Deuteronomy 10:17

10:17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe,

Deuteronomy 10:2

10:2 I will write on the tablets the same words ¹  that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”

Deuteronomy 7:22

7:22 He, ²  the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.

Deuteronomy 7:1

The Dispossession of Nonvassals

7:1 When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you – Hittites, ³  Girgashites, ⁴  Amorites, ⁵  Canaanites, ⁶  Perizzites, ⁷  Hivites, ⁸  and Jebusites, ⁹  seven ¹⁰  nations more numerous and powerful than you –

Deuteronomy 16:1

The Passover-Unleavened Bread Festival

16:1 Observe the month Abib ¹¹  and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in that month ¹²  he ¹³  brought you out of Egypt by night.

Nehemiah 4:14

4:14 When I had made an inspection, ¹⁴  I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the great and awesome Lord, ¹⁵  and fight on behalf of your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your families!” ¹⁶ 

Nehemiah 9:32

9:32 “So now, our God – the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity ¹⁷  – do not regard as inconsequential ¹⁸  all the hardship that has befallen us – our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people – from the days of the kings of Assyria until this very day!

Job 36:26

The Work and Wisdom of God

36:26 “Yes, God is great – beyond our knowledge! ¹⁹ 

The number of his years is unsearchable.

Psalms 48:1

Psalm 48 ²⁰ 

A song, a psalm by the Korahites.

48:1 The Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise

in the city of our God, ²¹  his holy hill.

Psalms 96:4

96:4 For the Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise;

he is more awesome than all gods. ²² 

Psalms 135:5

135:5 Yes, ²³  I know the Lord is great,

and our Lord is superior to all gods.

Psalms 145:3

145:3 The Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise!

No one can fathom his greatness! ²⁴ 

Jeremiah 32:18-19

32:18 You show unfailing love to thousands. ²⁵  But you also punish children for the sins of their parents. ²⁶  You are the great and powerful God who is known as the Lord who rules over all. ²⁷  32:19 You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. ²⁸  You see everything people do. ²⁹  You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do. ³⁰ 

Malachi 1:11

1:11 For from the east to the west my name will be great among the nations. Incense and pure offerings will be offered in my name everywhere, for my name will be great among the nations,” ³¹  says the Lord who rules over all.

Revelation 19:17

19:17 Then ³²  I saw one angel standing in ³³  the sun, and he shouted in a loud voice to all the birds flying high in the sky: ³⁴ 

“Come, gather around for the great banquet ³⁵  of God,

[10:2]  ¹ sn The same words. The care with which the replacement copy must be made underscores the importance of verbal precision in relaying the Lord’s commandments.

[7:22]  ² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 7:19.

[7:1]  ³ sn Hittites. The center of Hittite power was in Anatolia (central modern Turkey). In the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200 b.c.) they were at their zenith, establishing outposts and colonies near and far. Some elements were obviously in Canaan at the time of the Conquest (1400-1350 b.c.).

[7:1]  ⁴ sn Girgashites. These cannot be ethnically identified and are unknown outside the OT. They usually appear in such lists only when the intention is to have seven groups in all (see also the note on the word “seven” later in this verse).

[7:1]  ⁵ sn Amorites. Originally from the upper Euphrates region (Amurru), the Amorites appear to have migrated into Canaan beginning in 2200 b.c. or thereabouts.

[7:1]  ⁶ sn Canaanites. These were the indigenous peoples of the land, going back to the beginning of recorded history (ca. 3000 b.c.). The OT identifies them as descendants of Ham (Gen 10:6), the only Hamites to have settled north and east of Egypt.

[7:1]  ⁷ sn Perizzites. This is probably a subgroup of Canaanites (Gen 13:7; 34:30).

[7:1]  ⁸ sn Hivites. These are usually thought to be the same as the Hurrians, a people well-known in ancient Near Eastern texts. They are likely identical to the Horites (see note on the term “Horites” in Deut 2:12).

[7:1]  ⁹ sn Jebusites. These inhabited the hill country, particularly in and about Jerusalem (cf. Num 13:29; Josh 15:8; 2 Sam 5:6; 24:16).

