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Daniel 4:21-22

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4:21 whose foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful, and from which there was food available for all, under whose branches wild animals 1  used to live, and in whose branches birds of the sky used to nest – 4:22 it is you, 2  O king! For you have become great and strong. Your greatness is such that it reaches to heaven, and your authority to the ends of the earth.

Genesis 11:4

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11:4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens 3  so that 4  we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise 5  we will be scattered 6  across the face of the entire earth.”

Deuteronomy 9:1

Context
Theological Justification of the Conquest

9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. 7 

Matthew 11:23

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11:23 And you, Capernaum, 8  will you be exalted to heaven? 9  No, you will be thrown down to Hades! 10  For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.
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[4:21]  1 tn Aram “the beasts of the field” (also in vv. 23, 25, 32).

[4:22]  2 sn Much of modern scholarship views this chapter as a distortion of traditions that were originally associated with Nabonidus rather than with Nebuchadnezzar. A Qumran text, the Prayer of Nabonidus, is often cited for parallels to these events.

[11:4]  3 tn A translation of “heavens” for שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) fits this context because the Babylonian ziggurats had temples at the top, suggesting they reached to the heavens, the dwelling place of the gods.

[11:4]  4 tn The form וְנַעֲשֶׂה (vÿnaaseh, from the verb עשׂה, “do, make”) could be either the imperfect or the cohortative with a vav (ו) conjunction (“and let us make…”). Coming after the previous cohortative, this form expresses purpose.

[11:4]  5 tn The Hebrew particle פֶּן (pen) expresses a negative purpose; it means “that we be not scattered.”

[11:4]  6 sn The Hebrew verb פָּוָץ (pavats, translated “scatter”) is a key term in this passage. The focal point of the account is the dispersion (“scattering”) of the nations rather than the Tower of Babel. But the passage also forms a polemic against Babylon, the pride of the east and a cosmopolitan center with a huge ziggurat. To the Hebrews it was a monument to the judgment of God on pride.

[9:1]  7 tn Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.

[11:23]  8 sn Capernaum was a town on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, 680 ft (204 m) below sea level. It was a major trade and economic center in the North Galilean region.

[11:23]  9 tn The interrogative particle introducing this question expects a negative reply.

[11:23]  10 sn In the OT, Hades was known as Sheol. It is the place where the unrighteous will reside (Luke 10:15; 16:23; Rev 20:13-14).



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