Exodus 32:34

32:34 So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See, ¹  my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin.” ² 

Numbers 14:35

14:35 I, the Lord, have said, “I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”

Deuteronomy 18:19

18:19 I will personally hold responsible ³  anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet ⁴  speaks in my name.

Joshua 24:19

24:19 Joshua warned ⁵  the people, “You will not keep worshiping ⁶  the Lord, for ⁷  he is a holy God. ⁸  He is a jealous God who will not forgive ⁹  your rebellion or your sins.

Jeremiah 5:7

5:7 The Lord asked, ¹⁰ 

“How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? ¹¹ 

Your people ¹²  have rejected me

and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. ¹³ 

Even though I supplied all their needs, ¹⁴  they were like an unfaithful wife to me. ¹⁵ 

They went flocking ¹⁶  to the houses of prostitutes. ¹⁷ 

Hebrews 3:11

3:11 “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” ¹⁸ 

Hebrews 10:26-29

10:26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, ¹⁹  10:27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury ²⁰  of fire that will consume God’s enemies. ²¹  10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death ²²  without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²³  10:29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for ²⁴  the Son of God, and profanes ²⁵  the blood of the covenant that made him holy, ²⁶  and insults the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 12:25

12:25 Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?

Hebrews 12:1

The Lord’s Discipline

12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, ²⁷  we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

Hebrews 5:1

5:1 For every high priest is taken from among the people ²⁸  and appointed ²⁹  to represent them before God, ³⁰  to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

[32:34]  ¹ tn Heb “behold, look.” Moses should take this fact into consideration.

[32:34]  ² sn The Law said that God would not clear the guilty. But here the punishment is postponed to some future date when he would revisit this matter. Others have taken the line to mean that whenever a reckoning was considered necessary, then this sin would be included (see B. Jacob, Exodus, 957). The repetition of the verb traditionally rendered “visit” in both clauses puts emphasis on the certainty – so “indeed.”

[18:19]  ³ tn Heb “will seek from him”; NAB “I myself will make him answer for it”; NRSV “will hold accountable.”

[18:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet mentioned in v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “said to.”

[24:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “you are not able to serve.”

[24:19]  ⁷ sn For an excellent discussion of Joshua’s logical argument here, see T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 274-75.

[24:19]  ⁸ tn In the Hebrew text both the divine name (אֱלֹהִים, ’elohim) and the adjective (קְדֹשִׁים, qÿdoshim, “holy”) are plural. Normally the divine name, when referring to the one true God, takes singular modifiers, but this is a rare exception where the adjective agrees grammatically with the honorific plural noun. See GKC §124.i and IBHS 122.

[24:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “lift up” or “take away.”

[5:7]  ¹⁰ tn These words are not in the text, but are supplied in the translation to make clear who is speaking.

[5:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “How can I forgive [or pardon] you.” The pronoun “you” is second feminine singular, referring to the city. See v. 1.

[5:7]  ¹² tn Heb “your children.”

[5:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they have sworn [oaths] by not-gods.”

[5:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I satisfied them to the full.”

[5:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “they committed adultery.” It is difficult to decide whether literal adultery with other women or spiritual adultery with other gods is meant. The word for adultery is used for both in the book of Jeremiah. For examples of its use for spiritual adultery see 3:8, 9; 9:2. For examples of its use for literal adultery see 7:9; 23:14. The context here could argue for either. The swearing by other gods and the implicit contradiction in their actions in contrast to the expected gratitude for supplying their needs argues for spiritual adultery. However, the reference to prostitution in the next line and the reference to chasing after their neighbor’s wives argues for literal adultery. The translation opts for spiritual adultery because of the contrast implicit in the concessive clause.

[5:7]  ¹⁶ tn There is a great deal of debate about the meaning of this word. Most of the modern English versions follow the lead of lexicographers who relate this word to a noun meaning “troop” and understand it to mean “they trooped together” (cf. BDB 151 s.v. גָּדַד Hithpo.2 and compare the usage in Mic 5:1 [4:14 HT]). A few of the modern English versions and commentaries follow the reading of the Greek and read a word meaning “they lodged” (reading ִיתְגּוֹרְרוּ [yitggorÿru] from I גּוּר [gur; cf. HALOT 177 s.v. Hithpo. and compare the usage in 1 Kgs 17:20] instead of יִתְגֹּדָדוּ [yitggodadu]). W. L. Holladay (Jeremiah [Hermeneia], 1:180) sees a reference here to the cultic practice of cutting oneself in supplication to pagan gods (cf. BDB 151 s.v. גָּדַד Hithpo.1 and compare the usage in 1 Kgs 18:28). The houses of prostitutes would then be a reference to ritual prostitutes at the pagan shrines. The translation follows BDB and the majority of modern English versions.

[5:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “to a house of a prostitute.”

[3:11]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “if they shall enter my rest,” a Hebrew idiom expressing an oath that something will certainly not happen.

[10:26]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “is left,” with “for us” implied by the first half of the verse.

[10:27]  ²⁰ tn Grk “zeal,” recalling God’s jealous protection of his holiness and honor (cf. Exod 20:5).

[10:27]  ²¹ tn Grk “the enemies.”

[10:28]  ²² tn Grk “dies.”

[10:28]  ²³ sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.

[10:29]  ²⁴ tn Grk “tramples under foot.”

[10:29]  ²⁵ tn Grk “regarded as common.”

[10:29]  ²⁶ tn Grk “by which he was made holy.”

[12:1]  ²⁷ tn Grk “having such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us.”

[5:1]  ²⁸ tn Grk “from among men,” but since the point in context is shared humanity (rather than shared maleness), the plural Greek term ἀνθρώπων (anqrwpwn) has been translated “people.”

[5:1]  ²⁹ tn Grk “who is taken from among people is appointed.”

[5:1]  ³⁰ tn Grk “appointed on behalf of people in reference to things relating to God.”