Genesis 19:28

19:28 He looked out toward ¹  Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. ²  As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace. ³ 

Daniel 3:20-22

3:20 He ordered strong ⁴  soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and to throw them into the furnace of blazing fire. 3:21 So those men were tied up while still wearing their cloaks, trousers, turbans, and other clothes, ⁵  and were thrown into the furnace ⁶  of blazing fire. 3:22 But since the king’s command was so urgent, and the furnace was so excessively hot, the men who escorted ⁷  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were killed ⁸  by the leaping flames. ⁹ 

Malachi 4:1

4:1 (3:19) ¹⁰  “For indeed the day ¹¹  is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the Lord who rules over all. “It ¹²  will not leave even a root or branch.

Matthew 13:42

13:42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, ¹³  where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13:50

13:50 and throw them into the fiery furnace, ¹⁴  where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:41

25:41 “Then he will say ¹⁵  to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

Matthew 25:46

25:46 And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Matthew 25:2

25:2 Five ¹⁶  of the virgins ¹⁷  were foolish, and five were wise.

Matthew 1:8

1:8 Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Uzziah,

Revelation 20:14

20:14 Then ¹⁸  Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death – the lake of fire.

¹ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

² tn Or “all the land of the plain”; Heb “and all the face of the land of the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.

³ tn Heb “And he saw, and look, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.”

⁴ tn This is sometimes taken as a comparative: “[some of the] strongest.”

⁵ sn There is a great deal of uncertainty with regard to the specific nature of these items of clothing.

⁶ tn Aram “into the midst of the furnace.” For stylistic reasons the words “the midst of” have been left untranslated.

⁷ tn Aram “caused to go up.”

⁸ tn The Aramaic verb is active.

⁹ tn Aram “the flame of the fire” (so KJV, ASV, NASB); NRSV “the raging flames.”

¹⁰ sn Beginning with 4:1, the verse numbers through 4:6 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:1 ET = 3:19 HT, 4:2 ET = 3:20 HT, etc., through 4:6 ET = 3:24 HT. Thus the book of Malachi in the Hebrew Bible has only three chapters, with 24 verses in ch. 3.

¹¹ sn This day is the well-known “day of the Lord” so pervasive in OT eschatological texts (see Joel 2:30-31; Amos 5:18; Obad 15). For the believer it is a day of grace and salvation; for the sinner, a day of judgment and destruction.

¹² tn Heb “so that it” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons a new sentence was begun here in the translation.

¹³ sn A quotation from Dan 3:6.

¹⁴ sn An allusion to Dan 3:6.

¹⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

¹⁶ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

¹⁷ tn Grk “Five of them.”

¹⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.