Genesis 41:43

41:43 Pharaoh ¹  had him ride in the chariot used by his second-in-command, ²  and they cried out before him, “Kneel down!” ³  So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 45:23-25

45:23 I solemnly make this oath ⁴  –

what I say is true and reliable: ⁵ 

‘Surely every knee will bow to me,

every tongue will solemnly affirm; ⁶ 

45:24 they will say about me,

“Yes, the Lord is a powerful deliverer.”’” ⁷ 

All who are angry at him will cower before him. ⁸ 

45:25 All the descendants of Israel will be vindicated by the Lord

and will boast in him. ⁹ 

Matthew 27:29

27:29 and after braiding ¹⁰  a crown of thorns, ¹¹  they put it on his head. They ¹²  put a staff ¹³  in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him: ¹⁴  “Hail, king of the Jews!” ¹⁵ 

Matthew 28:18

28:18 Then Jesus came up and said to them, ¹⁶  “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Romans 11:4

11:4 But what was the divine response ¹⁷  to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people ¹⁸  who have not bent the knee to Baal.” ¹⁹ 

Romans 14:10-11

14:10 But you who eat vegetables only – why do you judge your brother or sister? ²⁰  And you who eat everything – why do you despise your brother or sister? ²¹  For we will all stand before the judgment seat ²²  of God. 14:11 For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.” ²³ 

Ephesians 3:14

Prayer for Strengthened Love

3:14 For this reason ²⁴  I kneel ²⁵  before the Father, ²⁶ 

Hebrews 1:6

1:6 But when he again brings ²⁷  his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him!” ²⁸ 

Revelation 4:10

4:10 the twenty-four elders throw themselves to the ground ²⁹  before the one who sits on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever, and they offer their crowns ³⁰  before his ³¹  throne, saying:

Revelation 5:13-14

5:13 Then ³²  I heard every creature – in heaven, on earth, under the earth, in the sea, and all that is in them – singing: ³³ 

“To the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb

be praise, honor, glory, and ruling power ³⁴  forever and ever!”

5:14 And the four living creatures were saying “Amen,” and the elders threw themselves to the ground ³⁵  and worshiped.

[41:43]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Pharaoh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[41:43]  ² tn Heb “and he caused him to ride in the second chariot which was his.”

[41:43]  ³ tn The verb form appears to be a causative imperative from a verbal root meaning “to kneel.” It is a homonym of the word “bless” (identical in root letters but not related etymologically).

[45:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “I swear by myself”; KJV, NASB “have sworn.”

[45:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “a word goes out from my mouth [in] truth and will not return.”

[45:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “swear” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “confess allegiance.”

[45:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “‘Yes, in the Lord,’ one says about me, ‘is deliverance and strength.’”

[45:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “will come to him and be ashamed.”

[45:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “In the Lord all the offspring of Israel will be vindicated and boast.”

[27:29]  ¹⁰ tn Or “weaving.”

[27:29]  ¹¹ sn The crown may have been made from palm spines or some other thorny plant common in Israel. In placing the crown of thorns on his head, the soldiers were unwittingly symbolizing God’s curse on humanity (cf. Gen 3:18) being placed on Jesus. Their purpose would have been to mock Jesus’ claim to be a king; the crown of thorns would have represented the “radiant corona” portrayed on the heads of rulers on coins and other artifacts in the 1st century.

[27:29]  ¹² tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[27:29]  ¹³ tn Or “a reed.” The Greek term can mean either “staff” or “reed.” See BDAG 502 s.v. κάλαμος 2.

[27:29]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “they mocked him, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant and has not been translated.

[27:29]  ¹⁵ tn Or “Long live the King of the Jews!”

[28:18]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “coming, Jesus spoke to them, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn, “saying”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[11:4]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “the revelation,” “the oracle.”

[11:4]  ¹⁸ tn The Greek term here is ἀνήρ (anhr), which only exceptionally is used in a generic sense of both males and females. In this context, it appears to be a generic usage (“people”) since when Paul speaks of a remnant of faithful Israelites (“the elect,” v. 7), he is not referring to males only. It can also be argued, however, that it refers only to adult males here (“men”), perhaps as representative of all the faithful left in Israel.

[11:4]  ¹⁹ sn A quotation from 1 Kgs 19:18.

[14:10]  ²⁰ tn Grk “But why do you judge your brother?” The introductory phrase has been supplied in the translation to clarify whom Paul is addressing, i.e., the “weak” Christian who eats only vegetables (see vv. 2-3). The author uses the singular pronoun here to rhetorically address one person, but the plural has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[14:10]  ²¹ tn Grk “Or again, why do you despise your brother?” The introductory phrase has been supplied in the translation to clarify whom Paul is addressing, i.e., the “strong” Christian who eats everything (see vv. 2-3). The author uses the singular pronoun here to rhetorically address one person, but the plural has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[14:10]  ²² sn The judgment seat (βῆμα, bhma) was a raised platform mounted by steps and sometimes furnished with a seat, used by officials in addressing an assembly or making pronouncements, often on judicial matters. The judgment seat was a familiar item in Greco-Roman culture, often located in the agora, the public square or marketplace in the center of a city.

[14:11]  ²³ sn A quotation from Isa 45:23.

[3:14]  ²⁴ sn For this reason resumes the point begun in v. 1, after a long parenthesis.

[3:14]  ²⁵ tn Grk “I bend my knees.”

[3:14]  ²⁶ tc Most Western and Byzantine witnesses, along with a few others (א² D F G Ψ 0278 1881 Ï lat sy), have “of our Lord Jesus Christ” after “Father,” but such an edifying phrase cannot explain the rise of the reading that lacks it, especially when the shorter reading is attested by early and important witnesses such as Ì⁴⁶ א* A B C P 6 33 81 365 1175 1739 co Or Hier.

[1:6]  ²⁷ tn Or “And again when he brings.” The translation adopted in the text looks forward to Christ’s second coming to earth. Some take “again” to introduce the quotation (as in 1:5) and understand this as Christ’s first coming, but this view does not fit well with Heb 2:7. Others understand it as his exaltation/ascension to heaven, but this takes the phrase “into the world” in an unlikely way.

[1:6]  ²⁸ sn A quotation combining themes from Deut 32:43 and Ps 97:7.

[4:10]  ²⁹ tn Grk “the twenty-four elders fall down.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion or humility, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”

[4:10]  ³⁰ sn See the note on the word crown in Rev 3:11.

[4:10]  ³¹ tn The pronoun “his” is understood from the demonstrative force of the article τοῦ (tou) before θρόνου (qronou).

[5:13]  ³² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[5:13]  ³³ tn Grk “saying.”

[5:13]  ³⁴ tn Or “dominion.”

[5:14]  ³⁵ tn Grk “fell down.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion or humility, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”