Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

And thou, Capernaum, who hast been raised up to heaven, shalt be brought down even to hades.

New American Standard Bible

And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will be brought down to Hades!

King James Version

And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.

Holman Bible

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will go down to Hades!

International Standard Version

And you, Capernaum! You won't be lifted up to heaven, will you? You'll go down to Hell!

A Conservative Version

And thou, Capernaum, which was exalted to the sky, will be thrust down to Hades.

American Standard Version

And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt be brought down unto Hades.

Amplified

And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will descend to Hades (the realm of the dead).

An Understandable Version

And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up [as high] as heaven? [Certainly not], you will be brought down to the unseen place of departed spirits [i.e., you will become obscure or obliterated as a city].

Anderson New Testament

And thou, Capernaum, who hast been exalted to heaven, shalt be brought down to hades.

Bible in Basic English

And you, Capernaum, were you not lifted up to heaven? you will go down to hell.

Common New Testament

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades!

Daniel Mace New Testament

and thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to the sky, shall be plung'd into an abyss.

Godbey New Testament

And thou, Capernaum, art thou not exalted up to heaven? thou shalt be cast down to Hades.

Goodspeed New Testament

And you, Capernaum! Are you to be exalted to the skies? You will go down among the dead!

John Wesley New Testament

And thou, Capernaum, which hast been exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell.

Julia Smith Translation

And thou, Capernaurn, indeed even lifted up to heaven, shalt be cast down to hades.

King James 2000

And you, Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hades.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No! You will be brought down to Hades!

Modern King James verseion

And you, Capernaum, which has been lifted up to Heaven, you shall be thrust down into hell.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And thou Capernaum which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell;

Moffatt New Testament

And you, O Capharnahum! Exalted to heaven? No, you will sink to Hades!

Montgomery New Testament

"And you Capernaum, shall you be exalted to heaven? No! you shall be brought down to Hades!

NET Bible

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades!

New Heart English Bible

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to hell.

Noyes New Testament

And thou, Capernaum! shalt thou be exalted to heaven? thou shalt be brought down to the underworld.

Sawyer New Testament

And you, Capernaum, even to heaven will you be exalted? even to hades shall you be cast down.

The Emphasized Bible

And, thou, Capernaum, - Unto heaven, shalt thou be uplifted? -- Unto hades, thou shalt be brought down!

Thomas Haweis New Testament

And thou Capernaum, which hast been lifted up to heaven, shalt be cast down to hell.

Twentieth Century New Testament

And you, Capernaum! Will you 'exalt yourself to heaven'? 'You shall go down to the Place of Death.'

Webster

And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell.

Weymouth New Testament

And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be lifted high as Heaven? Thou shalt be driven down as low as Hades.

Williams New Testament

And you, Capernaum, are you to be exalted to heaven? No, you are to go down to the regions of the dead.

World English Bible

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

Worrell New Testament

And you, Capernaum, shall you be exalted to Heaven? You shall be thrust down to Hades!

Worsley New Testament

And thou Capernaum, which art exalted even to heaven, shalt be cast down to hell.

Youngs Literal Translation

'And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades thou shalt be brought down.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

thou
σύ 
Su 
thou
Usage: 132

Καπερναούμ 
Kapernaoum 
Usage: 13

ὑψόω 
Hupsoo 
exalt, lift up
Usage: 8

to
ἕως 
heos 
ἕως 
heos 
till, unto, until, to, till 9,
till, unto, until, to, till 9,
Usage: 74
Usage: 74

οὐρανός 
Ouranos 
Usage: 156

καταβιβάζω 
Katabibazo 
Usage: 0

References

Context Readings

The Seventy-Two Appointed And Sent Out

14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. 15 And thou, Capernaum, who hast been raised up to heaven, shalt be brought down even to hades. 16 He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me; and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me.

Cross References

Isaiah 14:13-15

And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north;

Matthew 4:13

and having left Nazareth, he went and dwelt at Capernaum, which is on the sea-side in the borders of Zabulon and Nepthalim,

Matthew 10:28

And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 11:23

And thou, Capernaum, who hast been raised up to heaven, shalt be brought down even to hades. For if the works of power which have taken place in thee, had taken place in Sodom, it had remained until this day.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God spared not the angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness to be kept for judgment;

Genesis 11:4

And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which may reach to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.

Deuteronomy 1:28

Whither shall we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, They are a people greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore doth Sheol enlarge its desire, and open its mouth without measure; and her splendour shall descend into it, and her multitude, and her tumult, and all that is joyful within her.

Jeremiah 51:53

Though Babylon should mount up to the heavens, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith Jehovah.

Ezekiel 26:20

then will I bring thee down, with them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and will cause thee to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 28:12-14

Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, who sealest up the measure of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty,

Ezekiel 31:18

To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden, unto the lower parts of the earth; thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel 32:18

Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, her and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the lower parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

Ezekiel 32:20

They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword. The sword hath been given: draw her out, and all her multitudes.

Ezekiel 32:27

And they lie not with the mighty, that are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war; and whose swords are laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

Amos 9:2-3

Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to the heavens, thence will I bring them down;

Obadiah 1:4

Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith Jehovah.

Luke 7:1-2

And when he had completed all his words in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

Luke 13:28

There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves cast out.

Luke 16:23

And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

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