Psalms 68:17

68:17 God has countless chariots;

they number in the thousands. ¹ 

The Lord comes from Sinai in holy splendor. ² 

Psalms 104:4

104:4 He makes the winds his messengers,

and the flaming fire his attendant. ³ 

Nehemiah 9:6

9:6 You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, ⁴  along with all their multitude of stars, ⁵  the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You impart life to them all, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

Daniel 7:9-10

7:9 “While I was watching,

thrones were set up,

and the Ancient of Days ⁶  took his seat.

His attire was white like snow;

the hair of his head was like lamb’s ⁷  wool.

His throne was ablaze with fire

and its wheels were all aflame. ⁸ 

7:10 A river of fire was streaming forth

and proceeding from his presence.

Many thousands were ministering to him;

Many tens of thousands stood ready to serve him. ⁹ 

The court convened ¹⁰ 

and the books were opened.

Matthew 13:41

13:41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers. ¹¹ 

Matthew 24:30-31

24:30 Then ¹²  the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, ¹³  and ¹⁴  all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They ¹⁵  will see the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven ¹⁶  with power and great glory. 24:31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven ¹⁷  to the other.

Matthew 24:2

24:2 And he said to them, ¹⁸  “Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, ¹⁹  not one stone will be left on another. ²⁰  All will be torn down!” ²¹ 

Matthew 1:7-8

1:7 Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asa, ²²  1:8 Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Uzziah,

Hebrews 1:6-7

1:6 But when he again brings ²³  his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him!” ²⁴  1:7 And he says ²⁵  of the angels, “He makes ²⁶  his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,” ²⁷ 

Hebrews 1:14

1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to serve those ²⁸  who will inherit salvation?

Revelation 22:8-9

22:8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things, ²⁹  and when I heard and saw them, ³⁰  I threw myself down ³¹  to worship at the feet of the angel who was showing them to me. 22:9 But ³²  he said to me, “Do not do this! ³³  I am a fellow servant ³⁴  with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who obey ³⁵  the words of this book. Worship God!”

[68:17]  ¹ tn Heb “thousands of [?].” The meaning of the word שִׁנְאָן (shin’an), which occurs only here in the OT, is uncertain. Perhaps the form should be emended to שַׁאֲנָן (sha’anan, “at ease”) and be translated here “held in reserve.”

[68:17]  ² tc The MT reads, “the Lord [is] among them, Sinai, in holiness,” which is syntactically difficult. The present translation assumes an emendation to אֲדֹנָי בָּא מִסִּינַי (’adonay ba’ missinay; see BHS note b-b and Deut 33:2).

[104:4]  ³ tc Heb “and his attendants a flaming fire.” The lack of agreement between the singular “fire” and plural “attendants” has prompted various emendations. Some read “fire and flame.” The present translation assumes an emendation to “his attendant” (יו in the Hebrew text being virtually dittographic).

[9:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “the heavens of the heavens.”

[9:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “all their host.”

[7:9]  ⁶ tn Or “the Ancient One” (NAB, NRSV, NLT), although the traditional expression has been retained in the present translation because it is familiar to many readers. Cf. TEV “One who had been living for ever”; CEV “the Eternal God.”

[7:9]  ⁷ tn Traditionally the Aramaic word נְקֵא (nÿqe’) has been rendered “pure,” but here it more likely means “of a lamb.” Cf. the Syriac neqya’ (“a sheep, ewe”). On this word see further, M. Sokoloff, “’amar neqe’, ‘Lamb’s Wool’ (Dan 7:9),” JBL 95 (1976): 277-79.

[7:9]  ⁸ tn Aram “a flaming fire.”

[7:10]  ⁹ tn Aram “were standing before him.”

[7:10]  ¹⁰ tn Aram “judgment sat.”

[13:41]  ¹¹ tn Grk “the ones who practice lawlessness.”

[24:30]  ¹² tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[24:30]  ¹³ tn Or “in the sky”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context.

[24:30]  ¹⁴ tn Here τότε (tote, “then”) has not been translated to avoid redundancy in English.

[24:30]  ¹⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[24:30]  ¹⁶ sn An allusion to Dan 7:13. Here is Jesus returning with full authority to judge.

[24:31]  ¹⁷ tn Or “of the sky”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context.

[24:2]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “answering, he said to them.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (ajpokriqei") is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[24:2]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[24:2]  ²⁰ sn With the statement not one stone will be left on another Jesus predicted the total destruction of the temple, something that did occur in a.d. 70.

[24:2]  ²¹ tn Grk “not one stone will be left here on another which will not be thrown down.”

[1:7]  ²² tc The reading ᾿Ασάφ (Asaf), a variant spelling on ᾿Ασά (Asa), is found in the earliest and most widespread witnesses (Ì^1vid א B C [D^luc] Ë^1,13 700 pc it co). Although Asaph was a psalmist and Asa was a king, it is doubtful that the author mistook one for the other since other ancient documents have variant spellings on the king’s name (such as “Asab,” “Asanos,” and “Asaph”). Thus the spelling ᾿Ασάφ that is almost surely found in the original of Matt 1:7-8 has been translated as “Asa” in keeping with the more common spelling of the king’s name.

[1:6]  ²³ tn Or “And again when he brings.” The translation adopted in the text looks forward to Christ’s second coming to earth. Some take “again” to introduce the quotation (as in 1:5) and understand this as Christ’s first coming, but this view does not fit well with Heb 2:7. Others understand it as his exaltation/ascension to heaven, but this takes the phrase “into the world” in an unlikely way.

[1:6]  ²⁴ sn A quotation combining themes from Deut 32:43 and Ps 97:7.

[1:7]  ²⁵ sn The Greek correlative conjunctions μέν and δέ (men and de) emphasize the contrastive parallelism of vs. 7 (what God says about the angels) over against vv. 8-9 and vv. 10-12 (what God says about the son).

[1:7]  ²⁶ tn Grk “He who makes.”

[1:7]  ²⁷ sn A quotation from Ps 104:4.

[1:14]  ²⁸ tn Grk “sent for service for the sake of those.”

[22:8]  ²⁹ tn Or “I am John, the one who heard and saw these things.”

[22:8]  ³⁰ tn The pronoun “them” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[22:8]  ³¹ tn Grk “I fell down and worshiped at the feet.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion or humility, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”

[22:9]  ³² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present here.

[22:9]  ³³ tn On the elliptical expression ὅρα μή ({ora mh) BDAG 720 s.v. ὁράω B.2 states: “Elliptically…ὅρα μή (sc. ποιήσῃς) watch out! don’t do that! Rv 19:10; 22:9.”

[22:9]  ³⁴ tn Grk “fellow slave.” Though σύνδουλος (sundoulos) is here translated “fellow servant,” the word does not bear the connotation of a free individual serving another. See the note on the word “servants” in 1:1.

[22:9]  ³⁵ tn Grk “keep” (an idiom for obedience).