Joshua 23:12-15

23:12 But if you ever turn away and make alliances with ¹  these nations that remain near you, ²  and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them, ³  23:13 know for certain that the Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; ⁴  they will be a whip that tears ⁵  your sides and thorns that blind ⁶  your eyes until you disappear ⁷  from this good land the Lord your God gave you.

23:14 “Look, today I am about to die. ⁸  You know with all your heart and being ⁹  that not even one of all the faithful promises the Lord your God made to you is left unfulfilled; every one was realized – not one promise is unfulfilled! ¹⁰  23:15 But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized, ¹¹  it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment ¹²  until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.

Joshua 23:1

Joshua Challenges Israel to be Faithful

23:1 A long time ¹³  passed after the Lord made Israel secure from all their enemies, ¹⁴  and Joshua was very old. ¹⁵ 

Joshua 1:9

1:9 I repeat, ¹⁶  be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic, ¹⁷  for I, the Lord your God, am with you in all you do.” ¹⁸ 

Joshua 1:2

1:2 “Moses my servant is dead. Get ready! ¹⁹  Cross the Jordan River! ²⁰  Lead these people into the land which I am ready to hand over to them. ²¹ 

Joshua 15:2

15:2 Their southern border started at the southern tip of the Salt Sea, ²² 

Ezra 8:22

8:22 I was embarrassed to request soldiers and horsemen from the king to protect us from the enemy ²³  along the way, because we had said to the king, “The good hand of our God is on everyone who is seeking him, but his great anger ²⁴  is against everyone who forsakes him.”

Isaiah 1:28

1:28 All rebellious sinners will be shattered, ²⁵ 

those who abandon the Lord will perish.

Isaiah 63:10

63:10 But they rebelled and offended ²⁶  his holy Spirit, ²⁷ 

so he turned into an enemy

and fought against them.

Isaiah 65:11-12

65:11 But as for you who abandon the Lord

and forget about worshiping at ²⁸  my holy mountain,

who prepare a feast for the god called ‘Fortune,’ ²⁹ 

and fill up wine jugs for the god called ‘Destiny’ ³⁰  –

65:12 I predestine you to die by the sword, ³¹ 

all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, ³² 

because I called to you, and you did not respond,

I spoke and you did not listen.

You did evil before me; ³³ 

you chose to do what displeases me.”

Jeremiah 17:13

17:13 You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. ³⁴ 

All who leave you will suffer shame.

Those who turn away from you ³⁵  will be consigned to the nether world. ³⁶ 

For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life. ³⁷ 

Ezekiel 18:24

18:24 “But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die. ³⁸ 

Acts 7:42

7:42 But God turned away from them and gave them over ³⁹  to worship the host ⁴⁰  of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices ⁴¹  forty years in the wilderness, was it, ⁴²  house of Israel?

Hebrews 10:26-27

10:26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, ⁴³  10:27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury ⁴⁴  of fire that will consume God’s enemies. ⁴⁵ 

Hebrews 10:38

10:38 But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I ⁴⁶  take no pleasure in him. ⁴⁷ 

[23:12]  ¹ tn Heb “and hug.”

[23:12]  ² tn Heb “the remnant of the these nations, these nations that are with you.”

[23:12]  ³ tn Heb “and go into them, and they into you.”

[23:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “be a trap and a snare to you.”

[23:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “in.”

[23:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “thorns in your eyes.”

[23:13]  ⁷ tn Or “perish.”

[23:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “go the way of all the earth.”

[23:14]  ⁹ tn Or “soul.”

[23:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “one word from all these words which the Lord your God spoke to you has not fallen, the whole has come to pass for you, one word from it has not fallen.”

[23:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and it will be as every good word which the Lord your God spoke to you has come to pass.”

[23:15]  ¹² tn Heb “so the Lord will bring every injurious [or “evil”] word [or “thing”] upon you.”

[23:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “many days.”

[23:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the Lord had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around.”

[23:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following verse.

[1:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Have I not commanded you?” The rhetorical question emphasizes the importance of the following command by reminding the listener that it is being repeated.

[1:9]  ¹⁷ tn Or perhaps, “don’t get discouraged!”

[1:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “in all which you go.”

[1:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Get up!”

[1:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “this Jordan”; the word “River” has been supplied in the translation for clarity (likewise in v. 11).

[1:2]  ²¹ tc Heb “Cross over this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land that I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.” The final phrase, “to the children of Israel,” is probably a later scribal addition specifying the identity of “these people/them.”

[15:2]  ²² tn Heb “Their southern border was from the end of the Salt Sea, from the tongue that faces to the south.”

[8:22]  ²³ tn A number of modern translations regard this as a collective singular and translate “from enemies” (also in v. 31).