[7:1]  ¹⁰ sn Seven. This is an ideal number in the OT, one symbolizing fullness or completeness. Therefore, the intent of the text here is not to be precise and list all of Israel’s enemies but simply to state that Israel will have a full complement of foes to deal with. For other lists of Canaanites, some with fewer than seven peoples, see Exod 3:8; 13:5; 23:23, 28; 33:2; 34:11; Deut 20:17; Josh 3:10; 9:1; 24:11. Moreover, the “Table of Nations” (Gen 10:15-19) suggests that all of these (possibly excepting the Perizzites) were offspring of Canaan and therefore Canaanites.

[16:1]  ¹¹ sn The month Abib, later called Nisan (Neh 2:1; Esth 3:7), corresponds to March-April in the modern calendar.

[16:1]  ¹² tn Heb “in the month Abib.” The demonstrative “that” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[16:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[4:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “And I saw.”

[4:14]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[4:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “houses.”

[9:32]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the covenant and loyal love.” The expression is a hendiadys. The second noun retains its full nominal sense, while the first functions adjectivally: “the covenant and loyalty” = covenant fidelity.

[9:32]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “do not let it seem small in your sight.”

[36:26]  ¹⁹ tn The last part has the verbal construction, “and we do not know.” This clause is to be used adverbially: “beyond our understanding.”

[48:1]  ²⁰ sn Psalm 48. This so-called “Song of Zion” celebrates the greatness and glory of the Lord’s dwelling place, Jerusalem. His presence in the city elevates it above all others and assures its security.

[48:1]  ²¹ sn The city of our God is Jerusalem, which is also referred to here as “his holy hill,” that is, Zion (see v. 2, as well as Isa 66:20; Joel 2:1; 3:17; Zech 8:3; Pss 2:6; 15:1; 43:3; 87:1; Dan 9:16).

[96:4]  ²² tn Or perhaps “and feared by all gods.” See Ps 89:7.

[135:5]  ²³ tn Or “for.”

[145:3]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and concerning his greatness there is no searching.”

[32:18]  ²⁵ tn Or “to thousands of generations.” The contrast of showing steadfast love to “thousands” to the limitation of punishing the third and fourth generation of children for their parents’ sins in Exod 20:5-6; Deut 5:9-10; Exod 34:7 has suggested to many commentators and translators (cf., e.g., NRSV, TEV, NJPS) that reference here is to “thousands of generations.” The statement is, of course, rhetorical emphasizing God’s great desire to bless as opposed to the reluctant necessity to punish. It is part of the attributes of God spelled out in Exod 34:6-7.

[32:18]  ²⁶ tn Heb “pays back into the bosom of their children the sin of their parents.”

[32:18]  ²⁷ tn Heb “Nothing is too hard for you who show…and who punishes…the great [and] powerful God whose name is Yahweh of armies, [you who are] great in counsel…whose eyes are open…who did signs…” Jer 32:18-22 is a long series of relative clauses introduced by participles or relative pronouns in vv. 18-20a followed by second person vav consecutive imperfects carrying on the last of these relative clauses in vv. 20b-22. This is typical of hymnic introductions to hymns of praise (cf., e.g., Ps 136) but it is hard to sustain the relative subordination which all goes back to the suffix on “hard for you.” The sentences have been broken up but the connection with the end of v. 17 has been sacrificed for conformity to contemporary English style.

[32:19]  ²⁸ tn Heb “[you are] great in counsel and mighty in deed.”

[32:19]  ²⁹ tn Heb “your eyes are open to the ways of the sons of men.”

[32:19]  ³⁰ tn Heb “giving to each according to his way [= behavior/conduct] and according to the fruit of his deeds.”

[1:11]  ³¹ sn My name will be great among the nations. In what is clearly a strongly ironic shift of thought, the Lord contrasts the unbelief and virtual paganism of the postexilic community with the conversion and obedience of the nations that will one day worship the God of Israel.

[19:17]  ³² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

[19:17]  ³³ tn The precise significance of ἐν (en) here is difficult to determine.

[19:17]  ³⁴ tn On μεσουρανήματι (mesouranhmati) here see L&N 1.10: “high in the sky, midpoint in the sky, directly overhead, straight above in the sky.” The birds mentioned here are carrion birds like vultures, circling high overhead, and now being summoned to feast on the corpses.

[19:17]  ³⁵ tn This is the same Greek word (δεῖπνον, deipnon) used in 19:9.