Discovery Box| (0.36930563636364) | (Num 24:7) |
3 sn These two lines are difficult, but the general sense is that of irrigation buckets and a well-watered land. The point is that Israel will be prosperous and fruitful. |
| (0.36930563636364) | (Num 27:12) |
4 tn This perfect tense would best be classified as a perfect of resolve: “which I have decided to give.” God had not yet given the land to them, but it was certain he would. |
| (0.36930563636364) | (Deu 1:36) |
1 sn Caleb had, with Joshua, brought back to Israel a minority report from Canaan urging a conquest of the land, for he was confident of the |
| (0.36930563636364) | (Deu 8:9) |
2 sn A land whose stones are iron. Since iron deposits are few and far between in Palestine, the reference here is probably to iron ore found in mines as opposed to the meteorite iron more commonly known in that area. |
| (0.36930563636364) | (Jos 1:4) |
3 tn Heb “From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, even to the great sea [at] the place where the sun sets, your territory will be.” |
| (0.36930563636364) | (Jos 1:6) |
1 tn Heb “For you will cause these people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give to them.” The pronoun “them” at the end of the verse refers to either the people or to the fathers. |
| (0.36930563636364) | (Jos 1:15) |
1 tn Heb “Then you may return to the land of your possession and possess it, that which Moses, the |
| (0.36930563636364) | (Jos 5:12) |
1 tn Heb “the day after, when they ate.” The present translation assumes this means the day after the Passover, though it is possible it refers to the day after they began eating the land’s produce. |
| (0.36930563636364) | (Jos 22:33) |
2 tn Heb “and they did not speak about going up against them for battle to destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad were living.” |
| (0.36930563636364) | (Jdg 20:1) |
1 sn Dan was located in the far north of the country, while Beer Sheba was located in the far south. This encompassed all the territory of the land of Canaan occupied by the Israelites. |
| (0.36930563636364) | (Rut 1:7) |
1 tn Heb “and she went out from the place she had been, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.” |
| (0.36930563636364) | (2Sa 1:13) |
1 tn The Hebrew word used here refers to a foreigner whose social standing was something less than that of native residents of the land, but something more than that of a nonresident alien who was merely passing through. |
| (0.36930563636364) | (1Ki 9:21) |
1 tn Heb “their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were unable to wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a crew of labor to this day.” |
| (0.36930563636364) | (1Ki 22:46) |
1 sn Despite Asa’s opposition to these male cultic prostitutes (see 1 Kgs 15:12) some of them had managed to remain in the land. Jehoshaphat finished what his father had started. |
| (0.36930563636364) | (2Ki 18:33) |
1 tn Heb “Have the gods of the nations really rescued, each his land, from the hand of the king of Assyria?” The infinitive absolute lends emphasis to the main verb. The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not!” |
| (0.36930563636364) | (2Ki 24:15) |
1 tn Heb “and he deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; the mother of the king and the wives of the king and his eunuchs and the mighty of the land he led into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.” |
| (0.36930563636364) | (2Ki 25:22) |
1 tn Heb “And the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left, he appointed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.” |
| (0.36930563636364) | (1Ch 21:12) |
3 tn Heb “or three days of the sword of the |
| (0.36930563636364) | (2Ch 8:8) |
1 tn Heb “from their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel did not wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a work crew to this day.” |
| (0.36930563636364) | (Job 9:24) |
1 tn Some would render this “earth,” meaning the whole earth, and having the verse be a general principle for all mankind. But Job may have in mind the more specific issue of individual land. |
