Joshua 6:19

6:19 All the silver and gold, as well as bronze and iron items, belong to the Lord. ¹  They must go into the Lord’s treasury.”

Joshua 6:2

6:2 The Lord told Joshua, “See, I am about to defeat Jericho for you, ²  along with its king and its warriors.

Joshua 8:10-11

8:10 Bright and early the next morning Joshua gathered ³  the army, ⁴  and he and the leaders ⁵  of Israel marched ⁶  at the head of it ⁷  to Ai. 8:11 All the troops that were with him marched up and drew near the city. ⁸  They camped north of Ai on the other side of the valley. ⁹ 

Psalms 68:29

68:29 as you come out of your temple in Jerusalem! ¹⁰ 

Kings bring tribute to you.

Psalms 72:10

72:10 The kings of Tarshish ¹¹  and the coastlands will offer gifts;

the kings of Sheba ¹²  and Seba ¹³  will bring tribute.

Isaiah 18:7

18:7 At that time

tribute will be brought to the Lord who commands armies,

by a people that are tall and smooth-skinned,

a people that are feared far and wide,

a nation strong and victorious,

whose land rivers divide. ¹⁴ 

The tribute ¹⁵  will be brought to the place where the Lord who commands armies has chosen to reside, on Mount Zion. ¹⁶ 

Isaiah 23:18

23:18 Her profits and earnings will be set apart for the Lord. They will not be stored up or accumulated, for her profits will be given to those who live in the Lord’s presence and will be used to purchase large quantities of food and beautiful clothes. ¹⁷ 

Isaiah 60:6-9

60:6 Camel caravans will cover your roads, ¹⁸ 

young camels from Midian and Ephah.

All the merchants of Sheba ¹⁹  will come,

bringing gold and incense

and singing praises to the Lord. ²⁰ 

60:7 All the sheep of Kedar will be gathered to you;

the rams of Nebaioth will be available to you as sacrifices. ²¹ 

They will go up on my altar acceptably, ²² 

and I will bestow honor on my majestic temple.

60:8 Who are these who float along ²³  like a cloud,

who fly like doves to their shelters? ²⁴ 

60:9 Indeed, the coastlands ²⁵  look eagerly for me,

the large ships ²⁶  are in the lead,

bringing your sons from far away,

along with their silver and gold,

to honor the Lord your God, ²⁷ 

the Holy One of Israel, ²⁸  for he has bestowed honor on you.

Romans 15:25-28

15:25 But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints. 15:26 For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. 15:27 For they were pleased to do this, and indeed they are indebted to the Jerusalem saints. ²⁹  For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to minister to them in material things. 15:28 Therefore after I have completed this and have safely delivered this bounty to them, ³⁰  I will set out for Spain by way of you,

Romans 15:1

Exhortation for the Strong to Help the Weak

15:1 But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves. ³¹ 

Colossians 1:2

1:2 to the saints, the faithful ³²  brothers and sisters ³³  in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you ³⁴  from God our Father! ³⁵ 

Revelation 21:24-26

21:24 The nations ³⁶  will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur ³⁷  into it. 21:25 Its gates will never be closed during the day ³⁸  (and ³⁹  there will be no night there). ⁴⁰  21:26 They will bring the grandeur and the wealth ⁴¹  of the nations ⁴²  into it,

[6:19]  ¹ tn Heb “it is holy to the Lord.”

[6:2]  ² tn Heb “I have given into your hand Jericho.” The Hebrew verb נָתַתִּי (natatti, “I have given”) is probably best understood as a perfect of certitude, indicating the certainty of the action. The Hebrew pronominal suffix “your” is singular, being addressed to Joshua as the leader and representative of the nation. To convey to the modern reader what is about to happen and who is doing it, the translation “I am about to defeat Jericho for you” has been used.

[8:10]  ³ tn Or “summoned, mustered.”

[8:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “the people.”

[8:10]  ⁵ tn Or “elders.”

[8:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “went up.”

[8:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “them” (referring to “the people” in the previous clause, which requires a plural pronoun). Since the translation used “army” in the previous clause, a singular pronoun (“it”) is required in English.

[8:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “All the people of war who were with him went up and approached and came opposite the city.”

[8:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the valley [was] between them and Ai.”

[68:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Be strong, O God, [you] who have acted for us, from your temple in Jerusalem.”

[72:10]  ¹¹ sn Tarshish was a distant western port, the precise location of which is uncertain.

[72:10]  ¹² sn Sheba was located in Arabia.

[72:10]  ¹³ sn Seba was located in Africa.

