Numbers 24:14

24:14 And now, I am about to go ¹  back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future.” ² 

Deuteronomy 4:30

4:30 In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, ³  if you return to the Lord your God and obey him ⁴ 

Isaiah 2:2

2:2 In the future ⁵ 

the mountain of the Lord’s temple will endure ⁶ 

as the most important of mountains,

and will be the most prominent of hills. ⁷ 

All the nations will stream to it,

Jeremiah 30:24

30:24 The anger of the Lord will not turn back

until he has fully carried out his intended purposes.

In days to come you will come to understand this. ⁸ 

Ezekiel 38:8

38:8 After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war, ⁹  with many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people ¹⁰  were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely.

Ezekiel 38:16

38:16 You will advance ¹¹  against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself ¹²  through you, O Gog.

Daniel 2:28

2:28 However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, ¹³  and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the times to come. ¹⁴  The dream and the visions you had while lying on your bed ¹⁵  are as follows.

Daniel 10:14

10:14 Now I have come to help you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to future days.”

Micah 4:1

Better Days Ahead for Jerusalem

4:1 In the future ¹⁶  the Lord’s Temple Mount will be the most important mountain of all; ¹⁷ 

it will be more prominent than other hills. ¹⁸ 

People will stream to it.

Romans 11:25

11:25 For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, ¹⁹  so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel ²⁰  until the full number ²¹  of the Gentiles has come in.

[24:14]  ¹ tn The construction is the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) suffixed followed by the active participle. This is the futur instans use of the participle, to express something that is about to happen: “I am about to go.”

[24:14]  ² tn Heb “in the latter days.” For more on this expression, see E. Lipinski, “באחרית הימים dans les textes préexiliques,” VT 20 (1970): 445-50.

[4:30]  ³ sn The phrase is not used here in a technical sense for the eschaton, but rather refers to a future time when Israel will be punished for its sin and experience exile. See Deut 31:29.

[4:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “hear his voice.” The expression is an idiom meaning “obey,” occurring in Deut 8:20; 9:23; 13:18; 21:18, 20; 26:14, 17; 27:10; 28:1-2, 15, 45, 62; 30:2, 8, 10, 20.

[2:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the end of the days.” This phrase may refer generally to the future, or more technically to the final period of history. See BDB 31 s.v. ַאחֲרִית. The verse begins with a verb that functions as a “discourse particle” and is not translated. In numerous places throughout the OT, the “to be” verb with a prefixed conjunction (וְהָיָה [vÿhayah] and וַיְהִי [vayÿhi]) occurs in this fashion to introduce a circumstantial clause and does not require translation.

[2:2]  ⁶ tn Or “be established” (KJV, NIV, NRSV).

[2:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “as the chief of the mountains, and will be lifted up above the hills.” The image of Mount Zion being elevated above other mountains and hills pictures the prominence it will attain in the future.

[30:24]  ⁸ sn Jer 30:23-24 are almost a verbatim repetition of 23:19-20. There the verses were addressed to the people of Jerusalem as a warning that the false prophets had no intimate awareness of the Lord’s plans which were plans of destruction for wicked Israel not plans of peace and prosperity. Here they function as further assurance that the Lord will judge the wicked nations oppressing them when he reverses their fortunes and restores them once again to the land as his special people (cf. vv. 18-22).

[38:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “from the sword.”

[38:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “it.”

[38:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “come up.”

[38:16]  ¹² tn Or “reveal my holiness.”

[2:28]  ¹³ tn Aram “a revealer of mysteries.” The phrase serves as a quasi-title for God in Daniel.

[2:28]  ¹⁴ tn Aram “in the latter days.”

[2:28]  ¹⁵ tn Aram “your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed.”

[4:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “at the end of days.”

[4:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “will be established as the head of the mountains.”

[4:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “it will be lifted up above the hills.”

[11:25]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[11:25]  ²⁰ tn Or “Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.”

[11:25]  ²¹ tn Grk “fullness.”