2 Kings 6:15

6:15 The prophet’s ¹  attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha, ²  “Oh no, my master! What will we do?”

2 Kings 7:4

7:4 If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation, ³  and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect ⁴  to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, ⁵  we’ll live; if they kill us – well, we were going to die anyway.” ⁶ 

Esther 4:11

4:11 “All the servants of the king and the people of the king’s provinces know that there is only one law applicable ⁷  to any man or woman who comes uninvited to the king in the inner court – that person will be put to death, unless the king extends to him the gold scepter, permitting him to be spared. ⁸  Now I have not been invited to come to the king for some thirty days!”

Esther 4:16

4:16 “Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don’t eat and don’t drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I ⁹  will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. ¹⁰  If I perish, I perish!”

John 12:27

12:27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me ¹¹  from this hour’? ¹²  No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour. ¹³ 

Philippians 1:23

1:23 I feel torn between the two, ¹⁴  because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,

¹ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

² tn Heb “his young servant said to him.”

³ tn Heb “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city and we will die there.”

⁴ tn Heb “fall.”

⁵ tn Heb “keep us alive.”

⁶ tn Heb “we will die.” The paraphrastic translation attempts to bring out the logical force of their reasoning.

⁷ tn Heb “one is his law”; NASB “he (the king NIV) has but one law”

⁸ tn Heb “and he will live”; KJV, ASV “that he may live”; NIV “and spare his life.”

⁹ tn Heb “I and my female attendants.” The translation reverses the order for stylistic reasons.

¹⁰ tn Heb “which is not according to the law” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “contrary to the law.”

¹¹ tn Or “save me.”

¹² tn Or “this occasion.”

¹³ tn Or “this occasion.”

¹⁴ tn Grk “I am hard-pressed between the two.” Cf. L&N 30.18.