2 Samuel 12:10-12

12:10 So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’ 12:11 This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you ¹  from inside your own household! ²  Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. ³  He will have sexual relations with ⁴  your wives in broad daylight! ⁵  12:12 Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.’” ⁶ 

Job 31:9-10

31:9 If my heart has been enticed by a woman,

and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door, ⁷ 

31:10 then let my wife turn the millstone ⁸  for another man,

and may other men have sexual relations with her. ⁹ 

Amos 7:17

7:17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:

‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets ¹⁰ 

and your sons and daughters will die violently. ¹¹ 

Your land will be given to others ¹² 

and you will die in a foreign ¹³  land.

Israel will certainly be carried into exile ¹⁴  away from its land.’”

Romans 1:23-28

1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings ¹⁵  or birds or four-footed animals ¹⁶  or reptiles.

1:24 Therefore God gave them over ¹⁷  in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor ¹⁸  their bodies among themselves. ¹⁹  1:25 They ²⁰  exchanged the truth of God for a lie ²¹  and worshiped and served the creation ²²  rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, ²³  1:27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women ²⁴  and were inflamed in their passions ²⁵  for one another. Men ²⁶  committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, ²⁷  God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. ²⁸ 

[12:11]  ¹ tn Heb “raise up against you disaster.”

[12:11]  ² tn Heb “house” (so NAB, NRSV); NCV, TEV, CEV “family.”

[12:11]  ³ tn Or “friend.”

[12:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “will lie with” (so NIV, NRSV); TEV “will have intercourse with”; CEV, NLT “will go to bed with.”

[12:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of this sun.”

[12:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “and before the sun.”

[31:9]  ⁷ tn Gordis notes that the word פֶּתַח (petakh, “door”) has sexual connotations in rabbinic literature, based on Prov 7:6ff. (see b. Ketubbot 9b). See also the use in Song 4:12 using a synonym.

[31:10]  ⁸ tn Targum Job interpreted the verb טָחַן (takhan, “grind”) in a sexual sense, and this has influenced other versions and commentaries. But the literal sense fits well in this line. The idea is that she would be a slave for someone else. The second line of the verse then might build on this to explain what kind of a slave – a concubine (see A. B. Davidson, Job, 215).

[31:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “bow down over her,” an idiom for sexual relations.

[7:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.”

[7:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “will fall by the sword.”

[7:17]  ¹² tn Heb “will be divided up with a [surveyor’s] measuring line.”

[7:17]  ¹³ tn Heb “[an] unclean”; or “[an] impure.” This fate would be especially humiliating for a priest, who was to distinguish between the ritually clean and unclean (see Lev 10:10).

[7:17]  ¹⁴ tn See the note on the word “exile” in 5:5.

[1:23]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God in likeness of an image of corruptible man.” Here there is a wordplay on the Greek terms ἄφθαρτος (afqarto", “immortal, imperishable, incorruptible”) and φθαρτός (fqarto", “mortal, corruptible, subject to decay”).

[1:23]  ¹⁶ sn Possibly an allusion to Ps 106:19-20.

[1:24]  ¹⁷ sn Possibly an allusion to Ps 81:12.

[1:24]  ¹⁸ tn The genitive articular infinitive τοῦ ἀτιμάζεσθαι (tou atimazesqai, “to dishonor”) has been taken as (1) an infinitive of purpose; (2) an infinitive of result; or (3) an epexegetical (i.e., explanatory) infinitive, expanding the previous clause.

[1:24]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “among them.”

[1:25]  ²⁰ tn Grk “who.” The relative pronoun was converted to a personal pronoun and, because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:25]  ²¹ tn Grk “the lie.”

[1:25]  ²² tn Or “creature, created things.”

[1:26]  ²³ tn Grk “for their females exchanged the natural function for that which is contrary to nature.” The term χρῆσις (crhsi") has the force of “sexual relations” here (L&N 23.65).

[1:27]  ²⁴ tn Grk “likewise so also the males abandoning the natural function of the female.”

[1:27]  ²⁵ tn Grk “burned with intense desire” (L&N 25.16).

[1:27]  ²⁶ tn Grk “another, men committing…and receiving,” continuing the description of their deeds. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:28]  ²⁷ tn Grk “and just as they did not approve to have God in knowledge.”

[1:28]  ²⁸ tn Grk “the things that are improper.”