Isaiah 65:9

65:9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,

and from Judah people to take possession of my mountains.

My chosen ones will take possession of the land; ¹ 

my servants will live there.

Isaiah 65:15

65:15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. ² 

The sovereign Lord will kill you,

but he will give his servants another name.

Genesis 5:5

5:5 The entire lifetime ³  of Adam was 930 years, and then he died. ⁴ 

Genesis 5:27

5:27 The entire lifetime of Methuselah was 969 years, and then he died.

Leviticus 26:16

26:16 I for my part ⁵  will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. ⁶  You will sow your seed in vain because ⁷  your enemies will eat it. ⁸ 

Psalms 92:12-14

92:12 The godly ⁹  grow like a palm tree;

they grow high like a cedar in Lebanon. ¹⁰ 

92:13 Planted in the Lord’s house,

they grow in the courts of our God.

92:14 They bear fruit even when they are old;

they are filled with vitality and have many leaves. ¹¹ 

Revelation 20:3-5

20:3 The angel ¹²  then ¹³  threw him into the abyss and locked ¹⁴  and sealed it so that he could not deceive the nations until the one thousand years were finished. (After these things he must be released for a brief period of time.)

20:4 Then ¹⁵  I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. ¹⁶  I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These ¹⁷  had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They ¹⁸  came to life ¹⁹  and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 20:5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) ²⁰  This is the first resurrection.

[65:9]  ¹ tn Heb “it.” The third feminine singular pronominal suffix probably refers to the land which contains the aforementioned mountains.

[65:15]  ² tn Heb “you will leave your name for an oath to my chosen ones.”

[5:5]  ³ tn Heb “all the days of Adam which he lived”

[5:5]  ⁴ sn The genealogy traces the line from Adam to Noah and forms a bridge between the earlier accounts and the flood story. Its constant theme of the reign of death in the human race is broken once with the account of Enoch, but the genealogy ends with hope for the future through Noah. See further G. F. Hasel, “The Genealogies of Gen. 5 and 11 and their Alleged Babylonian Background,” AUSS 16 (1978): 361-74; idem, “Genesis 5 and 11,” Origins 7 (1980): 23-37.

[26:16]  ⁵ tn Or “I also” (see HALOT 76 s.v. אַף 6.b).

[26:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “soul.” These expressions may refer either to the physical effects of consumption and fever as the rendering in the text suggests (e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 452, 454, “diminishing eyesight and loss of appetite”), or perhaps the more psychological effects, “which exhausts the eyes” because of anxious hope “and causes depression” (Heb “causes soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] to pine away”), e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 185.

[26:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have causal force here.

[26:16]  ⁸ tn That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.

[92:12]  ⁹ tn The singular is used in a representative sense, with the typical godly person being in view.

[92:12]  ¹⁰ sn The cedars of the Lebanon forest were well-known in ancient Israel for their immense size.

[92:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “they are juicy and fresh.”

[20:3]  ¹² tn Grk “he”; the referent (the angel introduced in v. 1) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:3]  ¹³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[20:3]  ¹⁴ tn Or “and shut.” While the lexical force of the term is closer to “shut,” it is acceptable to render the verb ἔκλεισεν (ekleisen) as “locked” here in view of the mention of the key in the previous verse.

[20:4]  ¹⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

[20:4]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “I saw thrones, and those seated on them, and judgment was given to them.” BDAG 567 s.v. κρίμα 3 says, “judging, judgment, the κρίμα ἐδόθη αὐτοῖς authority to judge was given to them Rv 20:4.”

[20:4]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “God, and who.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the pronoun “these” as subject.

[20:4]  ¹⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[20:4]  ¹⁹ tn On the use of the aorist ἔζησαν (ezhsan) BDAG 425 s.v. ζάω 1.a.β says, “of dead persons who return to life become alive again: of humans in general (3 Km 17:23) Mt 9:18; Ac 9:41; 20:12; Rv 20:4, 5.”

[20:5]  ²⁰ sn This statement appears to be a parenthetical comment by the author.