1 Chronicles 22:16

22:16 in using gold, silver, bronze, and iron. ¹  Get up and begin the work! May the Lord be with you!”

Isaiah 60:1

Zion’s Future Splendor

60:1 “Arise! Shine! For your light arrives!

The splendor ²  of the Lord shines on you!

Acts 22:16

22:16 And now what are you waiting for? ³  Get up, ⁴  be baptized, and have your sins washed away, ⁵  calling on his name.’ ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “and every kind of skilled one in all work, concerning gold, concerning silver, and concerning bronze, and concerning iron, there is no numbering.”

² tn Or “glory” (so most English versions).

³ tn L&N 67.121 has “to extend time unduly, with the implication of lack of decision – ‘to wait, to delay.’ νῦν τί μέλλεις… ἀναστὰς βάπτισαι ‘what are you waiting for? Get up and be baptized’ Ac 22:16.”

⁴ tn Grk “getting up.” The participle ἀναστάς (anasta") is an adverbial participle of attendant circumstance and has been translated as a finite verb.

⁵ sn The expression have your sins washed away means “have your sins purified” (the washing is figurative).

⁶ sn The expression calling on his name describes the confession of the believer: Acts 2:17-38, esp. v. 38; Rom 10:12-13; 1 Cor 1:2.