1 Samuel 12:14-15

12:14 If you fear the Lord, serving him and obeying him ¹  and not rebelling against what he says, ²  and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the Lord your God, all will be well. ³  12:15 But if you don’t obey ⁴  the Lord and rebel against what the Lord says, the hand of the Lord will be against both you and your king. ⁵ 

Numbers 14:9

14:9 Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. ⁶  Their protection ⁷  has turned aside from them, but the Lord is with us. Do not fear them!”

Deuteronomy 9:7

The History of Israel’s Stubbornness

9:7 Remember – don’t ever forget ⁸  – how you provoked the Lord your God in the desert; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him. ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 9:24

9:24 You have been rebelling against him ¹⁰  from the very first day I knew you!

Joshua 22:16-19

22:16 “The entire community of the Lord says, ‘Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the Lord? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the Lord. ¹¹  22:17 The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord. ¹²  22:18 Now today you dare to turn back ¹³  from following the Lord! You are rebelling today against the Lord; tomorrow he may break out in anger against ¹⁴  the entire community of Israel. 22:19 But if your own land ¹⁵  is impure, ¹⁶  cross over to the Lord’s own land, ¹⁷  where the Lord himself lives, ¹⁸  and settle down among us. ¹⁹  But don’t rebel against the Lord or us ²⁰  by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God.

Job 34:37

34:37 For he adds transgression ²¹  to his sin;

in our midst he claps his hands, ²² 

and multiplies his words against God.”

Psalms 107:11

107:11 because they had rebelled against God’s commands, ²³ 

and rejected the instructions of the sovereign king. ²⁴ 

Jeremiah 28:16

28:16 So the Lord says, ‘I will most assuredly remove ²⁵  you from the face of the earth. You will die this very year because you have counseled rebellion against the Lord.’” ²⁶ 

Jeremiah 29:32

29:32 Because he has done this,” ²⁷  the Lord says, “I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his whole family. There will not be any of them left to experience the good things that I will do for my people. I, the Lord, affirm it! For he counseled rebellion against the Lord.”’” ²⁸ 

Ezekiel 2:5-8

2:5 And as for them, ²⁹  whether they listen ³⁰  or not – for they are a rebellious ³¹  house ³²  – they will know that a prophet has been among them. 2:6 But you, son of man, do not fear them, and do not fear their words – even though briers ³³  and thorns ³⁴  surround you and you live among scorpions – do not fear their words and do not be terrified of the looks they give you, ³⁵  for they are a rebellious house! 2:7 You must speak my words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious. 2:8 As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”

[12:14]  ¹ tn Heb “and you listen to his voice.”

[12:14]  ² tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.” So also in v. 15.

[12:14]  ³ tn The words “all will be well” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[12:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”

[12:15]  ⁵ tc The LXX reads “your king” rather than the MT’s “your fathers.” The latter makes little sense here. Some follow MT, but translate “as it was against your fathers.” See P. K. McCarter, 1 Samuel (AB), 212.

[14:9]  ⁶ sn The expression must indicate that they could destroy the enemies as easily as they could eat bread.

[14:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “their shade.” The figure compares the shade from the sun with the protection from the enemy. It is also possible that the text is alluding to their deities here.

[9:7]  ⁸ tn By juxtaposing the positive זְכֹר (zekhor, “remember”) with the negative אַל־תִּשְׁכַּח (’al-tishÿkakh, “do not forget”), Moses makes a most emphatic plea.

[9:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “the Lord” (likewise in the following verse with both “him” and “he”). See note on “he” in 9:3.

[9:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

[22:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “What is this unfaithfulness with which you have been unfaithful against the God of Israel, turning today from after the Lord, when you built for yourselves an altar, rebelling today against the Lord?”

[22:17]  ¹² tn Heb “Was the sin of Peor too insignificant for us, from which we have not made purification to this day? And there was a plague in the assembly of the Lord.”

[22:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “you are turning back.”

[22:18]  ¹⁴ tn Or “he will be angry with.”

[22:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

[22:19]  ¹⁶ sn The western tribes here imagine a possible motive for the action of the eastern tribes. T. C. Butler explains the significance of the land’s “impurity”: “East Jordan is impure because it is not Yahweh’s possession. Rather it is simply ‘your possession.’ That means it is land where Yahweh does not live, land which his presence has not sanctified and purified” (Joshua [WBC], 247).

[22:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the land of the possession of the Lord.”

[22:19]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “where the dwelling place of the Lord resides.”

[22:19]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and take for yourselves in our midst.”

[22:19]  ²⁰ tc Heb “and us to you rebel.” The reading of the MT, the accusative sign with suffix (וְאֹתָנוּ, vÿ’otanu), is problematic with the verb “rebel” (מָרַד, marad). Many Hebrew mss correctly read the negative particle אַל (’al) for the preposition אֶל (’el, “to”).

[34:37]  ²¹ tn Although frequently translated “rebellion,” the basic meaning of this Hebrew term is “transgression.”

[34:37]  ²² tc If this reading stands, it would mean that Job shows contempt, meaning that he mocks them and accuses God. It is a bold touch, but workable. Of the many suggested emendations, Dhorme alters some of the vowels and obtains a reading “and casts doubt among us,” and then takes “transgression” from the first colon for the complement. Some commentators simply delete the line.

[107:11]  ²³ tn Heb “the words of God.”

[107:11]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the counsel of the Most High.”

[28:16]  ²⁵ sn There is a play on words here in Hebrew between “did not send you” and “will…remove you.” The two verbs are from the same root word in Hebrew. The first is the simple active and the second is the intensive.

[28:16]  ²⁶ sn In giving people false assurances of restoration when the Lord had already told them to submit to Babylon, Hananiah was really counseling rebellion against the Lord. What Hananiah had done was contrary to the law of Deut 13:6 and was punishable by death.

[29:32]  ²⁷ tn Heb “Therefore.”

[29:32]  ²⁸ sn Compare the same charge against Hananiah in Jer 28:16 and see the note there. In this case, the false prophesy of Shemaiah is not given but it likely had the same tenor since he wants Jeremiah reprimanded for saying that the exile will be long and the people are to settle down in Babylon.

[2:5]  ²⁹ tn Heb “they”; the phrase “And as for them” has been used in the translation for clarity.

[2:5]  ³⁰ tn The Hebrew word implies obedience rather than mere hearing or paying attention.

[2:5]  ³¹ tn This Hebrew adjective is also used to describe the Israelites in Num 17:25 and Isa 30:9.

[2:5]  ³² sn The book of Ezekiel frequently refers to the Israelites as a rebellious house (Ezek 2:5, 6, 8; 3:9, 26-27; 12:2-3, 9, 25; 17:12; 24:3).

[2:6]  ³³ tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.

[2:6]  ³⁴ tn The Hebrew term is found elsewhere in the OT only in Ezek 28:24.

[2:6]  ³⁵ tn Heb “of their faces.”