Judges 3:7-8

Othniel: A Model Leader

3:7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. ¹  They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs. ²  3:8 The Lord was furious with Israel ³  and turned them over to ⁴  King Cushan-Rishathaim ⁵  of Aram-Naharaim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim’s subjects ⁶  for eight years.

Judges 10:7

10:7 The Lord was furious with Israel ⁷  and turned them over to ⁸  the Philistines and Ammonites.

Leviticus 26:28

26:28 I will walk in hostile rage against you ⁹  and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

Numbers 32:14

32:14 Now look, you are standing in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the Lord against the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 28:20

Curses by Disease and Drought

28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you ¹⁰  in everything you undertake ¹¹  until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. ¹² 

Deuteronomy 28:58

The Curse of Covenant Termination

28:58 “If you refuse to obey ¹³  all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,

Deuteronomy 29:19-20

29:19 When such a person ¹⁴  hears the words of this oath he secretly ¹⁵  blesses himself ¹⁶  and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” ¹⁷  This will destroy ¹⁸  the watered ground with the parched. ¹⁹  29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger ²⁰  will rage ²¹  against that man; all the curses ²²  written in this scroll will fall upon him ²³  and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. ²⁴ 

Deuteronomy 31:17-18

31:17 At that time ²⁵  my anger will erupt against them ²⁶  and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome ²⁷  them ²⁸  so that they ²⁹  will say at that time, ‘Have not these disasters ³⁰  overcome us ³¹  because our ³²  God is not among us ³³ ?’ 31:18 But I will certainly ³⁴  hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they ³⁵  will have done by turning to other gods.

Deuteronomy 31:2

31:2 He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, ³⁶  and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’

Deuteronomy 1:16

1:16 I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they ³⁷  should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens ³⁸  and judge fairly, ³⁹  whether between one citizen and another ⁴⁰  or a citizen and a resident foreigner. ⁴¹ 

Psalms 106:40-42

106:40 So the Lord was angry with his people ⁴² 

and despised the people who belong to him. ⁴³ 

106:41 He handed them over to ⁴⁴  the nations,

and those who hated them ruled over them.

106:42 Their enemies oppressed them;

they were subject to their authority. ⁴⁵ 

[3:7]  ¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

[3:7]  ² sn The Asherahs were local manifestations of the Canaanite goddess Asherah.

[3:8]  ³ tn Or “The Lord’s anger burned (or raged) against Israel.”

[3:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”

[3:8]  ⁵ tn Or “Cushan the Doubly Wicked.”

[3:8]  ⁶ tn Or “they served Cushan-Rishathaim.”

[10:7]  ⁵ tn Or “the Lord’s anger burned [or “raged”] against Israel.”

[10:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”

[26:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “in rage of hostility with you”; NASB “with wrathful hostility”; NRSV “I will continue hostile to you in fury”; CEV “I’ll get really furious.”

[28:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”

[28:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”

[28:20]  ¹¹ tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.

[28:58]  ¹¹ tn Heb “If you are not careful to do.”

[29:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the subject of the warning in v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[29:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in his heart.”

[29:19]  ¹⁵ tn Or “invokes a blessing on himself.” A formalized word of blessing is in view, the content of which appears later in the verse.

[29:19]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “heart.”

[29:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “thus destroying.” For stylistic reasons the translation begins a new sentence here.

[29:19]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the watered with the parched.” The word “ground” is implied. The exact meaning of the phrase is uncertain although it appears to be figurative. This appears to be a proverbial observation employing a figure of speech (a merism) suggesting totality. That is, the Israelite who violates the letter and even spirit of the covenant will harm not only himself but everything he touches – “the watered and the parched.” Cf. CEV “you will cause the rest of Israel to be punished along with you.”

[29:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

[29:20]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

[29:20]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the entire oath.”

[29:20]  ¹⁸ tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

[29:20]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

[31:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “on that day.” This same expression also appears later in the verse and in v. 18.

[31:17]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “find,” “encounter.”

[31:17]  ²⁰ tn Heb “him.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “them.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:17]  ²¹ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:17]  ²² tn Heb “evils.”

[31:17]  ²³ tn Heb “me.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “us,” which is necessary in any case in the translation because of contemporary English style.

[31:17]  ²⁴ tn Heb “my.”

[31:17]  ²⁵ tn Heb “me.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “us,” which is necessary in any case in the translation because of contemporary English style.

[31:18]  ¹⁹ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “certainly.”

[31:18]  ²⁰ tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.

[31:2]  ²¹ tn Or “am no longer able to lead you” (NIV, NLT); Heb “am no longer able to go out and come in.”

[1:16]  ²³ tn Or “you.” A number of English versions treat the remainder of this verse and v. 17 as direct discourse rather than indirect discourse (cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[1:16]  ²⁴ tn Heb “brothers.” The term “brothers” could, in English, be understood to refer to siblings, so “fellow citizens” has been used in the translation.

[1:16]  ²⁵ tn The Hebrew word צֶדֶק (tsedeq, “fairly”) carries the basic idea of conformity to a norm of expected behavior or character, one established by God himself. Fair judgment adheres strictly to that norm or standard (see D. Reimer, NIDOTTE 3:750).

[1:16]  ²⁶ tn Heb “between a man and his brother.”

[1:16]  ²⁷ tn Heb “his stranger” or “his sojourner”; NAB, NIV “an alien”; NRSV “resident alien.” The Hebrew word גֵּר (ger) commonly means “foreigner.”

[106:40]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the anger of the Lord burned against his people.”

[106:40]  ²⁶ tn Heb “his inheritance.”

[106:41]  ²⁷ tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”

[106:42]  ²⁹ tn Heb “they were subdued under their hand.”