Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 7:2
Context7:2 and he 1 delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate 2 them. Make no treaty 3 with them and show them no mercy!
Deuteronomy 7:16
Context7:16 You must destroy 4 all the people whom the Lord your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship 5 their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
Jude 1:17
Context1:17 But you, dear friends – recall the predictions 6 foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7
Psalms 106:34
Context106:34 They did not destroy the nations, 8
as the Lord had commanded them to do.
[7:2] 1 tn Heb “the
[7:2] 2 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] 3 tn Heb “covenant” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “alliance.”
[7:16] 4 tn Heb “devour” (so NRSV); KJV, NAB, NASB “consume.” The verbal form (a perfect with vav consecutive) is understood here as having an imperatival or obligatory nuance (cf. the instructions and commands that follow). Another option is to take the statement as a continuation of the preceding conditional promises and translate “and you will destroy.”
[7:16] 5 tn Or “serve” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV).
[1:17] 6 tn Grk “words.” In conjunction with προεῖπον (proeipon), however, the meaning of the construction is that the apostles uttered prophecies.
[1:17] 7 sn This verse parallels 2 Pet 3:2 both conceptually and in much of the verbiage. There is one important difference, however: In 2 Pet 3:2 the prophets and apostles speak; here, just the apostles speak. This makes good sense if Jude is using 2 Peter as his main source and is urging his readers to go back to the authoritative writings, both OT and now especially NT.
