2 Kings 7:7-8

7:7 So they got up and fled at dusk, leaving behind their tents, horses, and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives. 7:8 When the men with a skin disease reached the edge of the camp, they entered a tent and had a meal.¹ They also took some silver, gold, and clothes and went and hid it all.² Then they went back and entered another tent. They looted it³ and went and hid what they had taken.

2 Kings 7:15

7:15 So they tracked them⁴ as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste.⁵ The scouts⁶ went back and told the king.

Isaiah 2:20

2:20 At that time⁷ men will throw

their silver and gold idols,

which they made for themselves to worship,⁸

into the caves where rodents and bats live,⁹

Isaiah 31:7

31:7 For at that time¹⁰ everyone will get rid of¹¹ the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.¹²

Zephaniah 1:18

1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them

in the day of the Lord’s angry judgment.

The whole earth¹³ will be consumed by his fiery wrath.¹⁴

Indeed,¹⁵ he will bring terrifying destruction¹⁶ on all who live on the earth.”¹⁷

Matthew 16:26

16:26 For what does it benefit a person¹⁸ if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

¹tn Heb “they ate and drank.”

²tn Heb “and they hid [it].”

³tn Heb “and they took from there.”

⁴tn Heb “went after.”

⁵tn Heb “and look, all the road was full of clothes and equipment that Syria had thrown away in their haste.”

⁶tn Or “messengers.”

⁷tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

⁸tn Or “bow down to.”

⁹tn Heb “to the shrews and to the bats.” On the meaning of חֲפַרְפָּרָה (khafarparah, “shrew”), see HALOT 341 s.v. חֲפַרְפָּרָה. The BHS text as it stands (לַחְפֹּר פֵּרוֹת, perot lakhpor), makes no sense. Based on Theodotion’s transliteration and a similar reading in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a, most scholars suggest that the MT mistakenly divided a noun (a hapax legomenon) that should be translated “moles,” “shrews,” or “rodents.”

¹⁰tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

¹¹tn Heb “reject” (so NIV); NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT “throw away.”

¹²tn Heb “the idols of their idols of silver and their idols of gold which your hands made for yourselves [in] sin.” חָטָא (khata’, “sin”) is understood as an adverbial accusative of manner. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:573, n. 4.

¹³tn Or “land” (cf. NEB). This same word also occurs at the end of the present verse.

¹⁴tn Or “passion”; traditionally, “jealousy.”

¹⁵tn Or “for.”

¹⁶tn Heb “complete destruction, even terror, he will make.”

¹⁷tn It is not certain where the Lord’s words end and the prophet’s words begin. It is possible that Zephaniah begins speaking in the middle of v. 17 or at the beginning of v. 18 (note the third person pronouns referring to the Lord).

¹⁸tn Grk “a man,” but ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used in a generic sense here to refer to both men and women.