Judges 19:22

19:22 They were having a good time, ¹  when suddenly ²  some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, ³  surrounded the house and kept beating ⁴  on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house, “Send out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him.” ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 13:13

13:13 some evil people ⁶  have departed from among you to entice the inhabitants of their cities, ⁷  saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods” (whom you have not known before). ⁸ 

Deuteronomy 13:1

13:1 Suppose a prophet or one who foretells by dreams ⁹  should appear among you and show you a sign or wonder, ¹⁰ 

Deuteronomy 30:1-2

The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation

30:1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses ¹¹  I have set before you, you will reflect upon them ¹²  in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you. 30:2 Then if you and your descendants ¹³  turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being ¹⁴  just as ¹⁵  I am commanding you today,

Deuteronomy 20:1

Laws Concerning War with Distant Enemies

20:1 When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry ¹⁶  and troops ¹⁷  who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

Deuteronomy 23:6

23:6 You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.

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 

Deuteronomy 21:13

21:13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, ²¹  and stay ²²  in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations ²³  with her and become her husband and she your wife.

Deuteronomy 21:2

21:2 your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse. ²⁴ 

Deuteronomy 13:7

13:7 the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth ²⁵  to the other).

[19:22]  ¹ tn Heb “they were making their heart good.”

[19:22]  ² tn Heb “and look.”

[19:22]  ³ tn Heb “the men of the city, men, the sons of wickedness.” The phrases are in apposition; the last phrase specifies what type of men they were. It is not certain if all the men of the city are in view, or just a group of troublemakers. In 20:5 the town leaders are implicated in the crime, suggesting that all the men of the city were involved. If so, the implication is that the entire male population of the town were good-for-nothings.

[19:22]  ⁴ tn The Hitpael verb form appears to have an iterative force here, indicating repeated action.

[19:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “so we can know him.” On the surface one might think they simply wanted to meet the visitor and get to know him, but their hostile actions betray their double-talk. The old man, who has been living with them long enough to know what they are like, seems to have no doubts about the meaning of their words (see v. 23).

[13:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “men, sons of Belial.” The Hebrew term בְּלִיַּעַל (bÿliyya’al) has the idea of worthlessness, without morals or scruples (HALOT 133-34 s.v.). Cf. NAB, NRSV “scoundrels”; TEV, CEV “worthless people”; NLT “worthless rabble.”

[13:13]  ⁷ tc The LXX and Tg read “your” for the MT’s “their.”

[13:13]  ⁸ tn The translation understands the relative clause as a statement by Moses, not as part of the quotation from the evildoers. See also v. 2.

[13:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “or a dreamer of dreams” (so KJV, ASV, NASB). The difference between a prophet (נָבִיא, navi’) and one who foretells by dreams (חֹלֵם אוֹ, ’o kholem) was not so much one of office – for both received revelation by dreams (cf. Num 12:6) – as it was of function or emphasis. The prophet was more a proclaimer and interpreter of revelation whereas the one who foretold by dreams was a receiver of revelation. In later times the role of the one who foretold by dreams was abused and thus denigrated as compared to that of the prophet (cf. Jer 23:28).

[13:1]  ¹⁰ tn The expression אוֹת אוֹ מוֹפֵת (’ot ’o mofet) became a formulaic way of speaking of ways of authenticating prophetic messages or other works of God (cf. Deut 28:46; Isa 20:3). The NT equivalent is the Greek term σημεῖον (shmeion), a sign performed (used frequently in the Gospel of John, cf. 2:11, 18; 20:30-31). They could, however, be counterfeited or (as here) permitted to false prophets by the Lord as a means of testing his people.

[30:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the blessing and the curse.”

[30:1]  ¹² tn Heb “and you bring (them) back to your heart.”

[30:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “children.”

[30:2]  ¹⁴ tn Or “heart and soul” (also in vv. 6, 10).

[30:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “according to all.”

[20:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “horse and chariot.”

[20:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “people.”

[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.

[21:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “she is to…remove the clothing of her captivity” (cf. NASB); NRSV “discard her captive’s garb.”

[21:13]  ²² tn Heb “sit”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “remain.”

[21:13]  ²³ tn Heb “go unto,” a common Hebrew euphemism for sexual relations.

[21:2]  ²⁴ tn Heb “surrounding the slain [one].”

[13:7]  ²⁵ tn Or “land” (so NIV, NCV); the same Hebrew word can be translated “land” or “earth.”