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(0.49) (Job 26:6)

tn The line has “and there is no covering for destruction.” “Destruction” here is another name for Sheol: אֲבַדּוֹן (ʾavaddon, “Abaddon”).

(0.49) (Num 14:45)

tn The name “Hormah” means “destruction”; it is from the word that means “ban, devote” for either destruction or temple use.

(0.43) (Jer 4:11)

sn The allusion is, of course, to the destructive forces of the enemy armies of Babylon, compared above in 4:7 to a destructive lion and here to the destructive desert winds of the Near Eastern sirocco.

(0.42) (Mic 6:16)

tn The Hebrew term שַׁמָּה (shammah) can refer to “destruction; ruin,” or to the reaction it produces in those who witness the destruction.

(0.42) (Amo 3:10)

tn Heb “violence and destruction.” The expression “violence and destruction” stand metonymically for the goods the oppressors have accumulated by their unjust actions.

(0.40) (2Pe 2:6)

sn The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is detailed in Gen 18:1619:29.

(0.40) (Luk 19:44)

sn (Not) one stone on top of another is an idiom for total destruction.

(0.40) (Amo 4:11)

sn The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is described in Gen 19:1-29.

(0.40) (Lam 3:48)

tn Heb “because of the destruction of [the daughter of my people].”

(0.40) (Jer 17:18)

tn Or “complete destruction.” See the translator’s note on 16:18.

(0.40) (Isa 59:7)

tn Heb “their thoughts are thoughts of sin, destruction and crushing [are] in their roadways.”

(0.40) (Isa 57:9)

sn Israel’s devotion to her idols is inordinate, irrational, and self-destructive.

(0.40) (Isa 14:23)

tn Heb “I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction.”

(0.40) (Isa 9:18)

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

(0.40) (Psa 94:20)

tn Heb “a throne of destruction.” “Throne” stands here by metonymy for rulers who occupy thrones.

(0.40) (Psa 55:3)

tn Heb “wickedness,” but here the term refers to the destructive effects of their wicked acts.

(0.40) (Psa 55:10)

sn Wickedness and destruction. These terms are also closely associated in Ps 7:14.

(0.40) (Jos 7:12)

tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”

(0.40) (Jos 7:13)

tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] [is] in your midst.”

(0.39) (2Pe 2:1)

tn Or “destructive opinions,” “destructive viewpoints.” The genitive ἀπωλείας (apōleias) could be taken either attributively (“destructive”) or as a genitive of destination (“leading to destruction”). Although the preferable interpretation is a genitive of destination, especially because of the elaboration given at the end of the verse (“bringing swift destruction on themselves”), translating it attributively is less cumbersome in English. Either way, the net result is the same.



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