Deuteronomy 31:20

31:20 For after I have brought them ¹  to the land I promised to their ²  ancestors – one flowing with milk and honey – and they ³  eat their fill ⁴  and become fat, then they ⁵  will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.

Esther 9:4

9:4 Mordecai was of high rank ⁶  in the king’s palace, and word about him was spreading throughout all the provinces. His influence ⁷  continued to become greater and greater.

Jeremiah 5:27

5:27 Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, ⁸ 

their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. ⁹ 

That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 16:7

16:7 I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare.

¹ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

² tn Heb “his.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “their.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

³ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

⁴ tn Heb “and are satisfied.”

⁵ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

⁶ tn Heb “great”; NRSV “powerful”; NIV “prominent”; NCV “very important.”

⁷ tn Heb “the man Mordecai” (so NASB, NRSV).

⁸ tn The words, “that have been caught” are not in the text but are implicit in the comparison.

⁹ tn Heb “are filled with deceit.” The translation assumes a figure of speech of cause for effect (metonymy). Compare the same word in the same figure in Zeph 1:9.

¹⁰ tn Heb “therefore they have gotten great and rich.”