Discovery Box2 Samuel 16:12
Context16:12 Perhaps the Lord will notice my affliction 1 and this day grant me good in place of his curse.” 2
Matthew 10:13
Context10:13 And if the house is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. 3
Matthew 10:1
Context10:1 Jesus 4 called his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits 5 so they could cast them out and heal every kind of disease and sickness. 6
Colossians 1:18
Context1:18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn 7 from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. 8
[16:12] 1 tc The Hebrew text is difficult here. It is probably preferable to read with the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate בְּעוֹנִי (bÿ’onyi, “on my affliction”) rather than the Kethib of the MT בָּעַוֹנִי (ba’avoni, “on my wrongdoing”). While this Kethib reading is understandable as an objective genitive (i.e., “the wrong perpetrated upon me”), it does not conform to normal Hebrew idiom for this idea. The Qere of the MT בְּעֵינֵי (bÿ’eni, “on my eyes”), usually taken as synecdoche to mean “my tears,” does not commend itself as a likely meaning. The Hebrew word is one of the so-called tiqqune sopherim, or “emendations of the scribes.”
[16:12] 2 tn Heb “and the
[10:13] 3 sn The response to these messengers determines how God’s blessing is bestowed – if the messengers are not welcomed, their blessing will return to them. Jesus shows just how important their mission is by this remark.
[10:1] 5 sn Unclean spirits refers to evil spirits.
[10:1] 6 tn Grk “and every [kind of] sickness.” Here “every” was not repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.
[1:18] 7 tn See the note on the term “firstborn” in 1:15. Here the reference to Jesus as the “firstborn from among the dead” seems to be arguing for a chronological priority, i.e., Jesus was the first to rise from the dead.
[1:18] 8 tn Grk “in order that he may become in all things, himself, first.”
