Jude 1:9
But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
Note This account is attributed by Origen to the Testament of Moses, also called the Assumption of Moses.
Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”
But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Michael
- It is most probable, that the Apostle took this account concerning Michael, and that of the prophesying of Enoch, from an ancient tradition preserved and well known among the Jews.
- Daniel 10:13, 21; Daniel 12:1; Revelation 12:7
- archangel
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16
- the body
- Deuteronomy 34:6
- durst
- Exodus 22:28; Isaiah 36:13–21; Mark 15:29; Luke 23:39, 40; 1 Peter 3:9; 2 Peter 2:11
- The Lord
- 1 Chronicles 12:17; Isaiah 37:3, 4, 10–20; Zechariah 3:2