 14:2
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There in front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.
And behold, there was a certaine man before him, which had the dropsie.
And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.
And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.
And there in front of Him was a man suffering from edema.
And in front of him was a man with dropsy.
And there in front of Him was a man who had dropsy (extreme swelling).
And there in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
And behold, in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
Right there before Him was a man with dropsy.
All of a sudden a man with swollen legs stood up in front of him.
In front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid.
And behold, there was a certain dropsical [man] before him.
A man with a bad disease was there in front of him.
And beholde, there was a certaine man before him, which had the dropsie.
And there was a man before him, who had dropsy.
And behold, a certain man was in front of him, suffering from edema.
And behold, a certain man was dropsical before Him.
And behold, there was before him a certain man that had the dropsy.
And a certain man was there who had a disease.
Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.
A man whose body was swollen with fluid suddenly appeared in front of him.
And, behold, a certain man who had gathered waters [fn] was before him.
And lo, a dropsical man was before him.
And beholde, there was a certayne man before hym, which had the dropsie.
And behold, there was before him a certain man which had the dropsy.
Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.
And behold there was a certain man before him, who had the dropsy.
In front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
And lo! a man sijk in the dropesie was bifor hym.
And look, there was before him a certain man that had the dropsy.
And behold, there was a certain man before him who had the dropsy.
There right in front of him was a man suffering from dropsy.
And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy.
There was a man there whose arms and legs were swollen.
A man who had very large arms and legs because of a sickness was put before Jesus.
Just then, in front of him, there was a man who had dropsy.
And lo! there was, a certain man, who had the dropsy, before him.
And behold, there was a certain man before him that had the dropsy.
And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.
And beholde ther was a man before him which had the dropsye.
and lo, there was a certain dropsical man before him;
And beholde, there was a ma before him, which had ye dropsye.
now there happen'd to be a man just by him, who had a dropsy.
A man approached Jesus who had arms and legs that were swollen up like a bloated cow.
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until the Canaanite borders reached from Sidon southward to Gerar near Gaza, and eastward to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim near Lasha.
Lot looked around and saw that the whole Jordan Valley, all the way to Zoar, had plenty of water, like the Garden of the Lord or like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.)
against the kings of Elam, Goiim, Babylonia, and Ellasar, five kings against four.
The valley was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah tried to run away from the battle, they fell into the pits; but the other three kings escaped to the mountains.
May the Most High God, who gave you victory over your enemies, be praised!" And Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the loot he had recovered.
The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed when he was furiously angry.
the southern part of Judah; and the plain that reaches from Zoar to Jericho, the city of palm trees.
another went toward Beth Horon, and the other one went to the border overlooking Zeboim Valley and the wilderness.
Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
My heart cries out for Moab! The people have fled to the town of Zoar, and to Eglath Shelishiyah. Some climb the road to Luhith, weeping as they go; some escape to Horonaim, grieving loudly.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And behold, there was a certain man before him,.... Who sat just before him, as he was at table; who either came there of himself, in order to receive a cure; or rather, since it was in a private house, and he at table too, was brought and set there on purpose by the Pharisees, to try whether Christ would heal him on the sabbath day, that they might have somewhat against him; which they doubted not but he would do, knowing his compassionate and beneficent disposition to do good to creatures in distress, whenever he had an opportunity:
which had the dropsy: or "gathered waters", as the Syriac version renders it; was filled with water, which is the nature of that disease, and distinguishes it from what is called the dry dropsy: this disease is a preternatural collection of serum, or water in some part of the body; or a too great proportion thereof in the blood. The "dropsy" acquires different names, from the different parts it afflicts, or the different parts the waters are collected in; that of the "abdomen", or lower belly, called simply and absolutely "dropsy", is particularly denominated "ascites"; that of the whole habit of the body, "anasarca", or "leucophlegmatia"; that of the head, "hydrocephalus"; that of the scrotum, "hydrocele".---There is also a species of this disease, supposed to be caused instead of water, by a collection of wind, called "tympanites"; and by Hippocrates, the "dry dropsy": we also meet with dropsies of the breast, pericardium, uterus, ovaries, c. The causes of dropsies in general, are whatever may obstruct the serous part of the blood, so as to make it stagnate in the vessels or burst the vessels themselves, so as to let the blood out among the membranes; or weaken and relax the tone of the vessels; or this the blood, and make it watery; or lessen perspiration. These causes are various, viz. sometimes acute diseases, scirrhous tumours of any of the more noble viscera, excessive evacuations, particularly haemorrhages, hard drinking, c. The "ascites", or "water dropsy" of the "abdomen", is the most usual case, and what we particularly call the "dropsy": its symptoms are tumours, first of the feet and legs, and afterwards of the "abdomen." which keep continually growing and if the belly be struck or shook, there is heard a quashing of water: add to this, three other attendants, viz. a dyspnoea, intense thirst, and sparing urine; with which may be numbered heaviness, listlessness, costiveness, a light fever, and an emaciation of the body i. Such we must suppose to be the case of this man, and that he was now in such a condition, as to be thought incurable.
i Chamber's Cyclopaedia on the word "Dropsy".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A certain man before him - In what way he came there we know not. He might have been one of the Pharisee’s family, or might have been placed there by the Pharisees to see whether he would heal him. This last supposition is not improbable, since it is said in Luke 14:1 that they watched him.
The dropsy - A disease produced by the accumulation of water in various parts of the body; very distressing, and commonly incurable.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Luke 14:2. The dropsy. — υδρωπικος, dropsical; from υδωπ, water, and ωψ, the countenance, because in this disorder the face of the patient is often very much bloated. Probably the insidious Pharisee had brought this dropsical man to the place, not doubting that our Lord's eye would affect his heart, and that he would instantly cure him; and then he could most plausibly accuse him for a breach of the Sabbath. If this were the case, and it is likely, how deep must have been the perfidy and malice of the Pharisee!
