1 Samuel 25:37-39

25:37 In the morning, when Nabal was sober, ¹  his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed. ²  25:38 After about ten days the Lord struck Nabal down and he died.

25:39 When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, “Praised be the Lord who has vindicated me and avenged the insult that I suffered from Nabal! ³  The Lord has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” ⁴  Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.

1 Samuel 26:10

26:10 David went on to say, “As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.

Isaiah 10:16-19

10:16 For this reason ⁵  the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. ⁶  His majestic glory will go up in smoke. ⁷ 

10:17 The light of Israel ⁸  will become a fire,

their Holy One ⁹  will become a flame;

it will burn and consume the Assyrian king’s ¹⁰  briers

and his thorns in one day.

10:18 The splendor of his forest and his orchard

will be completely destroyed, ¹¹ 

as when a sick man’s life ebbs away. ¹² 

10:19 There will be so few trees left in his forest,

a child will be able to count them. ¹³ 

Isaiah 30:30-33

30:30 The Lord will give a mighty shout ¹⁴ 

and intervene in power, ¹⁵ 

with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, ¹⁶ 

with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

30:31 Indeed, the Lord’s shout will shatter Assyria; ¹⁷ 

he will beat them with a club.

30:32 Every blow from his punishing cudgel, ¹⁸ 

with which the Lord will beat them, ¹⁹ 

will be accompanied by music from the ²⁰  tambourine and harp,

and he will attack them with his weapons. ²¹ 

30:33 For ²²  the burial place is already prepared; ²³ 

it has been made deep and wide for the king. ²⁴ 

The firewood is piled high on it. ²⁵ 

The Lord’s breath, like a stream flowing with brimstone,

will ignite it.

Daniel 2:34

2:34 You were watching as ²⁶  a stone was cut out, ²⁷  but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its iron and clay feet, breaking them in pieces.

Daniel 2:44-45

2:44 In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever. 2:45 You saw that a stone was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands; it smashed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold into pieces. The great God has made known to the king what will occur in the future. ²⁸  The dream is certain, and its interpretation is reliable.”

Zechariah 4:6

4:6 Therefore he told me, “These signify the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit,’ ²⁹  says the Lord who rules over all.”

[25:37]  ¹ tn Heb “when the wine had gone out from Nabal.”

[25:37]  ² tn Heb “and his heart died within him and he became a stone.” Cf. TEV, NLT “stroke”; CEV “heart attack.” For an alternative interpretation than that presented above, see Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle, “The Law of the Heart: The Death of a Fool (1 Samuel 25),” JBL 120 (2001): 401-27, who argues that a medical diagnosis is not necessary here. Instead, the passage makes a connection between the heart and the law; Nabal dies for his lawlessness.

[25:39]  ³ tn Heb “who has argued the case of my insult from the hand of Nabal.”

[25:39]  ⁴ tn Heb “his servant he has held back from evil, and the evil of Nabal the Lord has turned back on his head.”

[10:16]  ⁵ sn The irrational arrogance of the Assyrians (v. 15) will prompt the judgment about to be described.

[10:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “will send leanness against his healthy ones”; NASB, NIV “will send a wasting disease.”

[10:16]  ⁷ 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.”

[10:17]  ⁸ tn In this context the “Light of Israel” is a divine title (note the parallel title “his holy one”). The title points to God’s royal splendor, which overshadows and, when transformed into fire, destroys the “majestic glory” of the king of Assyria (v. 16b).

[10:17]  ⁹ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[10:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “his.” In vv. 17-19 the Assyrian king and his empire is compared to a great forest and orchard that are destroyed by fire (symbolic of the Lord).

[10:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “from breath to flesh it will destroy.” The expression “from breath to flesh” refers to the two basic components of a person, the immaterial (life’s breath) and the material (flesh). Here the phrase is used idiomatically to indicate totality.

[10:18]  ¹² tn The precise meaning of this line is uncertain. מָסַס (masas), which is used elsewhere of substances dissolving or melting, may here mean “waste away” or “despair.” נָסַס (nasas), which appears only here, may mean “be sick” or “stagger, despair.” See BDB 651 s.v. I נָסַס and HALOT 703 s.v. I נסס. One might translate the line literally, “like the wasting away of one who is sick” (cf. NRSV “as when an invalid wastes away”).

[10:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the rest of the trees of his forest will be counted, and a child will record them.”

[30:30]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the Lord will cause the splendor of his voice to be heard.”

[30:30]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and reveal the lowering of his arm.”

[30:30]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and a flame of consuming fire.”

[30:31]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Indeed by the voice of the Lord Assyria will be shattered.”

[30:32]  ¹⁸ tc The Hebrew text has “every blow from a founded [i.e., “appointed”?] cudgel.” The translation above, with support from a few medieval Hebrew mss, assumes an emendation of מוּסָדָה (musadah, “founded”) to מוּסָרֹה (musaroh, “his discipline”).

[30:32]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “which the Lord lays on him.”

[30:32]  ²⁰ tn Heb “will be with” (KJV similar).

[30:32]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “and with battles of brandishing [weapons?] he will fight against him.” Some prefer to emend וּבְמִלְחֲמוֹת (uvÿmilkhamot, “and with battles of”) to וּבִמְחֹלוֹת (uvimkholot, “and with dancing”). Note the immediately preceding references to musical instruments.

[30:33]  ²² tn Or “indeed.”

[30:33]  ²³ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “for arranged from before [or “yesterday”] is [?].” The meaning of תָּפְתֶּה (tafÿteh), which occurs only here, is unknown. The translation above (as with most English versions) assumes an emendation to תֹּפֶת (tofet, “Topheth”; cf. NASB, NIV, NLT) and places the final hey (ה) on the beginning of the next word as an interrogative particle. Topheth was a place near Jerusalem used as a burial ground (see Jer 7:32; 19:11).

[30:33]  ²⁴ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “Also it is made ready for the king, one makes it deep and wide.” If one takes the final hey (ה) on תָּפְתֶּה (tafÿteh) and prefixes it to גָּם (gam) as an interrogative particle (see the preceding note), one can translate, “Is it also made ready for the king?” In this case the question is rhetorical and expects an emphatic affirmative answer, “Of course it is!”

[30:33]  ²⁵ tn Heb “its pile of wood, fire and wood one makes abundant.”

[2:34]  ²⁶ tn Aram “until.”

[2:34]  ²⁷ tc The LXX, Theodotion, and the Vulgate have “from a mountain,” though this is probably a harmonization with v. 45.

[2:45]  ²⁸ tn Aram “after this.”

[4:6]  ²⁹ sn It is premature to understand the Spirit here as the Holy Spirit (the third Person of the Trinity), though the OT prepares the way for that NT revelation (cf. Gen 1:2; Exod 23:3; 31:3; Num 11:17-29; Judg 3:10; 6:34; 2 Kgs 2:9, 15, 16; Ezek 2:2; 3:12; 11:1, 5).