Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Dan 11:20) | 2 sn The one who will send out an exactor of tribute was Seleucus IV Philopator (ca. 187-176 b.c.). |
| (0.35) | (Dan 11:12) | 1 tn Heb “his heart will be lifted up.” The referent (the king of the south) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.35) | (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.” |
| (0.35) | (Eze 25:16) | 1 tn In Hebrew the verb “and I will cut off” sounds like its object, “the Kerethites,” and draws attention to the statement. |
| (0.35) | (Eze 23:32) | 1 sn The image of a deep and wide cup suggests the degree of punishment; it will be extensive and leave the victim helpless. |
| (0.35) | (Eze 21:7) | 2 sn This expression depicts in a very vivid way how they will be overcome with fear. See the note on the same phrase in 7:17. |
| (0.35) | (Eze 14:11) | 1 sn I will be their God. See Exod 6:7; Lev 26:12; Jer 7:23; 11:4. |
| (0.35) | (Eze 5:17) | 2 tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25. |
| (0.35) | (Eze 3:26) | 1 tn Heb “you will not be to them a reprover.” In Isa 29:21 and Amos 5:10 “a reprover” issued rebuke at the city gate. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 51:25) | 3 tn Heb “I will reach out my hand against you.” See the translator’s note on 6:12 for explanation. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 51:26) | 1 sn The figure here shifts to that of a burned-up city whose stones cannot be used for building. Babylon will become a permanent heap of ruins. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 50:43) | 1 tn Heb “his hands will drop/hang limp.” For the meaning of this idiom see the translator’s note on 6:24. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 50:32) | 1 tn Heb “And the proud one will fall, and there will be no one to help him up. I will start a fire in his towns, and it will consume all that surround him.” The personification continues, but now the stance is indirect (third person) rather than direct (second person). For the modern reader who is not accustomed to such sudden shifts, it is easier if the second person is maintained. The personification of the city (or nation) as masculine is a little unusual; normally cities and nations are personified as feminine, as daughters or mothers. |
| (0.35) | (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.” |
| (0.35) | (Jer 48:2) | 5 tn Heb “A sword will follow after you.” The sword is again figurative of destructive forces, here the army of the Babylonians. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 44:28) | 2 tn Heb “will stand,” i.e., in the sense of being fulfilled, proving to be true, or succeeding (see BDB 878 s.v. קוּם 7.g). |
| (0.35) | (Jer 39:18) | 1 sn Heb “you will not fall by the sword.” In the context this would include death in battle and execution as a prisoner of war. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 38:19) | 2 tn Or “and they will badly abuse me.” For the usage of this verb in the situation presupposed, see Judg 19:25 and 1 Sam 31:4. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 38:20) | 2 tn Heb “your life [or you yourself] will live.” Cf. v. 17 and the translator’s note there for the idiom. |
| (0.35) | (Jer 38:22) | 1 tn Heb “And they will say.” The words “taunt you” are supplied in the translation to give the flavor of the words that follow. |
