Isaiah 6:12

6:12 and the Lord has sent the people off to a distant place,

and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned. ¹ 

Deuteronomy 4:27-28

4:27 Then the Lord will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you ²  among the nations where the Lord will drive you. 4:28 There you will worship gods made by human hands – wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

Deuteronomy 28:25

Curses by Defeat and Deportation

28:25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror ³  to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:64

28:64 The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 32:26-27

The Weakness of Other Gods

32:26 “I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. ⁴ 

I want to make people forget they ever existed.

32:27 But I fear the reaction ⁵  of their enemies,

for ⁶  their adversaries would misunderstand

and say, “Our power is great, ⁷ 

and the Lord has not done all this!”’

Deuteronomy 32:1

Invocation of Witnesses

32:1 Listen, O heavens, and I will speak;

hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Deuteronomy 8:1-2

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ⁸  I am giving ⁹  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ¹⁰  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ¹¹  8:2 Remember the whole way by which he ¹²  has brought you these forty years through the desert ¹³  so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 17:6

17:6 At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

Deuteronomy 17:1-2

17:1 You must not sacrifice to him ¹⁴  a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive ¹⁵  to the Lord your God. 17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ¹⁶  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ¹⁷  and breaks his covenant

Deuteronomy 23:1

Purity in Public Worship

23:1 A man with crushed ¹⁸  or severed genitals ¹⁹  may not enter the assembly of the Lord. ²⁰ 

Jeremiah 32:37

32:37 ‘I will certainly regather my people from all the countries where I will have exiled ²¹  them in my anger, fury, and great wrath. I will bring them back to this place and allow them to live here in safety.

Ezekiel 5:12

5:12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. ²²  A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, ²³  and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 36:24

36:24 “‘I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries; then I will bring you to your land.

Luke 21:24

21:24 They ²⁴  will fall by the edge ²⁵  of the sword and be led away as captives ²⁶  among all nations. Jerusalem ²⁷  will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. ²⁸ 

[6:12]  ¹ tn Heb “and great is the abandonment in the midst of the land.”

[4:27]  ² tn Heb “you will be left men (i.e., few) of number.”

[28:25]  ³ tc The meaningless MT reading זַעֲוָה (za’avah) is clearly a transposition of the more commonly attested Hebrew noun זְוָעָה (zÿva’ah, “terror”).

[32:26]  ⁴ tc The LXX reads “I said I would scatter them.” This reading is followed by a number of English versions (e.g., KJV, ASV, NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT, CEV).

[32:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “anger.”

[32:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “lest.”

[32:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “Our hand is high.” Cf. NAB “Our own hand won the victory.”

[8:1]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

[8:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

[8:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

[8:2]  ¹² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:2]  ¹³ tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.

[17:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[17:1]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “an abomination”; cf. NAB) describes persons, things, or practices offensive to ritual or moral order. See M. Grisanti, NIDOTTE 4:314-18; see also the note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.

[17:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “gates.”

[17:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”

[23:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “bruised by crushing,” which many English versions take to refer to crushed testicles (NAB, NRSV, NLT); TEV “who has been castrated.”

[23:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “cut off with respect to the penis”; KJV, ASV “hath his privy member cut off”; English versions vary in their degree of euphemism here; cf. NAB, NRSV, TEV, NLT “penis”; NASB “male organ”; NCV “sex organ”; CEV “private parts”; NIV “emasculated by crushing or cutting.”

[23:1]  ²⁰ sn The Hebrew term translated “assembly” (קָהָל, qahal) does not refer here to the nation as such but to the formal services of the tabernacle or temple. Since emasculated or other sexually abnormal persons were commonly associated with pagan temple personnel, the thrust here may be primarily polemical in intent. One should not read into this anything having to do with the mentally and physically handicapped as fit to participate in the life and ministry of the church.

[32:37]  ²¹ tn The verb here should be interpreted as a future perfect; though some of the people have already been exiled (in 605 and 597 b.c.), some have not yet been exiled at the time this prophesy is given (see study note on v. 1 for the date). However, contemporary English style does not regularly use the future perfect, choosing instead to use the simple future or the simple perfect as the present translation has done here.

[5:12]  ²² sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.

[5:12]  ²³ sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.

[21:24]  ²⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[21:24]  ²⁵ tn Grk “by the mouth of the sword” (an idiom for the edge of a sword).

[21:24]  ²⁶ sn Here is the predicted judgment against the nation until the time of Gentile rule has passed: Its people will be led away as captives.

[21:24]  ²⁷ tn Grk “And Jerusalem.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[21:24]  ²⁸ sn Until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled implies a time when Israel again has a central role in God’s plan.