16:59 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.
17:19 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, I will certainly repay him 3 for despising my oath and breaking my covenant!
30:5 Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the foreigners, 6 Libya, and the people 7 of the covenant land 8 will die by the sword along with them.
1 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates being aware of or taking notice of something.
2 sn Heb “hand.” “Giving one’s hand” is a gesture of promise (2 Kgs 10:15).
3 tn Heb “place it on his head.”
4 tn This is the same Hebrew verb used to describe the passing of the children through the fire.
5 sn The metaphor may be based in Lev 27:32 (see also Jer 33:13; Matt 25:32-33). A shepherd would count his sheep as they passed beneath his staff.
6 tn The same expression appears in Exod 12:38; Jer 25:20; 50:37; Neh 13:3. It may refer to foreign mercenaries serving in the armies of the nations listed here.
7 tn Heb “sons.”
8 tn The expression “sons of the covenant land” possibly refers to Jews living in Egypt (Jer 44).