Nehemiah 4:16

4:16 From that day forward, half of my men were doing the work and half of them were taking up spears, ¹  shields, bows, and body armor. Now the officers were behind all the people ²  of Judah

Nehemiah 13:21

13:21 But I warned them and said, ³  “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” ⁴  From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath. ⁵ 

Psalms 113:2

113:2 May the Lord’s name be praised

now and forevermore!

Matthew 16:21

First Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection

16:21 From that time on ⁶  Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem ⁷  and suffer ⁸  many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, ⁹  and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

Matthew 22:46

22:46 No one ¹⁰  was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.

¹ tc The MT reads “and spears.” The conjunction should be deleted.

² tn Heb “all the house.”

³ tn The Hebrew text includes the words “to them,” but they have been excluded from the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Heb “I will send a hand on you.”

⁵ sn This statement contains a great deal of restrained humor. The author clearly takes pleasure in the effectiveness of the measures that he had enacted.

⁶ tn Grk “From then.”

⁷ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁸ sn The necessity that the Son of Man suffer is the particular point that needed emphasis since for many 1st century Jews the Messiah was a glorious and powerful figure, not a suffering one.

⁹ tn Or “and scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

¹⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.