Discovery Box| (0.43) | (Psa 83:1) | 1 sn Psalm 83. The psalmist asks God to deliver Israel from the attacks of foreign nations. Recalling how God defeated Israel’s enemies in the days of Deborah and Gideon, he prays that the hostile nations would be humiliated. |
| (0.42) | (Act 9:15) | 2 tn Grk “the sons of Israel.” In Acts, Paul is a minister to all nations, including Israel (Rom 1:16-17). |
| (0.42) | (Luk 1:33) | 2 sn The expression house of Jacob refers to Israel. This points to the Messiah’s relationship to the people of Israel. |
| (0.42) | (Mat 27:9) | 2 tn Grk “the sons of Israel,” an idiom referring to the people of Israel as an ethnic entity (L&N 11.58). |
| (0.42) | (Mic 7:19) | 6 sn In this metaphor the Lord disposes of Israel’s sins by throwing them into the waters of the sea (here symbolic of chaos). |
| (0.42) | (Hos 1:2) | 8 tn Heb “the land.” The term “the land” is frequently used as a synecdoche of container (the land of Israel) for the contained (the people of Israel). |
| (0.42) | (Eze 28:24) | 1 sn Similar language is used in reference to Israel’s adversaries in Num 33:55 and Josh 23:13. |
| (0.42) | (Jer 18:14) | 1 sn Israel’s actions are contrary to nature. See the same kind of argumentation in Jer 2:11 and 8:7. |
| (0.42) | (Jer 6:4) | 2 tn Heb “Sanctify war.” This is probably an idiom from early Israel’s holy wars in which religious rites were to precede the battle. |
| (0.42) | (Isa 41:14) | 2 tn On the basis of the parallelism (note “worm”) and an alleged Akkadian cognate, some read “louse” or “weevil.” Cf. NAB “O maggot Israel”; NRSV “you insect Israel.” |
| (0.42) | (Psa 106:1) | 1 sn Psalm 106. The psalmist recalls Israel’s long history of rebellion against God, despite his mighty saving deeds on their behalf. |
| (0.42) | (Psa 99:1) | 1 sn Psalm 99. The psalmist celebrates the Lord’s just rule and recalls how he revealed himself to Israel’s leaders. |
| (0.42) | (Psa 80:1) | 1 sn Psalm 80. The psalmist laments Israel’s demise and asks the Lord to show favor toward his people, as he did in earlier times. |
| (0.42) | (Psa 68:26) | 1 tn Heb “from the fountain of Israel,” which makes little, if any, sense here. The translation assumes an emendation to בְּמִקְרָאֵי (bemiqraʾe, “in the assemblies of [Israel]”). |
| (0.42) | (Psa 68:27) | 1 sn Little Benjamin, their ruler. This may allude to the fact that Israel’s first king, Saul, was from the tribe of Benjamin. |
| (0.42) | (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). |
| (0.42) | (Psa 44:1) | 6 tn Heb “in the days of old.” This refers specifically to the days of Joshua, during Israel’s conquest of the land, as vv. 2-3 indicate. |
| (0.42) | (2Ch 11:16) | 1 tn Heb “and after them from all the tribes of Israel, the ones giving their heart[s] to seek the Lord God of Israel came [to] Jerusalem.” |
| (0.42) | (1Ki 15:30) | 1 tn Heb “because of Jeroboam which he committed and which he made Israel commit, by his provocation by which he made the Lord God of Israel angry.” |
| (0.42) | (2Sa 7:7) | 2 tn Heb “tribes of Israel” (so KJV, NASB, NCV), but the parallel passage in 1 Chr 17:6 has “judges of Israel.” |
