Matthew 22:7
New International Version
The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

New Living Translation
“The king was furious, and he sent out his army to destroy the murderers and burn their town.

English Standard Version
The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

Berean Standard Bible
The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.

Berean Literal Bible
And the king was angry, and having sent his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

King James Bible
But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

New King James Version
But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

New American Standard Bible
Now the king was angry, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.

NASB 1995
“But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.

NASB 1977
“But the king was enraged and sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and set their city on fire.

Legacy Standard Bible
But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.

Amplified Bible
The king was enraged [when he heard this], and sent his soldiers and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

Christian Standard Bible
The king was enraged, and he sent out his troops, killed those murderers, and burned down their city.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The king was enraged, so he sent out his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned down their city.

American Standard Version
But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But when the King heard, he was angry and he sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

Contemporary English Version
This made the king so furious that he sent an army to kill those murderers and burn down their city.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But when the king had heard of it, he was angry, and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and burnt their city.

English Revised Version
But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"The king became angry. He sent his soldiers, killed those murderers, and burned their city.

Good News Translation
The king was very angry; so he sent his soldiers, who killed those murderers and burned down their city.

International Standard Version
Then the king became outraged. He sent his troops, and they destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

Literal Standard Version
And the king having heard, was angry, and having sent forth his soldiers, he destroyed those murderers, and their city he set on fire;

Majority Standard Bible
When he heard this, the king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.

New American Bible
The king was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

NET Bible
The king was furious! He sent his soldiers, and they put those murderers to death and set their city on fire.

New Revised Standard Version
The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

New Heart English Bible
The king was enraged, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

Webster's Bible Translation
But when the king heard of it, he was wroth: and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

Weymouth New Testament
So the king's anger was stirred, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.

World English Bible
When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

Young's Literal Translation
'And the king having heard, was wroth, and having sent forth his soldiers, he destroyed those murderers, and their city he set on fire;

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Context
The Parable of the Banquet
6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. 7 The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city. 8Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.…

Cross References
Matthew 22:6
The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

Matthew 22:8
Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.

Luke 19:27
And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.'"


Treasury of Scripture

But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

he was.

Matthew 21:40,41
When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? …

Daniel 9:26
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

Zechariah 14:1,2
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee…

his.

Deuteronomy 28:49
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

Isaiah 10:5-7
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation…

Isaiah 13:2-5
Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles…

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Matthew 22
1. The parable of the marriage of the king's son.
9. The vocation of the Gentiles.
12. The punishment of him who lacked a wedding garment.
15. Tribute ought to be paid to Caesar.
23. Jesus confutes the Sadducees for the resurrection;
34. answers which is the first and great commandment;
41. and puzzles the Pharisees by a question about the Messiah.














(7) He sent forth his armies.--As in other parables that shadow forth the judgment of the Son of Man, the words find an approximate fulfilment, first, in the destruction of Jerusalem, and afterwards, in all times of trouble that fall upon nations and churches as the punishment of unbelief and its consequent unrighteousness. The word "armies" suggests in its modern use, action on a larger scale than that indicated by the Greek. Better, troops.

Verse 7. - When the king heard thereof. The text varies here. Some manuscripts have "that king," to whom the rejection of his messengers was a personal insult (comp. 2 Samuel 10:4, etc.). The Sinaitic, Vatican, and other authorities omit ἀκούσας, "heard thereof," and it may well be a gloss from the human view that the king, not being personally present, must have been informed of the incidents. At the same time, the King, regarded as God, needs no report to acquaint him with what is going on. He was wroth. The injury was done to him, and he resents it (comp. Luke 10:16; John 12:48). His armies. The Romans, under Vespasian and Titus, the unconscious instruments of his vengeance. So the Assyrians are called "the rod of God's anger" (Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 13:5; comp. Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 51:20). Some regard the "armies" as angels, the ministers of God's punishment, especially in war, famine, and pestilence, the three scourges which accomplished the ruin of the Jews. Probably both angels and men are included in the term. Destroyed... burned up their city. No longer his city, but theirs, the murderers' city, Jerusalem. So a little later foretelling the same fate, Jesus speaks of "your house" (Matthew 23:38). The Romans, in fact, some forty years after, put to the sword the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and burned the city to ashes.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
The
(Ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

king
βασιλεὺς (basileus)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 935: A king, ruler, but in some passages clearly to be translated: emperor. Probably from basis; a sovereign.

was enraged.
ὠργίσθη (ōrgisthē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3710: To irritate, provoke, be angry. From orge; to provoke or enrage, i.e. become exasperated.

He sent
πέμψας (pempsas)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3992: To send, transmit, permit to go, put forth.

his
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

troops
στρατεύματα (strateumata)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 4753: An army, detachment of troops. From strateuomai; an armament, i.e. a body of troops.

to destroy
ἀπώλεσεν (apōlesen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 622: From apo and the base of olethros; to destroy fully, literally or figuratively.

those
ἐκείνους (ekeinous)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1565: That, that one there, yonder. From ekei; that one (neuter) thing); often intensified by the article prefixed.

murderers
φονεῖς (phoneis)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5406: A murderer.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

burn
ἐνέπρησεν (eneprēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1714: To burn, set on fire, suffer inflammation. From en and pretho; to enkindle, i.e. Set on fire.

their
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

city.
πόλιν (polin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4172: A city, the inhabitants of a city. Probably from the same as polemos, or perhaps from polus; a town.


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