Jeremiah 37:21

37:21 Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread ¹  be given to him every day from the baker’s street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept ²  in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

Psalms 109:5

109:5 They repay me evil for good, ³ 

and hate for love.

Luke 3:19-20

3:19 But when John rebuked Herod ⁴  the tetrarch ⁵  because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, ⁶  and because of all the evil deeds ⁷  that he had done, 3:20 Herod added this to them all: He locked up John in prison.

[37:21]  ¹ tn Heb “And/Then King Zedekiah ordered and they committed Jeremiah to [or deposited…in] the courtyard of the guardhouse and they gave to him a loaf of bread.” The translation has been structured the way it has to avoid the ambiguous “they” which is the impersonal subject which is sometimes rendered passive in English (cf. GKC 460 §144.d). This text also has another example of the vav (ו) + infinitive absolute continuing a finite verbal form (וְנָתֹן [vÿnaton] = “and they gave”; cf. GKC 345 §113.y and see Jer 32:44; 36:23).

[37:21]  ² tn Heb “Stayed/Remained/ Lived.”

[109:5]  ³ tn Heb “and they set upon me evil in place of good.”

[3:19]  ⁴ sn Herod refers here to Herod Antipas. See the note on Herod Antipas in 3:1.

[3:19]  ⁵ sn See the note on tetrarch in 3:1.

[3:19]  ⁶ tc Several mss (A C K W Ψ 33 565 579 1424 2542 al bo) read τῆς γυναικὸς Φιλίππου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ (th" gunaiko" Filippou tou adelfou autou, “the wife of his brother Philip”), specifying whose wife Herodias was. The addition of “Philip,” however, is an assimilation to Matt 14:3 and is lacking in the better witnesses.

[3:19]  ⁷ tn Or “immoralities.”