Deuteronomy 8:16

8:16 fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you ¹  and eventually bring good to you.

Proverbs 19:20

19:20 Listen to advice ²  and receive discipline,

that ³  you may become wise ⁴  by the end of your life. ⁵ 

Zechariah 14:7

14:7 It will happen in one day (a day known to the Lord); not in the day or the night, but in the evening there will be light. ⁶ 

Zechariah 14:2

14:2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem ⁷  to wage war; the city will be taken, its houses plundered, and the women raped. Then half of the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be taken away. ⁸ 

Zechariah 2:1

Vision Three: The Surveyor

2:1 (2:5) I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

¹ tn Heb “in order to humble you and in order to test you.” See 8:2.

² sn The advice refers in all probability to the teachings of the sages that will make one wise.

³ tn The proverb is one continuous thought, but the second half of the verse provides the purpose for the imperatives of the first half.

⁴ tn The imperfect tense has the nuance of a final imperfect in a purpose clause, and so is translated “that you may become wise” (cf. NAB, NRSV).

⁵ tn Heb “become wise in your latter end” (cf. KJV, ASV) which could obviously be misunderstood.

⁶ sn In the evening there will be light. The normal pattern is that light breaks through in the morning (Gen 1:3) but in the day of the Lord in judgment it would do so in the evening. In a sense the universe will be “de-created” in order to be “recreated.”

⁷ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁸ tn Heb “not be cut off from the city” (so NRSV); NAB “not be removed.”