Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 2:24 
Context2:24 Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, 1 and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!
Deuteronomy 4:23
Context4:23 Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he 2 has forbidden 3 you.
Deuteronomy 4:25
Context4:25 After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, 4 if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind 5 and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him, 6
Deuteronomy 5:11
Context5:11 You must not make use of the name of the Lord your God for worthless purposes, 7 for the Lord will not exonerate anyone who abuses his name that way. 8
Deuteronomy 10:1
Context10:1 At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark. 9
Deuteronomy 15:11
Context15:11 There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open 10 your hand to your fellow Israelites 11 who are needy and poor in your land.
Deuteronomy 20:8
Context20:8 In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s 12 heart as fearful 13 as his own.”
Deuteronomy 28:63
Context28:63 This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he 14 will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.
Deuteronomy 29:1
Context29:1 (28:69) 15 These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. 16
Deuteronomy 32:21
Context32:21 They have made me jealous 17 with false gods, 18
enraging me with their worthless gods; 19
so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, 20
with a nation slow to learn 21 I will enrage them.
Deuteronomy 32:25
Context32:25 The sword will make people childless outside,
and terror will do so inside;
they will destroy 22 both the young man and the virgin,
the infant and the gray-haired man.
Deuteronomy 32:42-43
Context32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and my sword will devour flesh –
the blood of the slaughtered and captured,
the chief 23 of the enemy’s leaders!’”
32:43 Cry out, O nations, with his people,
for he will avenge his servants’ blood;
he will take vengeance against his enemies,
and make atonement for his land and people.
1 sn Heshbon is the name of a prominent site (now Tell Hesba„n, about 7.5 mi [12 km] south southwest of Amman, Jordan). Sihon made it his capital after having driven Moab from the area and forced them south to the Arnon (Num 21:26-30). Heshbon is also mentioned in Deut 1:4.
2 tn Heb “the
3 tn Heb “commanded.”
4 tn Heb “have grown old in the land,” i.e., been there for a long time.
5 tn Heb “a form of anything.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, TEV “an idol.”
6 tn The infinitive construct is understood here as indicating the result, not the intention, of their actions.
7 tn Heb “take up the name of the Lord your God to emptiness”; KJV “take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” The idea here is not cursing or profanity in the modern sense of these terms but rather the use of the divine Name for unholy, mundane purposes, that is, for meaningless (the Hebrew term is שָׁוְא) and empty ends. In ancient Israel this would include using the Lord’s name as a witness in vows one did not intend to keep.
8 tn Heb “who takes up his name to emptiness.”
9 tn Or “chest” (so NIV, CEV); NLT “sacred chest”; TEV “wooden box.” This chest was made of acacia wood; it is later known as the ark of the covenant.
10 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “make sure.”
11 tn Heb “your brother.”
12 tn Heb “his brother’s.”
13 tn Heb “melted.”
14 tn Heb “the
15 sn Beginning with 29:1, the verse numbers through 29:29 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 29:1 ET = 28:69 HT, 29:2 ET = 29:1 HT, 29:3 ET = 29:2 HT, etc., through 29:29 ET = 29:28 HT. With 30:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
16 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (which some English versions substitute here for clarity, cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
17 sn They have made me jealous. The “jealousy” of God is not a spirit of pettiness prompted by his insecurity, but righteous indignation caused by the disloyalty of his people to his covenant grace (see note on the word “God” in Deut 4:24). The jealousy of Israel, however (see next line), will be envy because of God’s lavish attention to another nation. This is an ironic wordplay. See H. Peels, NIDOTTE 3:938-39.
18 tn Heb “what is not a god,” or a “nondeity.”
19 tn Heb “their empty (things).” The Hebrew term used here to refer pejoratively to the false gods is הֶבֶל (hevel, “futile” or “futility”), used frequently in Ecclesiastes (e.g., Eccl 1:1, “Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher, “Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”).
20 tn Heb “what is not a people,” or a “nonpeople.” The “nonpeople” (לֹא־עָם, lo’-’am) referred to here are Gentiles who someday would become God’s people in the fullest sense (cf. Hos 1:9; 2:23).
21 tn Heb “a foolish nation” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV); NIV “a nation that has no understanding”; NLT “I will provoke their fury by blessing the foolish Gentiles.”
22 tn A verb is omitted here in the Hebrew text; for purposes of English style one suitable to the context is supplied.
23 tn Or “head” (the same Hebrew word can mean “head” in the sense of “leader, chieftain” or “head” in the sense of body part).
