1 Samuel 14:6

14:6 Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come on, let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will intervene ¹  for us. Nothing can prevent the Lord from delivering, whether by many or by a few.”

1 Samuel 14:12-13

14:12 Then the men of the garrison said to Jonathan and his armor bearer, “Come on up to us so we can teach you a thing or two!” ²  Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up behind me, for the Lord has given ³  them into the hand of Israel!”

14:13 Jonathan crawled up on his hands and feet, with his armor bearer following behind him. Jonathan struck down the Philistines, ⁴  while his armor bearer came along behind him and killed them. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 17:44-47

17:44 The Philistine said to David, “Come here to me, so I can give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the field!” ⁶ 

17:45 But David replied to the Philistine, “You are coming against me with sword and spear and javelin. But I am coming against you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel’s armies, whom you have defied! 17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God 17:47 and all this assembly will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves! For the battle is the Lord’s, and he will deliver you into our hand.”

Proverbs 27:1

27:1 Do not boast ⁷  about tomorrow; ⁸ 

for you do not know ⁹  what a day may bring forth.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

Wisdom Cannot Protect against Seemingly Chance Events

9:11 Again, ¹⁰  I observed this on the earth: ¹¹ 

the race is not always ¹²  won by the swiftest,

the battle is not always won by the strongest;

prosperity ¹³  does not always belong to those who are the wisest,

wealth does not always belong to those who are the most discerning,

nor does success ¹⁴  always come to those with the most knowledge –

for time and chance may overcome ¹⁵  them all.

Isaiah 10:15-16

10:15 Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it,

or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? ¹⁶ 

As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it,

or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!

10:16 For this reason ¹⁷  the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. ¹⁸  His majestic glory will go up in smoke. ¹⁹ 

Matthew 26:33-35

26:33 Peter ²⁰  said to him, “If they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away!” 26:34 Jesus said to him, “I tell you the truth, ²¹  on this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” 26:35 Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you.” And all the disciples said the same thing.

Matthew 26:75

26:75 Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly. ²² 

[14:6]  ¹ tn Heb “act.”

[14:12]  ² tn Heb “a thing.”

[14:12]  ³ tn The perfect verbal form is used rhetorically here to express Jonathan’s certitude. As far as he is concerned, the victory is as good as won and can be described as such.

[14:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they fell before Jonathan.”

[14:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the one carrying his equipment was killing after him.”

[17:44]  ⁶ tc Many medieval Hebrew mss have “the earth” here, instead of the MT’s “the field.”

[27:1]  ⁷ tn The form אַל־תִּתְהַלֵּל (’al-tithallel) is the Hitpael jussive negated; it is from the common verb “to praise,” and so in this setting means “to praise oneself” or “to boast.”

[27:1]  ⁸ sn The word “tomorrow” is a metonymy of subject, meaning what will be done tomorrow, or in the future in general.

[27:1]  ⁹ sn The expression “you do not know” balances the presumption of the first line, reminding the disciple of his ignorance and therefore his need for humility (e.g., Matt 6:34; Luke 12:20; Jas 4:13-16).

[9:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I returned and.” In the Hebrew idiom, “to return and do” means “to do again.”

[9:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “under the sun.”

[9:11]  ¹² tn The term “always” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation (five times in this verse) for clarity.

[9:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “bread.”

[9:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “favor.”

[9:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “happen to.”

[10:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the one who pushes it back and forth”; KJV “him that shaketh it”; ASV “him that wieldeth it.”

[10:16]  ¹⁷ sn The irrational arrogance of the Assyrians (v. 15) will prompt the judgment about to be described.

[10:16]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “will send leanness against his healthy ones”; NASB, NIV “will send a wasting disease.”

[10:16]  ¹⁹ tc Heb “and in the place of his glory burning will burn, like the burning of fire.” The highly repetitive text (יֵקַד יְקֹד כִּיקוֹד אֵשׁ, yeqad yiqod kiqod ’esh) may be dittographic; if the second consonantal sequence יקד is omitted, the text would read “and in the place of his glory, it will burn like the burning of fire.”

[26:33]  ²⁰ tn Grk “answering, Peter said to him.” This is somewhat redundant and has been simplified in the translation. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[26:34]  ²¹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[26:75]  ²² sn When Peter went out and wept bitterly it shows he really did not want to fail here and was deeply grieved that he had.