[8:22]  ²⁴ tn Heb “his strength and his anger.” The expression is a hendiadys (one concept expressed through two terms).

[1:28]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and [there will be] a shattering of rebels and sinners together.”

[63:10]  ²⁶ tn Or “grieved, hurt the feelings of.”

[63:10]  ²⁷ sn The phrase “holy Spirit” occurs in the OT only here (in v. 11 as well) and in Ps 51:11 (51:13 HT), where it is associated with the divine presence.

[65:11]  ²⁸ tn The Hebrew text has simply, “forget.” The words “about worshiping at” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[65:11]  ²⁹ tn The Hebrew has לַגַּד (laggad, “for Gad”), the name of a pagan deity. See HALOT 176 s.v. II גַּד 2.

[65:11]  ³⁰ tn The Hebrew has לַמְנִי (lamni, “for Meni”), the name of a pagan deity. See HALOT 602 s.v. מְגִי.

[65:12]  ³¹ tn Heb “I assign you to the sword.” Some emend the Qal verb form מָנִיתִי (maniti, “I assign”) to the Piel מִנִּיתִי (minniti, “ I ordain”). The verb sounds like the name of the god Meni (מְנִי, mÿni, “Destiny, Fate”). The sound play draws attention to the irony of the statement. The sinners among God’s people worship the god Meni, apparently in an effort to ensure a bright destiny for themselves. But the Lord is the one who really determines their destiny and he has decreed their demise.

[65:12]  ³² tn Or “at the slaughter”; NIV “for the slaughter”; NLT “before the executioner.”

[65:12]  ³³ tn Heb “that which is evil in my eyes.”

[17:13]  ³⁴ tn Heb “O glorious throne, O high place from the beginning, O hope of Israel, O Lord.” Commentators and translators generally understand these four lines (which are three in the Hebrew original) as two predications, one eulogizing the temple and the other eulogizing God. However, that does not fit the context very well and does not take into account the nature of Jeremiah’s doxology in Jeremiah 16:19-20 (and compare also 10:6-7). There the doxology is context motivated, focused on God, and calls on relevant attributes in the form of metaphorical epithets. That fits nicely here as well. For the relevant parallel passages see the study note.

[17:13]  ³⁵ tc The translation is based on an emendation suggested in W. L. Holladay, Jeremiah (Hermeneia), 1:500, n. b-b. The emendation involves following the reading preferred by the Masoretes (the Qere) and understanding the preposition with the following word as a corruption of the suffix on it. Thus the present translation reads וּסוּרֶיךָ אֶרֶץ (usurekha ’erets) instead of וּסוּרַי בָּאֶרֶץ (usuray ba’erets, “and those who leave me will be written in the earth”), a reading which is highly improbable since all the other pronouns are second singular.

[17:13]  ³⁶ tn Or “to the world of the dead.” An alternative interpretation is: “will be as though their names were written in the dust”; Heb “will be written in the dust.” The translation follows the nuance of “earth” listed in HALOT 88 s.v. אֶרֶץ 4 and found in Jonah 2:6 (2:7 HT); Job 10:21-22. For the nuance of “enrolling, registering among the number” for the verb translated here “consign” see BDB 507 s.v. כָּתַב Qal.3 and 508 s.v. Niph.2 and compare usage in Ezek 13:9 and Ps 69:28 (69:29 HT).

[17:13]  ³⁷ tn Heb “The fountain of living water.” For an earlier use of this metaphor and the explanation of it see Jer 2:13 and the notes there. There does not appear to be any way to retain this metaphor in the text without explaining it. In the earlier text the context would show that literal water was not involved. Here it might still be assumed that the Lord merely gives life-giving water.

[18:24]  ³⁸ tn Heb “because of them he will die.”

[7:42]  ³⁹ sn The expression and gave them over suggests similarities to the judgment on the nations described by Paul in Rom 1:18-32.

[7:42]  ⁴⁰ tn Or “stars.”

[7:42]  ⁴¹ tn The two terms for sacrifices “semantically reinforce one another and are here combined essentially for emphasis” (L&N 53.20).

[7:42]  ⁴² tn The Greek construction anticipates a negative reply which is indicated in the translation by the ‘tag’ question, “was it?”

[10:26]  ⁴³ tn Grk “is left,” with “for us” implied by the first half of the verse.

[10:27]  ⁴⁴ tn Grk “zeal,” recalling God’s jealous protection of his holiness and honor (cf. Exod 20:5).

[10:27]  ⁴⁵ tn Grk “the enemies.”

[10:38]  ⁴⁶ tn Grk “my soul.”

[10:38]  ⁴⁷ sn A quotation from Hab 2:4.