Leviticus 26:7-8

26:7 You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword. ¹  26:8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

Joshua 10:19-20

10:19 But don’t you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them! ²  Don’t allow them to retreat to ³  their cities, for the Lord your God is handing them over to you.” ⁴  10:20 Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities. ⁵ 

Joshua 11:8

11:8 The Lord handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, ⁶  Misrephoth Maim, ⁷  and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.

Psalms 104:35

104:35 May sinners disappear ⁸  from the earth,

and the wicked vanish!

Praise the Lord, O my soul!

Praise the Lord!

Romans 2:12

2:12 For all who have sinned apart from the law ⁹  will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

James 2:13

2:13 For judgment is merciless for the one who has shown no mercy. But mercy triumphs over ¹⁰  judgment.

¹ tn Heb “to the sword.”

² tn Heb “But [as for] you, don’t stand still, chase after your enemies and attack them from the rear.”

³ tn Or “enter into.”

⁴ tn Heb “has given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.

⁵ tn Heb “When Joshua and the sons of Israel finished defeating them with a very great defeat until they were destroyed (now the survivors escaped to the fortified cities).” In the Hebrew text the initial temporal clause (“when Joshua…finished”) is subordinated to v. 21 (“the whole army returned”).

⁶ map For location see Map1-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

⁷ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

⁸ tn Or “be destroyed.”

⁹ sn This is the first occurrence of law (nomos) in Romans. Exactly what Paul means by the term has been the subject of much scholarly debate. According to J. A. Fitzmyer (Romans [AB], 131-35; 305-6) there are at least four different senses: (1) figurative, as a “principle”; (2) generic, meaning “a law”; (3) as a reference to the OT or some part of the OT; and (4) as a reference to the Mosaic law. This last usage constitutes the majority of Paul’s references to “law” in Romans.

¹⁰ tn Grk “boasts against, exults over,” in victory.