# footverse

bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>Fitting the size of its territory to the size of its population,</i> literally, “according to its families.”


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>The tribe of Judah also inherited twenty-five other cities with their villages,</i> implied; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.15.41" href="/passage/?search=Josh.15.41&version=TLB">vv. 41</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.15.44" href="/passage/?search=Josh.15.44&version=TLB">44</a>.


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>Judah also received these forty-four cities in the hill country with their surrounding villages,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.15.51" href="/passage/?search=Josh.15.51&version=TLB">vv. 51</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.15.54" href="/passage/?search=Josh.15.54&version=TLB">54</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.15.57" href="/passage/?search=Josh.15.57&version=TLB">57</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.15.59" href="/passage/?search=Josh.15.59&version=TLB">59</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.15.60" href="/passage/?search=Josh.15.60&version=TLB">60</a>, and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.15.62" href="/passage/?search=Josh.15.62&version=TLB">62</a>, where the original text indicates subtotals of the number of cities assigned to Judah.


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>as much property as the men of our tribe,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.27.5-Num.27.7" href="/passage/?search=Num.27.5-Num.27.7&version=TLB">Numbers 27:5-7</a>.


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>These twenty-six cities were included in the land,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.18.24" href="/passage/?search=Josh.18.24&version=TLB">vv. 24</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.18.28" href="/passage/?search=Josh.18.28&version=TLB">28</a>, where the original manuscript indicates subtotals.


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>these seventeen cities.</i> Totaled from <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.19.6" href="/passage/?search=Josh.19.6&version=TLB">vv. 6</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.19.7" href="/passage/?search=Josh.19.7&version=TLB">7</a> of the original manuscripts, where subtotals are indicated.


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>as I instructed Moses,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.35" href="/passage/?search=Num.35&version=TLB">Numbers 35</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.6" href="/passage/?search=1Chr.6&version=TLB">1 Chronicles 6</a>.


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>the nine cities,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.21.16" href="/passage/?search=Josh.21.16&version=TLB">v. 16</a>, where a subtotal is indicated in the original text.


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>four cities,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.21.22" href="/passage/?search=Josh.21.22&version=TLB">v. 22</a>, where the total appears in the text.


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<i>As they were leaving for their new home,</i> literally, “When she came to him.” <i>for an additional,</i> implied.


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<i>the entrance passage through the wall,</i> literally, “the way into the city.” Obviously, this does not mean via the city gates.


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<i>youth of Israel to exercise faith and obedience,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Judg.2.22" href="/passage/?search=Judg.2.22&version=TLB">2:22</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Judg.3.4" href="/passage/?search=Judg.3.4&version=TLB">3:4</a>. <i>in conquering their enemies,</i> literally, “that . . . the people might know war.”


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<i>But I, Jehovah,</i> literally, “I Am will be with you.” The same name is used here as in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.3.14" href="/passage/?search=Exod.3.14&version=TLB">Exodus 3:14</a>. God is telling Gideon that the same one who appeared to Moses and rescued Israel from Egypt (much on Gideon’s mind: see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.3.13" href="/passage/?search=Exod.3.13&version=TLB">v. 13</a>) will now do it again, rescuing Israel from Midian.


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<i>Let Baal take care of himself,</i> literally, “Let Baal bring charges,” or used mockingly, “Let Baal be honored!”


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<i>Your actions . . . at the beginning,</i> more literally, “Are not the last grapes of Ephraim better than the entire crop of Abiezer?”


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<i>we’d rather be killed by a man,</i> literally, “for as a man is, so is his strength.” Perhaps the meaning is, “A quick death is less painful.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>in the Scriptures,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Zech.13.7" href="/passage/?search=Zech.13.7&version=TLB">Zechariah 13:7</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>to sentence Jesus to death,</i> literally, “took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.” They did not have the authority themselves.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>at the close of the first day of the Passover ceremonies,</i> implied; literally, “on the morrow, which is after the Preparation.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>So they sealed the stone.</i> This was done by stringing a cord across the rock, the cord being sealed at each end with clay.


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>Isaiah said.</i> Some ancient manuscripts read, “the prophets said.” This quotation, unrecorded in the book of Isaiah, appears in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mal.3.1" href="/passage/?search=Mal.3.1&version=TLB">Malachi 3:1</a>. <i>be ready for the Lord’s arrival,</i> literally, “make ready the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.”


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>so that God could forgive them,</i> literally, “preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.”


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>so much greater that I am not even worthy to be his slave,</i> literally, “whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose.”


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>with water,</i> or “in water.” The Greek word is not clear on this controversial point. <i>with God’s Holy Spirit,</i> or “in God’s Holy Spirit”; the Greek is not clear.


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>For they didn’t want to believe,</i> literally, “For their hearts were hardened,” perhaps implying jealousy, as in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mark.6.2-Mark.6.6" href="/passage/?search=Mark.6.2-Mark.6.6&version=TLB">6:2-6</a>.


bookid: Mark
contenido:
Many of the ancient manuscripts add <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mark.7.16" href="/passage/?search=Mark.7.16&version=TLB">v. 16</a>: “If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.” <i>Your souls aren’t harmed by what you eat, but by what you think and say,</i> literally, “What proceeds out of the man defiles the man.”


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>How many more miracles do you people need?</i> literally, “Why does this generation seek a sign?”


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>to his disciples,</i> implied. <i>Oh, what tiny faith you have,</i> literally, “O unbelieving generation.”


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>Cases like this require prayer.</i> “And fasting” is added in some manuscripts, but not the most ancient.


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mark.9.44" href="/passage/?search=Mark.9.44&version=TLB">Verses 44</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mark.9.46" href="/passage/?search=Mark.9.46&version=TLB">46</a> (which are identical with <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mark.9.48" href="/passage/?search=Mark.9.48&version=TLB">v. 48</a>) are omitted in some of the ancient manuscripts.


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>Then he left Capernaum,</i> literally, “And rising up, he went from there.” Mentioned here so quietly, this was his final farewell to Galilee. He never returned until after his death and resurrection.


bookid: Mark
contenido:
Many ancient authorities add <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mark.11.26" href="/passage/?search=Mark.11.26&version=TLB">v. 26</a>: “But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your trespasses.” All include this in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.6.15" href="/passage/?search=Matt.6.15&version=TLB">Matthew 6:15</a>. <i>other Jewish leaders,</i> literally, “scribes and elders.” Also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.12.12" href="/passage/?search=Matt.12.12&version=TLB">12:12</a>.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>although he married her,</i> implied. <i>he spilled the sperm on the bed,</i> literally, “spilled it on the ground.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>Let Pharaoh divide Egypt into five administrative districts,</i> or “Let Pharaoh appoint officials to collect a fifth of all the crops.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>He has the godlike power of life and death,</i> or “God (or Pharaoh) says, ‘He is living.’” <i>he gave him a wife, a . . . daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis.</i> Joseph married into a family of high nobility, for his father-in-law was a major priest and politician of that time.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>I will scatter their descendants throughout Israel.</i> That is, the tribes of Simeon and Levi were not given land holdings, as were their brother tribes.


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>eventually, a new king came,</i> implied. This incident occurred about four hundred years after Joseph’s death. <i>who felt no obligation to the descendants of Joseph,</i> literally, “who did not know Joseph.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>because they were God-fearing women,</i> implied from <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.1.21" href="/passage/?search=Exod.1.21&version=TLB">v. 21</a>.


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>his father-in-law, Jethro.</i> Moses’ father-in-law goes under two names in these chapters, Jethro and Reuel.


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>the Sovereign God,</i> or “the Living God”; literally, “I am who I am,” or “I will be what I will be.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>Jehovah.</i> Properly the name should be pronounced “Yahweh,” as it is spelled in many modern versions. In this paraphrase <i>Yahweh</i> is translated either “Jehovah” or “Lord.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>because they were too dispirited after the tragic consequence of what he had said before,</i> literally, “because of their broken spirit and the cruel bondage.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>in the order of their ages,</i> literally, “according to their generations.” So also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.6.19" href="/passage/?search=Exod.6.19&version=TLB">v. 19</a>.


