1 Kings 1:9

1:9 Adonijah sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fattened steers at the Stone of Zoheleth near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, ¹  as well as all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.

Isaiah 22:12-13

22:12 At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning,

for shaved heads and sackcloth. ² 

22:13 But look, there is outright celebration! ³ 

You say, “Kill the ox and slaughter the sheep,

eat meat and drink wine.

Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” ⁴ 

Luke 17:27-29

17:27 People ⁵  were eating, ⁶  they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then ⁷  the flood came and destroyed them all. ⁸  17:28 Likewise, just as it was ⁹  in the days of Lot, people ¹⁰  were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; 17:29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. ¹¹ 

¹ tc The ancient Greek version omits this appositional phrase.

² tn Heb “for baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.” See the note at 15:2.

³ tn Heb “happiness and joy.”

⁴ tn The prophet here quotes what the fatalistic people are saying. The introductory “you say” is supplied in the translation for clarification; the concluding verb “we die” makes it clear the people are speaking. The six verbs translated as imperatives are actually infinitives absolute, functioning here as finite verbs.

⁵ tn Grk “They.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

⁶ tn These verbs (“eating… drinking… marrying… being given in marriage”) are all progressive imperfects, describing action in progress at that time.

⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁸ sn Like that flood came and destroyed them all, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.

⁹ tn Or “as it happened.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “they.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

¹¹ sn And destroyed them all. The coming of the Son of Man will be like the judgment on Sodom, one of the most immoral places of the OT (Gen 19:16-17; Deut 32:32-33; Isa 1:10).