2 Chronicles 32:19

32:19 They talked about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the man-made gods of the nations of the earth.

2 Chronicles 32:2

32:2 When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had invaded and intended to attack Jerusalem, ¹ 

2 Chronicles 18:33

18:33 Now an archer shot an arrow at random ²  and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ³  ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, ⁴  for I am wounded.”

2 Chronicles 19:1

19:1 When King Jehoshaphat of Judah returned home safely to Jerusalem, ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 19:1

19:1 When King Jehoshaphat of Judah returned home safely to Jerusalem, ⁶ 

Psalms 115:3-8

115:3 Our God is in heaven!

He does whatever he pleases! ⁷ 

115:4 Their ⁸  idols are made of silver and gold –

they are man-made. ⁹ 

115:5 They have mouths, but cannot speak,

eyes, but cannot see,

115:6 ears, but cannot hear,

noses, but cannot smell,

115:7 hands, but cannot touch,

feet, but cannot walk.

They cannot even clear their throats. ¹⁰ 

115:8 Those who make them will end up ¹¹  like them,

as will everyone who trusts in them.

Isaiah 44:8-10

44:8 Don’t panic! Don’t be afraid! ¹² 

Did I not tell you beforehand and decree it?

You are my witnesses! Is there any God but me?

There is no other sheltering rock; ¹³  I know of none.

44:9 All who form idols are nothing;

the things in which they delight are worthless.

Their witnesses cannot see;

they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.

44:10 Who forms a god and casts an idol

that will prove worthless? ¹⁴ 

Jeremiah 10:11-12

10:11 You people of Israel should tell those nations this:

‘These gods did not make heaven and earth.

They will disappear ¹⁵  from the earth and from under the heavens.’ ¹⁶ 

10:12 The Lord is the one who ¹⁷  by his power made the earth.

He is the one who by his wisdom established the world.

And by his understanding he spread out the skies.

Jeremiah 10:16

10:16 The Lord, who is the inheritance ¹⁸  of Jacob’s descendants, ¹⁹  is not like them.

He is the one who created everything.

And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. ²⁰ 

He is known as the Lord who rules over all.” ²¹ 

Acts 19:26

19:26 And you see and hear that this Paul has persuaded ²²  and turned away ²³  a large crowd, ²⁴  not only in Ephesus ²⁵  but in practically all of the province of Asia, ²⁶  by saying ²⁷  that gods made by hands are not gods at all. ²⁸ 

Acts 19:1

Disciples of John the Baptist at Ephesus

19:1 While ²⁹  Apollos was in Corinth, ³⁰  Paul went through the inland ³¹  regions ³²  and came to Ephesus. ³³  He ³⁴  found some disciples there ³⁵ 

Colossians 1:4

1:4 since ³⁶  we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints.

[32:2]  ¹ tn Heb “and his face was for war against Jerusalem.”

[18:33]  ² tn Heb “now a man drew a bow in his innocence” (i.e., with no specific target in mind, or at least without realizing his target was the king of Israel).

[18:33]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:33]  ⁴ tn Heb “camp.”

[19:1]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[19:1]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[115:3]  ⁷ sn He does whatever he pleases. Such sovereignty is characteristic of kings (see Eccl 8:3).

[115:4]  ⁸ tn The referent of the pronominal suffix is “the nations” (v. 2).

[115:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “the work of the hands of man.”

[115:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they cannot mutter in their throats.” Verse 5a refers to speaking, v. 7c to inarticulate sounds made in the throat (see M. Dahood, Psalms [AB], 3:140-41).

[115:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “will be.” Another option is to take the prefixed verbal form as a prayer, “may those who make them end up like them.”

[44:8]  ¹² tn BDB 923 s.v. רָהָה derives this verb from an otherwise unattested root, while HALOT 403 s.v. יָרָה defines it as “be stupefied” on the basis of an Arabic cognate. The form is likely a corruption of תיראו, the reading attested in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a.

[44:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “rock” or “rocky cliff,” a title that depicts God as a protective refuge in his role as sovereign king; thus the translation “sheltering rock.”

[44:10]  ¹⁴ tn The rhetorical question is sarcastic. The sense is, “Who is foolish enough…?”

[10:11]  ¹⁵ tn Aram “The gods who did not make…earth will disappear…” The sentence is broken up in the translation to avoid a long, complex English sentence in conformity with contemporary English style.

[10:11]  ¹⁶ tn This verse is in Aramaic. It is the only Aramaic sentence in Jeremiah. Scholars debate the appropriateness of this verse to this context. Many see it as a gloss added by a postexilic scribe which was later incorporated into the text. Both R. E. Clendenen (“Discourse Strategies in Jeremiah 10,” JBL 106 [1987]: 401-8) and W. L. Holladay (Jeremiah [Hermeneia], 1:324-25, 334-35) have given detailed arguments that the passage is not only original but the climax and center of the contrast between the Lord and idols in vv. 2-16. Holladay shows that the passage is a very carefully constructed chiasm (see accompanying study note) which argues that “these” at the end is the subject of the verb “will disappear” not the attributive adjective modifying heaven. He also makes a very good case that the verse is poetry and not prose as it is rendered in the majority of modern English versions.

[10:12]  ¹⁷ tn The words “The Lord is” are not in the text. They are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation here because of the possible confusion of who the subject is due to the parenthetical address to the people of Israel in v. 11. The first two verbs are participles and should not merely be translated as the narrative past. They are predicate nominatives of an implied copula intending to contrast the Lord as the one who made the earth with the idols which did not.

[10:16]  ¹⁸ tn The words “The Lord who is” are not in the text. They are supplied in the translation for clarity. For the significance of the words that follow them see the study note that follows.

[10:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “The Portion of Jacob.” “Descendants” is implied, and is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[10:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “And Israel is the tribe of his possession.”

[10:16]  ²¹ tn Heb “Yahweh of armies is his name.”

[19:26]  ²² tn Grk “persuading.” The participle πείσας (peisa") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[19:26]  ²³ tn Or “misled.”

[19:26]  ²⁴ tn BDAG 472 s.v. ἱκανός 3.a has “of pers. ὄχλος a large crowd…Ac 11:24, 26; 19:26.”

[19:26]  ²⁵ map For location see JP1 D2; JP2 D2; JP3 D2; JP4 D2.

[19:26]  ²⁶ tn Grk “Asia”; see the note on this word in v. 22.

[19:26]  ²⁷ tn The participle λέγων (legwn) has been regarded as indicating instrumentality.

[19:26]  ²⁸ tn The words “at all” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[19:1]  ²⁹ tn Grk “It happened that while.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[19:1]  ³⁰ map For location see JP1 C2; JP2 C2; JP3 C2; JP4 C2.

[19:1]  ³¹ tn Or “interior.”

[19:1]  ³² tn BDAG 92 s.v. ἀνωτερικός has “upper τὰ ἀ. μέρη the upper (i.e. inland) country, the interior Ac 19:1.”

[19:1]  ³³ map For location see JP1 D2; JP2 D2; JP3 D2; JP4 D2.

[19:1]  ³⁴ tn Grk “and found.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the sequencing with the following verse the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

[19:1]  ³⁵ tn The word “there” is not in the Greek text but is implied.

[1:4]  ³⁶ tn The adverbial participle ἀκούσαντες (akousante") is understood to be temporal and translated with “since.” A causal idea may also be in the apostle’s mind, but the context emphasizes temporal ideas, e.g., “from the day” (v. 6).