2 Chronicles 15:12-13

15:12 They solemnly agreed ¹  to seek the Lord God of their ancestors ²  with their whole heart and being. 15:13 Anyone who would not seek the Lord God of Israel would be executed, whether they were young or old, ³  male or female.

2 Chronicles 18:30

18:30 Now the king of Syria had ordered his chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high ranking officers; ⁴  fight only the king of Israel!”

Deuteronomy 1:17

1:17 They ⁵  must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly ⁶  and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing.

Job 3:19

3:19 Small and great are ⁷  there,

and the slave is free ⁸  from his master. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “entered into a covenant.”

² tn Heb “fathers.”

³ tn Heb “whether small or great.”

⁴ tn Heb “small or great.”

⁵ tn Heb “you,” and throughout the verse (cf. NASB, NRSV).

⁶ tn Heb “the small,” but referring to social status, not physical stature.

⁷ tn The versions have taken the pronoun in the sense of the verb “to be.” Others give it the sense of “the same thing,” rendering the verse as “small and great, there is no difference there.” GKC 437 §135.a, n. 1, follows this idea with a meaning of “the same.”

⁸ tn The LXX renders this as “unafraid,” although the negative has disappeared in some mss to give the reading “and the servant that feared his master.” See I. Mendelsohn, “The Canaanite Term for ‘Free Proletarian’,” BASOR 83 (1941): 36-39; idem, “New Light on hupsu,” BASOR 139 (1955): 9-11.

⁹ tn The plural “masters” could be taken here as a plural of majesty rather than as referring to numerous masters.