Joshua 3:10

3:10 Joshua continued, ¹  “This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Leviticus 26:11-12

26:11 “‘I will put my tabernacle ²  in your midst and I will not abhor you. ³  26:12 I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.

Numbers 14:41-43

14:41 But Moses said, “Why ⁴  are you now transgressing the commandment ⁵  of the Lord? It will not succeed! 14:42 Do not go up, for the Lord is not among you, and you will be ⁶  defeated before your enemies. 14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.”

Numbers 14:2

14:2 And all the Israelites murmured ⁷  against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died ⁸  in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished ⁹  in this wilderness!

Numbers 15:2

15:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land where you are to live, ¹⁰  which I am giving you, ¹¹ 

Psalms 68:17

68:17 God has countless chariots;

they number in the thousands. ¹² 

The Lord comes from Sinai in holy splendor. ¹³ 

Isaiah 12:6

12:6 Cry out and shout for joy, O citizens of Zion,

for the Holy One of Israel ¹⁴  acts mightily ¹⁵  among you!”

Zechariah 8:23

8:23 The Lord who rules over all says, ‘In those days ten people from all languages and nations will grasp hold of – indeed, grab – the robe of one Jew and say, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’” ¹⁶ 

Matthew 1:23

1:23 “Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him ¹⁷  Emmanuel,” ¹⁸  which means ¹⁹  “God with us.” ²⁰ 

Matthew 1:1

The Genealogy of Jesus Christ

1:1 This is the record of the genealogy ²¹  of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Colossians 1:25

1:25 I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship ²²  from God – given to me for you – in order to complete ²³  the word of God,

[3:10]  ¹ tn Heb “said.”

[26:11]  ² tn LXX codexes Vaticanus and Alexandrinus have “my covenant” rather than “my tabernacle.” Cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV “my dwelling.”

[26:11]  ³ tn Heb “and my soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] will not abhor you.”

[14:41]  ⁴ tn The line literally has, “Why is this [that] you are transgressing….” The demonstrative pronoun is enclitic; it brings the force of “why in the world are you doing this now?”

[14:41]  ⁵ tn Heb “mouth.”

[14:42]  ⁶ tn This verb could also be subordinated to the preceding: “that you be not smitten.”

[14:2]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew verb “to murmur” is לוּן (lun). It is a strong word, signifying far more than complaining or grumbling, as some of the modern translations have it. The word is most often connected to the wilderness experience. It is paralleled in the literature with the word “to rebel.” The murmuring is like a parliamentary vote of no confidence, for they no longer trusted their leaders and wished to choose a new leader and return. This “return to Egypt” becomes a symbol of their lack of faith in the Lord.

[14:2]  ⁸ tn The optative is expressed by לוּ (lu) and then the verb, here the perfect tense מַתְנוּ (matnu) – “O that we had died….” Had they wanted to die in Egypt they should not have cried out to the Lord to deliver them from bondage. Here the people became consumed with the fear and worry of what lay ahead, and in their panic they revealed a lack of trust in God.

[14:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “died.”

[15:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the land of your habitations.”

[15:2]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew participle here has the futur instans use of the participle, expressing that something is going to take place. It is not imminent, but it is certain that God would give the land to Israel.

[68:17]  ¹² tn Heb “thousands of [?].” The meaning of the word שִׁנְאָן (shin’an), which occurs only here in the OT, is uncertain. Perhaps the form should be emended to שַׁאֲנָן (sha’anan, “at ease”) and be translated here “held in reserve.”

[68:17]  ¹³ tc The MT reads, “the Lord [is] among them, Sinai, in holiness,” which is syntactically difficult. The present translation assumes an emendation to אֲדֹנָי בָּא מִסִּינַי (’adonay ba’ missinay; see BHS note b-b and Deut 33:2).

[12:6]  ¹⁴ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[12:6]  ¹⁵ tn Or “is great” (TEV). However, the context emphasizes his mighty acts of deliverance (cf. NCV), not some general or vague character quality.

[8:23]  ¹⁶ sn This scene of universal and overwhelming attraction of the nations to Israel’s God finds initial fulfillment in the establishment of the church (Acts 2:5-11) but ultimate completion in the messianic age (Isa 45:14, 24; 60:14; Zech 14:16-21).

[1:23]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “they will call his name.”

[1:23]  ¹⁸ sn A quotation from Isa 7:14.

[1:23]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “is translated.”

[1:23]  ²⁰ sn An allusion to Isa 8:8, 10 (LXX).

[1:1]  ²¹ tn Grk “the book of the genealogy.” The noun βίβλος (biblo"), though it is without the article, is to be translated as definite due to Apollonius’ corollary and the normal use of anarthrous nouns in titles.

[1:25]  ²² tn BDAG 697 s.v. οἰκονομία 1.b renders the term here as “divine office.”

[1:25]  ²³ tn See BDAG 828 s.v. πληρόω 3. The idea here seems to be that the apostle wants to “complete the word of God” in that he wants to preach it to every person in the known world (cf. Rom 15:19). See P. T. O’Brien, Colossians, Philemon (WBC), 82.