Deuteronomy 2:34

2:34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them ¹  under divine judgment, ²  including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

Deuteronomy 3:8

3:8 So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon ³ 

Deuteronomy 4:15

The Nature of Israel’s God

4:15 Be very careful, ⁴  then, because you saw no form at the time the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.

Deuteronomy 4:42

4:42 Anyone who accidentally killed someone ⁵  without hating him at the time of the accident ⁶  could flee to one of those cities and be safe.

Deuteronomy 9:19

9:19 For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger ⁷  that threatened to destroy you. But he ⁸  listened to me this time as well.

Deuteronomy 16:9

The Festival of Weeks

16:9 You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them ⁹  from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.

Deuteronomy 24:21

24:21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; ¹⁰  they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

Deuteronomy 30:18

30:18 I declare to you this very day that you will certainly ¹¹  perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess. ¹² 

Deuteronomy 31:10

31:10 He ¹³  commanded them: “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the cancellation of debts, ¹⁴  at the Feast of Temporary Shelters, ¹⁵ 

Deuteronomy 31:18

31:18 But I will certainly ¹⁶  hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they ¹⁷  will have done by turning to other gods.

Deuteronomy 33:12

Blessing on Benjamin

33:12 Of Benjamin he said:

The beloved of the Lord will live safely by him;

he protects him all the time,

and the Lord ¹⁸  places him on his chest. ¹⁹ 

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¹ tn Heb “every city of men.” This apparently identifies the cities as inhabited.

² tn Heb “under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). The verb employed is חָרַם (kharam, usually in the Hiphil) and the associated noun is חֵרֶם (kherem). See J. Naudé, NIDOTTE, 2:276-77, and, for a more thorough discussion, Susan Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible, 28-77.

sn Divine judgment refers to God’s designation of certain persons, places, and things as objects of his special wrath and judgment because, in his omniscience, he knows them to be impure and hopelessly unrepentant.

³ sn Mount Hermon. This is the famous peak at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range known today as Jebel es-Sheik.

⁴ tn Heb “give great care to your souls.”

⁵ tn Heb “the slayer who slew his neighbor without knowledge.”

⁶ tn Heb “yesterday and a third (day).” The point is that there was no animosity between the two parties at the time of the accident and therefore no motive for the killing.

⁷ tn Heb “the anger and the wrath.” Although many English versions translate as two terms, this construction is a hendiadys which serves to intensify the emotion (cf. NAB, TEV “fierce anger”).

⁸ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

⁹ tn Heb “the seven weeks.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.

¹⁰ tn Heb “glean after you.”

¹¹ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “certainly.”

¹² tn Heb “to go there to possess it.”

¹³ tn Heb “Moses.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁴ tn The Hebrew term שְׁמִטָּה (shÿmittah), a derivative of the verb שָׁמַט (shamat, “to release; to relinquish”), refers to the procedure whereby debts of all fellow Israelites were to be canceled. Since the Feast of Tabernacles celebrated God’s own deliverance of and provision for his people, this was an appropriate time for Israelites to release one another. See note on this word at Deut 15:1.

¹⁵ tn The Hebrew phrase הַסֻּכּוֹת[חַג] ([khag] hassukot, “[festival of] huts” [or “shelters”]) is traditionally known as the Feast of Tabernacles. See note on the name of the festival in Deut 16:13.

sn For the regulations on this annual festival see Deut 16:13-15.

¹⁶ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “certainly.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

¹⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁹ tn Heb “between his shoulders.” This suggests the scene in John 13:23 with Jesus and the Beloved Disciple.