2 Kings 3:22-27

3:22 When they got up early the next morning, the sun was shining on the water. To the Moabites, who were some distance away, the water looked red like blood. 3:23 The Moabites ¹  said, “It’s blood! The kings are totally destroyed! ²  They have struck one another down! Now, Moab, seize the plunder!” 3:24 When they approached the Israelite camp, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who then ran from them. The Israelites ³  thoroughly defeated ⁴  Moab. 3:25 They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. ⁵  They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree.

Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, ⁶  but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it. 3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, ⁷  he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack ⁸  the king of Edom, but they failed. 3:27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel, ⁹  so they broke off the attack ¹⁰  and returned to their homeland.

2 Kings 19:7

19:7 Look, I will take control of his mind; ¹¹  he will receive ¹²  a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down ¹³  with a sword in his own land.”’”

2 Kings 19:2

19:2 He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, ¹⁴  clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:

2 Kings 5:24

5:24 When he arrived at the hill, he took them from the servants ¹⁵  and put them in the house. Then he sent the men on their way. ¹⁶ 

Job 15:21

15:21 Terrifying sounds fill ¹⁷  his ears;

in a time of peace marauders ¹⁸  attack him.

Psalms 14:5

14:5 They are absolutely terrified, ¹⁹ 

for God defends the godly. ²⁰ 

Jeremiah 20:3-4

20:3 But the next day Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. When he did, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord’s name for you is not ‘Pashhur’ but ‘Terror is Everywhere.’ ²¹  20:4 For the Lord says, ‘I will make both you and your friends terrified of what will happen to you. ²²  You will see all of them die by the swords of their enemies. ²³  I will hand all the people of Judah over to the king of Babylon. He will carry some of them away into exile in Babylon and he will kill others of them with the sword.

Ezekiel 10:5

10:5 The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard from the outer court, like the sound of the sovereign God ²⁴  when he speaks.

Revelation 6:15-16

6:15 Then ²⁵  the kings of the earth, the ²⁶  very important people, the generals, ²⁷  the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave ²⁸  and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 6:16 They ²⁹  said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, ³⁰ 

Revelation 9:9

9:9 They had breastplates ³¹  like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle.

[3:23]  ¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Moabites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:23]  ² tn The translation assumes the verb is חָרַב (kharav, “to be desolate”). The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb form for emphasis. (For another example of the Hophal infinitive with a Niphal finite verb, see Lev 19:20. Cf. also IBHS 582 §35.2.1c.) Some prefer to derive the verb from a proposed homonym meaning “at HALOT 349 s.v. II חרב and BDB 352 s.v. חָרְבָה).

[3:24]  ³ tn Heb “they.”

[3:24]  ⁴ tc The consonantal text (Kethib) suggests, “and they went, striking down,” but the marginal reading (Qere) is “they struck down, striking down.” For a discussion of the textual problem, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 46.

[3:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “and [on] every good portion they were throwing each man his stone and they filled it.” The vav + perfect (“and they filled”) here indicates customary action contemporary with the situation described in the preceding main clause (where a customary imperfect is used, “they were throwing”). See the note at 3:4.

[3:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “until he had allowed its stones to remain in Kir Hareseth.”

[3:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him.”

[3:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”

[3:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “there was great anger against Israel.”

[3:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they departed from him.”

[19:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I will put in him a spirit.” The precise sense of רוּחַ (ruakh), “spirit,” is uncertain in this context. It may refer to a spiritual being who will take control of his mind (see 1 Kgs 22:19), or it could refer to a disposition of concern and fear. In either case the Lord’s sovereignty over the king is apparent.

[19:7]  ¹² tn Heb “hear.”

[19:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “cause him to fall,” that is, “kill him.”

[19:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “elders of the priests.”

[5:24]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “from their hand.”

[5:24]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and he sent the men away and they went.”

[15:21]  ¹⁷ tn The word “fill” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation.

[15:21]  ¹⁸ tn The word שׁוֹדֵד (shoded) means “a robber; a plunderer” (see Job 12:6). With the verb bo’ the sentence means that the robber pounces on or comes against him (see GKC 373 §118.f). H. H. Rowley observes that the text does not say that he is under attack, but that the sound of fears is in his ears, i.e., that he is terrified by thoughts of this.

[14:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “there they are afraid [with] fear.” The perfect verbal form is probably used in a rhetorical manner; the psalmist describes the future demise of the oppressors as if it were already occurring. The adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”) is also used here for dramatic effect, as the psalmist envisions the wicked standing in fear at a spot that is this vivid in his imagination (BDB 1027 s.v.). The cognate accusative following the verb emphasizes the degree of their terror.

[14:5]  ²⁰ tn Heb “for God is with a godly generation.” The Hebrew noun דּוֹר (dor, “generation”) refers here to the general class of people who are characterized by godliness. See BDB 190 s.v. for other examples where “generation” refers to a class of people.

[20:3]  ²¹ tn This name is translated rather than transliterated to aid the reader in understanding this name and connect it clearly with the explanation that follows in the next verse. For a rather complete discussion on the significance of this name and an attempt to explain it as a pun on the name “Pashhur” see J. A. Thompson, Jeremiah (NICOT), 455, n. 35.

[20:4]  ²² tn Heb “I will make you an object of terror to both you and your friends.”

[20:4]  ²³ tn Heb “And they will fall by the sword of their enemies and [with] your eyes seeing [it].”

[10:5]  ²⁴ tn The name (“El Shaddai”) has often been translated “God Almighty,” primarily because Jerome translated it omnipotens (“all powerful”) in the Latin Vulgate. There has been much debate over the meaning of the name. For discussion see W. F. Albright, “The Names Shaddai and Abram,” JBL 54 (1935): 173-210; R. Gordis, “The Biblical Root sdy-sd,” JTS 41 (1940): 34-43; and especially T. N. D. Mettinger, In Search of God, 69-72.

[6:15]  ²⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[6:15]  ²⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated; nor is it translated before each of the following categories, since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

[6:15]  ²⁷ tn Grk “chiliarchs.” A chiliarch was normally a military officer commanding a thousand soldiers, but here probably used of higher-ranking commanders like generals (see L&N 55.15; cf. Rev 6:15).

[6:15]  ²⁸ tn See the note on the word “servants” in 1:1.

[6:16]  ²⁹ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[6:16]  ³⁰ tn It is difficult to say where this quotation ends. The translation ends it after “withstand it” at the end of v. 17, but it is possible that it should end here, after “Lamb” at the end of v. 16. If it ends after “Lamb,” v. 17 is a parenthetical explanation by the author.

[9:9]  ³¹ tn Or perhaps, “scales like iron breastplates” (RSV, NRSV) although the Greek term θώραξ (qwrax) would have to shift its meaning within the clause, and elsewhere in biblical usage (e.g., Eph 6:14; 1 Thess 5:8) it normally means “breastplate.” See also L&N 8.38.