Leviticus 21:21

21:21 No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward ¹  to present the Lord’s gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.

Psalms 50:13

50:13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls?

Do I drink the blood of goats? ² 

Ezekiel 16:18-19

16:18 You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them. 16:19 As for my food that I gave you – the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you – you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the sovereign Lord.

Hosea 2:8

Agricultural Fertility Withdrawn from Israel

2:8 Yet ³  until now ⁴  she has refused to acknowledge ⁵  that I ⁶  was the one

who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil;

and that it was I who ⁷  lavished on her the silver and gold –

which they ⁸  used in worshiping Baal! ⁹ 

Zephaniah 2:11

2:11 The Lord will terrify them, ¹⁰ 

for ¹¹  he will weaken ¹²  all the gods of the earth.

All the distant nations will worship the Lord in their own lands. ¹³ 

¹ tn Or “shall approach” (see HALOT 670 s.v. נגשׁ).

² tn The rhetorical questions assume an emphatic negative response, “Of course not!”

³ tn Or “For” (so KJV, NASB); or “But” (so NCV).

⁴ tn The phrase “until now” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.

⁵ tn Heb “she does not know” (so NASB, NCV); or “she does not acknowledge.”

⁶ tn The 1st person common singular independent personal pronoun אָנֹכִי (’anokhi, “I”) is emphatic, since the subject of this verbal clause is already explicit in the verb נָתַתִּי (natatti, Qal perfect 1st person common singular: “I gave”).

⁷ tn The phrase “that it was I who” does not appear in the Hebrew text here, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.

⁸ sn The third person plural here is an obvious reference to the Israelites who had been unfaithful to the Lord in spite of all that he had done for them. To maintain the imagery of Israel as the prostitute, a third person feminine singular would be called for; in the interest of literary consistency this has been supplied in some English translations (e.g., NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

⁹ tn Heb “for Baal” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); cf. TEV “in the worship of Baal.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “will be awesome over [or, “against”] them.”

¹¹ tn Or “certainly.”

¹² tn The meaning of this rare Hebrew word is unclear. If the meaning is indeed “weaken,” then this line may be referring to the reduction of these gods’ territory through conquest (see Adele Berlin, Zephaniah [AB 25A], 110-11). Cf. NEB “reduce to beggary”; NASB “starve”; NIV “when he destroys”; NRSV “shrivel.”

¹³ tn Heb “and all the coastlands of the nations will worship [or, “bow down”] to him, each from his own place.”