Joshua 21:43-45

21:43 So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, ¹  and they conquered ²  it and lived in it. 21:44 The Lord made them secure, ³  in fulfillment of all he had solemnly promised their ancestors. ⁴  None of their enemies could resist them. ⁵  21:45 Not one of the Lord’s faithful promises to the family of Israel ⁶  was left unfulfilled; every one was realized. ⁷ 

Exodus 3:8

3:8 I have come down ⁸  to deliver them ⁹  from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, ¹⁰  to a land flowing with milk and honey, ¹¹  to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. ¹² 

Exodus 23:27-30

23:27 “I will send my terror ¹³  before you, and I will destroy ¹⁴  all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs ¹⁵  to you. 23:28 I will send ¹⁶  hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you. 23:29 I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals ¹⁷  multiply against you. 23:30 Little by little ¹⁸  I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

Leviticus 26:3-13

The Benefits of Obedience

26:3 “‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments, ¹⁹  26:4 I will give you your rains in their time so that ²⁰  the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. ²¹  26:5 Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, ²²  and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so ²³  you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, ²⁴  and you will live securely in your land. 26:6 I will grant peace in the land so that ²⁵  you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. ²⁶  I will remove harmful animals ²⁷  from the land, and no sword of war ²⁸  will pass through your land. 26:7 You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword. ²⁹  26:8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. 26:9 I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain ³⁰  my covenant with you. 26:10 You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year ³¹  and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new. ³² 

26:11 “‘I will put my tabernacle ³³  in your midst and I will not abhor you. ³⁴  26:12 I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people. 26:13 I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, ³⁵  and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright. ³⁶ 

Numbers 23:19

23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie,

nor a human being, ³⁷  that he should change his mind.

Has he said, and will he not do it?

Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen? ³⁸ 

Deuteronomy 28:1-14

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed ³⁹  obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving ⁴⁰  you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth. 28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance ⁴¹  if you obey the Lord your God: 28:3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field. ⁴²  28:4 Your children ⁴³  will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 28:5 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed. 28:6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. ⁴⁴  28:7 The Lord will cause your enemies who attack ⁴⁵  you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction ⁴⁶  but flee from you in seven different directions. 28:8 The Lord will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do – yes, he will bless you in the land he ⁴⁷  is giving you. 28:9 The Lord will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments ⁴⁸  and obey him. ⁴⁹  28:10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, ⁵⁰  and they will respect you. 28:11 The Lord will greatly multiply your children, ⁵¹  the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he ⁵²  promised your ancestors ⁵³  he would give you. 28:12 The Lord will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; ⁵⁴  you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any. 28:13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his ⁵⁵  commandments which I am urging ⁵⁶  you today to be careful to do. 28:14 But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving ⁵⁷  you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship ⁵⁸  them.

Deuteronomy 28:1

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed ⁵⁹  obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving ⁶⁰  you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 3:19

3:19 But your wives, children, and livestock (of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.

Deuteronomy 3:1

Defeat of King Og of Bashan

3:1 Next we set out on ⁶¹  the route to Bashan, ⁶²  but King Og of Bashan and his whole army ⁶³  came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. ⁶⁴ 

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ⁶⁵  I am giving ⁶⁶  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ⁶⁷  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ⁶⁸ 

Luke 21:33

21:33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. ⁶⁹ 

[21:43]  ¹ tn Heb “which he had sworn to give to their fathers.”

[21:43]  ² tn Or “possessed.”

[21:44]  ³ tn Heb “gave them rest all around.”

[21:44]  ⁴ tn Heb “according to all he swore to their fathers.”

[21:44]  ⁵ tn Heb “not a man stood from before them from all their enemies.”

[21:45]  ⁵ tn Heb “the house of Israel.” Cf. NCV “the Israelites”; TEV “the people of Israel”; CEV, NLT “Israel.”

[21:45]  ⁶ tn Heb “not a word from all the good word which the Lord spoke to the house of Israel fell; the whole came to pass.”

[3:8]  ⁷ sn God’s coming down is a frequent anthropomorphism in Genesis and Exodus. It expresses his direct involvement, often in the exercise of judgment.

[3:8]  ⁸ tn The Hiphil infinitive with the suffix is לְהַצִּילוֹ (lÿhatsilo, “to deliver them”). It expresses the purpose of God’s coming down. The verb itself is used for delivering or rescuing in the general sense, and snatching out of danger for the specific.

[3:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “to a land good and large”; NRSV “to a good and broad land.” In the translation the words “that is both” are supplied because in contemporary English “good and” combined with any additional descriptive term can be understood as elative (“good and large” = “very large”; “good and spacious” = “very spacious”; “good and ready” = “very ready”). The point made in the Hebrew text is that the land to which they are going is both good (in terms of quality) and large (in terms of size).

[3:8]  ¹⁰ tn This vibrant description of the promised land is a familiar one. Gesenius classifies “milk and honey” as epexegetical genitives because they provide more precise description following a verbal adjective in the construct state (GKC 418-19 §128.x). The land is modified by “flowing,” and “flowing” is explained by the genitives “milk and honey.” These two products will be in abundance in the land, and they therefore exemplify what a desirable land it is. The language is hyperbolic, as if the land were streaming with these products.

