Luke 20 · Verse 43

Luke 20:43

Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Luke 20:43, King James Version

Luke 20:43 in other translations

BSBuntil I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’
WEBuntil I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’
ASVTill I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.
YLTtill I shall make thine enemies thy footstool;
DARBYuntil I put thine enemies as footstool of thy feet?
BBETill I put under your feet all those who are against you.
WebsterTill I make thy enemies thy footstool.

What does Luke 20:43 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 43 Thy footstool - Literally, the footstool of thy feet. They shall not only be so far humbled that the feet may be set on them; but they shall be actually subjected, and put completely under that Christ whom they now despise, and are about to crucify.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 20:39-47

The scribes commended the reply Christ made to the Sadducees about the resurrection, but they were silenced by a question concerning the Messiah. Christ, as God, was David's Lord; but Christ, as man, was David's son. The scribes would receive the severest judgement for defrauding the poor widows, and for their abuse of religion, particularly of prayer, which they used as a pretence for carrying on worldly and wicked…

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Luke 20:43 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ἕωςhe'ōsuntilG2193
ἂνanwhenG302
θῶthōI may placeG5087
τοὺςtoustheG3588
ἐχθρούςechthrousenemiesG2190
σουsouof YouG4771
ὑποπόδιονhupopodion[as] a footstoolG5286
τῶνtōnof theG3588
ποδῶνpodōnfeetG4228
σου.souof You.G4771

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Luke 20:43

  • Luke 19:27

    But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

  • Psalms 110:1

    A Psalm of David. The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

  • Revelation 19:14-21

    And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; …

  • Psalms 110:5-6

    The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

  • Psalms 2:1-9

    Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. …

  • Psalms 72:9

    They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

  • Psalms 21:8-12

    Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. …

  • Psalms 109:4-20

    For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
19:27; Ps 2:1-9; 21:8-12; 72:9; 109:4-20; 110:5,6; Re 19:14-21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Luke 20:42

    And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

  • Luke 20:43

    Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

  • Luke 20:44

    David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?

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Luke 20:43 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Entre tanto que pongo tus enemigos por estrado de tus pies.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		jusqu’à ce que je mette tes ennemis pour marchepied de tes pieds ».
German
Elberfelder 1871		bis ich deine Feinde lege zum Schemel deiner Füße"?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum.