2 Kings 5:8
Context5:8 When Elisha the prophet 1 heard that the king had torn his clothes, he sent this message to the king, “Why did you tear your clothes? Send him 2 to me so he may know there is a prophet in Israel.”
Joshua 2:9-11
Context2:9 She said to the men, “I know the Lord is handing this land over to you. 3 We are absolutely terrified of you, 4 and all who live in the land are cringing before 5 you. 6 2:10 For we heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan. 7 2:11 When we heard the news we lost our courage and no one could even breathe for fear of you. 8 For the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below!
Joshua 9:9
Context9:9 They told him, “Your subjects 9 have come from a very distant land because of the reputation 10 of the Lord your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt 11
Joshua 9:24
Context9:24 They said to Joshua, “It was carefully reported to your subjects 12 how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified 13 we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.
Joshua 9:1
Context9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan 14 – in the hill country, the lowlands, 15 and all along the Mediterranean coast 16 as far as 17 Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) –
Joshua 17:1
Context17:1 The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land. 18 The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors. 19 They were assigned Gilead and Bashan. 20
Joshua 17:1
Context17:1 The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land. 21 The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors. 22 They were assigned Gilead and Bashan. 23
Joshua 17:1
Context17:1 The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land. 24 The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors. 25 They were assigned Gilead and Bashan. 26
Joshua 18:1
Context18:1 The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and there they set up the tent of meeting. 27 Though they had subdued the land, 28
Isaiah 43:10-11
Context43:10 You are my witnesses,” says the Lord,
“my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may consider 29 and believe in me,
and understand that I am he.
No god was formed before me,
and none will outlive me. 30
43:11 I, I am the Lord,
and there is no deliverer besides me.
Isaiah 44:6
Context44:6 This is what the Lord, Israel’s king, says,
their protector, 31 the Lord who commands armies:
“I am the first and I am the last,
there is no God but me.
Isaiah 44:8
Context44:8 Don’t panic! Don’t be afraid! 32
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; 33 I know of none.
Isaiah 45:6
Context45:6 I do this 34 so people 35 will recognize from east to west
that there is no God but me;
I am the Lord, I have no peer.
Jeremiah 10:10-11
Context10:10 The Lord is the only true God.
He is the living God and the everlasting King.
When he shows his anger the earth shakes.
None of the nations can stand up to his fury.
10:11 You people of Israel should tell those nations this:
‘These gods did not make heaven and earth.
They will disappear 36 from the earth and from under the heavens.’ 37
Jeremiah 16:19-21
Context“Lord, you give me strength and protect me.
You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. 39
Nations from all over the earth
will come to you and say,
‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods –
worthless idols that could not help them at all. 40
16:20 Can people make their own gods?
No, what they make are not gods at all.” 41
“So I will now let this wicked people know –
I will let them know my mighty power in judgment.
Then they will know that my name is the Lord.” 43
Daniel 2:47
Context2:47 The king replied to Daniel, “Certainly your God is a God of gods and Lord of kings and revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery!”
Daniel 3:29
Context3:29 I hereby decree 44 that any people, nation, or language group that blasphemes 45 the god of Shadrach, Meshach, or Abednego will be dismembered and his home reduced to rubble! For there exists no other god who can deliver in this way.”
Daniel 4:34
Context4:34 But at the end of the appointed time 46 I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up 47 toward heaven, and my sanity returned to me.
I extolled the Most High,
and I praised and glorified the one who lives forever.
For his authority is an everlasting authority,
and his kingdom extends from one generation to the next.
Daniel 6:26-27
Context6:26 I have issued an edict that throughout all the dominion of my kingdom people are to revere and fear the God of Daniel.
“For he is the living God;
he endures forever.
His kingdom will not be destroyed;
his authority is forever. 48
6:27 He rescues and delivers
and performs signs and wonders
in the heavens and on the earth.
He has rescued Daniel from the power 49 of the lions!”
Romans 10:10
Context10:10 For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness 50 and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation. 51
[5:8] 1 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 15, 20).
[5:8] 2 tn Heb “Let him come.”
[2:9] 3 tn Heb “has given the land to you.” Rahab’s statement uses the Hebrew perfect, suggesting certitude.
[2:9] 4 tn Heb “terror of you has fallen upon us.”
[2:9] 5 tn Or “melting away because of.”
[2:9] 6 tn Both of these statements are actually subordinated to “I know” in the Hebrew text, which reads, “I know that the
[2:10] 7 tn Heb “and what you did to the two Amorite kings who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, how you annihilated them.”
[2:11] 8 tn Heb “And we heard and our heart[s] melted and there remained no longer breath in a man because of you.”
[9:9] 11 tn Heb “the report about him, all that he did in Egypt.”
[9:24] 12 tn Heb “your servants.”
[9:24] 13 tn Or “we were very afraid.”
[9:1] 14 tn Heb “When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan heard.”
[9:1] 15 tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”
[9:1] 16 tn Heb “all the coast of the Great Sea.” The “Great Sea” was the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.
[9:1] 17 tn Heb “in front of.”
[17:1] 18 tn Heb “and the lot belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph.”
[17:1] 19 tn Heb “to Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war.”
[17:1] 20 tn Heb “Gilead and Bashan belonged to him.”
[17:1] 21 tn Heb “and the lot belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph.”
[17:1] 22 tn Heb “to Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war.”
[17:1] 23 tn Heb “Gilead and Bashan belonged to him.”
[17:1] 24 tn Heb “and the lot belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph.”
[17:1] 25 tn Heb “to Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war.”
[17:1] 26 tn Heb “Gilead and Bashan belonged to him.”
[18:1] 27 tn Heb “the tent of assembly.”
[18:1] 28 tn Heb “and the land was subdued before them.”
[43:10] 29 tn Or “know” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
[43:10] 30 tn Heb “and after me, there will not be”; NASB “there will be none after Me.”
[44:6] 31 tn Heb “his kinsman redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.
[44:8] 32 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 1QIsaa.
[44:8] 33 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.”
[45:6] 34 tn The words “I do this” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[45:6] 35 tn Heb “they” (so KJV, ASV); TEV, CEV “everyone”; NLT “all the world.”
[10:11] 36 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] 37 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
[16:19] 38 tn The words “Then I said” are not in the text. They are supplied in the translation to show the shift from God, who has been speaking to Jeremiah, to Jeremiah, who here addresses God.
[16:19] 39 tn Heb “O
[16:19] 40 tn Once again the translation has sacrificed some of the rhetorical force for the sake of clarity and English style: Heb “Only falsehood did our ancestors possess, vanity and [things in which?] there was no one profiting in them.”
[16:20] 41 tn Heb “and they are ‘no gods.’” For the construction here compare 2:11 and a similar construction in 2 Kgs 19:18 and see BDB 519 s.v. לֹא 1.b(b).
[16:21] 42 tn The words “The
[16:21] 43 tn Or “So I will make known to those nations, I will make known to them at this time my power and my might. Then they will know that my name is the
[3:29] 44 tn Aram “from me is placed an edict.”
[3:29] 45 tn Aram “speaks negligence.”
[4:34] 47 tn Aram “lifted up my eyes.”
[6:26] 48 tn Aram “until the end.”