Discovery Box| (0.38) | (Isa 7:6) | 1 tn Heb “and let us break it open for ourselves”; NASB “make for ourselves a breach in its walls”; NLT “fight our way into.” |
| (0.38) | (Pro 30:28) | 1 sn The point of this saying is that a weak creature like a lizard, that is so easily caught, cannot be prevented from getting into the most significant places. |
| (0.38) | (Pro 30:22) | 2 sn The expression stuffed with food probably represents prosperity in general. So the line portrays someone who suddenly comes into wealth, but continues to be boorish and irreligious. |
| (0.38) | (Pro 22:1) | 2 tn “To be chosen rather than” is a translation of the Niphal participle with the comparative degree taken into consideration. Cf. CEV “worth much more than.” |
| (0.38) | (Pro 20:25) | 1 sn It would be a “snare” because it would lead people into financial difficulties; Leviticus 27 talks about foolish or rash vows. |
| (0.38) | (Pro 20:8) | 3 sn The phrase with his eyes indicates that the king will closely examine or look into all the cases that come before him. |
| (0.38) | (Pro 16:1) | 1 sn Humans may set things in order, plan out what they are going to say, but God sovereignly enables them to put their thoughts into words. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 78:61) | 2 tn Heb “and his splendor into the hand of an enemy.” The expression “his splendor” also refers metonymically to the ark of the covenant. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 66:11) | 1 tn Heb “you brought us into a net.” This rare word for “net” also occurs in Ezek 12:13; 13:21; 17:20. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 66:6) | 1 sn He turned the sea into dry land. The psalmist alludes to Israel’s crossing the Red Sea (Exod 14:21). |
| (0.38) | (Psa 24:10) | 1 tn Traditionally, “the Lord of hosts,” a title which here pictures the Lord as a mighty warrior-king who leads armies into battle. |
| (0.38) | (Psa 5:7) | 2 sn I will enter your house. The psalmist is confident that God will accept him into his presence, in contrast to the evildoers (see v. 5). |
| (0.38) | (Job 39:24) | 1 tn “Swallow the ground” is a metaphor for the horse’s running. Gray renders the line: “quivering and excited he dashes into the fray.” |
| (0.38) | (Job 17:3) | 2 sn The idiom is “to strike the hand.” Here the wording is a little different, “Who is he that will strike himself into my hand?” |
| (0.38) | (Job 1:7) | 2 tn The imperfect may be classified as progressive imperfect; it indicates action that although just completed is regarded as still lasting into the present (GKC 316 §107.h). |
| (0.38) | (Est 1:1) | 5 sn The geographical extent of the Persian empire was vast. The division of Xerxes’ empire into 127 smaller provinces was apparently done for purposes of administrative efficiency. |
| (0.38) | (2Ch 30:14) | 1 tn Heb “and they arose and removed the altars which were in Jerusalem, and all the incense altars they removed and threw into the Kidron Valley.” |
| (0.38) | (2Ch 25:20) | 2 tn Heb “because it was from God in order to give them into the hand because they sought the gods of Edom.” |
| (0.38) | (2Ch 24:24) | 1 tn Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the Lord gave into their hand an army [that was] very large.” |
| (0.38) | (2Ch 15:18) | 1 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things [into] the house of God, silver, gold, and items.” |
