Deuteronomy 33:25

33:25 The bars of your gates ¹  will be made of iron and bronze,

and may you have lifelong strength.

Deuteronomy 33:1

Introduction to the Blessing of Moses

33:1 This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

Deuteronomy 17:4-6

17:4 When it is reported to you and you hear about it, you must investigate carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing ²  is being done in Israel, 17:5 you must bring to your city gates ³  that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death. ⁴  17:6 At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

Deuteronomy 17:14-16

Provision for Kingship

17:14 When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, “I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,” 17:15 you must select without fail ⁵  a king whom the Lord your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens ⁶  you must appoint a king – you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites. ⁷  17:16 Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, ⁸  for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.

Deuteronomy 17:2

17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ⁹  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ¹⁰  and breaks his covenant

Deuteronomy 7:1-2

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, ¹¹  Girgashites, ¹²  Amorites, ¹³  Canaanites, ¹⁴  Perizzites, ¹⁵  Hivites, ¹⁶  and Jebusites, ¹⁷  seven ¹⁸  nations more numerous and powerful than you – 7:2 and he ¹⁹  delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate ²⁰  them. Make no treaty ²¹  with them and show them no mercy!

Luke 11:3

11:3 Give us each day our daily bread, ²² 

Hebrews 13:5-6

13:5 Your conduct must be free from the love of money and you must be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you and I will never abandon you.” ²³  13:6 So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, and ²⁴  I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” ²⁵ 

[33:25]  ¹ tn The words “of your gates” have been supplied in the translation to clarify the referent of “bars.”

[17:4]  ² tn Heb “an abomination” (תּוֹעֵבָה); see note on the word “offensive” in v. 1.

[17:5]  ³ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”

[17:15]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, indicated in the translation by the words “without fail.”

[17:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “your brothers,” but not referring to siblings (cf. NIV “your brother Israelites”; NLT “a fellow Israelite”). The same phrase also occurs in v. 20.

[17:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “your brothers.” See the preceding note on “fellow citizens.”

[17:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “in order to multiply horses.” The translation uses “do so” in place of “multiply horses” to avoid redundancy (cf. NAB, NIV).

[17:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”

[7:1]  ¹¹ 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]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ 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]  ¹⁵ sn Perizzites. This is probably a subgroup of Canaanites (Gen 13:7; 34:30).

[7:1]  ¹⁶ 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]  ¹⁷ 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]  ¹⁸ 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.

[7:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[7:2]  ²⁰ tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive absolute before the finite verb emphasizes the statement. The imperfect has an obligatory nuance here. Cf. ASV “shalt (must NRSV) utterly destroy them”; CEV “must destroy them without mercy.”

[7:2]  ²¹ tn Heb “covenant” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “alliance.”

[11:3]  ²² tn Or “Give us bread each day for the coming day,” or “Give us each day the bread we need for today.” The term ἐπιούσιος (epiousio") does not occur outside of early Christian literature (other occurrences are in Matt 6:11 and Didache 8:2), so its meaning is difficult to determine. Various suggestions include “daily,” “the coming day,” and “for existence.” See BDAG 376 s.v.; L&N 67:183, 206.

[13:5]  ²³ sn A quotation from Deut 31:6, 8.

[13:6]  ²⁴ tc Some important mss (א* C* P 0285^vid 33 1175 1739 pc lat) lack καί (kai), but because the omission conforms to the wording of Ps 118:6 (117:6 LXX), it is suspect.

[13:6]  ²⁵ sn A quotation from Ps 118:6.