Deuteronomy 25:19

25:19 So when the Lord your God gives you relief from all the enemies who surround you in the land he ¹  is giving you as an inheritance, ²  you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven ³  – do not forget! ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 25:1

25:1 If controversy arises between people, ⁵  they should go to court for judgment. When the judges ⁶  hear the case, they shall exonerate ⁷  the innocent but condemn ⁸  the guilty.

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ⁹  I am giving ¹⁰  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ¹¹  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ¹² 

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ¹³  I am giving ¹⁴  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ¹⁵  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ¹⁶ 

Deuteronomy 23:25

23:25 When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand, ¹⁷  but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor’s ripe grain.

Micah 2:10

2:10 But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! ¹⁸ 

For this land is not secure! ¹⁹ 

Sin will thoroughly destroy it! ²⁰ 

Hebrews 4:8-9

4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God ²¹  would not have spoken afterward about another day. 4:9 Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

Hebrews 4:1

God’s Promised Rest

4:1 Therefore we must be wary ²²  that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.

Hebrews 1:3-4

1:3 The Son is ²³  the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, ²⁴  and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. ²⁵  1:4 Thus he became ²⁶  so far better than the angels as ²⁷  he has inherited a name superior to theirs.

[25:19]  ¹ tn Heb “ the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[25:19]  ² tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.”

[25:19]  ³ tn Or “from beneath the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[25:19]  ⁴ sn This command is fulfilled in 1 Sam 15:1-33.

[25:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “men.”

[25:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the judges) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “declare to be just”; KJV, NASB “justify the righteous”; NAB, NIV “acquitting the innocent.”

[25:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “declare to be evil”; NIV “condemning the guilty (+ party NAB).”

[8:1]  ⁹ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

[8:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

[8:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

[8:1]  ¹² tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

[8:1]  ¹³ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

[8:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

[8:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

[8:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

[23:25]  ¹⁷ sn For the continuation of these practices into NT times see Matt 12:1-8; Mark 2:23-28; Luke 6:1-5.

[2:10]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Arise and go!” These imperatives are rhetorical. Those who wrongly drove widows and orphans from their homes and land inheritances will themselves be driven out of the land (cf. Isa 5:8-17). This is an example of poetic justice.

[2:10]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “for this is no resting place.” The Lord speaks to the oppressors.

[2:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “uncleanness will destroy, and destruction will be severe.”

[4:8]  ²¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:1]  ²² tn Grk “let us fear.”

[1:3]  ²³ tn Grk “who being…and sustaining.” Heb 1:1-4 form one skillfully composed sentence in Greek, but it must be broken into shorter segments to correspond to contemporary English usage, which does not allow for sentences of this length and complexity.

[1:3]  ²⁴ tn Grk “by the word of his power.”

[1:3]  ²⁵ sn An allusion to Ps 110:1, quoted often in Hebrews.

[1:4]  ²⁶ tn Grk “having become.” This is part of the same sentence that extends from v. 1 through v. 4 in the Greek text.

[1:4]  ²⁷ tn Most modern English translations attempt to make the comparison somewhat smoother by treating “name” as if it were the subject of the second element: “as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, CEV). However, the Son is the subject of both the first and second elements: “he became so far better”; “he has inherited a name.” The present translation maintains this parallelism even though it results in a somewhat more awkward rendering.