Numbers 23:19

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

nor a human being, ¹  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? ² 

Numbers 32:23

32:23 “But if you do not do this, then look, you will have sinned ³  against the Lord. And know that your sin will find you out.

Numbers 32:2

32:2 the Gadites and the Reubenites came and addressed Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community. They said,

Numbers 36:1

Women and Land Inheritance

36:1 Then the heads of the family groups ⁴  of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses ⁵  and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families. ⁶ 

Isaiah 44:26

44:26 who fulfills the oracles of his prophetic servants ⁷ 

and brings to pass the announcements ⁸  of his messengers,

who says about Jerusalem, ⁹  ‘She will be inhabited,’

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

her ruins I will raise up,’

Jeremiah 26:15

26:15 But you should take careful note of this: If you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves and this city and those who live in it the guilt of murdering an innocent man. For the Lord has sent me to speak all this where you can hear it. That is the truth!” ¹⁰ 

Jeremiah 44:28

44:28 Some who survive in battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt. But they will be very few indeed! ¹¹  Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word proves true, ¹²  mine or theirs.’

Ezekiel 12:25-28

12:25 For I, the Lord, will speak. Whatever word I speak will be accomplished. It will not be delayed any longer. Indeed in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and accomplish it, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

12:26 The word of the Lord came to me: 12:27 “Take note, son of man, the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for distant days; he is prophesying about the far future.’ 12:28 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: None of my words will be delayed any longer! The word I speak will come to pass, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Daniel 9:11-12

9:11 “All Israel has broken ¹³  your law and turned away by not obeying you. ¹⁴  Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened ¹⁵  in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you. ¹⁶  9:12 He has carried out his threats ¹⁷  against us and our rulers ¹⁸  who were over ¹⁹  us by bringing great calamity on us – what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven!

Matthew 24:35

24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. ²⁰ 

[23:19]  ¹ tn Heb “son of man.”

[23:19]  ² 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.

[32:23]  ³ tn The nuance of the perfect tense here has to be the future perfect.

[36:1]  ⁴ tn The expression is “the heads of the fathers by the family of the Gileadites.”

[36:1]  ⁵ tn The Greek and the Syriac add “and before Eleazar the priest.”

[36:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “heads of the fathers.”

[44:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “the word of his servant.” The following context indicates that the Lord’s prophets are in view.

[44:26]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[26:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “For in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak in your ears all these words/things.”

[44:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “The survivors of the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number [more literally, “men of number”; for the idiom see BDB 709 s.v. מִסְפָּר 1.a].” The term “survivors of the sword” may be intended to represent both those who survive death in war or death by starvation or disease, a synecdoche of species for all three genera.

[44:28]  ¹² tn Heb “will stand,” i.e., in the sense of being fulfilled, proving to be true, or succeeding (see BDB 878 s.v. קוּם 7.g).

[9:11]  ¹³ tn Or “transgressed.” The Hebrew verb has the primary sense of crossing a boundary, in this case, God’s law.

[9:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “by not paying attention to your voice.”

[9:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the curse and the oath which is written.” The term “curse” refers here to the judgments threatened in the Mosaic law (see Deut 28) for rebellion. The expression “the curse and the oath” is probably a hendiadys (cf. Num 5:21; Neh 10:29) referring to the fact that the covenant with its threatened judgments was ratified by solemn oath and made legally binding upon the covenant community.

[9:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “him.”

[9:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “he has fulfilled his word(s) which he spoke.”

[9:12]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “our judges.”

[9:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “who judged.”

[24:35]  ²⁰ 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.