Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 1:34-35
Context1:34 When the Lord heard you, he became angry and made this vow: 1 1:35 “Not a single person 2 of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!
Ezra 9:13-14
Context9:13 “Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint 3 toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this. 9:14 Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?
Ezra 10:10
Context10:10 Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel.
Nehemiah 13:18
Context13:18 Isn’t this the way your ancestors 4 acted, causing our God to bring on them and on this city all this misfortune? And now you are causing even more wrath on Israel, profaning the Sabbath like this!”
Isaiah 65:6-7
ContextI will not keep silent, but will pay them back;
I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, 6
65:7 for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” 7 says the Lord.
“Because they burned incense on the mountains
and offended 8 me on the hills,
I will punish them in full measure.” 9
[1:34] 1 tn Heb “and swore,” i.e., made an oath or vow.
[1:35] 2 tn Heb “Not a man among these men.”
[9:13] 3 tn Heb “held back downwards from”; KJV “hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve” (NIV, NRSV, NLT all similar).
[13:18] 4 tn Heb “your fathers.”
[65:6] 5 tn Heb “Look, it is written before me.”
[65:6] 6 tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”
[65:7] 7 tn Heb “the iniquities of your fathers.”
[65:7] 8 tn Or perhaps, “taunted”; KJV “blasphemed”; NAB “disgraced”; NASB “scorned”; NIV “defied”; NRSV “reviled.”
[65:7] 9 tn Heb “I will measure out their pay [from the] beginning into their lap,” i.e., he will give them everything they have earned.