[18:7]  ¹⁴ tn On the interpretive difficulties of this verse, see the notes at v. 2, where the same terminology is used.

[18:7]  ¹⁵ tn The words “the tribute” are repeated here in the translation for clarity.

[18:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to the place of the name of the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts], Mount Zion.”

[23:18]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “for eating to fullness and for beautiful covering[s].”

[60:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “an abundance of camels will cover you.”

[60:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “all of them, from Sheba.”

[60:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and they will announce the praises of the Lord.”

[60:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “will serve you,” i.e., be available as sacrifices (see the next line). Another option is to understood these “rams” as symbolic of leaders who will be subject to the people of Zion. See v. 10.

[60:7]  ²² tc Heb “they will go up on acceptance [on] my altar.” Some have suggested that the preposition עַל (’al) is dittographic (note the preceding יַעֲלוּ [ya’alu]). Consequently, the form should be emended to לְרָצוֹן (lÿratson, “acceptably”; see BDB 953 s.v. רָצוֹן). However, the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a has both לרצון followed by the preposition על, which would argue against deleted the preposition. As the above translation seeks to demonstrate, the preposition עַל (’al) indicates a norm (“in accordance with acceptance” or “acceptably”; IBHS 218 §11.2.13e, n. 111) and the “altar” functions as an objective accusative with a verb of motion (cf. Gen 49:4; Lev 2:2; Num 13:17; J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 2:534, n. 14).

[60:8]  ²³ tn Heb “fly” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NAB, NIV “fly along.”

[60:8]  ²⁴ tn Heb “to their windows,” i.e., to the openings in their coops. See HALOT 83 s.v. אֲרֻבָּה.

[60:9]  ²⁵ tn Or “islands” (NIV); CEV “distant islands”; TEV “distant lands.”

[60:9]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the ships of Tarshish.” See the note at 2:16.

[60:9]  ²⁷ tn Heb “to the name of the Lord your God.”

[60:9]  ²⁸ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[15:27]  ²⁹ tn Grk “to them”; the referent (the Jerusalem saints) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:28]  ³⁰ tn Grk “have sealed this fruit to them.”

[15:1]  ³¹ tn Grk “and not please ourselves.” NT Greek negatives used in contrast like this are often not absolute, but relative: “not so much one as the other.”

[1:2]  ³² tn Grk “and faithful.” The construction in Greek (as well as Paul’s style) suggests that the saints are identical to the faithful; hence, the καί (kai) is best left untranslated (cf. Eph 1:1). See ExSyn 281-82.

[1:2]  ³³ tn Grk “brothers,” but the Greek word may be used for “brothers and sisters” or “fellow Christians” as here (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 1, where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [adelfoi] meaning “brothers and sisters” is cited).

[1:2]  ³⁴ tn Or “Grace to you and peace.”

[1:2]  ³⁵ tc Most witnesses, including some important ones (א A C F G I [P] 075 Ï it bo), read “and the Lord Jesus Christ” at the end of this verse, no doubt to conform the wording to the typical Pauline salutation. However, excellent and early witnesses (B D K L Ψ 33 81 1175 1505 1739 1881 al sa) lack this phrase. Since the omission is inexplicable as arising from the longer reading (otherwise, these mss would surely have deleted the phrase in the rest of the corpus Paulinum), it is surely authentic.

[21:24]  ³⁶ tn Or “the Gentiles” (the same Greek word may be translated “Gentiles” or “nations”).

[21:24]  ³⁷ tn Or “splendor”; Grk “glory.”

[21:25]  ³⁸ tn On the translation “during the day” see BDAG 436 s.v. ἡμέρα 1.a, “But also, as in Thu. et al., of time within which someth. occurs, ἡμέρας during the day Rv 21:25.”

[21:25]  ³⁹ tn The Greek connective γάρ (gar) most often expresses some sort of causal connection. However, in this context there is no causal force to the second phrase; γάρ simply expresses continuation or connection. Because of this it has been translated as “and.” See BDAG 189-90 s.v. 2.

[21:25]  ⁴⁰ tn The clause has virtually the force of a parenthetical comment.

[21:26]  ⁴¹ tn Grk “honor,” but BDAG 1005 s.v. τιμή 2.b states, “An outstanding feature of the use of τ., as already shown in several passages, is its combination w. δόξα…of earthly possessions τὴν δόξαν καὶ τὴν τιμὴν τῶν ἐθνῶν Rv 21:26 (τιμή concr.=an object of value: Ezk 22:25).”

[21:26]  ⁴² tn Or “the Gentiles” (the same Greek word may be translated “Gentiles” or “nations”).