Genesis 27:42

27:42 When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, ¹  she quickly summoned ²  her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you. ³ 

Genesis 27:1

Jacob Cheats Esau out of the Blessing

27:1 When ⁴  Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, ⁵  he called his older ⁶  son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau ⁷  replied.

Genesis 20:1-2

Abraham and Abimelech

20:1 Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev ⁸  region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident ⁹  in Gerar, 20:2 Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

Genesis 22:18

22:18 Because you have obeyed me, ¹⁰  all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another ¹¹  using the name of your descendants.’”

Job 37:23

37:23 As for the Almighty, ¹²  we cannot attain to him!

He is great in power,

but justice ¹³  and abundant righteousness he does not oppress.

Psalms 45:1

Psalm 45 ¹⁴ 

For the music director; according to the tune of “Lilies;” ¹⁵  by the Korahites, a well-written poem, ¹⁶  a love song.

45:1 My heart is stirred by a beautiful song. ¹⁷ 

I say, “I have composed this special song ¹⁸  for the king;

my tongue is as skilled as the stylus of an experienced scribe.” ¹⁹ 

Matthew 22:31

22:31 Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, ²⁰ 

Romans 11:28

11:28 In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.

Philippians 3:5-6

3:5 I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee. ²¹  3:6 In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

[27:42]  ¹ tn Heb “and the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah.”

[27:42]  ² tn Heb “she sent and called for.”

[27:42]  ³ tn Heb “is consoling himself with respect to you to kill you.” The only way Esau had of dealing with his anger at the moment was to plan to kill his brother after the death of Isaac.

[27:1]  ⁴ tn The clause begins with the temporal indicator (“and it happened”), making it subordinate to the main clause that follows later in the sentence.

[27:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “and his eyes were weak from seeing.”

[27:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “greater” (in terms of age).

[27:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Esau) is specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:1]  ⁸ tn Or “the South [country]”; Heb “the land of the Negev.”

[20:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he sojourned.”

[22:18]  ¹⁰ tn In the Hebrew text this causal clause comes at the end of the sentence. The translation alters the word order for stylistic reasons.

[22:18]  ¹¹ tn Traditionally the verb is taken as passive (“will be blessed”) here, as if Abraham’s descendants were going to be a channel or source of blessing to the nations. But the Hitpael is better understood here as reflexive/reciprocal, “will bless [i.e., pronounce blessings on] themselves/one another” (see also Gen 26:4). Elsewhere the Hitpael of the verb “to bless” is used with a reflexive/reciprocal sense in Deut 29:18; Ps 72:17; Isa 65:16; Jer 4:2. Gen 12:2 predicts that Abram will be held up as a paradigm of divine blessing and that people will use his name in their blessing formulae. For examples of blessing formulae utilizing an individual as an example of blessing see Gen 48:20 and Ruth 4:11. Earlier formulations of this promise (see Gen 12:2; 18:18) use the Niphal stem. (See also Gen 28:14.)

[37:23]  ¹² tn The name “Almighty” is here a casus pendens, isolating the name at the front of the sentence and resuming it with a pronoun.

[37:23]  ¹³ tn The MT places the major disjunctive accent (the atnach) under “power,” indicating that “and justice” as a disjunctive clause starting the second half of the verse (with ESV, NASB, NIV, NLT). Ignoring the Masoretic accent, NRSV has “he is great in power and justice.”

[45:1]  ¹⁴ sn Psalm 45. This is a romantic poem celebrating the Davidic king’s marriage to a lovely princess. The psalmist praises the king for his military prowess and commitment to justice, urges the bride to be loyal to the king, and anticipates that the marriage will be blessed with royal offspring.

[45:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “according to lilies.” “Lilies” may be a tune title or musical style, suggestive of romantic love. The imagery of a “lily” appears frequently in the Song of Solomon in a variety of contexts (see 2:1-2, 16; 4:5; 5:13; 6:2-3; 7:2).

[45:1]  ¹⁶ tn The meaning of the Hebrew term מַשְׂכִּיל (maskil) is uncertain. See the note on the phrase “well-written song” in the superscription of Ps 42.

[45:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “[with] a good word.” The “good word” probably refers here to the song that follows.

[45:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “my works [are] for a king.” The plural “works” may here indicate degree, referring to the special musical composition that follows.

[45:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “my tongue [is] a stylus of a skillful scribe.” Words flow from the psalmist’s tongue just as they do from a scribe’s stylus.

[22:31]  ²⁰ tn Grk “spoken to you by God, saying.” The participle λέγοντος (legontos) is redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[3:5]  ²¹ sn A Pharisee was a member of one of the most important and influential religious and political parties of Judaism in the time of Jesus. There were more Pharisees than Sadducees (according to Josephus, Ant. 17.2.4 [17.42] there were more than 6,000 Pharisees at about this time). Pharisees differed with Sadducees on certain doctrines and patterns of behavior. The Pharisees were strict and zealous adherents to the laws of the OT and to numerous additional traditions such as angels and bodily resurrection.