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>Amram.</i> See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.6.18" href="/passage/?search=Exod.6.18&version=TLB">v. 18</a>.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>490 years,</i> literally, “seventy weeks” or “seventy sevens” (of years). These were not in uninterrupted sequence. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.9.25-Dan.9.27" href="/passage/?search=Dan.9.25-Dan.9.27&version=TLB">vv. 25-27</a>.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>It will be 49 years plus 434 years.</i> This totals 483 years, instead of the 490 years mentioned in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.9.24" href="/passage/?search=Dan.9.24&version=TLB">v. 24</a>, leaving 7 years unaccounted for at the time of Messiah’s death. For their future fulfillment, see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.9.27" href="/passage/?search=Dan.9.27&version=TLB">v. 27</a> and the Revelation. Or, consider the destruction of Jerusalem in <span class="small-caps">a.d.</span> 70 by Titus and the subsequent slaughter of one million Jews during the following three and a half years as at least a partial fulfillment of this prophecy.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>by a fourth,</i> perhaps Xerxes (486–465 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>) who launched an all-out effort against Greece.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>the king of Syria,</i> literally, “the king of the north,” and so also throughout this passage. These prophecies seem to have been fulfilled many years later in the Seleucid wars between Egypt and Syria. <i>as a gesture of peace.</i> In 252 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span> Ptolemy II of Egypt gave his daughter Berenice in marriage to Antiochus II of Syria to conclude a treaty of peace between their two lands.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>when her brother,</i> literally, “from a branch.” Berenice, murdered in Antioch by Antiochus II’s former wife, Laodice, was the sister of Ptolemy III, who now ascended the Egyptian throne and declared war against the Seleucids to avenge his sister’s murder.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>the Syrian king,</i> possibly Antiochus III the Great, who was later defeated by the Romans at Magnesia; compare <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.11.18" href="/passage/?search=Dan.11.18&version=TLB">v. 18</a>.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>His successor.</i> Seleucus IV, successor to Antiochus III, sent Heliodorus to rob and desecrate the Temple in Jerusalem.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>Next to come to power will be an evil man not directly in line for royal succession.</i> This may refer to Antiochus IV Epiphanes who, when his brother Seleucus was assassinated, ingratiated himself with the Romans and took over.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>including a leader of the priests,</i> probably Jason, treacherously removed by the Hellenist Menelaus.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>For Roman warships,</i> or “From Cyprus.” <i>pollute the sanctuary,</i> by offering swine on the altar. This event was fulfilled in 168–167 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span> <i>worshiping idols inside the Temple,</i> literally, “they shall set up the abomination that astonished.”


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>He will flatter those who hate the things of God.</i> Menelaus, the High Priest, who conspired with Antiochus against the Jews who were loyal to God’s laws. <i>But the people who know their God,</i> perhaps the valiant Maccabees and their sympathizers. But a further fulfillment may lie in the future.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>the god beloved of women,</i> probably Tammuz-Adonis, whose worship was popular among women; compare <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezek.8.14" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.8.14&version=TLB">Ezekiel 8:14</a>.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>at the time of the end.</i> The prophecy takes a turn here. Antiochus IV fades from view, and the Antichrist of the last days becomes the center of attention from this point on.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>three and a half years after the power of God’s people has been crushed,</i> literally, “a time, times, and half a time when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end.”


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>1,290 days.</i> Three and a half years (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.12.7" href="/passage/?search=Dan.12.7&version=TLB">v. 7</a>) plus one month.


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>avenge the murders he committed.</i> He went far beyond God’s command to execute the family of Ahab. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.21.21" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.21.21&version=TLB">1 Kings 21:21</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.10.11" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.10.11&version=TLB">2 Kings 10:11</a>. <i>breaking the power of the nation in the valley of Jezreel,</i> a prediction of the Assyrian conquest of Israel twenty-five years later.


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>I will personally free her from her enemies without any help from her armies or her weapons.</i> Shortly after defeating Israel, the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib invaded Judah and besieged Jerusalem. He was driven off by special intervention of God’s angel (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.36-Isa.37" href="/passage/?search=Isa.36-Isa.37&version=TLB">Isaiah 36–37</a>).


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>the day when God will sow his people in the fertile soil of their own land again,</i> literally, “the day of Jezreel (‘God sows’)”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hos.2.23" href="/passage/?search=Hos.2.23&version=TLB">2:23</a>.


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>“My Husband” instead of “My Master,”</i> literally, “My Baal,” meaning “My Lord,” but this was a tainted word because it applied to idols, so it will no longer be used in reference to the true God.


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>“not pitied,”</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hos.1.6" href="/passage/?search=Hos.1.6&version=TLB">1:6</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hos.1.9-Hos.1.10" href="/passage/?search=Hos.1.9-Hos.1.10&version=TLB">9-10</a>.


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>to the Messiah, their King,</i> literally, “to David, their king.” Christ was “the Greater David.”


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>through tea leaves,</i> literally, “through their staff.” There is no modern parallel to this ancient practice used by sorcerers, whose predictions were based on how their staffs landed on the ground when thrown or allowed to fall.


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>Their love for shame is greater than for honor.</i> The Hebrew text is uncertain. The translation follows the Greek version.


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>a mighty wind shall sweep them away.</i> The Assyrian invasion came about twenty years later, and the nation disappeared.


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>the lowest sort of thieves,</i> literally, “as those who move a boundary marker”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.19.14" href="/passage/?search=Deut.19.14&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 19:14</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.27.17" href="/passage/?search=Deut.27.17&version=TLB">27:17</a>.


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>They kill their kings one after another.</i> Three Israelite kings were assassinated during Hosea’s lifetime—Zechariah, Shallum, and Pekahiah.


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>what they did in Gibeah,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Judg.19.14-Judg.19.30" href="/passage/?search=Judg.19.14-Judg.19.30&version=TLB">Judges 19:14ff.</a>


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>But then you deserted me for Baal-peor,</i> the god of Peor, a city of Moab (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.23" href="/passage/?search=Num.23&version=TLB">Numbers 23</a>).


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>Gilgal,</i> the town where Baal-worship flourished (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hos.4.15" href="/passage/?search=Hos.4.15&version=TLB">4:15</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hos.12.11" href="/passage/?search=Hos.12.11&version=TLB">12:11</a>), and where the monarchy, hated of God, was instituted (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Sam.11.15" href="/passage/?search=1Sam.11.15&version=TLB">1 Samuel 11:15</a>).


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>that awful night in Gibeah,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Judg.19-Judg.20" href="/passage/?search=Judg.19-Judg.20&version=TLB">Judges 19–20</a>.


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>Shalman:</i> probably Salaman, king of Moab, who invaded Gilead around 740 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>Admah and Zeboiim,</i> cities of the plain that perished with Sodom and Gomorrah; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.29.23" href="/passage/?search=Deut.29.23&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 29:23</a>.


bookid: Hos
contenido:
<i>I gave you kings in my anger, and I took them away.</i> Probably an allusion to the kings of Israel assassinated during her last tempestuous years: Zechariah, Shallum, Pekahiah.


bookid: Amos
contenido:
<i>the people of Syria shall return to Kir.</i> Decreeing that the Syrians should go back to Kir as slaves was like saying to the Israelites that they must go back to Egypt as slaves, for the Syrians had made their exodus from Kir and now were free; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Amos.9.7" href="/passage/?search=Amos.9.7&version=TLB">9:7</a>.


bookid: Amos
contenido:
<i>Teman . . . Bozrah.</i> Teman was in the north of Edom and Bozrah in the south. The entire country was to be devastated.


bookid: Amos
contenido:
<i>to be Nazirites,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.6" href="/passage/?search=Num.6&version=TLB">Numbers 6</a>.


bookid: Obad
contenido:
<i>Edom.</i> A nation southeast of Israel including Petra, the city hewn from rocks; her southern boundary was on the Gulf of Aqaba.


bookid: Jonah
contenido:
<i>so large that it would take three days to walk through it.</i> The Hebrew text makes no distinction between the city proper—the walls of which were only about eight miles in circumference, accommodating a population of about 175,000 persons—and the administrative district of Nineveh, which was about thirty to sixty miles across.


bookid: Jonah
contenido:
<i>with its 120,000 people in utter spiritual darkness,</i> or “with its 120,000 children who don’t know their right hands from their left.”


bookid: Mic
contenido:
<i>There go the people of Shaphir.</i> In the Hebrew there is frequent wordplay in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mic.1.10-Mic.1.14" href="/passage/?search=Mic.1.10-Mic.1.14&version=TLB">vv. 10-14</a>. Micah bitterly declaims each town, demonstrating by the use of puns their failures. <i>Shaphir</i> sounds like the Hebrew word for “beauty,” here contrasted with their shame; <i>Zaanan</i> sounds like the verb meaning “to go forth,” here contrasted with the fear of its inhabitants to venture outside; <i>Beth-ezel</i> sounds like a word for “foundation,” which had been taken away from them.


bookid: Mic
contenido:
<i>Moresheth,</i> Micah’s hometown (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mic.1.1" href="/passage/?search=Mic.1.1&version=TLB">1:1</a>).


bookid: Mic
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hag.1.6" href="/passage/?search=Hag.1.6&version=TLB">Haggai 1:6</a>.


bookid: Mic
contenido:
<i>But first comes terrible destruction to Israel,</i> literally, “But the land will be desolate because of its inhabitants.”


bookid: Nah
contenido:
<i>Who is this king,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Nah.1.1" href="/passage/?search=Nah.1.1&version=TLB">vv. 1</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Nah.1.13" href="/passage/?search=Nah.1.13&version=TLB">13</a>, also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Nah.3.18" href="/passage/?search=Nah.3.18&version=TLB">3:18</a>.


bookid: Nah
contenido:
<i>Nineveh, you are finished!</i> This chapter predicts the events of the year 612 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span> when the combined armies of the Babylonians and Medes sacked the impregnable Nineveh.


bookid: Nah
contenido:
<i>then taught them all to worship her false gods,</i> literally, “who betrays nations with her harlotries.”


bookid: Nah
contenido:
<i>Are you any better than Thebes?</i> Thebes was conquered by the Assyrians fifty-one years before this prophecy.


bookid: Hab
contenido:
<i>the Chaldeans,</i> a tribe of Semites living between Babylon and the Persian Gulf, who began to assert themselves against the Assyrians around 630 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span> and twenty-five years later had mastered most of the Near East.


