Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Eze 22:2) | 2 tn The phrase “bloody city” is used of Nineveh in Nah 3:1. |
| (1.00) | (Isa 34:6) | 5 sn The Lord’s judgment of Edom is compared to a bloody sacrificial scene. |
| (0.75) | (Zep 1:7) | 4 sn Because a sacrificial meal presupposes the slaughter of animals, it is used here as a metaphor of the bloody judgment to come. |
| (0.50) | (Isa 49:26) | 1 sn Verse 26a depicts siege warfare and bloody defeat. The besieged enemy will be so starved they will eat their own flesh. The bloodstained bodies lying on the blood-soaked battle site will look as if they collapsed in drunkenness. |
| (0.50) | (Num 6:17) | 1 tn The “peace offering” is usually written as “a sacrifice of peace” (זֶבַח שְׁלָמִים, zevakh shelamim). The word “sacrifice” is related to the word “to slaughter,” and so indicates that this is a bloody offering in celebration of peace with God. |
