2 Samuel 12:11-12

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 

2 Samuel 15:16

15:16 So the king and all the members of his royal court ⁷  set out on foot, though the king left behind ten concubines ⁸  to attend to the palace.

2 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Then David went to his palace ⁹  in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. ¹⁰  Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. ¹¹  They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

Numbers 25:6

25:6 Just then ¹²  one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers ¹³  a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of ¹⁴  the whole community of the Israelites, while they ¹⁵  were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Isaiah 3:9

3:9 The look on their faces ¹⁶  testifies to their guilt; ¹⁷ 

like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. ¹⁸ 

Too bad for them! ¹⁹ 

For they bring disaster on themselves.

Jeremiah 3:3

3:3 That is why the rains have been withheld,

and the spring rains have not come.

Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute. ²⁰ 

You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.

Jeremiah 8:12

8:12 Are they ashamed because they have done such disgusting things?

No, they are not at all ashamed!

They do not even know how to blush!

So they will die just like others have died. ²¹ 

They will be brought to ruin when I punish them,

says the Lord.

Ezekiel 24:7

24:7 For her blood was in it;

she poured it on an exposed rock;

she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.

Philippians 3:19

3:19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things. ²² 

[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.”

[15:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “and all his house.”

[15:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “women, concubines.”

[20:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[20:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

[20:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”

[25:6]  ¹² tn The verse begins with the deictic particle וְהִנֵּה (vÿhinneh), pointing out the action that was taking place. It stresses the immediacy of the action to the reader.

[25:6]  ¹³ tn Or “to his family”; or “to his clan.”

[25:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of.”

[25:6]  ¹⁵ tn The vav (ו) at the beginning of the clause is a disjunctive because it is prefixed to the nonverbal form. In this context it is best interpreted as a circumstantial clause, stressing that this happened “while” people were weeping over the sin.

[3:9]  ¹⁶ sn This refers to their proud, arrogant demeanor.

[3:9]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “answers against them”; NRSV “bears witness against them.”

[3:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “their sin, like Sodom, they declare, they do not conceal [it].”

[3:9]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “woe to their soul.”

[3:3]  ²⁰ tn Heb “you have the forehead of a prostitute.”

[8:12]  ²¹ tn Heb “They will fall among the fallen.”

[3:19]  ²² tn Grk “whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly and glory is their shame, these who think of earthly things.”