6:12 and the Lord has sent the people off to a distant place,
and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned. 1
28:25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror 3 to all the kingdoms of the earth.
32:26 “I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. 4
I want to make people forget they ever existed.
32:27 But I fear the reaction 5 of their enemies,
for 6 their adversaries would misunderstand
and say, “Our power is great, 7
and the Lord has not done all this!”’
32:1 Listen, O heavens, and I will speak;
hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments 8 I am giving 9 you today so that you may live, increase in number, 10 and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. 11 8:2 Remember the whole way by which he 12 has brought you these forty years through the desert 13 so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
23:1 A man with crushed 18 or severed genitals 19 may not enter the assembly of the Lord. 20
36:24 “‘I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries; then I will bring you to your land.
1 tn Heb “and great is the abandonment in the midst of the land.”
2 tn Heb “you will be left men (i.e., few) of number.”
3 tc The meaningless MT reading זַעֲוָה (za’avah) is clearly a transposition of the more commonly attested Hebrew noun זְוָעָה (zÿva’ah, “terror”).
4 tc The LXX reads “I said I would scatter them.” This reading is followed by a number of English versions (e.g., KJV, ASV, NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT, CEV).
5 tn Heb “anger.”
6 tn Heb “lest.”
7 tn Heb “Our hand is high.” Cf. NAB “Our own hand won the victory.”
8 tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).
9 tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).
10 tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”
11 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).
12 tn Heb “the
13 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.
14 tn Heb “to the
15 tn The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “an abomination”; cf. NAB) describes persons, things, or practices offensive to ritual or moral order. See M. Grisanti, NIDOTTE 4:314-18; see also the note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.
16 tn Heb “gates.”
17 tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the
18 tn Heb “bruised by crushing,” which many English versions take to refer to crushed testicles (NAB, NRSV, NLT); TEV “who has been castrated.”
19 tn Heb “cut off with respect to the penis”; KJV, ASV “hath his privy member cut off”; English versions vary in their degree of euphemism here; cf. NAB, NRSV, TEV, NLT “penis”; NASB “male organ”; NCV “sex organ”; CEV “private parts”; NIV “emasculated by crushing or cutting.”
20 sn The Hebrew term translated “assembly” (קָהָל, qahal) does not refer here to the nation as such but to the formal services of the tabernacle or temple. Since emasculated or other sexually abnormal persons were commonly associated with pagan temple personnel, the thrust here may be primarily polemical in intent. One should not read into this anything having to do with the mentally and physically handicapped as fit to participate in the life and ministry of the church.
21 tn The verb here should be interpreted as a future perfect; though some of the people have already been exiled (in 605 and 597
22 sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.
23 sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.
24 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
25 tn Grk “by the mouth of the sword” (an idiom for the edge of a sword).
26 sn Here is the predicted judgment against the nation until the time of Gentile rule has passed: Its people will be led away as captives.
27 tn Grk “And Jerusalem.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
28 sn Until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled implies a time when Israel again has a central role in God’s plan.