Deuteronomy 2:11

2:11 These people, as well as the Anakites, are also considered Rephaites; ¹  the Moabites call them Emites.

Deuteronomy 33:3

33:3 Surely he loves the people; ² 

all your holy ones ³  are in your power. ⁴ 

And they sit ⁵  at your feet,

each receiving ⁶  your words.

Deuteronomy 33:20

Blessing on Gad

33:20 Of Gad he said:

Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad.

Like a lioness he will dwell;

he will tear at an arm – indeed, a scalp. ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 2:20

2:20 (That also is considered to be a land of the Rephaites. ⁸  The Rephaites lived there originally; the Ammonites call them Zamzummites. ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 6:15

6:15 for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land. ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 7:4

7:4 for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you.

Deuteronomy 29:27

29:27 That is why the Lord’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses ¹¹  written in this scroll.

Deuteronomy 33:28

33:28 Israel lives in safety,

the fountain of Jacob is quite secure, ¹² 

in a land of grain and new wine;

indeed, its heavens ¹³  rain down dew. ¹⁴ 

Deuteronomy 11:17

11:17 Then the anger of the Lord will erupt ¹⁵  against you and he will close up the sky ¹⁶  so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed ¹⁷  from the good land that the Lord ¹⁸  is about to give you.

Deuteronomy 29:20

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger ¹⁹  will rage ²⁰  against that man; all the curses ²¹  written in this scroll will fall upon him ²²  and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. ²³ 

[2:11]  ¹ sn Rephaites. The earliest reference to this infamous giant race is, again, in the story of the invasion of the eastern kings (Gen 14:5). They lived around Ashteroth Karnaim, probably modern Tell Ashtarah (cf. Deut 1:4), in the Bashan plateau east of the Sea of Galilee. Og, king of Bashan, was a Rephaite (Deut 3:11; Josh 12:4; 13:12). Other texts speak of them or their kinfolk in both Transjordan (Deut 2:20; 3:13) and Canaan (Josh 11:21-22; 14:12, 15; 15:13-14; Judg 1:20; 1 Sam 17:4; 1 Chr 20:4-8). They also appear in extra-biblical literature, especially in connection with the city state of Ugarit. See C. L’Heureux, “Ugaritic and Biblical Rephaim,” HTR 67 (1974): 265-74.

[33:3]  ² tc Heb “peoples.” The apparent plural form is probably a misunderstood singular (perhaps with a pronominal suffix) with enclitic mem (ם). See HALOT 838 s.v. עַם B.2.

[33:3]  ³ tc Heb “his holy ones.” The third person masculine singular suffix of the Hebrew MT is problematic in light of the second person masculine singular suffix on בְּיָדֶךָ (bÿyadekha, “your hands”). The LXX versions by Lucian and Origen read, therefore, “the holy ones.” The LXX version by Theodotion and the Vulgate, however, presuppose third masculine singular suffix on בְּיָדָיו (bÿyadayv, “his hands”), and thus retain “his holy ones.” The efforts to bring pronominal harmony into the line is commendable but unnecessary given the Hebrew tendency to be untroubled by such grammatical inconsistencies. However, the translation harmonizes the first pronoun with the second so that the referent (the Lord) is clear.

[33:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “hands.” For the problem of the pronoun see note on the term “holy ones” earlier in this verse.

[33:3]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew term תֻּכּוּ (tuku, probably Pual perfect of תָּכָה, takhah) is otherwise unknown. The present translation is based on the reference to feet and, apparently, receiving instruction in God’s words (cf. KJV, ASV). Other options are as follows: NIV “At your feet they all bow down” (cf. NCV, CEV); NLT “They follow in your steps” (cf. NAB, NASB); NRSV “they marched at your heels.”

[33:3]  ⁶ tn The singular verbal form in the Hebrew text (lit. “he lifts up”) is understood in a distributive manner, focusing on the action of each individual within the group.

[33:20]  ³ tn Heb “forehead,” picturing Gad attacking prey.

[2:20]  ⁴ sn Rephaites. See note on this word in Deut 2:11.

[2:20]  ⁵ sn Zamzummites. Just as the Moabites called Rephaites by the name Emites, the Ammonites called them Zamzummites (or Zazites; Gen 14:5).

[6:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you and destroy you from upon the surface of the ground.” Cf. KJV, ASV “from off the face of the earth.”

[29:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “the entire curse.”

[33:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “all alone.” The idea is that such vital resources as water will some day no longer need protection because God will provide security.

[33:28]  ⁸ tn Or “skies.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[33:28]  ⁹ tn Or perhaps “drizzle, showers.” See note at Deut 32:2.

[11:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “will become hot”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “will be kindled”; NAB “will flare up”; NIV, NLT “will burn.”

[11:17]  ⁹ tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[11:17]  ¹⁰ tn Or “be destroyed”; NAB, NIV “will soon perish.”

[11:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 11:4.

[29:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

[29:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

[29:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the entire oath.”

[29:20]  ¹² tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

[29:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”