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>Hur.</i> Hur was a man of Judah, of the family of Hezron, house of Caleb (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.2.18-1Chr.2.19" href="/passage/?search=1Chr.2.18-1Chr.2.19&version=TLB">1 Chronicles 2:18-19</a>). He was the grandfather of Bezalel (31:1-2).


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>You shall not use the name of Jehovah your God irreverently,</i> or “You must not use the name of the Lord your God to swear falsely.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>If you buy a Hebrew slave,</i> that is, “If he owes you money and defaults in the payment, and thus becomes your slave.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>if later he is able to walk again, even with a limp,</i> literally, “if he walks abroad with his staff.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
Literally, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.21.30" href="/passage/?search=Exod.21.30&version=TLB">v. 30</a> reads: “But if a ransom is laid upon him, he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>a girl who is not engaged to anyone,</i> literally, “a virgin.” <i>usual dowry,</i> more literally, “customary marriage present to the bride’s parents.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>it shall be offered to the Lord your God,</i> literally, “you shall bring (it) into the house of Jehovah your God.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>place inside it the tablets of stone I will give you, with the Ten Commandments engraved on them,</i> implied; literally, “Put into the Ark the Testimony which I shall give you.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>the place of mercy for your sins,</i> literally, “mercy seat,” or “place of making propitiation for your sins.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>Urim and Thummim.</i> What they looked like has been lost in antiquity. They were perhaps two gemstones located in the breastplate of the High Priest. They were marked in some way and used by the High Priest to determine God’s yes or no on urgent matters.


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>shall be set apart for God,</i> or “shall become holy,” or “only those who are holy may touch it.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>half a dollar,</i> literally, “half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel for an offering to Jehovah.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>guide me clearly along the way you want me to travel,</i> or “show me your ways,” or “show me your majesty.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>I will announce to you the meaning of my name,</i> literally, “I will proclaim before you my name.” His name, <i>Jehovah,</i> means, “I will be what I will be.” (See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.3.14" href="/passage/?search=Exod.3.14&version=TLB">Exodus 3:14</a>.)


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>forgiving their sins,</i> literally, “forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.” <i>or else,</i> implied.


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>shameful idols,</i> or <i>Asherim.</i> They were carved statues of male and female genital organs.


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>they are spiritual prostitutes . . . sacrificing to their gods,</i> literally, “they play the harlot worshiping their gods.”


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>Write down these laws,</i> that is, the preceding laws in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.34.12-Exod.34.26" href="/passage/?search=Exod.34.12-Exod.34.26&version=TLB">vv. 12-26</a>.


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>At that time God,</i> implied; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.34.1" href="/passage/?search=Exod.34.1&version=TLB">34:1</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.10.1-Deut.10.4" href="/passage/?search=Deut.10.1-Deut.10.4&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 10:1-4</a>.


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>put a veil over his face,</i> so that the people would not see the glory fade; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Cor.3.13" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.3.13&version=TLB">2 Corinthians 3:13</a>.


bookid: Exod
contenido:
<i>two . . . two,</i> implied. <i>reminders to Jehovah concerning the people of Israel,</i> literally, “to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>they will be an acceptable burnt offering with which the Lord is pleased,</i> literally, “it will be a sweet savor unto the Lord.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>the Lord will have pleasure in this sacrifice,</i> literally, “it will be a sweet savor unto the Lord.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>take a handful, representing the entire amount,</i> literally, “shall burn the memorial portion thereof upon the altar, an offering made by fire.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>seasoned with salt.</i> In many of the languages of the ancient Near East, the word <i>salt</i> is a homonym of the word <i>good.</i> It was used symbolically for <i>goodness</i> in making covenants.


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>thank offering,</i> literally, “peace offering.” Also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Lev.4.31" href="/passage/?search=Lev.4.31&version=TLB">vv. 31</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Lev.4.35" href="/passage/?search=Lev.4.35&version=TLB">35</a>.


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>But only the priests,</i> literally, “[only] whoever is holy may touch them,” or “whoever touches them shall become holy.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>the Urim and the Thummim.</i> Apparently a kind of sacred lot used to determine the Lord’s will by simple yes or no alternatives.


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>The rest of the blood he sprinkled back and forth upon the altar,</i> literally, “Moses threw the blood upon the altar round about.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>the sin offering for himself.</i> See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Lev.9.8-Lev.9.11" href="/passage/?search=Lev.9.8-Lev.9.11&version=TLB">vv. 8-11</a>.


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>placed unholy fire in their censers . . . and offered the incense before the Lord,</i> or “placed fire in their censers . . . and offered unholy fire.” Their fatal error is not clearly identified.


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>must pronounce him a leper,</i> literally, “must pronounce him unclean.” Also <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Lev.13.27" href="/passage/?search=Lev.13.27&version=TLB">v. 27</a>.


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>through and through,</i> literally, “whether the bareness be within or without,” or “whether it be bald in the head thereof or in the forehead thereof.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>sent away</i> and <i>sent out . . . as a scapegoat,</i> literally, “for Azazel” or “for removing.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>on the twenty-fifth day of September</i> (which was “on the tenth day of the seventh month” of the Hebrew calendar).


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>nor your aunt—the wife of your father’s brother.</i> This prohibition applied not only while her husband lived, but also after his death.


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>for she is your brother’s.</i> Except when the brother died and left no heir, in which case his wife was left to a brother to beget children for her to carry on the name and inheritance of the deceased. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.25.5" href="/passage/?search=Deut.25.5&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 25:5</a>.


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>or I will throw you out of the land, just as I will throw out,</i> literally, “that the land vomit not you out also . . . as it vomited out.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>Don’t falsely accuse your neighbor of some crime,</i> literally, “Neither shall you stand against the blood of your neighbor.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>the earth was,</i> or “the earth became.” <i>a shapeless, chaotic mass,</i> or “shapeless and void.” <i>over the dark vapors,</i> or “over the cloud of darkness,” or “over the darkness and waters,” or “over the dark gaseous mass.” There is not one correct way to translate these words.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>Together they formed the first day,</i> literally, “And there was evening and there was morning, one day (or ‘period of time’).”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>This all happened on the second day,</i> literally, “There was evening and there was morning, a second day (or ‘period of time’).”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>This all occurred on the third day,</i> literally, “And there was evening and there was morning, a third day (or ‘period of time’).”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>This all happened on the fourth day,</i> literally, “And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day (or ‘period of time’).”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>That ended the fifth day,</i> literally, “And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day (or ‘period of time’).”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>a man,</i> literally, “men.” <i>someone like ourselves,</i> literally, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>This ended the sixth day,</i> literally, “And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day (or ‘period of time’).”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>from the dust of the ground,</i> or “from a lump of soil,” or “from clods in the soil,” or “from a clod of clay.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>Eve (meaning “The life-giving one”).</i> Many Hebrew names are based on puns. In this instance the Hebrew word for <i>Eve</i> sounds similar to a Hebrew word that means “life-giving.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>the inventor of the harp and flute,</i> literally, “the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>He opened the first foundry,</i> literally, “He was the father of all metal workers in bronze and iron.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>It was during . . . “the Lord’s people,”</i> literally, “This man was the first to invoke the name of Jehovah.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>Here is a list of some of the descendants of Adam,</i> literally, “This is the roll of Adam’s descendants.” <i>the man who was like God,</i> literally, “in the likeness of God.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>when his son Seth was born,</i> or by Hebrew usage, “when his son, the ancestor (of Seth) was born.” So also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.5.6" href="/passage/?search=Gen.5.6&version=TLB">vv. 6</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.5.9" href="/passage/?search=Gen.5.9&version=TLB">9</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.5.15" href="/passage/?search=Gen.5.15&version=TLB">15</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.5.18" href="/passage/?search=Gen.5.18&version=TLB">18</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.5.21" href="/passage/?search=Gen.5.21&version=TLB">21</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.5.25" href="/passage/?search=Gen.5.25&version=TLB">25</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.5.28" href="/passage/?search=Gen.5.28&version=TLB">28</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.5.32" href="/passage/?search=Gen.5.32&version=TLB">32</a>. <i>the very image of his father in every way,</i> literally, “in his own likeness, after his image.” <i>After Seth was born,</i> or by Hebrew usage, “After this ancestor of Seth was born.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>beings from the spirit world,</i> literally, “sons of God,” used here in the sense of his created, supernatural beings, but no longer godly in character (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.6.3" href="/passage/?search=Gen.6.3&version=TLB">v. 3</a>). Some commentators believe that the expression “sons of God” refers to the “godly line” of Seth, and “daughters of men” to women from the line of Cain.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>a raven that flew back and forth.</i> Apparently lighting from time to time upon carcasses of dead animals floating on the water. The dove that Noah next dispatched would not alight on such floating carrion and was thus a good indication of the water level.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>Twenty-nine days after that,</i> literally, “In the 601st year, in the first month, the first day of the month.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>some of the animals and birds God had designated,</i> literally, “clean,” i.e., ritually approved by God.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>And Jehovah was pleased with the sacrifice,</i> literally, “And Jehovah smelled the delicious odor.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>Ham is the ancestor of the Canaanites.</i> Ham was not the ancestor of the Negro, as was once erroneously supposed.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>he cursed Ham’s descendants,</i> literally, “cursed be Canaan.” The Canaanites were Ham’s descendants.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>God bless Shem, and may Canaan be his slave,</i> or “Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem, and may the Canaanites be Shem’s slaves.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
Language is the basis on which science feeds upon itself and grows. This was the beginning of an explosion of knowledge, nipped in the bud because of wrong motives and wrong use of the knowledge gained. Similarity with today’s world is significant.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>his son Shelah was born,</i> or by Hebrew usage, “there was born to him the ancestor of Shelah.” So also throughout the remainder of the chapter.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>half sister,</i> implied; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.20.12" href="/passage/?search=Gen.20.12&version=TLB">20:12</a>. <i>orphaned niece, Milcah,</i> implied.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>age of 205,</i> implied. The Samaritan Pentateuch says that Terah died when he was 145 years old, so that his death occurred in the year of Abraham’s departure from Haran. This is more consistent with <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.11.26" href="/passage/?search=Gen.11.26&version=TLB">11:26</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.12.4" href="/passage/?search=Gen.12.4&version=TLB">12:4</a>. See also <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Acts.7.4" href="/passage/?search=Acts.7.4&version=TLB">Acts 7:4</a>.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>you will be a blessing to many others,</i> or “I will make your name so famous that it will be used to pronounce blessings on others.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>the entire world will be blessed because of you,</i> or “the nations will bless themselves because of you.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>May the Lord judge you for doing this to me,</i> literally, “Let the Lord judge between me and you.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>the servant vowed,</i> literally, “the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him that.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>the girl ran home to tell her folks.</i> Doubtless to tell them that a messenger had arrived from her great-uncle.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>Midian’s sons were . . . and Eldaah.</i> The text adds, “All these were the children of Keturah.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>even after many years of marriage,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.25.20" href="/passage/?search=Gen.25.20&version=TLB">vv. 20</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.25.26" href="/passage/?search=Gen.25.26&version=TLB">26</a>.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>indifferent to the loss of the rights he had thrown away,</i> literally, “thus did Esau consider his birthright to be of no value.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>your grandfather,</i> literally, “your mother’s father.” <i>your Uncle,</i> literally, “your mother’s brother.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>Dan (meaning “Justice”).</i> The meaning is not of the actual Hebrew name, but of a Hebrew word sounding like the name. The name given is a Hebrew pun. An example in English might be, “Because of the large hospital bill the child was named ‘Bill.’”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>mandrakes,</i> a leafy plant eaten by peasant women who supposed this would aid them in becoming pregnant.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>and told me that I should mate the white female goats with streaked, speckled, and mottled male goats,</i> implied; literally, “notice that all the mating males are speckled, streaked, and mottled.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>but I’m having my monthly period,</i> implied; literally, “The manner of women is upon me.” She was pregnant with Benjamin, but was falsely claiming her menstrual period, which, under the later Mosaic law, caused ceremonial defilement of all that she sat upon. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Lev.15" href="/passage/?search=Lev.15&version=TLB">Leviticus 15</a>.


