Discovery Box| (0.42) | (Exo 23:7) | 4 sn God will not declare right the one who is in the wrong. Society should also be consistent, but it cannot see the intents and motives, as God can. |
| (0.42) | (Exo 6:5) | 4 sn As in Exod 2:24, this remembering has the significance of God’s beginning to act to fulfill the covenant promises. |
| (0.42) | (Exo 3:8) | 1 sn God’s coming down is a frequent anthropomorphism in Genesis and Exodus. It expresses his direct involvement, often in the exercise of judgment. |
| (0.42) | (Gen 35:10) | 1 sn The name Israel means “God fights” (although some interpret the meaning as “he fights [with] God”). See Gen 32:28. |
| (0.42) | (Gen 35:4) | 3 sn Jacob buried them. On the burial of the gods, see E. Nielson, “The Burial of the Foreign Gods,” ST 8 (1954/55): 102-22. |
| (0.42) | (Gen 35:3) | 4 tn Heb “in the way in which I went.” Jacob alludes here to God’s promise to be with him (see Gen 28:20). |
| (0.42) | (Gen 22:18) | 1 sn Because you have obeyed me. Abraham’s obedience brought God’s ratification of the earlier conditional promise (see Gen 12:2). |
| (0.40) | (Rev 5:6) | 7 sn See the note on the phrase the seven spirits of God in Rev 4:5. |
| (0.40) | (1Jo 4:13) | 2 tn Grk “in him.” Context indicates that the pronoun refers to God (see 4:12). |
| (0.40) | (1Jo 3:17) | 3 tn Here a subjective genitive, indicating God’s love for us—the love which comes from God—appears more likely because of the parallelism with “eternal life” (ζωὴν αἰώνιον, zōēn aiōnion) in 3:15, which also comes from God. |
| (0.40) | (1Jo 3:9) | 4 tn Grk “his”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.40) | (1Pe 5:3) | 2 tn Grk “the ones allotted,” referring to those God has given over to their care. |
| (0.40) | (1Pe 2:23) | 4 tn Grk “to the one”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.40) | (1Pe 1:2) | 1 sn For obedience and for sprinkling indicates the purpose of their choice or election by God. |
| (0.40) | (Jam 4:5) | 2 tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.40) | (Heb 11:39) | 2 tn Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself. |
| (0.40) | (Heb 11:33) | 2 tn Grk “obtained promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves. |
| (0.40) | (Heb 11:13) | 1 tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves. |
| (0.40) | (Heb 11:17) | 1 tn Here “received the promises” refers to the pledges themselves, not to the things God promised. |
| (0.40) | (Heb 10:36) | 1 tn Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself. |
