2 Peter 2:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

2 Peter 2:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 22:21-33
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. …
Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Acts 26:11
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Ecclesiastes 7:25
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-22)

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, as Cain is taken under special protection that he might be kept for uncommon venge…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. was rebuked--Greek, “had a rebuke,” or conviction; an exposure of his specious wickedness on his being tested (the root verb of the Greek noun means to “convict on testing”). his--Greek, “his own”: his own beast convicted him of his own iniquity. ass--literally, “beast of burden”; the ass was the ordinary animal used in riding in Palestine. dumb--Greek, “voiceless-speaking in man’s voice”; mar…