bookid: Gen
contenido:
<i>I was as frightened of you as though approaching God,</i> literally, “forasmuch as I have seen your face as one sees the face of God.”


bookid: Gen
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.36.20-Gen.36.21" href="/passage/?search=Gen.36.20-Gen.36.21&version=TLB">vv. 20-21</a>.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>Let these men be blotted from the list of the living,</i> or “Let them be blotted out of the book of life.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>there will be constant praise for him,</i> literally, “men shall pray for him continually.” <i>His people,</i> implied; literally, “They” or “He.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>that the blessings of God have changed to hate,</i> literally, “that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>the man you love,</i> literally, “the man of your right hand.” <i>the son of your choice,</i> literally, “the son of man you made strong for yourself.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>He pronounces judgment on the judges,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.82.2-Ps.82.4" href="/passage/?search=Ps.82.2-Ps.82.4&version=TLB">vv. 2-4</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.82.6" href="/passage/?search=Ps.82.6&version=TLB">6</a>; literally, “He judges among the gods.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>as Oreb did, and Zeeb,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Judg.7.25" href="/passage/?search=Judg.7.25&version=TLB">Judges 7:25</a>. <i>like Zebah and Zalmunna,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Judg.8.21" href="/passage/?search=Judg.8.21&version=TLB">Judges 8:21</a>.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>your prophet,</i> literally, “your saint,” apparently a reference to Samuel, who was sent to anoint David as king.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>The world is his throne,</i> literally, “The world is established . . . your throne is established.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>in the wilderness,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.17.7" href="/passage/?search=Exod.17.7&version=TLB">Exodus 17:7</a>.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>he would not let one thing be done to them apart from his decision,</i> literally, “he suffered no man to do them wrong.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>the Messiah,</i> implied. In <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.22.41-Matt.22.45" href="/passage/?search=Matt.22.41-Matt.22.45&version=TLB">Matthew 22:41-45</a>, Jesus applies these words to himself.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>Jehovah has established your throne,</i> literally, “The Lord will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion.” <i>in Jerusalem,</i> literally, “from Zion.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>In my discouragement I thought, “They are lying when they say I will recover,”</i> literally, “I said in my alarm, all men are liars.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>an offering of wine,</i> literally, “the cup of salvation,” i.e., the thank offering of wine for saving me.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>His loved ones are very precious to him, and he does not lightly let them die,</i> literally, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” See context for the validity of the paraphrase.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>After you have corrected me,</i> literally, “When I learn [have experienced] your righteous judgments.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>Oh, don’t forsake me and let me slip back into sin again,</i> literally, “Oh, forsake me not utterly.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>with heaven’s blessings,</i> literally, “from Zion.” <i>as well as with human joys,</i> literally, “of Jerusalem.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>That is where we will go to worship him,</i> literally, “We will go into his tabernacles; we will worship at his footstool.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>to Israel,</i> implied here and in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.136.11-Ps.136.12" href="/passage/?search=Ps.136.11-Ps.136.12&version=TLB">vv. 11-12</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.136.15" href="/passage/?search=Ps.136.15&version=TLB">15</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.136.18" href="/passage/?search=Ps.136.18&version=TLB">18</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.136.19-Ps.136.21" href="/passage/?search=Ps.136.19-Ps.136.21&version=TLB">19-21</a>.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>Blessed is the man who takes your babies and smashes them against the rocks!</i> Perhaps this could be paraphrased, “Blessed is he who invades and sacks your city.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>before the armies of angels,</i> or “before the gods.” The same Hebrew word is used here as in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.8.5" href="/passage/?search=Ps.8.5&version=TLB">Psalm 8:5</a>.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>for your promises are backed by all the honor of your name,</i> literally, “you have exalted your word above all your name.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>I can’t even count how many times a day your thoughts turn toward me,</i> literally, “How precious are your thoughts to me.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>When their leaders are condemned and their bones are strewn across the ground,</i> literally, “As when one plows and cleaves the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>answer my plea because you are faithful to your promises,</i> literally, “answer me in faithfulness and righteousness.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>Why bother at all with the human race?</i> literally, “Or the son of man that you take account of him?”


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>This is my blood . . . sealing the new agreement,</i> literally, “This is my blood of the covenant.” Some ancient manuscripts read “new covenant.”


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>someone.</i> It was Peter, compare <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.18.10" href="/passage/?search=John.18.10&version=TLB">John 18:10</a>.


bookid: Mark
contenido:
This verse is omitted in some of the ancient manuscripts. The quotation is from <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.53.12" href="/passage/?search=Isa.53.12&version=TLB">Isaiah 53:12</a>.


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani.</i> He spoke here in Aramaic. The onlookers, who spoke Greek and Latin, misunderstood his first two words (“Eli, Eli”) and thought he was calling for the prophet Elijah.


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>And the curtain.</i> A heavy veil hung in front of the room in the Temple called “The Holy of Holies,” a place reserved by God for himself; the veil separated him from sinful mankind. Now this veil was split from above, showing that Christ’s death for man’s sin had opened up access to the holy God.


