Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Jdg 3:19) | 3 tn Or “idols.” |
| (0.80) | (Eze 5:9) | 1 tn Or “abominable idols.” |
| (0.80) | (Jer 1:16) | 4 tn That is, idols. |
| (0.60) | (Isa 30:22) | 1 tn Heb “the platings of your silver idols.” |
| (0.50) | (Eze 14:4) | 1 tn Heb “in accordance with the multitude of his idols.” |
| (0.50) | (Isa 48:14) | 1 sn This probably refers to the idol gods (see v. 5). |
| (0.50) | (2Sa 5:21) | 2 tc For “idols” the LXX and Vulgate have “gods.” |
| (0.43) | (Lev 26:30) | 2 tn The translation reflects the Hebrew wordplay “your corpses…the corpses of your idols.” Since idols, being lifeless, do not really have “corpses,” the translation uses “dead bodies” for people and “lifeless bodies” for the idols. |
| (0.40) | (Eze 18:6) | 2 tn Heb “does not lift up his eyes.” This refers to looking to idols for help. |
| (0.40) | (Isa 57:9) | 4 sn Israel’s devotion to her idols is inordinate, irrational, and self-destructive. |
| (0.40) | (Isa 41:21) | 2 sn Apparently this challenge is addressed to the pagan idol gods, see vv. 23-24. |
| (0.40) | (2Ki 13:6) | 4 tn Or “an image of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “the Asherah”; NCV “the Asherah idol.” |
| (0.40) | (Deu 4:25) | 2 tn Heb “a form of anything.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, TEV “an idol.” |
| (0.40) | (Exo 34:13) | 1 tn Or “images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “their Asherah idols.” |
| (0.35) | (Jer 16:19) | 3 sn This passage offers some rather forceful contrasts. The Lord is Jeremiah’s source of strength, security, and protection. The idols are false gods, worthless idols, that can offer no help at all. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 44:11) | 1 tn The pronoun “his” probably refers to the one who forms/casts an idol (v. 10), in which case it refers to the craftsman’s associates in the idol-manufacturing guild. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 31:7) | 3 tn Heb “their idols of silver and their idols of gold which your hands made for yourselves [in] sin.” חָטָא (khataʾ, “sin”) is understood as an adverbial accusative of manner. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:573, n. 4. |
| (0.35) | (Isa 10:10) | 1 tn Heb “Just as my hand found the kingdoms of the idol[s].” The comparison is expanded in v. 11a (note “as”) and completed in v. 11b (note “so”). |
| (0.35) | (Isa 10:11) | 1 tn The statement is constructed as a rhetorical question in the Hebrew text: “Is it not [true that] just as I have done to Samaria and its idols, so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols?’” |
| (0.35) | (Mic 5:14) | 2 tn The MT reads “your cities,” but many emend the text to צִרֶיךָ (tsirekha, “your images”) or עֲצַבֶּיךָ (ʿatsbbekha, “your idols”). |
