Joshua 6:21

6:21 They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, ¹  including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

Joshua 10:28

Joshua Launches a Southern Campaign

10:28 That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho. ² 

Joshua 11:11-12

11:11 They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword ³  – no one who breathed remained – and burned ⁴  Hazor.

11:12 Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, ⁵  as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded.

Deuteronomy 7:2

7:2 and he ⁶  delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate ⁷  them. Make no treaty ⁸  with them and show them no mercy!

Job 20:5

20:5 that the elation of the wicked is brief, ⁹ 

the joy of the godless ¹⁰  lasts but a moment. ¹¹ 

Luke 17:26-30

17:26 Just ¹²  as it was ¹³  in the days of Noah, ¹⁴  so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. 17:27 People ¹⁵  were eating, ¹⁶  they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then ¹⁷  the flood came and destroyed them all. ¹⁸  17:28 Likewise, just as it was ¹⁹  in the days of Lot, people ²⁰  were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; 17:29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. ²¹  17:30 It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

Luke 17:1

Sin, Forgiveness, Faith, and Service

17:1 Jesus ²²  said to his disciples, “Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe ²³  to the one through whom they come!

Luke 5:3

5:3 He got into ²⁴  one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then ²⁵  Jesus ²⁶  sat down ²⁷  and taught the crowds from the boat.

¹ tn Heb “all which was in the city.”

² map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

³ tn Heb “and they struck down all life which was in it with the edge of the sword, annihilating.”

⁴ tn Heb “burned with fire”; the words “with fire” are redundant in English and have not been included in the translation.

⁵ tn Heb “and he struck them down with the edge of the sword, he annihilated them.”

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

⁷ tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive absolute before the finite verb emphasizes the statement. The imperfect has an obligatory nuance here. Cf. ASV “shalt (must NRSV) utterly destroy them”; CEV “must destroy them without mercy.”

⁸ tn Heb “covenant” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “alliance.”

⁹ tn The expression in the text is “quite near.” This indicates that it is easily attained, and that its end is near.

¹⁰ tn For the discussion of חָנֵף (khanef, “godless”) see Job 8:13.

¹¹ tn The phrase is “until a moment,” meaning it is short-lived. But see J. Barr, “Hebrew ’ad, especially at Job 1:18 and Neh 7:3,” JSS 27 (1982): 177-88.

¹² tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

¹³ tn Or “as it happened.”

¹⁴ sn Like the days of Noah, the time of the flood in Gen 6:5-8:22, the judgment will come as a surprise as people live their day to day lives.

¹⁵ tn Grk “They.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

¹⁶ tn These verbs (“eating… drinking… marrying… being given in marriage”) are all progressive imperfects, describing action in progress at that time.

¹⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

¹⁸ sn Like that flood came and destroyed them all, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.

¹⁹ tn Or “as it happened.”

²⁰ tn Grk “they.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

²¹ sn And destroyed them all. The coming of the Son of Man will be like the judgment on Sodom, one of the most immoral places of the OT (Gen 19:16-17; Deut 32:32-33; Isa 1:10).

²² tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

²³ sn See Luke 6:24-26.

²⁴ tn Grk “Getting into”; the participle ἐμβάς (embas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

²⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

²⁶ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁷ tn Grk “sitting down”; the participle καθίσας (kaqisa") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.