² tn Heb “you have started a fire in my anger which will burn forever.”

⁴ tn Heb “its pile of wood, fire and wood, one makes abundant.”

² sn Evil was uncontrollable and destructive, and so can be compared to a forest fire.

¹ tn Heb “a tongue of fire” (so NASB), referring to a tongue-shaped flame.

⁴ tn Heb “smoke.” The picture is that of a fire that continues to smolder.

¹ tn Heb “fire before him devours, and around him it is very stormy.”

² sn This may refer to the fire that struck Job (cf. 1:16).

¹ tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASB “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his children in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

¹ sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB “burnt his sons in the fire”; NASB “burned his sons in the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his children in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

³ tn Heb “and they burned for him a large fire, very great.”

³ tn Heb “and the chariots of the sun he burned with fire.”

¹ tn Heb “and he burned the house of the king over him with fire and he died.”

³ tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”

¹ tn Heb “and his words you heard from the midst of the fire.”

¹ tn Heb “from the fire.” It probably refers to those parts that were not burned.

¹ tn Heb “Or a body, if there is in its skin a burn of fire.”

¹ tn Or “And divided tongues as of fire.” The precise meaning of διαμερίζομαι (diamerizomai) in Acts 2:3 is difficult to determine. The meaning could be “tongues as of fire dividing up one to each person,” but it is also possible that the individual tongues of fire were divided (“And divided tongues as of fire appeared”). The translation adopted in the text (“tongues spreading out like a fire”) attempts to be somewhat ambiguous.

¹ sn The destruction of Moab by fire is an example of a judgment in kind—as the Moabites committed the crime of “burning,” so the Lord will punish them by setting them on fire.

⁴ sn The “fire” and “firepot” here symbolize divine judgment, which is heating up like a fire in Jerusalem, waiting to be used against the Assyrians when they attack the city.

² tn Heb “In my reflection fire burned.” The prefixed verbal form is either a preterite (past tense) or an imperfect being used in a past progressive or customary sense (“fire was burning”).