Judges 19:9

19:9 When the man got ready to leave ¹  with his concubine and his servant, ²  his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look! The day is almost over! ³  Stay another night! Since the day is over, ⁴  stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home.” ⁵ 

Judges 19:21

19:21 So he brought him to his house and fed the donkeys. They washed their feet and had a meal. ⁶ 

Judges 9:27

9:27 They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, ⁷  squeezed out the juice, ⁸  and celebrated. They came to the temple ⁹  of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.

Judges 16:25

16:25 When they really started celebrating, ¹⁰  they said, “Call for Samson so he can entertain us!” So they summoned Samson from the prison and he entertained them. ¹¹  They made him stand between two pillars.

Ruth 3:7

3:7 When Boaz had finished his meal and was feeling satisfied, he lay down to sleep at the far end of the grain heap. ¹²  Then Ruth ¹³  crept up quietly, ¹⁴  uncovered his legs, ¹⁵  and lay down beside him. ¹⁶ 

Ruth 3:1

Naomi Instructs Ruth

3:1 At that time, ¹⁷  Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home for you so you will be secure. ¹⁸ 

Ruth 1:1

A Family Tragedy: Famine and Death

1:1 During the time of the judges ¹⁹  there was a famine in the land of Judah. ²⁰  So a man from Bethlehem ²¹  in Judah went to live as a resident foreigner ²²  in the region of Moab, along with his wife and two sons. ²³ 

Esther 1:10

Queen Vashti is Removed from Her Royal Position

1:10 On the seventh day, as King Ahasuerus was feeling the effects of the wine, ²⁴  he ordered Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who attended him, ²⁵ 

Psalms 104:15

104:15 as well as wine that makes people feel so good, ²⁶ 

and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, ²⁷ 

as well as food that sustains people’s lives. ²⁸ 

Luke 12:19

12:19 And I will say to myself, ²⁹  “You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’

Luke 12:1

Fear God, Not People

12:1 Meanwhile, ³⁰  when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus ³¹  began to speak first to his disciples, “Be on your guard against ³²  the yeast of the Pharisees, ³³  which is hypocrisy. ³⁴ 

Luke 5:3

5:3 He got into ³⁵  one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then ³⁶  Jesus ³⁷  sat down ³⁸  and taught the crowds from the boat.

Revelation 11:10

11:10 And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, even sending gifts to each other, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

Revelation 11:13

11:13 Just then ³⁹  a major earthquake took place and a tenth of the city collapsed; seven thousand people ⁴⁰  were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

[19:9]  ¹ tn Heb “the man arose to go.”

[19:9]  ² tn Or “young man.”

[19:9]  ³ tn Heb “the day is sinking to become evening.”

[19:9]  ⁴ tn Or “declining.”

[19:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “for your way and go to your tent.”

[19:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “ate and drank.”

[9:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “vineyards.”

[9:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “stomped” or “trampled.” This refers to the way in which the juice was squeezed out in the wine vats by stepping on the grapes with one’s bare feet. For a discussion of grape harvesting in ancient Israel, see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 110-14.

[9:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[16:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “When their heart was good.”

[16:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “before them.”

[3:7]  ¹² tn Heb “and Boaz ate and drank and his heart was well and he went to lie down at the end of the heap”; NAB “at the edge of the sheaves.”

[3:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “she”; the referent (Ruth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:7]  ¹⁴ sn Ruth must have waited until Boaz fell asleep, for he does not notice when she uncovers his legs and lies down beside him.

[3:7]  ¹⁵ tn See the note on the word “legs” in v. 4.

[3:7]  ¹⁶ tn The words “beside him” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. Cf. TEV “at his feet”; CEV “near his feet.”

[3:1]  ¹⁷ tn The phrase “sometime later” does not appear in Hebrew but is supplied to mark the implicit shift in time from the events in chapter 2.

[3:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “My daughter, should I not seek for you a resting place so that it may go well for you [or which will be good for you]?” The idiomatic, negated rhetorical question is equivalent to an affirmation (see 2:8-9) and has thus been translated in the affirmative (so also NAB, NCV, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

[1:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “in the days of the judging of the judges.” The LXX simply reads “when the judges judged,” and Syriac has “in the days of the judges.” Cf. NASB “in the days when the judges governed (ruled NRSV).”

[1:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “in the land.” The phrase “of Judah” is supplied in the translation to clarify the referent.

[1:1]  ²¹ sn The name Bethlehem (בֵּית לֶחֶם, bet lekhem) is from “house, place” (בֵּית) and “bread, food” (לֶחֶם), so the name literally means “House of Bread” or “Place of Food.” Perhaps there is irony here: One would not expect a severe famine in such a location. This would not necessarily indicate that Bethlehem was under divine discipline, but merely that the famine was very severe, explaining the reason for the family’s departure.

[1:1]  ²² tn Or “to live temporarily.” The verb גּוּר (gur, “sojourn”) may refer to (1) temporary dwelling in a location (Deut 18:6; Judg 17:7) or (2) permanent dwelling in a location (Judg 5:17; Ps 33:8). When used of a foreign land, it can refer to (1) temporary dwelling as a visiting foreigner (Gen 12:10; 20:1; 21:34; 2 Kgs 8:1-2; Jer 44:14) or (2) permanent dwelling as a resident foreigner (Gen 47:4; Exod 6:4; Num 15:14; Deut 26:5; 2 Sam 4:3; Jer 49:18,33; 50:40; Ezek 47:22-23). Although Naomi eventually returned to Judah, there is some ambiguity whether or not Elimelech intended the move to make them permanent resident foreigners. Cf. NASB “to sojourn” and NIV “to live for a while,” both of which imply the move was temporary, while “to live” (NCV, NRSV, NLT) is more neutral about the permanence of the relocation.

[1:1]  ²³ tn Heb “he and his wife and his two sons.” The LXX omits “two.”

[1:10]  ²⁴ tn Heb “as the heart of the king was good with the wine.” Here the proper name (King Ahasuerus) has been substituted for the title in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[1:10]  ²⁵ tn Heb “King Ahasuerus”; here the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun “him” in the translation for stylistic reasons. Cf. similarly NIV, NCV, CEV, NLT “King Xerxes.”

[104:15]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and wine [that] makes the heart of man happy.”

[104:15]  ²⁷ tn Heb “to make [the] face shine from oil.” The Hebrew verb צָהַל (tsahal, “to shine”) occurs only here in the OT. It appears to be an alternate form of צָהַר (tsahar), a derivative from צָהָרִים (tsaharim, “noon”).

[104:15]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and food [that] sustains the heart of man.”

[12:19]  ²⁹ tn Grk “to my soul,” which is repeated as a vocative in the following statement, but is left untranslated as redundant.

[12:1]  ³⁰ tn The phrase ἐν οἷς (en Jois) can be translated “meanwhile.”

[12:1]  ³¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:1]  ³² tn According to L&N 27.59, “to pay attention to, to keep on the lookout for, to be alert for, to be on your guard against.” This is another Lukan present imperative calling for constant vigilance.

[12:1]  ³³ sn See the note on Pharisees in 5:17.

[12:1]  ³⁴ sn The pursuit of popularity can lead to hypocrisy, if one is not careful.

[5:3]  ³⁵ tn Grk “Getting into”; the participle ἐμβάς (embas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[5:3]  ³⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[5:3]  ³⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:3]  ³⁸ tn Grk “sitting down”; the participle καθίσας (kaqisa") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[11:13]  ³⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[11:13]  ⁴⁰ tn Grk “seven thousand names of men.”