Deuteronomy 9:18-19

9:18 Then I again fell down before the Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the Lord as to enrage him. 9:19 For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger ¹  that threatened to destroy you. But he ²  listened to me this time as well.

Joshua 7:6-9

7:6 Joshua tore his clothes; ³  he and the leaders ⁴  of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening ⁵  and threw dirt on their heads. ⁶  7:7 Joshua prayed, ⁷  “O, Master, Lord! Why did you bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us? 7:8 If only we had been satisfied to live on the other side of the Jordan! O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated ⁸  before its enemies? 7:9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us ⁹  from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?” ¹⁰ 

Joshua 7:1

Achan Sins and is Punished

7:1 But the Israelites disobeyed the command about the city’s riches. ¹¹  Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, ¹²  son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, stole some of the riches. ¹³  The Lord was furious with the Israelites. ¹⁴ 

Joshua 21:16-17

21:16 Ain, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh, along with the grazing areas of each – a total of nine cities taken from these two tribes. 21:17 From the tribe of Benjamin they assigned ¹⁵  Gibeon, Geba,

Psalms 106:23

106:23 He threatened ¹⁶  to destroy them,

but ¹⁷  Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him ¹⁸ 

and turned back his destructive anger. ¹⁹ 

Psalms 119:120

119:120 My body ²⁰  trembles ²¹  because I fear you; ²² 

I am afraid of your judgments.

¹ tn Heb “the anger and the wrath.” Although many English versions translate as two terms, this construction is a hendiadys which serves to intensify the emotion (cf. NAB, TEV “fierce anger”).

² tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

³ sn Tearing one’s clothes was an outward expression of extreme sorrow (see Gen 37:34; 44:13).

⁴ tn Or “elders.”

⁵ tn Heb “and fell on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel.”

⁶ sn Throwing dirt on one’s head was an outward expression of extreme sorrow (see Lam 2:10; Ezek 27:30).

⁷ tn Heb “said.”

⁸ tn Heb “turned [the] back.”

⁹ tn Heb “and cut off our name.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “What will you do for your great name?”

¹¹ tn Heb “But the sons of Israel were unfaithful with unfaithfulness concerning what was set apart [to the Lord].”

¹² tn 1 Chr 2:6 lists a “Zimri” (but no Zabdi) as one of the five sons of Zerah (cf. also 1 Chr 7:17, 18).

¹³ tn Heb “took from what was set apart [to the Lord].”

¹⁴ tn Heb “the anger of the Lord burned against the sons of Israel.”

¹⁵ tn The words “they assigned” are supplied for clarification (also in vv. 23, 25).

¹⁶ tn Heb “and he said.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “if not,” that is, “[and would have] if [Moses] had not.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “stood in the gap before him.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “to turn back his anger from destroying.”

²⁰ tn Heb “my flesh.”

²¹ tn The Hebrew verb סָמַר (samar, “to tremble”) occurs only here and in Job 4:15.

²² tn Heb “from fear of you.” The pronominal suffix on the noun is an objective genitive.