Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Jdg 11:23) | 3 tn Heb “will you dispossess him [i.e., Israel; or possibly “it,” i.e., the territory]?” There is no interrogative marker in the Hebrew text. |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 11:18) | 1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel; the pronoun in the Hebrew text represents a collective singular) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 7:25) | 1 sn The names Oreb and Zeeb, which mean “Raven” and “Wolf” respectively, are appropriate because the Midianites had been like scavengers and predators to Israel. |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 2:10) | 3 tn Heb “that did not know the Lord or the work which he had done for Israel.” The expressions “personally experienced” and “seen” are interpretive. |
| (0.30) | (Jos 22:24) | 2 tn Heb “What is there to you and to the Lord God of Israel?” The rhetorical question is sarcastic in tone and anticipates a response, “Absolutely none!” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 22:22) | 4 tn Heb “do not save us.” The verb form is singular, being addressed to either collective Israel or the Lord himself. The LXX translates in the third person. |
| (0.30) | (Jos 21:45) | 2 tn Heb “not a word from all the good word which the Lord spoke to the house of Israel fell; the whole came to pass.” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 10:37) | 1 tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army). So also for “they had done” and “they annihilated.” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 10:35) | 1 tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army). So also for “they had done to Lachish.” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 9:26) | 1 tn Heb “And he did to them so and he rescued them from the hand of the sons of Israel and they did not kill them.” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 8:32) | 1 tn Heb “and he wrote there on the stones a duplicate of the law of Moses which he wrote before the sons of Israel.” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 7:6) | 3 tn Heb “and fell on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel.” |
| (0.30) | (Jos 5:1) | 2 tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breath (or perhaps “spirit”) because of the sons of Israel.” |
| (0.30) | (Deu 33:26) | 1 sn Jeshurun is a term of affection referring to Israel, derived from the Hebrew verb יָשַׁר (yashar, “be upright”). See note on the term in Deut 32:15. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 33:5) | 2 sn Jeshurun is a term of affection referring to Israel, derived from the Hebrew verb יָשַׁר (yashar, “be upright”). See note on the term in Deut 32:15. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 20:20) | 2 tn Heb “[an] enclosure.” The term מָצוֹר (matsor) may refer to encircling ditches or to surrounding stagings. See R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 238. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 4:26) | 1 sn I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you. This stock formula introduces what is known form-critically as a רִיב (riv) or controversy pattern. It is commonly used in the ancient Near Eastern world in legal contexts and in the OT as a forensic or judicial device to draw attention to Israel’s violation of the Lord’s covenant with them (see Deut 30:19; Isa 1:2; 3:13; Jer 2:9). Since court proceedings required the testimony of witnesses, the Lord here summons heaven and earth (that is, all creation) to testify to his faithfulness, Israel’s disobedience, and the threat of judgment. |
| (0.30) | (Deu 1:46) | 1 tn Heb “like the days which you lived.” This refers to the rest of the forty-year period in the desert before Israel arrived in Moab. |
| (0.30) | (Num 23:20) | 2 sn The reference is probably to the first speech, where the Lord blessed Israel. Balaam knows that there is nothing he can do to reverse what God has said. |
| (0.30) | (Num 23:9) | 3 tn The verb could also be taken as a reflexive—Israel does not consider itself as among the nations, meaning, they consider themselves to be unique. |