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mark.16.9-Mark.16.20" href="/passage/?search=Mark.16.9-Mark.16.20&version=TLB">Verses 9-20</a> are not found in the most ancient manuscripts, but may be considered an appendix giving additional facts.


bookid: Mark
contenido:
<i>they shall speak new languages,</i> literally, “they will speak in new tongues.” Some ancient manuscripts omit “new.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>Dear friend who loves God.</i> From <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.1.3" href="/passage/?search=Luke.1.3&version=TLB">v. 3</a>. Literally, “Most excellent Theophilus.” The name means “one who loves God.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>by lot.</i> Probably by throwing dice or something similar—“drawing straws” would be a modern equivalent.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>rugged,</i> implied. <i>and will change disobedient minds to the wisdom of faith,</i> literally, “to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>The Lord is with you.</i> Some ancient versions add, “Blessed are you among women,” as in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.1.42" href="/passage/?search=Luke.1.42&version=TLB">v. 42</a>, which appears in all manuscripts.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>talking to him by gestures.</i> Zacharias was apparently stone deaf as well as speechless, and had not heard what his wife had said.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>preaching that people should be baptized to show that they had turned to God and away from their sins, in order to be forgiven,</i> or “preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>Other things in life are much more important than bread,</i> literally, “Man shall not live by bread alone,” compare <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.8.3" href="/passage/?search=Deut.8.3&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 8:3</a>.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>to give blessings to all who come to him,</i> literally, “to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>Go easy on others; then they will do the same for you,</i> literally, “Release, and you shall be released.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>Blessed is the one who does not lose his faith in me,</i> literally, “Blessed is he who keeps from stumbling over me.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>You don’t like it if we play “wedding” and you don’t like it if we play “funeral,”</i> literally, “We played the flute for you and you didn’t dance; we sang a dirge and you didn’t weep.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>But I am sure you can always justify your inconsistencies,</i> literally, “But wisdom is justified of all her children.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>Another time he asked,</i> implied; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.5.16" href="/passage/?search=Matt.5.16&version=TLB">Matthew 5:16</a>.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>and their swords beneath their heads,</i> literally, “and their iniquity [iniquities] upon their bones.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>Come on, let’s have some fun! Let’s go hear him tell us what the Lord is saying!</i> literally, “Come and let us hear what the word is that comes from the Lord!”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>a notable Vine (the Messiah),</i> literally, “a plant of renown”; so perhaps the meaning is, “I will give them bumper crops.” Either translation is permissible, but the word for “plant” is in the singular.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>face northward,</i> implied. <i>against Gog.</i> The names of Gog’s confederates (Meshech, Tubal, Gomer, Beth-togarmah) can be identified as Muschki, Tabal, Gimaraya, Tegerama, peoples who lived in the mountainous area southeast of the Black Sea and southwest of the Caspian, currently in central Turkey. It therefore seems that Gog was, or is to be, the leader of one of these nations. But from the context Gog seems to be a symbol rather than a historical figure like Nebuchadnezzar. In any event he represents the aggregate military might of the forces opposed to God, especially in a mighty battle of the end times. See also <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.20.7-Rev.20.9" href="/passage/?search=Rev.20.7-Rev.20.9&version=TLB">Revelation 20:7-9</a>.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>Sheba and Dedan,</i> great trading centers in Arabia. <i>the merchant princes of Tarshish with whom she trades,</i> implied.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>in the latter years of history,</i> implied; literally, “in the latter days,” an expression which, in Hebrew usage, does not necessarily mean “the end times.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>18 inches wide,</i> or an 18-inch pillar in front of (or between) the guardrooms, projecting out into the hallway.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezek.40.30" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.40.30&version=TLB">Verse 30</a>, omitted in the Septuagint and several other of the ancient manuscripts, reads, “There were vestibules round about, and they were 37½ feet long and 8¾ feet broad.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>to separate the restricted area from the public places,</i> literally, “between the holy and the common.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>between what is holy and what is secular, what is right and what is wrong,</i> literally, “between what is ritually clean and ritually unclean.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>On each New Year’s Day,</i> literally, “On the first day of the first month.” The first month of the Hebrew year corresponded approximately to March 15–April 15 of our calendar.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>through the north passageway.</i> The eastern passageway was closed. <i>of the eastern passageway,</i> implied.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>who was in charge of his palace personnel,</i> literally, “his chief eunuch”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.20.17-2Kgs.20.18" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.20.17-2Kgs.20.18&version=TLB">2 Kings 20:17-18</a>. <i>to teach them the Chaldean language and literature.</i> The language was Aramaic; the literature would have included mathematics, astronomy, and history—plus a strong dose of alchemy and magic!


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>made up his mind not to eat,</i> literally, “determined that he would not defile himself with.” The defilement was probably in eating pork or other foods outlawed in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Lev.11" href="/passage/?search=Lev.11&version=TLB">Leviticus 11</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.14.3-Deut.14.21" href="/passage/?search=Deut.14.3-Deut.14.21&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 14:3-21</a>. <i>He asked the superintendent for permission to eat other things instead,</i> literally, “He asked the superintendent to allow him not to defile himself.”


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>another world power,</i> the Medo-Persian Empire, whose first great ruler was Cyrus. <i>yet a third great power,</i> the Greek Empire founded by Alexander the Great.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>the band,</i> literally, “the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltry, dulcimer, and every other sort of instrument.” So also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.3.7" href="/passage/?search=Dan.3.7&version=TLB">vv. 7</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.3.10" href="/passage/?search=Dan.3.10&version=TLB">10</a>.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>become the third ruler in the kingdom.</i> Belshazzar was the second under Nabonidus, his father, who was out of town at the time.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>King Nebuchadnezzar,</i> literally, “King Nebuchadnezzar, your father”—the Aramaic word for “father” can also mean “predecessor,” in this instance, fifth removed.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>Darius the Mede.</i> Darius the Mede is not to be confused with Darius the Persian mentioned in Ezra, Haggai, and Zechariah, nor with the one in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Neh.12.22" href="/passage/?search=Neh.12.22&version=TLB">Nehemiah 12:22</a>.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>the fourth world power,</i> usually believed to be a revived Roman Empire; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.2.40" href="/passage/?search=Dan.2.40&version=TLB">2:40</a>.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>then another king,</i> probably the future Antichrist of <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Thess.2.3-2Thess.2.4" href="/passage/?search=2Thess.2.3-2Thess.2.4&version=TLB">2 Thessalonians 2:3-4</a>.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>change all laws, morals, and customs,</i> literally, “change the times and the law.” Perhaps the meaning is, “change right to wrong and wrong to right.”


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>the Ancient of Days will come,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.7.22" href="/passage/?search=Dan.7.22&version=TLB">v. 22</a>.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>in its place grew four good-sized horns.</i> The four principal successors of Alexander the Great were Ptolemy I of Egypt, Seleucus of Babylonia, Antigonus of Syria and Asia Minor, and Antipater of Macedonia and Greece.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>the land of Israel,</i> literally, “the glorious land.” Israel was attacked by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, with a further fulfillment of this prophecy indicated for the future; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.8.17" href="/passage/?search=Dan.8.17&version=TLB">vv. 17</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.8.19" href="/passage/?search=Dan.8.19&version=TLB">19</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.8.23" href="/passage/?search=Dan.8.23&version=TLB">23</a>.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>the people of God and . . . some of their leaders,</i> literally, “host of heaven . . . the starry host”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.8.24" href="/passage/?search=Dan.8.24&version=TLB">8:24</a>.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>the Commander,</i> compare <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.5.13-Josh.5.15" href="/passage/?search=Josh.5.13-Josh.5.15&version=TLB">Joshua 5:13-15</a>.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>truth and righteousness perished, and evil triumphed and prospered,</i> or “and great indignities were perpetrated against the Temple ceremonies, so truth and righteousness perished.” The Hebrew text is obscure.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>with great shrewdness and intelligence,</i> literally, “who understands riddles”; an alternate rendering might read, “skilled in intrigues.” Probably a reference to Antiochus Epiphanes and further future fulfillment by the Antichrist at the end of human history.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>but it will be satanic strength and not his own,</i> implied; literally, “but not with his power.”


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>This number is literal, and means just that,</i> literally, “The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been told is true.” <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.8.14" href="/passage/?search=Dan.8.14&version=TLB">Verse 14</a> is the basis for the meaning expressed in the paraphrase.


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<i>Jerusalem must lie desolate for seventy years,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.25.11-Jer.25.12" href="/passage/?search=Jer.25.11-Jer.25.12&version=TLB">Jeremiah 25:11-12</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.29.10" href="/passage/?search=Jer.29.10&version=TLB">29:10</a>. This interval had now almost expired.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>a boat,</i> literally, “a ship of Adramyttium.” <i>the Turkish coast,</i> literally, “the coast of Asia.” <i>Aristarchus,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Acts.19.29" href="/passage/?search=Acts.19.29&version=TLB">19:29</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Acts.20.4" href="/passage/?search=Acts.20.4&version=TLB">20:4</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Phlm.1.24" href="/passage/?search=Phlm.1.24&version=TLB">Philemon 1:24</a>.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>so we sailed north of Cyprus between the island and the mainland,</i> implied; literally, “we sailed under the lee of Cyprus.” Narratives of that period interpret this as meaning what is indicated in the paraphrase above.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>because it was late in the year,</i> literally, “because the Fast was now already gone by.” It came about the time of the autumn equinox.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>were afraid of being driven across to the quicksands of the African coast,</i> literally, “feared lest they should be cast upon the Syrtis.”


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>The terrible storm raged unabated many days,</i> literally, “Neither sun nor stars shone upon us.”


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>the Forum,</i> about forty-three miles from Rome. <i>The Three Taverns,</i> about thirty-five miles from Rome.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>the Messiah,</i> literally, “the hope of Israel.” But perhaps he is referring here, as in his other defenses, to his belief in the resurrection of the dead.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>turn to me to heal you,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.6.9-Isa.6.10" href="/passage/?search=Isa.6.9-Isa.6.10&version=TLB">Isaiah 6:9-10</a>.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
Some of the ancient manuscripts add, “And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, having much dissenting among themselves.”


