1 Samuel 10:7

10:7 “When these signs have taken place, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God will be with you. ¹ 

1 Samuel 16:18

16:18 One of his attendants replied, ²  “I have seen a son of Jesse in Bethlehem ³  who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave warrior ⁴  and is articulate ⁵  and handsome, ⁶  for the Lord is with him.”

Genesis 39:2-3

39:2 The Lord was with Joseph. He was successful ⁷  and lived ⁸  in the household of his Egyptian master. 39:3 His master observed that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made everything he was doing successful. ⁹ 

Genesis 39:23

39:23 The warden did not concern himself ¹⁰  with anything that was in Joseph’s ¹¹  care because the Lord was with him and whatever he was doing the Lord was making successful.

Joshua 6:27

6:27 The Lord was with Joshua and he became famous throughout the land. ¹² 

Matthew 1:23

1:23 “Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him ¹³  Emmanuel,” ¹⁴  which means ¹⁵  “God with us.” ¹⁶ 

Matthew 28:20

28:20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, ¹⁷  I am with you ¹⁸  always, to the end of the age.” ¹⁹ 

Acts 18:10

18:10 because I am with you, and no one will assault ²⁰  you to harm ²¹  you, because I have many people in this city.”

¹ sn In light of Saul’s commission to be Israel’s deliverer (see v. 1), it is likely that some type of military action against the Philistines (see v.5) is implied.

² tn Heb “answered and said.”

³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

⁴ tn Heb “mighty man of valor and a man of war.”

⁵ tn Heb “discerning of word.”

⁶ tn Heb “a man of form.”

³ tn Heb “and he was a prosperous man.” This does not mean that Joseph became wealthy, but that he was successful in what he was doing, or making progress in his situation (see 24:21).

⁴ tn Heb “and he was.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew text adds “in his hand,” a phrase not included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Heb “was not looking at anything.”

⁶ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “and the report about him was in all the land.” The Hebrew term אֶרֶץ (’erets, “land”) may also be translated “earth.”

⁷ tn Grk “they will call his name.”

⁸ sn A quotation from Isa 7:14.

⁹ tn Grk “is translated.”

¹⁰ sn An allusion to Isa 8:8, 10 (LXX).

⁸ tn The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has been translated here as “remember” (BDAG 468 s.v. 1.c).

⁹ sn I am with you. Matthew’s Gospel begins with the prophecy that the Savior’s name would be “Emmanuel, that is, ‘God with us,’” (1:23, in which the author has linked Isa 7:14 and 8:8, 10 together) and it ends with Jesus’ promise to be with his disciples forever. The Gospel of Matthew thus forms an inclusio about Jesus in his relationship to his people that suggests his deity.

¹⁰ tc Most mss (A^c Θ Ë¹³ Ï it sy) have ἀμήν (amhn, “amen”) at the end of v. 20. Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, no good reason exists for the omission of the particle in significant and early witnesses such as א A* B D W ˹ 33 al lat sa.

⁹ tn BDAG 384 s.v. ἐπιτίθημι 2 has “to set upon, attack, lay a hand on” here, but “assault” is a contemporary English equivalent very close to the meaning of the original.

¹⁰ tn Or “injure.”