1 Samuel 26:10

26:10 David went on to say, “As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.

Jeremiah 50:27

50:27 Kill all her soldiers! ¹ 

Let them be slaughtered! ² 

They are doomed, ³  for their day of reckoning ⁴  has come,

the time for them to be punished.”

Ezekiel 21:25

21:25 “‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, ⁵ 

whose day has come, the time of final punishment,

Ezekiel 21:29

21:29 while seeing false visions for you

and reading lying omens for you ⁶  –

to place that sword ⁷  on the necks of the profane wicked, ⁸ 

whose day has come,

the time of final punishment.

Daniel 5:26

5:26 This is the interpretation of the words: ⁹  As for mene ¹⁰  – God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end.

¹ tn Heb “Kill all her young bulls.” Commentators are almost universally agreed that the reference to “young bulls” is figurative here for the princes and warriors (cf. BDB 831 s.v. פַּר 2.f, which compares Isa 34:7 and Ezek 39:18). This is virtually certain because of the reference to the time coming for them to be punished; this would scarcely fit literal bulls. For the verb rendered “kill” here see the translator’s note on v. 21.

² tn Heb “Let them go down to the slaughter.”

³ tn Or “How terrible it will be for them”; Heb “Woe to them.” See the study note on 22:13 and compare the usage in 23:1; 48:1.

⁴ tn The words “of reckoning” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn This probably refers to King Zedekiah.

⁶ tn Heb “in the seeing concerning you falsehood, in divining concerning you a lie.” This probably refers to the attempts of the Ammonites to ward off judgment through prophetic visions and divination.

⁷ tn Heb “you”; the referent (the sword mentioned in v. 28) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ sn The second half of the verse appears to state that the sword of judgment would fall upon the wicked, despite their efforts to prevent it.

⁹ tn Or “word” or “event.” See HALOT 1915 s.v. מִלָּה.

¹⁰ tn The Aramaic term מְנֵא (mÿne’) is a noun referring to a measure of weight. The linkage here to the verb “to number” (Aram. מְנָה, mÿnah) is a case of paronomasia rather than strict etymology. So also with תְּקֵל (tÿqel) and פַרְסִין (farsin). In the latter case there is an obvious wordplay with the name “Persian.”