Deuteronomy 3:14
Context3:14 Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites 1 and Maacathites 2 (namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth-Jair, 3 which it retains to this very day.)
Deuteronomy 16:6
Context16:6 but you must sacrifice it 4 in the evening in 5 the place where he 6 chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 18:22
Context18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my 7 name and the prediction 8 is not fulfilled, 9 then I have 10 not spoken it; 11 the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”
Deuteronomy 21:5
Context21:5 Then the Levitical priests 12 will approach (for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name, 13 and to decide 14 every judicial verdict 15 )
Deuteronomy 28:58
Context28:58 “If you refuse to obey 16 all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,
Deuteronomy 29:20
Context29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger 17 will rage 18 against that man; all the curses 19 written in this scroll will fall upon him 20 and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. 21
1 sn Geshurites. Geshur was a city and its surrounding area somewhere northeast of Bashan (cf. Josh 12:5 ; 13:11, 13). One of David’s wives was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur and mother of Absalom (cf. 2 Sam 13:37; 15:8; 1 Chr 3:2).
2 sn Maacathites. These were the people of a territory southwest of Mount Hermon on the Jordan River. The name probably has nothing to do with David’s wife from Geshur (see note on “Geshurites” earlier in this verse).
3 sn Havvoth-Jair. The Hebrew name means “villages of Jair,” the latter being named after a son (i.e., descendant) of Manasseh who took the area by conquest.
4 tn Heb “the Passover.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.
5 tc The MT reading אֶל (’el, “unto”) before “the place” should, following Smr, Syriac, Targums, and Vulgate, be omitted in favor of ב (bet; בַּמָּקוֹם, bammaqom), “in the place.”
6 tn Heb “the
7 tn Heb “the
8 tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”
9 tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”
10 tn Heb “the
11 tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”
12 tn Heb “the priests, the sons of Levi.”
13 tn Heb “in the name of the
14 tn Heb “by their mouth.”
15 tn Heb “every controversy and every blow.”
16 tn Heb “If you are not careful to do.”
17 tn Heb “the wrath of the
18 tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”
19 tn Heb “the entire oath.”
20 tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”
21 tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”