Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 28:15
Context28:15 “But if you ignore 1 the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: 2
Leviticus 26:18
Context26:18 “‘If, in spite of all these things, 3 you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins. 4
Leviticus 26:24
Context26:24 I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you 5 seven times on account of your sins.
Isaiah 24:17-18
Context24:17 Terror, pit, and snare
are ready to overtake you inhabitants of the earth! 6
24:18 The one who runs away from the sound of the terror
will fall into the pit; 7
the one who climbs out of the pit,
will be trapped by the snare.
For the floodgates of the heavens 8 are opened up 9
and the foundations of the earth shake.
Isaiah 26:15
Context26:15 You have made the nation larger, 10 O Lord,
you have made the nation larger and revealed your splendor, 11
you have extended all the borders of the land.
Jeremiah 15:2-3
Context15:2 If they ask you, ‘Where should we go?’ tell them the Lord says this:
“Those who are destined to die of disease will go to death by disease.
Those who are destined to die in war will go to death in war.
Those who are destined to die of starvation will go to death by starvation.
Those who are destined to go into exile will go into exile.” 12
15:3 “I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses. 13
Ezekiel 14:21
Context14:21 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments – sword, famine, wild animals, and plague – to Jerusalem 14 to kill both people and animals!
Matthew 24:7-8
Context24:7 For nation will rise up in arms 15 against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines 16 and earthquakes 17 in various places. 24:8 All 18 these things are the beginning of birth pains.
[28:15] 1 tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”
[28:15] 2 tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”
[26:18] 3 tn Heb “And if until these.”
[26:18] 4 tn Heb “I will add to discipline you seven [times] on your sins.”
[26:24] 5 tn Heb “and I myself will also strike you.”
[24:17] 6 tn Heb “[are] upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.” The first line of v. 17 provides another classic example of Hebrew wordplay. The names of the three instruments of judgment (פָח,פַחַת,פַּחַד [pakhad, fakhat, fakh]) all begin with the letters פח (peh-khet) and the first two end in dental consonants (ת/ד, tet/dalet). Once again the repetition of sound draws attention to the statement and contributes to the theme of the inescapability of judgment. As their similar-sounding names suggest, terror, pit, and snare are allies in destroying the objects of divine wrath.
[24:18] 7 tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
[24:18] 8 tn Heb “from the height”; KJV “from on high.”
[24:18] 9 sn The language reflects the account of the Noahic Flood (see Gen 7:11).
[26:15] 10 tn Heb “you have added to the nation.” The last line of the verse suggests that geographical expansion is in view. “The nation” is Judah.
[26:15] 11 tn Or “brought honor to yourself.”
[15:2] 12 tn It is difficult to render the rhetorical force of this passage in meaningful English. The text answers the question “Where should we go?” with four brief staccato-like expressions with a play on the preposition “to”: Heb “Who to the death, to the death and who to the sword, to the sword and who to the starvation, to the starvation and who to the captivity, to the captivity.” The word “death” here is commonly understood to be a poetic substitute for “plague” because of the standard trio of sword, famine, and plague (see, e.g., 14:12 and the notes there). This is likely here and in 18:21. For further support see W. L. Holladay, Jeremiah (Hermeneia), 1:440. The nuance “starvation” rather than “famine” has been chosen in the translation because the referents here are all things that accompany war.
[15:3] 13 tn The translation attempts to render in understandable English some rather unusual uses of terms here. The verb translated “punish” is often used that way (cf. BDB 823 s.v. פָּקַד Qal.A.3 and compare usage in Jer 11:22, 13:21). However, here it is accompanied by a direct object and a preposition meaning “over” which is usually used in the sense of appointing someone over someone (cf. BDB 823 s.v. פָּקַד Qal.B.1 and compare usage in Jer 51:27). Moreover the word translated “different ways” normally refers to “families,” “clans,” or “guilds” (cf. BDB 1046-47 s.v. מִשְׁפָּחָה for usage). Hence the four things mentioned are referred to figuratively as officers or agents into whose power the
[14:21] 14 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[24:7] 15 tn For the translation “rise up in arms” see L&N 55.2.
[24:7] 16 sn See Isa 5:13-14; 13:6-16; Hag 2:6-7; Zech 14:4.
[24:7] 17 tc Most witnesses (C Θ 0102 Ë1,13 Ï) have “and plagues” (καὶ λοιμοί, kai loimoi) between “famines” (λιμοί, limoi) and “earthquakes” (σεισμοί, seismoi), while others have “plagues and famines and earthquakes” (L W 33 pc lat). The similarities between λιμοί and λοιμοί could explain how καὶ λοιμοί might have accidentally dropped out, but since the Lukan parallel has both terms (and W lat have the order λοιμοὶ καὶ λιμοί there too, as they do in Matthew), it seems more likely that scribes added the phrase here. The shorter reading does not enjoy overwhelming support ([א] B D 892 pc, as well as versional witnesses), but it is nevertheless significant; coupled with the internal evidence it should be given preference.
