Discovery Box| (0.44) | (Luk 2:7) | 3 sn There was no place for them in the inn. There is no drama in how this is told. There is no search for a variety of places to stay or a heartless innkeeper. (Such items are later, nonbiblical embellishments.) Bethlehem was not large and there was simply no other place to stay. The humble surroundings of the birth are ironic in view of the birth’s significance. |
| (0.44) | (Mar 15:39) | 2 tn Grk “the way he breathed his last”; or “the way he expired”; or “that he thus breathed no more.” |
| (0.44) | (Mar 5:43) | 1 sn That no one should know about this. See the note on the phrase who he was in 3:12. |
| (0.44) | (Zep 2:12) | 1 sn Though there is no formal introduction, these words are apparently spoken by the Lord (note my sword). |
| (0.44) | (Nah 3:8) | 2 tn Heb “No-Amon.” The name is transliterated by NAB, NASB; many other English versions employ the equivalent “Thebes.” |
| (0.44) | (Mic 1:7) | 4 tn No object is specified in the Hebrew text; the words “the metal” are supplied from the context. |
| (0.44) | (Oba 1:20) | 2 tn The Hebrew text has no verb here. The words “will possess” have been supplied from the context. |
| (0.44) | (Hos 12:8) | 5 tn Heb “In all my gains/labors, no one can find in me any guilt that is sin.” |
| (0.44) | (Hos 9:12) | 1 tn Heb “I will bereave them from a man”; cf. NRSV “I will bereave them until no one is left.” |
| (0.44) | (Dan 6:10) | 6 sn No specific posture for offering prayers is prescribed in the OT. Kneeling, as here, and standing were both practiced. |
| (0.44) | (Eze 18:17) | 1 tc This translation follows the LXX. The MT reads: “restrains his hand from the poor,” which makes no sense here. |
| (0.44) | (Eze 17:9) | 3 tn Or “there will be no strong arm or large army when it is pulled up by the roots.” |
| (0.44) | (Lam 1:6) | 4 tn Heb “they fled with no strength” (וַיֵּלְכוּ בְלֹא־כֹחַ, vayyelekhu beloʾ khoakh). |
| (0.44) | (Jer 7:32) | 2 tn Heb “it will no longer be said ‘Topheth’ or ‘the Valley of Ben Hinnom’ but ‘the valley of slaughter.’” |
| (0.44) | (Jer 2:20) | 1 tn Or “For.” The Hebrew particle (כִּי, ki) here introduces the evidence that they had no respect for him. |
| (0.44) | (Isa 60:15) | 1 tn Heb “Instead of your being abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 59:8) | 1 tn Heb “a way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their pathways.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 42:20) | 2 tn Heb “but you do not guard [i.e., retain in your memory]”; NIV “but have paid no attention.” |
| (0.44) | (Isa 29:15) | 3 tn The rhetorical questions suggest the answer: “No one.” They are confident that their deeds are hidden from others, including God. |
| (0.44) | (Isa 28:13) | 3 sn When divine warnings and appeals become gibberish to the spiritually insensitive, they have no guidance and are doomed to destruction. |
