1 Kings 13:24

13:24 As the prophet from Judah was traveling, a lion attacked him on the road and killed him. ¹  His corpse was lying on the road, and the donkey and the lion just stood there beside it. ² 

1 Kings 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ³  against the altar in Bethel ⁴  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ⁵  will certainly be fulfilled.”

Deuteronomy 24:15

24:15 You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Ezekiel 16:25

16:25 At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced ⁶  your beauty when you spread ⁷  your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

Hosea 12:11

12:11 Is there idolatry ⁸  in Gilead? ⁹ 

Certainly its inhabitants ¹⁰  will come to nothing! ¹¹ 

Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal?

Surely their altars will be like stones heaped up on a plowed field!

¹ tn Heb “and he went and a lion met him in the road and killed him.”

² tn Heb “and his corpse fell on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it, and the lion was standing beside the corpse.”

³ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

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⁵ tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.

⁶ tn Heb “treated as if abominable,” i.e., repudiated.

⁷ tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew root is found in Prov 13:3 in reference to the talkative person who habitually “opens wide” his lips.

⁸ tn The noun אָוֶן (’aven) has a broad range of meanings which includes: (1) “wickedness, sin, injustice” (2) “deception, nothingness,” and (3) “idolatry, idolatrous cult” (HALOT 22 s.v. אָוֶן; BDB 19 s.v. אָוֶן). While any of these meanings would fit the present context, the second-half of the verse refers to cultic sins, suggesting that Hosea is denouncing Gilead for its idolatry. Cf. NLT “Gilead is filled with sinners who worship idols.”

⁹ tn The introductory deictic particle אִם (’im) functions as an interrogative and introduces an interrogative clause: “Is there…?” (see HALOT 60 s.v. אִם 5; BDB 50 s.v. אִם 2). The LXX assumed that אִם was being used in its more common function as a conditional particle: “If there….”

¹⁰ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the inhabitants of Gilead) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn The noun שָׁוְא (shav’, “emptiness, nothing”), which describes the imminent judgment of the people of Gilead, creates a wordplay in Hebrew with the noun אָוֶן (’aven, “nothingness” = idolatry). Because Gilead worshiped “nothingness” (idols), it would become “nothing” (i.e., be destroyed).