Numbers 16:29

16:29 If these men die a natural death, ¹  or if they share the fate ²  of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.

Deuteronomy 18:20-22

18:20 “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized ³  him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die. 18:21 Now if you say to yourselves, ⁴  ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ ⁵  – 18:22 whenever a prophet speaks in my ⁶  name and the prediction ⁷  is not fulfilled, ⁸  then I have ⁹  not spoken it; ¹⁰  the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.”

Deuteronomy 18:2

18:2 They ¹¹  will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; ¹²  the Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

Deuteronomy 1:10

1:10 The Lord your God has increased your population ¹³  to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky. ¹⁴ 

Deuteronomy 1:12

1:12 But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

Isaiah 44:26

44:26 who fulfills the oracles of his prophetic servants ¹⁵ 

and brings to pass the announcements ¹⁶  of his messengers,

who says about Jerusalem, ¹⁷  ‘She will be inhabited,’

and about the towns of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt,

her ruins I will raise up,’

Jeremiah 28:8-9

28:8 From earliest times, the prophets who preceded you and me invariably ¹⁸  prophesied war, disaster, ¹⁹  and plagues against many countries and great kingdoms. 28:9 So if a prophet prophesied ²⁰  peace and prosperity, it was only known that the Lord truly sent him when what he prophesied came true.”

Acts 13:10-11

13:10 and said, “You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing, ²¹  you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness – will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? ²²  13:11 Now ²³  look, the hand of the Lord is against ²⁴  you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!” Immediately mistiness ²⁵  and darkness came over ²⁶  him, and he went around seeking people ²⁷  to lead him by the hand.

[16:29]  ¹ tn Heb “if like the death of every man they die.”

[16:29]  ² tn The noun is פְּקֻדָּה (pÿquddah, “appointment, visitation”). The expression refers to a natural death, parallel to the first expression.

[18:20]  ³ tn Or “commanded” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[18:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “in your heart.”

[18:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “know the word which the Lord has not spoken.” The issue here is not understanding the meaning of the message, but distinguishing a genuine prophetic word from a false one.

[18:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “the Lord’s.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

[18:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”

[18:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”

[18:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “the Lord has.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

[18:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”

[18:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he” (and throughout the verse).

[18:2]  ¹² tn Heb “brothers,” but not referring to actual siblings. Cf. NASB “their countrymen”; NRSV “the other members of the community.”

[1:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “multiplied you.”

[1:10]  ¹⁴ tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[44:26]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the word of his servant.” The following context indicates that the Lord’s prophets are in view.

[44:26]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “counsel.” The Hebrew term עֵצָה (’etsah) probably refers here to the divine plan as announced by the prophets. See HALOT 867 s.v. I עֵצָה.

[44:26]  ¹⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[28:8]  ¹⁸ tn The word “invariably” is not in the text but is implicit in the context and in the tense of the Hebrew verb. It is supplied in the translation for clarity and to help bring out the contrast in the next verse.

[28:8]  ¹⁹ tc Many Hebrew mss read “starvation/famine” which is the second member of a common triad “sword, famine, and plague” in Jeremiah. This triad occurs thirteen times in the book and undoubtedly influenced a later scribe to read “starvation [= famine]” here. For this triad see the note on 14:14. The words “disaster and plagues” are missing in the LXX.

[28:9]  ²⁰ tn The verbs in this verse are to be interpreted as iterative imperfects in past time rather than as futures because of the explicit contrast that is drawn in the two verses by the emphatic syntactical construction of the two verses. Both verses begin with a casus pendens construction to throw the two verses into contrast: Heb “The prophets who were before me and you from ancient times, they prophesied…The prophet who prophesied peace, when the word of that prophet came true, that prophet was known that the Lord truly sent him.”

[13:10]  ²¹ tn Or “unscrupulousness.”

[13:10]  ²² sn “You who…paths of the Lord?” This rebuke is like ones from the OT prophets: Jer 5:27; Gen 32:11; Prov 10:7; Hos 14:9. Five separate remarks indicate the magician’s failings. The closing rhetorical question of v. 10 (“will you not stop…?”) shows how opposed he is to the way of God.

[13:11]  ²³ tn Grk “And now.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[13:11]  ²⁴ tn Grk “upon,” but in a negative sense.

[13:11]  ²⁵ sn The term translated mistiness here appears in the writings of the physician Galen as a medical technical description of a person who is blind. The picture of judgment to darkness is symbolic as well. Whatever power Elymas had, it represented darkness. Magic will again be an issue in Acts 19:18-19. This judgment is like that of Ananias and his wife in Acts 5:1-11.

[13:11]  ²⁶ tn Grk “fell on.”

[13:11]  ²⁷ tn The noun χειραγωγός (ceiragwgo") is plural, so “people” is used rather than singular “someone.”