2 Peter 2:17 BSB — MannaFest

2 Peter 2:17

These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.

BSB

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ASV

These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.

KJV

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

These are wells without water - Jud 1:12-13 employs several other epithets to describe the same class of persons. The language employed both by Peter and Jude is singularly terse, pointed, and emphatic. Nothing to an oriental mind would be more expressive than to say of professed religious teachers, that they were “wells without water.” It was always a sad disappointment to a traveler in the hot sands of the desert to come to a well where it was expected that water might be found, and to find it dry.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"Clouds" is a transcriber's correction from Jude 12, where it is appropriate, "clouds . . . without water" (promising what they do not perform); but not here, "mists driven along by a tempest." mist--blackness; "the chilling horror accompanying darkness" [BENGEL].

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οὗτοί	houtoi	These	G3778 →
εἰσιν	eisin	are	G1510 →
πηγαὶ	pēgai	springs	G4077 →
ἄνυδροι	anudroi	without water	G504 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὁμίχλαι	homichlai	mists
ὑπὸ	hupo	by	G5259 →
λαίλαπος	lailapos	storm	G2978 →
ἐλαυνόμεναι,	elaunomenai	being driven,	G1643 →
οἷς	hois	for whom	G3739 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
ζόφος	zophos	gloom	G2217 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
σκότους	skotous	of darkness	G4655 →
τετήρηται.¶	tetērētai	has been reserved.	G5083 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
leads to
- Jude 1:6
  And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
- Matthew 25:41
  Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- Romans 8:32
  He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- Revelation 20:1–3
  Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
Through
Ephesians 4:14
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
leads to
- Hebrews 13:9
  Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to…
- Romans 16:17–18
  Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.
- 1 Corinthians 14:20
  Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
- 1 John 4:1
  Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.