Discovery Box| (0.44555705479452) | (Jer 29:10) |
4 tn Heb “this place.” The text has probably been influenced by the parallel passage in Jerusalem%27s&tab=notes" ver="">27:22. The term appears fifteen times in Jeremiah and is invariably a reference to Jerusalem or Judah. |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Jer 29:16) |
2 tn The words “of Jerusalem” are not in the text but are supplied in the translation to identify the referent and avoid the possible confusion that “this city” refers to Babylon. |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Jer 31:23) |
3 tn The words “of Jerusalem” are not in the text but it is implicit in the titles that follow. They have been supplied in the translation for clarity to aid in identifying the referent. |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Jer 31:40) |
6 sn The area that is here delimited is larger than any of the known boundaries of Jerusalem during the OT period. Again, this refers to the increase in population of the restored community (cf. Jerusalem%27s&tab=notes" ver="">31:27). |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Jer 49:29) |
2 sn This expression is a favorite theme in the book of Jeremiah. It describes the terrors of war awaiting the people of Judah and Jerusalem (Jerusalem%27s&tab=notes" ver="">6:25), the Egyptians at Carchemish (Jerusalem%27s&tab=notes" ver="">46:5), and here the Kedarites. |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Jer 52:3) |
1 tn Heb “Surely (or “for”) because of the anger of the |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Lam 1:19) |
1 sn The term “lovers” is a figurative expression (hypocatastasis), comparing Jerusalem’s false gods and political alliance with Assyria to a woman’s immoral lovers. The prophet Hosea uses similar imagery (Hos 2:5, 7, 10, 13). |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Lam 2:15) |
3 tn Heb “perfection of beauty.” The noun יֹפִי (yofi, “beauty”) functions as a genitive of respect in relation to the preceding construct noun: Jerusalem was perfect in respect to its physical beauty. |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Eze 5:15) |
3 tn Heb “discipline and devastation.” These words are omitted in the Old Greek. The first term pictures Jerusalem as a recipient or example of divine discipline; the second depicts her as a desolate ruin (see Ezek 6:14). |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Eze 7:22) |
2 sn Since the pronouns “it” are both feminine, they do not refer to the masculine “my treasured place”; instead they probably refer to Jerusalem or the land, both of which are feminine in Hebrew. |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Eze 21:20) |
1 tc The MT reads “Judah in fortified Jerusalem,” a geographic impossibility. The translation follows the LXX, which assumes בְּתוֹכָהּ (bÿtokhah, “in it”) for בְּצוּרָה (bÿtsurah, “fortified”). |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Eze 25:12) |
4 sn Edom apparently in some way assisted in the destruction of Jerusalem in 587/6 |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Mic 1:2) |
5 tn Or “his holy temple” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). This refers to the Lord’s dwelling in heaven, however, rather than the temple in Jerusalem (note the following verse, which describes a theophany). |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Mic 4:13) |
2 sn Jerusalem (Daughter Zion at the beginning of the verse; cf. Jerusalem%27s&tab=notes" ver="">4:8) is here compared to a powerful ox which crushes the grain on the threshing floor with its hooves. |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Zec 14:8) |
1 sn Living waters will flow out from Jerusalem. Ezekiel sees this same phenomenon in conjunction with the inauguration of the messianic age (Ezek 47; cf. Rev 22:1-5; also John 7:38). |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Zec 14:17) |
1 sn The reference to any…who refuse to go up to Jerusalem makes clear the fact that the nations are by no means “converted” to the |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Mat 2:1) |
3 sn King Herod was Herod the Great, who ruled Palestine from 37 |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Mat 21:1) |
3 sn The exact location of the village of Bethphage is not known. Most put it on the southeast side of the Mount of Olives and northwest of Bethany, about 1.5 miles (3 km) east of Jerusalem. |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Mat 22:7) |
3 tn The Greek text reads here πόλις (polis), which could be translated “town” or “city.” The prophetic reference is to the city of Jerusalem, so “city” is more appropriate here. |
| (0.44555705479452) | (Mar 11:1) |
3 sn The exact location of the village of Bethphage is not known. Most put it on the southeast side of the Mount of Olives and northwest of Bethany, about 1.5 miles (3 km) east of Jerusalem. |