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>God willing,</i> literally, “in the will of God.” <i>that I will have a safe trip,</i> or “that I will finally succeed in coming.”


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>This is accomplished from start to finish by faith,</i> literally, “[This] righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith.” <i>“The man who finds life will find it through trusting God”</i> (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hab.2.4" href="/passage/?search=Hab.2.4&version=TLB">Habakkuk 2:4</a>).


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>no excuse when they stand before God at Judgment Day,</i> implied; or “no excuse for saying there is no God.”


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>who patiently do the will of God,</i> literally, “who patiently do good.” <i>seeking for the unseen glory and honor and eternal life that he offers,</i> implied.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.51.4" href="/passage/?search=Ps.51.4&version=TLB">Psalm 51:4</a>.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.14.3" href="/passage/?search=Ps.14.3&version=TLB">Psalm 14:3</a>.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>Their talk is foul and filthy like the stench from an open grave,</i> literally, “Their throat is an open grave.” Perhaps the meaning is “Their speech injures others.”


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>now God has shown us a different way to heaven,</i> literally, “now a righteousness of God has been manifested.”


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>if they have faith in Christ to save them from God’s wrath,</i> literally, “faith is reckoned for righteousness.”


bookid: Rom
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.32.1-Ps.32.2" href="/passage/?search=Ps.32.1-Ps.32.2&version=TLB">Psalm 32:1-2</a>.


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>your men may not search the palace and the homes of the people,</i> literally, “this thing I cannot do.”


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>Call the citizens together for fasting and prayer.</i> This inquiry was perhaps ostensibly to discover whose sins had caused the famine.


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>because you have sold yourself to the devil,</i> literally, “I have found you because you have sold yourself to that which is evil in the sight of the Lord.”


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>Ahab summoned his 400 heathen prophets,</i> implied. These were evidently the 400 Asherah priests left alive by Elijah at Carmel, though the 450 prophets of Baal were slain. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.18.19" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.18.19&version=TLB">18:19</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.18.40" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.18.40&version=TLB">40</a>.


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>causes our women to have miscarriages,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.2.21" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.2.21&version=TLB">v. 21</a>. Literally, “the land is unfruitful.”


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>the reign of King Jehoshaphat.</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.1.17" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.1.17&version=TLB">1:17</a> says King Jehoram was the king of Judah at this time. Possibly there was a co-regency.


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>two muleloads of earth,</i> etc. Thus, even in a foreign land Naaman could worship God on Israel’s soil.


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>King Jehoram.</i> Actually, “Joram” (so also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.8.23" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.8.23&version=TLB">v. 23</a>), a variant spelling of Jehoram.


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>twelfth year,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.8.25" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.8.25&version=TLB">8:25</a>; literally, “eleventh.”


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>no one was left who had been close to him in any way.</i> Apparently Jehu in his zeal exceeded the Lord’s command in this bloodbath, for he was blamed for it by the prophet Hosea (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.1.4" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.1.4&version=TLB">1:4</a>).


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>except for his year-old son,</i> implied. <i>storeroom of the Temple.</i> This arrangement was practical because Jehosheba was the wife of Jehoiada the High Priest.


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>would be kings of Israel,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.10.30" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.10.30&version=TLB">10:30</a>.


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>Shallum and his conspiracy,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.15.10" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.15.10&version=TLB">v. 10</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>I hear,</i> implied. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.40.3" href="/passage/?search=Isa.40.3&version=TLB">Isaiah 40:3</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>Pharisees,</i> Jewish religious leaders who strictly followed the letter of the law but often violated its intent. <i>Sadducees,</i> Jewish political leaders.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>God can change these stones here into Jews,</i> literally, “God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>broke through upon them,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.9.1-Isa.9.2" href="/passage/?search=Isa.9.1-Isa.9.2&version=TLB">Isaiah 9:1-2</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>But I have added to that rule and tell you,</i> literally, “But I say.” <i>even in your own home,</i> literally, “with your brother.” <i>the fires of hell,</i> literally, “the hell of fire.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>pay with his own eye . . . knock out the tooth,</i> literally, “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>from the Evil One,</i> or “from evil.” Some manuscripts add here, “For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, Amen.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>This is the teaching of the laws of Moses in a nutshell,</i> literally, “This is the law and the prophets.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>not as their Jewish leaders,</i> literally, “not as the scribes.” These leaders only quoted others, and did not presume to present any fresh revelation.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>He took our sicknesses and bore our diseases,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.53.4" href="/passage/?search=Isa.53.4&version=TLB">Isaiah 53:4</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>You have no right to torment us yet,</i> literally, “Have you come here to torment us before the time?”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>I want you to be merciful,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hos.6.6" href="/passage/?search=Hos.6.6&version=TLB">Hosea 6:6</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>have been called ‘Satan’;</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.9.34" href="/passage/?search=Matt.9.34&version=TLB">9:34</a> where they call him this.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>preaching in the cities where they were scheduled to go,</i> literally, “to teach and preach in their cities.” Luke remarks, “The Lord now chose seventy other disciples and sent them on ahead in pairs to all the towns and villages he planned to visit later” (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.10.1" href="/passage/?search=Matt.10.1&version=TLB">10:1</a>).


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>ardent multitudes have been crowding toward the Kingdom of Heaven,</i> literally, “the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence and men of violence take it by force.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>the Messiah,</i> literally, “the Son of Man.” <i>brilliant men like you can justify your every inconsistency,</i> literally, “wisdom is justified by her children.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>Tyre and Sidon,</i> cities destroyed by God for their wickedness. Also <i>Sodom</i> in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.11.23" href="/passage/?search=Matt.11.23&version=TLB">v. 23</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>Of all the world,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.42.1-Isa.42.4" href="/passage/?search=Isa.42.1-Isa.42.4&version=TLB">Isaiah 42:1-4</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>Satan,</i> literally, “the strong.” <i>Only then can his demons be cast out,</i> literally, “Then will he spoil his house.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>and you refuse to believe him,</i> implied. Also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.12.42" href="/passage/?search=Matt.12.42&version=TLB">v. 42</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>in a crowded house,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mark.3.32" href="/passage/?search=Mark.3.32&version=TLB">Mark 3:32</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>so people will hear and see but not understand.</i> Those who were receptive to spiritual truth understood the illustrations. To others they were only stories without meaning.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>brings thirty, sixty, or even a hundred others into the Kingdom,</i> literally, “produces a crop many times greater than the amount planted—thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>beginning of time,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.78.2" href="/passage/?search=Ps.78.2&version=TLB">Psalm 78:2</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>from the Old Testament as well as from the New,</i> literally, “brings back out of his treasure things both new and old.” The paraphrase is of course highly anachronistic!


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>King Herod,</i> literally, “the Tetrarch”—he was one of four “kings” over this area, his sovereignty being Galilee and Peraea.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>those from God,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.29.13" href="/passage/?search=Isa.29.13&version=TLB">Isaiah 29:13</a>.


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>for they are considered ceremonially defiled,</i> literally, “you shall count the fruit thereof as their uncircumcision.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>his brother’s wife.</i> However, marriage to his brother’s widow was required if she had no children. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.25.5" href="/passage/?search=Deut.25.5&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 25:5</a>.


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>so that I will not throw you out of your new land,</i> literally, “that the land I give you will not vomit you out again.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>not even his father or mother.</i> Note this rule applied to the High Priest, while the contrary instructions in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Lev.21.1" href="/passage/?search=Lev.21.1&version=TLB">v. 1</a> applied to ordinary priests.


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>for he must not be the father of children of mixed blood—half priestly and half ordinary,</i> literally, “he must not profane his offspring among his people.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>This is to be celebrated on the first day of April,</i> literally, “on the fourteenth day of the first month” (of the Hebrew calendar). This corresponds approximately to our April first.


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>nine days later,</i> literally, “on the tenth day of the seventh month” (of the Hebrew calendar).


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>on the last day of September,</i> literally, “on the fifteenth day of the seventh month” (of the Hebrew calendar). <i>Festival of Shelters,</i> literally, “Feast of Tabernacles.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>the Egyptian man’s son,</i> literally, “the Israelite woman’s son.” <i>cursed God,</i> literally, “blasphemed the Name.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>that isn’t his,</i> implied. <i>shall replace it,</i> literally, “shall make it good, life for life.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>the Day of Atonement,</i> literally, “the tenth day of the seventh month (of the Hebrew calendar).


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>so that you can walk with dignity,</i> literally, “and make you go upright,” or “walk with heads held high.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>shall pay twenty-five dollars.</i> Note: The actual value by today’s standards is uncertain. The above figures are approximate.


