Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Dan 1:11) | 1 sn Having failed to convince the overseer, Daniel sought the favor of the warden whom the overseer had appointed to care for the young men. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 21:23) | 2 sn When the people of Judah realized the Babylonians’ intentions, they would object on grounds that they had made a treaty with the Babylonian king (see 17:13). |
| (0.30) | (Jer 48:17) | 1 sn This refers both to the nearby nations and to those who lived farther away and had heard of Moab’s power and might only by repute. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 34:12) | 1 sn This is the resumption of the introduction in v. 8 after the lengthy description of the situation that had precipitated the Lord’s message to Jeremiah. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 19:14) | 1 tn Heb “And Jeremiah entered from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.” |
| (0.30) | (Jer 11:19) | 3 sn The word fruit refers contextually here to the prophecies that Jeremiah was giving, not (as some suppose) to his progeny. Jeremiah was not married and had no children. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 38:8) | 1 tn Heb “the shadow on the steps which it [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, with the sun, back ten steps.” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 37:8) | 1 tn Heb “and the chief adviser returned and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.” |
| (0.30) | (Isa 1:22) | 3 sn The metaphors of silver becoming impure and beer being watered down picture the moral and ethical degeneration that had occurred in Jerusalem. |
| (0.30) | (Ecc 2:19) | 4 tn An internal cognate accusative construction (accusative and verb from same root) is used for emphasis: שֶׁעָמַלְתִּי עֲמָלִי (ʿamali sheʿamalti, “my toil for which I had toiled”); see IBHS 167 §10.2.1g. The two verbs שֶׁעָמַלְתִּי וְשֶׁחָכַמְתִּי (sheʿamalti veshekhakhamti, “for which I had labored and for which I had acted wisely”) form a verbal hendiadys (two separate verbs used in association to communicate one idea): “for I had labored so wisely.” The second verb is used adverbially to modify the first verb, which functions in its full verbal sense. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 24:9) | 2 sn This describes evil people who flout all morality and goodness; sooner or later the public will have had enough of them. |
| (0.30) | (Pro 17:21) | 4 sn Parents of fools, who had hoped for children who would be a credit to the family, find only bitter disappointment (cf. TEV “nothing but sadness and sorrow”). |
| (0.30) | (Psa 78:64) | 3 sn Because of the invading army and the ensuing panic, the priests’ widows had no time to carry out the normal mourning rites. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 51:19) | 3 sn Verses 18-19 appear to reflect the exilic period, when the city’s walls lay in ruins and the sacrificial system had been disrupted. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 40:3) | 1 sn A new song was appropriate because the Lord had intervened in the psalmist’s experience in a fresh and exciting way. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 2:2) | 1 sn The expression kings of the earth refers somewhat hyperbolically to the kings who had been conquered by and were subject to the Davidic king. |
| (0.30) | (Job 39:13) | 3 tn Many proposals have been made here. The MT has a verb, “exult.” Strahan had “flap joyously,” a rendering followed by the NIV. The RSV uses “wave proudly.” |
| (0.30) | (Job 29:12) | 1 tn The negative introduces a clause that serves as a negative attribute; literally the following clause says, “and had no helper” (see GKC 482 §152.u). |
| (0.30) | (Job 25:4) | 1 sn Bildad here does not come up with new expressions; rather, he simply uses what Eliphaz had said (see Job 4:17-19 and 15:14-16). |
| (0.30) | (Job 20:9) | 1 tn Heb “the eye that had seen him.” Here a part of the person (the eye, the instrument of vision) is put by metonymy for the entire person. |
