Acts 5:30

5:30 The God of our forefathers ¹  raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree. ² 

Acts 7:32

7:32 ‘I am the God of your forefathers, ³  the God of Abraham, Isaac, ⁴  and Jacob.’ ⁵  Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely. ⁶ 

Exodus 3:6

3:6 He added, “I am the God of your father, ⁷  the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look ⁸  at God.

Psalms 105:6-10

105:6 O children ⁹  of Abraham, ¹⁰  God’s ¹¹  servant,

you descendants ¹²  of Jacob, God’s ¹³  chosen ones!

105:7 He is the Lord our God;

he carries out judgment throughout the earth. ¹⁴ 

105:8 He always remembers his covenantal decree,

the promise he made ¹⁵  to a thousand generations –

105:9 the promise ¹⁶  he made to Abraham,

the promise he made by oath to Isaac!

105:10 He gave it to Jacob as a decree,

to Israel as a lasting promise, ¹⁷ 

Matthew 22:32

22:32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? ¹⁸  He is not the God of the dead but of the living!” ¹⁹ 

Hebrews 11:9-16

11:9 By faith he lived as a foreigner ²⁰  in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs ²¹  of the same promise. 11:10 For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, ²²  whose architect and builder is God. 11:11 By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, ²³  he received the ability to procreate, ²⁴  because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy. 11:12 So in fact children ²⁵  were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand ²⁶  on the seashore. ²⁷  11:13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, ²⁸  but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners ²⁹  on the earth. 11:14 For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 11:15 In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 11:16 But as it is, ³⁰  they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

[5:30]  ¹ tn Or “ancestors”; Grk “fathers.”

[5:30]  ² tn Or “by crucifying him” (“hang on a tree” is by the time of the first century an idiom for crucifixion). The allusion is to the judgment against Jesus as a rebellious figure, appealing to the language of Deut 21:23. The Jewish leadership has badly “misjudged” Jesus.

[7:32]  ³ tn Or “ancestors”; Grk “fathers.”

[7:32]  ⁴ tn Grk “and Isaac,” but καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

[7:32]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Exod 3:6. The phrase suggests the God of promise, the God of the nation.

[7:32]  ⁶ tn Or “to investigate,” “to contemplate” (BDAG 522 s.v. κατανοέω 2).

[3:6]  ⁷ sn This self-revelation by Yahweh prepares for the revelation of the holy name. While no verb is used here, the pronoun and the predicate nominative are a construction used throughout scripture to convey the “I am” disclosures – “I [am] the God of….” But the significant point here is the naming of the patriarchs, for this God is the covenant God, who will fulfill his promises.

[3:6]  ⁸ tn The clause uses the Hiphil infinitive construct with a preposition after the perfect tense: יָרֵא מֵהַבִּיט (yare’ mehabbit, “he was afraid from gazing”) meaning “he was afraid to gaze.” The preposition min (מִן) is used before infinitives after verbs like the one to complete the verb (see BDB 583 s.v. 7b).

[105:6]  ⁹ tn Or “offspring”; Heb “seed.”

[105:6]  ¹⁰ tc Some mss have “Israel,” which appears in the parallel version of this psalm in 1 Chr 16:13.

[105:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[105:6]  ¹² tn Heb “sons.”

[105:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “his”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[105:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in all the earth [are] his judgments.”

[105:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “[the] word he commanded.” The text refers here to God’s unconditional covenantal promise to Abraham and the patriarchs, as vv. 10-12 make clear.

[105:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “which.”

[105:10]  ¹⁷ tn Or “eternal covenant.”

[22:32]  ¹⁸ sn A quotation from Exod 3:6.

[22:32]  ¹⁹ sn He is not God of the dead but of the living. Jesus’ point was that if God could identify himself as God of the three old patriarchs, then they must still be alive when God spoke to Moses; and so they must be raised.

[11:9]  ²⁰ tn Or “settled as a resident alien.”

[11:9]  ²¹ tn Or “heirs with him.”

[11:10]  ²² tn Grk “that has foundations.”

[11:11]  ²³ tn Grk “past the time of maturity.”

[11:11]  ²⁴ tn Grk “power to deposit seed.” Though it is not as likely, some construe this phrase to mean “power to conceive seed,” making the whole verse about Sarah: “by faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and too old, she received ability to conceive, because she regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.”

[11:12]  ²⁵ tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.

[11:12]  ²⁶ tn Grk a collective “the sand.”

[11:12]  ²⁷ sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).

[11:13]  ²⁸ tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.

[11:13]  ²⁹ tn Or “sojourners.”

[11:16]  ³⁰ tn Grk “now.”