[3:8]  ¹¹ tn Each people group is joined to the preceding by the vav conjunction, “and.” Each also has the definite article, as in other similar lists (3:17; 13:5; 34:11). To repeat the conjunction and article in the translation seems to put more weight on the list in English than is necessary to its function in identifying what land God was giving the Israelites.

[23:27]  ⁹ tn The word for “terror” is אֵימָתִי (’emati); the word has the thought of “panic” or “dread.” God would make the nations panic as they heard of the exploits and knew the Israelites were drawing near. U. Cassuto thinks the reference to “hornets” in v. 28 may be a reference to this fear, an unreasoning dread, rather than to another insect invasion (Exodus, 308). Others suggest it is symbolic of an invading army or a country like Egypt or literal insects (see E. Neufeld, “Insects as Warfare Agents in the Ancient Near East,” Or 49 [1980]: 30-57).

[23:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “kill.”

[23:27]  ¹¹ tn The text has “and I will give all your enemies to you [as] a back.” The verb of making takes two accusatives, the second being the adverbial accusative of product (see GKC 371-72 §117.ii, n. 1).

[23:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and I will send.”

[23:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “the beast of the field.”

[23:30]  ¹⁵ tn The repetition expresses an exceptional or super-fine quality (see GKC 396 §123.e).

[26:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and my commandments you shall keep and do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 20:8; 25:18, etc.).

[26:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[26:4]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the tree of the field will give its fruit.” As a collective singular this has been translated as plural.

[26:5]  ²¹ tn Heb “will reach for you the vintage season.”

[26:5]  ²² tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[26:5]  ²³ tn Heb “to satisfaction”; KJV, ASV, NASB “to the full.”

[26:6]  ²³ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[26:6]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and there will be no one who terrifies.” The words “to sleep” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[26:6]  ²⁵ tn Heb “harmful animal,” singular, but taken here as a collective plural (so almost all English versions).

[26:6]  ²⁶ tn Heb “no sword”; the words “of war” are supplied in the translation to indicate what the metaphor of the sword represents.

[26:7]  ²⁵ tn Heb “to the sword.”

[26:9]  ²⁷ tn Heb “cause to arise,” but probably used here for the Lord’s intention of confirming or maintaining the covenant commitment made at Sinai. Cf. KJV “establish”; NASB “will confirm”; NAB “carry out”; NIV “will keep.”

[26:10]  ²⁹ tn Heb “old [produce] growing old.”

[26:10]  ³⁰ tn Heb “and old from the presence of new you will bring out.”

[26:11]  ³¹ tn LXX codexes Vaticanus and Alexandrinus have “my covenant” rather than “my tabernacle.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV “my dwelling.”

[26:11]  ³² tn Heb “and my soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] will not abhor you.”

[26:13]  ³³ tn Heb “from being to them slaves.”

[26:13]  ³⁴ tn In other words, to walk as free people and not as slaves. Cf. NIV “with (+ your CEV, NLT) heads held high”; NCV “proudly.”

[23:19]  ³⁵ tn Heb “son of man.”

[23:19]  ³⁶ tn The verb is the Hiphil of קוּם (qum, “to cause to rise; to make stand”). The meaning here is more of the sense of fulfilling the promises made.

[28:1]  ³⁷ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

[28:1]  ³⁸ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

[28:2]  ³⁹ tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”

[28:3]  ⁴¹ tn Or “in the country” (so NAB, NIV, NLT). This expression also occurs in v. 15.

[28:4]  ⁴³ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[28:6]  ⁴⁵ sn Come in…go out. To “come in” and “go out” is a figure of speech (merism) indicating all of life and its activities.

[28:7]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “who rise up against” (so NIV).

[28:7]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “way” (also later in this verse and in v. 25).

[28:8]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” Because English would not typically reintroduce the proper name following a relative pronoun (“he will bless…the Lord your God is giving”), the pronoun (“he”) has been employed here in the translation.

[28:9]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in the previous verse.

[28:9]  ⁵² tn Heb “and walk in his ways” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[28:10]  ⁵³ tn Heb “the name of the Lord is called over you.” The Hebrew idiom indicates ownership; see 2 Sam 12:28; Isa 4:1, as well as BDB 896 s.v. קָרָא Niph. 2.d.(4).

[28:11]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “will give you a lot of children.”

[28:11]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:11]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 36, 64).

[28:12]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”

[28:13]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:13]  ⁶⁰ tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”

[28:14]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “from all the words which I am commanding.”

[28:14]  ⁶² tn Heb “in order to serve.”

[28:1]  ⁶³ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

[28:1]  ⁶⁴ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

[3:1]  ⁶⁵ tn Heb “turned and went up.”

[3:1]  ⁶⁶ sn Bashan. This plateau country, famous for its oaks (Isa 2:13) and cattle (Deut 32:14; Amos 4:1), was north of Gilead along the Yarmuk River.

[3:1]  ⁶⁷ tn Heb “people.”

[3:1]  ⁶⁸ sn Edrei is probably modern Deràa, 60 mi (95 km) south of Damascus (see Num 21:33; Josh 12:4; 13:12, 31; also mentioned in Deut 1:4).

[8:1]  ⁶⁷ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

[8:1]  ⁶⁸ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

[8:1]  ⁶⁹ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

[8:1]  ⁷⁰ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

[21:33]  ⁶⁹ sn The words that Jesus predicts here will never pass away. They are more stable and lasting than creation itself. For this kind of image, see Isa 40:8; 55:10-11.