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>All the valuations shall be stated in standard money,</i> literally, “All your estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.”


bookid: Lev
contenido:
<i>No one sentenced by the courts to die may pay a fine instead; he shall surely be put to death,</i> literally, “No one who is under the ban of God to be put to death may be ransomed.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>with thousands of them,</i> implied. A legion consisted of 6,000 troops. Whether the demons were speaking literally, of course, is unknown.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>though she had spent everything she had on doctors.</i> This clause is not included in some of the ancient manuscripts.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>the Messiah,</i> literally, “the Son of Man”; also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.9.26" href="/passage/?search=Luke.9.26&version=TLB">v. 26</a>.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
A typical case of discrimination (compare <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.4.9" href="/passage/?search=John.4.9&version=TLB">John 4:9</a>). The Jews called the Samaritans “half-breeds,” so the Samaritans naturally hated the Jews.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
Later manuscripts add to <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.9.55-Luke.9.56" href="/passage/?search=Luke.9.55-Luke.9.56&version=TLB">vv. 55-56</a>, “And Jesus said, ‘You don’t realize what your hearts are like. For the Son of Man has not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.’”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>but wanted to wait until his father’s death,</i> literally, “but he said, ‘Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father,’” perhaps meaning that the man could, when his father died, collect the inheritance and have some security.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>Let those without eternal life concern themselves with things like that,</i> or “Let those who are spiritually dead care for their own dead.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>Tyre and Sidon,</i> cities destroyed by God in judgment for their wickedness. For a description of this event, see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezek.26-Ezek.28" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.26-Ezek.28&version=TLB">Ezekiel 26–28</a>.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>wanted to justify his lack of love for some kinds of people,</i> literally, “wanted to justify himself.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>a despised Samaritan,</i> literally, “a Samaritan.” All Samaritans were despised by Jews and the feeling was mutual, due to historic reasons.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>two twenty-dollar bills,</i> literally, “two denarii,” each the equivalent of a modern day’s wage.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>Then, teaching them more about prayer.</i> Some ancient manuscripts add at this point additional portions of the Lord’s Prayer as recorded in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.6.9-Matt.6.13" href="/passage/?search=Matt.6.9-Matt.6.13&version=TLB">Matthew 6:9-13</a>.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>Others asked for something to happen in the sky to prove his claim of being the Messiah,</i> implied; literally, “Others, tempting, sought of him a sign from heaven.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>the queen of Sheba,</i> literally, “the queen of the south”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.10" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.10&version=TLB">1 Kings 10</a>.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>But don’t begin until you count the cost,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.14.33" href="/passage/?search=Luke.14.33&version=TLB">v. 33</a>.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>salt that has lost its saltiness.</i> Perhaps the reference is to impure salt; when wet, the salt dissolves and drains out, leaving a tasteless residue (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.5.13" href="/passage/?search=Matt.5.13&version=TLB">Matthew 5:13</a>).


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>The rich man had to admire the rascal for being so shrewd,</i> or “Do you think the rich man commended the scoundrel for being so shrewd?” <i>in dishonesty,</i> implied. <i>godly,</i> literally, “sons of the light.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>Will this ensure your entry into an everlasting home in heaven?</i> literally, and probably ironically, “Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that when it shall fail you, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.” Some commentators would interpret this to mean: “Use your money for good, so that it will be waiting to befriend you when you get to heaven.” But this would imply the end justifies the means, an unbiblical idea.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>even though someone rises from the dead.</i> Even Christ’s resurrection failed to convince the Pharisees, to whom he gave this illustration.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>Where the body is, the vultures gather!</i> This may mean that God’s people will be taken out to the execution grounds and their bodies left to the vultures.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>that the Lord is some person’s God.</i> Otherwise the statement would be, “that he had been that person’s God.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>the Messiah will be widely known and honored,</i> literally, “it shall turn out unto you for a testimony.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>pray . . . you may arrive in my presence without having to experience these horrors,</i> or “pray for strength to pass safely through these coming horrors.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>This wine is the token . . . to purchase back your souls,</i> literally, “This cup of the new covenant in my blood, poured out for you.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>the slaves have no choice but to like it,</i> literally, “they [the kings and great men] are called ‘benefactors.’”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>you have stood true to me in these terrible days,</i> literally, “you have continued with me in my temptation.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>that you will not be overcome by temptation,</i> literally, “that you enter not into temptation.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>walked over to Jesus and kissed him on the cheek in friendly greeting,</i> literally, “approached Jesus to kiss him.” This is still the traditional greeting among men in Eastern lands.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.17.17" href="/passage/?search=Gen.17.17&version=TLB">Genesis 17:17</a>.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>His sin spread . . . grow old and die,</i> literally, “Sin entered into the world and death through sin.”


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>But now you need no longer worry about the Jewish laws and customs,</i> literally, “But now we are delivered from the law.” <i>with all of your hearts and minds,</i> implied.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>It has been done,</i> or “It will be done,” literally, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>but your spirit will live, for Christ has pardoned it,</i> or possibly, “but the Holy Spirit who lives in you will give you life, for he has already given you righteousness”; literally, “but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.”


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>waiting . . . for that future day,</i> literally, “waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.”


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>even the things of nature . . . await this great event,</i> literally, “the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now.”


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>that all the world would hear about God’s glorious name,</i> literally, “that my name might be published abroad in all the earth.”


bookid: Rom
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hos.2.23" href="/passage/?search=Hos.2.23&version=TLB">Hosea 2:23</a>.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.10.22" href="/passage/?search=Isa.10.22&version=TLB">Isaiah 10:22</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.28.22" href="/passage/?search=Isa.28.22&version=TLB">28:22</a>.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.1.9" href="/passage/?search=Isa.1.9&version=TLB">Isaiah 1:9</a>.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.28.16" href="/passage/?search=Isa.28.16&version=TLB">Isaiah 28:16</a>.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.52.7" href="/passage/?search=Isa.52.7&version=TLB">Isaiah 52:7</a>.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.53.1" href="/passage/?search=Isa.53.1&version=TLB">Isaiah 53:1</a>.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.65.1" href="/passage/?search=Isa.65.1&version=TLB">Isaiah 65:1</a>.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>bowed down to idols,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.19.18" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.19.18&version=TLB">1 Kings 19:18</a>.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>Don’t criticize him . . . about what is right and wrong,</i> literally, “Receive him that is weak in faith, not for decisions of scruples.” Perhaps the meaning is “Receive those whose consciences hurt them when they do things others have no doubts about.” Accepting them might cause discord in the church, but Paul says to welcome them anyway.


bookid: Rom
contenido:
<i>And since they received . . . some material aid,</i> literally, “For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.”


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>made acceptable to him by Christ Jesus,</i> or “chosen by Christ Jesus”; literally, “sanctified in Christ Jesus.”


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>he made us pure and holy,</i> or “he brought us near to God.” <i>to purchase our salvation,</i> or “to free us from slavery to sin.”


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>Doesn’t this show how little you have grown in the Lord?</i> literally, “Are you not [mere] men?”


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>So don’t be proud of following the wise men of this world,</i> literally, “Let no one glory in men.”


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>Why then go to outside judges who are not even Christians?</i> or “Even the least capable people in the church should be able to decide these things for you.” Both interpretations are possible.


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>I can do anything I want to if Christ has not said no,</i> literally, “All things are lawful for me.” Obviously, Paul is not here permitting sins such as just have been expressly prohibited in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Cor.6.9-1Cor.6.10" href="/passage/?search=1Cor.6.9-1Cor.6.10&version=TLB">vv. 9-10</a>. He is apparently quoting some in the church of lustful Corinth who were excusing their sins.


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>be free now from all these earthly prides and fears,</i> literally, “become not bondservants of men.”


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>and so are our opportunities for doing the Lord’s work,</i> implied. <i>those who have wives should stay as free as possible for the Lord,</i> literally, “those who have wives may be as though they didn’t.”


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>If I had a wife, and if she were a believer,</i> implied; literally, “Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer?”


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>a silver cup,</i> literally, “a wreath that quickly fades,” given to the winners of the original Olympic races of Paul’s time.


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>by a miracle . . . water to drink,</i> implied; literally, “all ate the same supernatural food and drink.” <i>they drank the water that Christ gave them,</i> literally, “they drank of a spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.”


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>for her covering is a sign of her subjection to him,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Cor.11.7" href="/passage/?search=1Cor.11.7&version=TLB">vv. 7</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Cor.11.10" href="/passage/?search=1Cor.11.10&version=TLB">10</a>.


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>the first woman came out of man,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.2.21-Gen.2.22" href="/passage/?search=Gen.2.21-Gen.2.22&version=TLB">Genesis 2:21-22</a>.


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>So a woman . . . is under man’s authority,</i> literally, “For this cause ought the woman to have power on [her] head.” <i>a fact for all the angels to notice and rejoice in,</i> literally, “because of the angels.”


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>privately,</i> implied; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Cor.14.19" href="/passage/?search=1Cor.14.19&version=TLB">vv. 19</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Cor.14.28" href="/passage/?search=1Cor.14.28&version=TLB">28</a>.


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>a person who has a message from God has the power to stop himself or wait his turn,</i> literally, “the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.”


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>they are subordinate to men,</i> literally, “they are not authorized to speak.” They are apparently permitted to pray and prophesy in public meetings (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Cor.11.5" href="/passage/?search=1Cor.11.5&version=TLB">1 Corinthians 11:5</a>), but not to teach men (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Tim.2.12" href="/passage/?search=1Tim.2.12&version=TLB">1 Timothy 2:12</a>).


