Joshua 11:21-22

11:21 At that time Joshua attacked and eliminated the Anakites from the hill country ¹  – from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the hill country of Judah and Israel. ²  Joshua annihilated them and their cities. 11:22 No Anakites were left in Israelite territory, though some remained in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.

Joshua 11:2

11:2 and the northern kings who ruled in ³  the hill country, the Arabah south of Kinnereth, ⁴  the lowlands, and the heights of Dor to the west.

Joshua 23:16

23:16 If you violate the covenantal laws of the Lord your God which he commanded you to keep, ⁵  and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, ⁶  the Lord will be very angry with you and you will disappear ⁷  quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”

Job 18:16

18:16 Below his roots dry up,

and his branches wither above.

Isaiah 5:24

5:24 Therefore, as flaming fire ⁸  devours straw,

and dry grass disintegrates in the flames,

so their root will rot,

and their flower will blow away like dust. ⁹ 

For they have rejected the law of the Lord who commands armies,

they have spurned the commands ¹⁰  of the Holy One of Israel. ¹¹ 

Malachi 4:1

4:1 (3:19) ¹²  “For indeed the day ¹³  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 ¹⁴  will not leave even a root or branch.

¹ tn Heb “went and cut off the Anakites from the hill country.”

² tn Heb “and from all the hill country of Israel.”

³ tn Heb “and to the kings who [are] from the north in.”

⁴ tn Heb “Chinneroth,” a city and plain located in the territory of Naphtali in Galilee (BDB 490 s.v. כִּנֶּרֶת, כִּנֲרוֹת).

⁵ tn Heb “when you violate the covenant of the Lord your God which he commanded you.”

⁶ tn Heb “and you walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

⁷ tn Or “perish.”

⁸ tn Heb “a tongue of fire” (so NASB), referring to a tongue-shaped flame.

⁹ sn They are compared to a flowering plant that withers quickly in a hot, arid climate.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the word.”

¹¹ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

¹² 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.

¹³ 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.

¹⁴ tn Heb “so that it” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons a new sentence was begun here in the translation.