1 Samuel 18:7

18:7 The women who were playing the music sang,

“Saul has struck down his thousands,

but David his tens of thousands!”

1 Samuel 25:28

25:28 Please forgive the sin of your servant, for the Lord will certainly establish the house of my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord. May no evil be found in you all your days!

1 Samuel 25:2

David Marries Abigail the Widow of Nabal

25:2 There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; ¹  he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Samuel 5:2

5:2 The Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the temple of Dagon, where they positioned it beside Dagon.

Isaiah 49:8

49:8 This is what the Lord says:

“At the time I decide to show my favor, I will respond to you;

in the day of deliverance I will help you;

I will protect you ²  and make you a covenant mediator for people, ³ 

to rebuild ⁴  the land ⁵ 

and to reassign the desolate property.

Hebrews 1:3

1:3 The Son is ⁶  the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, ⁷  and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “great.”

² tn The translation assumes the verb is derived from the root נָצָר (natsar, “protect”). Some prefer to derive it from the root יָצָר (yatsar, “form”).

³ tn Heb “a covenant of people.” A person cannot literally be a covenant; בְּרִית (bÿrit) is probably metonymic here, indicating a covenant mediator. Here עָם (’am, “people”) appears to refer to Israel. See the note at 42:6.

⁴ tn The Hiphil of קוּם (qum, “arise”) is probably used here in the sense of “rebuild.”

⁵ tn The “land” probably stands by metonymy for the ruins within it.

⁶ tn Grk “who being…and sustaining.” Heb 1:1-4 form one skillfully composed sentence in Greek, but it must be broken into shorter segments to correspond to contemporary English usage, which does not allow for sentences of this length and complexity.

⁷ tn Grk “by the word of his power.”

⁸ sn An allusion to Ps 110:1, quoted often in Hebrews.