Genesis 32:6

32:6 The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.”

Exodus 32:13

32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, ‘I will multiply your descendants ¹  like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about ²  I will give to your descendants, ³  and they will inherit it forever.’”

Numbers 23:19

23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie,

nor a human being, ⁴  that he should change his mind.

Has he said, and will he not do it?

Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen? ⁵ 

Numbers 23:1

Balaam Blesses Israel

23:1 ⁶ Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”

Numbers 15:29

15:29 You must have one law for the person who sins unintentionally, both for the native-born among the Israelites and for the resident foreigner who lives among them.

Matthew 24:35

24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. ⁷ 

Matthew 24:2

24:2 And he said to them, ⁸  “Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, ⁹  not one stone will be left on another. ¹⁰  All will be torn down!” ¹¹ 

Matthew 2:13

The Escape to Egypt

2:13 After they had gone, an ¹²  angel of the Lord ¹³  appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod ¹⁴  is going to look for the child to kill him.”

Titus 1:2

1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the ages began. ¹⁵ 

Hebrews 6:17

6:17 In the same way ¹⁶  God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, ¹⁷  and so he intervened with an oath,

¹ tn Heb “your seed.”

² tn “about” has been supplied.

³ tn Heb “seed.”

⁴ tn Heb “son of man.”

⁵ tn The verb is the Hiphil of קוּם (qum, “to cause to rise; to make stand”). The meaning here is more of the sense of fulfilling the promises made.

⁶ sn The first part of Balaam’s activity ends in disaster for Balak – he blesses Israel. The chapter falls into four units: the first prophecy (vv. 1-10), the relocation (vv. 11-17), the second prophecy (vv. 18-24), and a further location (vv. 25-30).

⁷ sn The words that Jesus predicts here will never pass away. They are more stable and lasting than creation itself. For this kind of image, see Isa 40:8; 55:10-11.

⁸ tn Grk “answering, he said to them.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (ajpokriqei") is redundant in English and has not been translated.

⁹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

¹⁰ sn With the statement not one stone will be left on another Jesus predicted the total destruction of the temple, something that did occur in a.d. 70.

¹¹ tn Grk “not one stone will be left here on another which will not be thrown down.”

¹² tn Grk “behold, an angel.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).

¹³ tn Or “the angel of the Lord.” See the note on the word “Lord” in 1:20.

¹⁴ sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1. Herod the Great was particularly ruthless regarding the succession to his throne.

¹⁵ tn Grk “before eternal ages.”

¹⁶ tn Grk “in which.”

¹⁷ tn Or “immutable” (here and in v. 18); Grk “the unchangeableness of his purpose.”