Genesis 11:31

11:31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 32:10

32:10 I am not worthy of all the faithful love ¹  you have shown ²  your servant. With only my walking stick ³  I crossed the Jordan, ⁴  but now I have become two camps.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob in Aram, Israel in Egypt, and Ephraim in Trouble

12:12 Jacob fled to the country of Aram,

then Israel worked ⁵  to acquire a wife;

he tended sheep to pay for her.

Acts 7:2

7:2 So he replied, ⁶  “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather ⁷  Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

Acts 25:13

Festus Asks King Agrippa for Advice

25:13 After several days had passed, King Agrippa ⁸  and Bernice arrived at Caesarea ⁹  to pay their respects ¹⁰  to Festus. ¹¹ 

¹ tn Heb “the loving deeds and faithfulness” (see 24:27, 49).

² tn Heb “you have done with.”

³ tn Heb “for with my staff.” The Hebrew word מַקֵל (maqel), traditionally translated “staff,” has been rendered as “walking stick” because a “staff” in contemporary English refers typically to the support personnel in an organization.

⁴ tn Heb “this Jordan.”

⁵ tn Heb “served” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “earned a wife.”

⁶ tn Grk “said.”

⁷ tn Or “ancestor”; Grk “father.”

⁸ sn King Agrippa was Herod Agrippa II (a.d. 27-92/93), son of Herod Agrippa I (see Acts 12:1). He ruled over parts of Palestine from a.d. 53 until his death. His sister Bernice was widowed when her second husband, Herod King of Chalcis, died in a.d. 48. From then she lived with her brother. In an attempt to quiet rumors of an incestuous relationship between them, she resolved to marry Polemo of Cilicia, but she soon left him and returned to Herod Agrippa II. Their incestuous relationship became the gossip of Rome according to Josephus (Ant. 20.7.3 [20.145-147]). The visit of Agrippa and Bernice gave Festus the opportunity to get some internal Jewish advice. Herod Agrippa II was a trusted adviser because he was known to be very loyal to Rome (Josephus, J. W. 2.16.4 [2.345-401]).

⁹ sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1.

¹⁰ tn BDAG 144 s.v. ἀσπάζομαι 1.b states, “Of official visits pay one’s respects to…Ac 25:13.”

¹¹ sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.