Discovery BoxNumbers 14:28
Context14:28 Say to them, ‘As I live, 1 says 2 the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing. 3
Numbers 14:40
Context14:40 And early 4 in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, 5 saying, “Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the Lord commanded, 6 for we have sinned.” 7
Numbers 16:37
Context16:37 “Tell 8 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pick up 9 the censers out of the flame, for they are holy, and then scatter the coals of fire 10 at a distance.
Numbers 20:14
Context20:14 11 Moses 12 sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: 13 “Thus says your brother Israel: ‘You know all the hardships we have experienced, 14
Numbers 21:16
Context21:16 And from there they traveled 15 to Beer; 16 that is the well where the Lord spoke to Moses, “Gather the people and I will give them water.”
Numbers 22:16
Context22:16 And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak son of Zippor: ‘Please do not let anything hinder you from coming 17 to me.
Numbers 23:19
Context23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie,
nor a human being, 18 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? 19
[14:28] 1 sn Here again is the oath that God swore in his wrath, an oath he swore by himself, that they would not enter the land. “As the
[14:28] 2 tn The word נְאֻם (nÿ’um) is an “oracle.” It is followed by the subjective genitive: “the oracle of the
[14:28] 3 tn Heb “in my ears.”
[14:40] 4 tn The verb וַיַּשְׁכִּמוּ (vayyashkimu) is often found in a verbal hendiadys construction: “They rose early…and they went up” means “they went up early.”
[14:40] 5 tn The Hebrew text says literally “the top of the hill,” but judging from the location and the terrain it probably means the heights of the hill country.
[14:40] 6 tn The verb is simply “said,” but it means the place that the
[14:40] 7 sn Their sin was unbelief. They could have gone and conquered the area if they had trusted the
[16:37] 8 tn The verb is the jussive with a vav (ו) coming after the imperative; it may be subordinated to form a purpose clause (“that he may pick up”) or the object of the imperative.
[16:37] 9 tn The Hebrew text just has “fire,” but it would be hard to conceive of this action apart from the idea of coals of fire.
[20:14] 10 sn For this particular section, see W. F. Albright, “From the Patriarchs to Moses: 2. Moses out of Egypt,” BA 36 (1973): 57-58; J. R. Bartlett, “The Land of Seir and the Brotherhood of Edom,” JTS 20 (1969): 1-20, and “The Rise and Fall of the Kingdom of Edom,” PEQ 104 (1972): 22-37, and “The Brotherhood of Edom,” JSOT 4 (1977): 2-7.
[20:14] 11 tn Heb “And Moses sent.”
[20:14] 12 sn Some modern biblical scholars are convinced, largely through arguments from silence, that there were no unified kingdoms in Edom until the 9th century, and no settlements there before the 12th century, and so the story must be late and largely fabricated. The evidence is beginning to point to the contrary. But the cities and residents of the region would largely be Bedouin, and so leave no real remains.
[21:16] 13 tn The words “they traveled” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied here because of English style. The same phrase is supplied at the end of v. 18.
[21:16] 14 sn Isa 15:8 mentions a Moabite Beerelim, which Simons suggests is Wadi Ettemed.
[22:16] 16 tn The infinitive construct is the object of the preposition.
[23:19] 19 tn Heb “son of man.”
[23:19] 20 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.
