Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Jon 1:7) | 5 tn Heb “the lot fell on Jonah.” From their questions posed to Jonah, it does not appear that the sailors immediately realize that Jonah was the one responsible for the storm. Instead, they seem to think that he is the one chosen by their gods to reveal to them the one responsible for their plight. It is only after he admits in vv. 9-10 that he was fleeing from the God whom he served that they realize that Jonah was in fact the cause of their trouble. |
| (0.30) | (Amo 5:17) | 1 sn The expression pass through your midst alludes to Exod 12:12, where the Lord announced he would “pass through” Egypt and bring death to the Egyptian firstborn. |
| (0.30) | (Hos 1:9) | 1 tn Heb “Then he said”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity. As in v. 6, many English versions specify the speaker here. |
| (0.30) | (Dan 11:5) | 3 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the subordinate prince mentioned in the previous clause) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Dan 8:7) | 4 tn Heb “he hurled him.” The referents of both pronouns (the male goat and the ram) have been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Dan 8:10) | 1 tn Traditionally, “host.” The term refers to God’s heavenly angelic assembly, which he sometimes leads into battle as an army. |
| (0.30) | (Dan 5:20) | 2 sn The point of describing Nebuchadnezzar as arrogant is that he had usurped divine prerogatives, and because of his immense arrogance God had dealt decisively with him. |
| (0.30) | (Dan 3:2) | 2 tn Aram “Nebuchadnezzar the king.” The proper name and title have been replaced by the relative pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (Dan 2:24) | 1 tc The MT has עַל עַל (ʿal ʿal, “he entered upon”). Several medieval Hebrew MSS lack the verb, although this may be due to haplography. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 33:12) | 3 tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.” |
| (0.30) | (Eze 31:11) | 1 tn Heb “acting he has acted with regard to it.” The infinitive absolute precedes the main verb to emphasize the certainty and decisiveness of the action depicted. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 18:11) | 1 tn Heb “and he all of these did not do.” The parenthetical note refers back to the father described in the preceding verses. |
| (0.30) | (Lam 3:35) | 2 tn Heb “to turn away a man’s justice,” that is, the justice or equitable judgment he would receive. See the previous note regarding the “man.” |
| (0.30) | (Lam 3:9) | 3 tn Heb “he has made my paths crooked.” The implication is that the paths by which one might escape cannot be traversed. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 50:9) | 4 tn Or more freely, “Their arrows will be as successful at hitting their mark // as a skilled soldier—he always returns from battle with plunder.” |
| (0.30) | (Jer 38:18) | 2 sn Zedekiah held out this hope of escape until the end. He tried to escape but was unsuccessful (cf. 39:4-5). |
| (0.30) | (Jer 36:13) | 1 tn Heb “Micaiah reported to them all the words that he heard when Baruch read from the scroll in the ears of the people.” |
| (0.30) | (Jer 36:12) | 2 sn This man has already been mentioned in Jer 26:22 as the official who was sent to Egypt to extradite the prophet Uriah, whom Jehoiakim had executed. Though he was instrumental in the death of that prophet, he appears to have been favorably disposed to Jeremiah, or at least impressed by the seriousness of his messages, because he is one of the officials who urged Baruch and Jeremiah to hide (v. 19), and he counseled Jehoiakim not to burn the scroll (v. 25). |
| (0.30) | (Jer 32:24) | 5 tn The word “Lord” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation as a reminder that it is he who is being addressed. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 31:21) | 1 sn The Lord here invites Israel to stop dilly-dallying and prepare themselves to return because he is prepared to do something new and miraculous. |