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>the Twelve,</i> the name given to Jesus’ twelve disciples and still used after Judas was gone from among them.


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>The angels,</i> literally, “There are celestial bodies.” But perhaps this may refer to the sun, moon, planets, and stars.


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>was given a natural, human body,</i> literally, “was made a living soul.” <i>but Christ,</i> literally, “the last Adam.” <i>is more,</i> implied.


bookid: 1Cor
contenido:
<i>because he is young,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Tim.4.12" href="/passage/?search=1Tim.4.12&version=TLB">1 Timothy 4:12</a>.


bookid: 2Cor
contenido:
<i>For God took the sinless Christ and . . . poured God’s goodness into us,</i> literally, “Him who knew no sin, he made sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.”


bookid: 2Cor
contenido:
<i>punishing the man who sinned,</i> implied. Also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Cor.7.12" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.7.12&version=TLB">v. 12</a>.


bookid: 2Cor
contenido:
<i>not because that will be a feather in our caps,</i> literally, “not that we may appear approved.”


bookid: 2Cor
contenido:
<i>Our responsibility is . . . not to hope for evil,</i> literally, “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.”


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<i>that I could never find God’s favor . . . acceptance with God comes by believing in Christ,</i> literally, “for I through the law died to the law, that I might live unto God.”


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<i>to replace mine.</i> It is traditional to suppose that Paul was handicapped by a disease of the eyes.


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<i>these teachers . . . would cut themselves off from you and leave you alone,</i> or “those disturbing you would go and castrate themselves.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>It is what you say and think that makes you unclean,</i> implied; literally, “What comes out of a man defiles a man.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>three shelters,</i> literally, “three tabernacles” or “tents.” What was in Peter’s mind is not explained.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>Elijah must return before the Messiah comes,</i> implied. Literally, “that Elijah must come first.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>the Messiah,</i> literally, “the Son of Man.” <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.18.11" href="/passage/?search=Matt.18.11&version=TLB">Verse 11</a> is left out of many manuscripts, some ancient.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>should excommunicate him,</i> literally, “should let him be to you as the Gentile and the publican.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
“And the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” This sentence is added in some ancient manuscripts.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>for God alone is truly good,</i> implied from <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.18.19" href="/passage/?search=Luke.18.19&version=TLB">Luke 18:19</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>the Messiah,</i> literally, “the Son of Man.” <i>in the Kingdom,</i> literally, “in the regeneration.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>wife,</i> omitted here in many manuscripts but included in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.18.29" href="/passage/?search=Luke.18.29&version=TLB">Luke 18:29</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>$20 a day,</i> literally, “a denarius,” the payment for a day’s labor; equivalent to $20 in modern times, or £7.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>sit on two thrones,</i> implied. Also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.20.23" href="/passage/?search=Matt.20.23&version=TLB">v. 23</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>by whose authority he had thrown out the merchants the day before,</i> literally, “By what authority do you do these things?”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>of the living,</i> i.e., if Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, long dead, were not alive in the presence of God, then God would have said, “I <i>was</i> the God of Abraham, etc.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>act holy,</i> implied. <i>wearing . . . little prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside,</i> literally, “enlarging their phylacteries.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>the horrible thing,</i> literally, “the abomination of desolation.” <i>Daniel,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.9.27" href="/passage/?search=Dan.9.27&version=TLB">Daniel 9:27</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.11.31" href="/passage/?search=Dan.11.31&version=TLB">11:31</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.12.11" href="/passage/?search=Dan.12.11&version=TLB">12:11</a>. <i>Note to the reader: You know what is meant,</i> literally, “Let the reader take note.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>porches,</i> literally, “rooftops,” which, being flat, were used as porches at that time. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Acts.10.9" href="/passage/?search=Acts.10.9&version=TLB">Acts 10:9</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>the stars will seem to fall from the heavens,</i> literally, “the stars shall fall from heaven.” <i>the earth will be convulsed,</i> literally, “the powers of the heavens shall be shaken”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Eph.6.12" href="/passage/?search=Eph.6.12&version=TLB">Ephesians 6:12</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>from the farthest ends of the earth and heaven,</i> literally, “from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>No, nor even God’s Son,</i> literally, “Neither the Son.” Many ancient manuscripts omit this phrase.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>and I was afraid you would rob me of what I earned,</i> literally, “reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter, and I was afraid.”


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>as in olden times.</i> King Zedekiah doubtless had in mind God’s deliverances of Jerusalem from Sennacherib, king of Assyria, in the days of Hezekiah (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.36-Isa.37" href="/passage/?search=Isa.36-Isa.37&version=TLB">Isaiah 36–37</a>). But Zedekiah’s hopes were dashed. He was Judah’s last ruler before the exile of 597 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Jehoahaz who succeeded his father.</i> Jehoahaz, or Shallum, reigned for three months in the year 609 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>King Jehoiakim,</i> implied, see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.22.18" href="/passage/?search=Jer.22.18&version=TLB">v. 18</a>. He was chosen by the Egyptians to replace Jehoahaz, whom they took back to Egypt with them. He ruled from 609–598 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Coniah,</i> is an abbreviation—perhaps a disparaging nickname for Jeconiah and Jehoiachin, his other names. His name means, “The Lord will establish my throne!”


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>none of his children shall ever sit upon the throne of David or rule in Judah.</i> This man, Coniah’s grandson, Zerubbabel, was briefly governor but not king.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>will unburden myself of the burden,</i> literally, “the <i>burden</i> of the Lord,” or “the <i>message</i> of the Lord.” This is a Hebrew pun.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>after these years,</i> literally, “after the seventy years.” <i>I will punish the king of Babylon.</i> This event is further described in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.5" href="/passage/?search=Dan.5&version=TLB">Daniel 5</a>. The troops of Cyrus the Great entered Babylon in 539 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span> and killed Belshazzar, the last Babylonian ruler.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>the royal secretary,</i> implied; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.22.12" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.22.12&version=TLB">2 Kings 22:12</a>.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Shemaiah the dreamer,</i> literally, “Shemaiah the Nehelamite.” Nehelem was Shemaiah’s hometown, the name of which means “dreamer.” This seems to be another of the frequent puns in the prophetic books.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>They will have their own ruler again.</i> This verse probably refers to the restoration after the Babylonian captivity (the rulers of the Maccabean period were priests as well as kings) as well as to the final restoration under Christ.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Rachel,</i> symbolic mother of the Northern tribes, who were taken away by the Assyrians as slaves.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Israel will search for God,</i> literally, “a woman shall court a suitor” or “a woman shall encompass a man.”


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Children pay for their fathers’ sins,</i> literally, “The fathers eat the sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>a contract they broke, forcing me to reject them.</i> Some versions read, “a covenant they broke, even though I cared for them as a husband does his wife.” See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Heb.8.9" href="/passage/?search=Heb.8.9&version=TLB">Hebrews 8:9b</a>.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>upon their hearts,</i> i.e., rather than upon tablets of stone, as were the Ten Commandments. <i>so that they shall want to honor me.</i> In <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.17.1" href="/passage/?search=Jer.17.1&version=TLB">Jeremiah 17:1</a> their sin was inscribed on their hearts, so that they wanted above all to disobey. This change seems to describe an experience very much like, if not the same as, the new birth.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>the true Son of David,</i> or “the true vine from the roots of David.” Christ was the true vine, the only true expression of David, the man after God’s own heart.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>They changed their minds and made their servants slaves again.</i> When the siege was temporarily lifted (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.37.6-Jer.37.11" href="/passage/?search=Jer.37.6-Jer.37.11&version=TLB">37:6-11</a>), they became bold and returned to their sins.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>when Jehoiakim . . . was the king of Judah.</i> This is apparently an early message of Jeremiah, and is not here in its chronological order with the other messages.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>In the fourth year of . . . King Jehoiakim.</i> Probably in the summer of 605 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>, shortly after Nebuchadnezzar’s victory over the Egyptian army at Carchemish.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>sitting in front of a fireplace,</i> more literally, “sitting in front of a large brazier in which a fire was burning.”


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>He shall have no one to sit upon the throne.</i> A three-month interregnum by his son Jehoiachin (also called Coniah and Jeconiah) evidently did not qualify as “sitting on the throne” under the meaning of permanence in the Hebrew expression used here.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>to be the new king of Judah.</i> The people of Jerusalem who had assassinated King Jehoiakim appointed his son Coniah as ruler before Nebuchadnezzar captured the city. The Babylonians took Coniah to Babylon as a political hostage.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>he had bought,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.32.6-Jer.32.15" href="/passage/?search=Jer.32.6-Jer.32.15&version=TLB">32:6-15</a>.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>he fortified Mizpah to protect himself against Baasha, king of Israel,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.15.22" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.15.22&version=TLB">1 Kings 15:22</a>. Fifty-three cisterns have been uncovered by excavators at the site of ancient Mizpah.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Queen of Heaven,</i> see note to <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.7.18" href="/passage/?search=Jer.7.18&version=TLB">7:18</a>.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Pharaoh Hophra.</i> Hophra, or Apries, ruled Egypt from 588–568 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span> <i>over to those.</i> Pharaoh Hophra was killed by Amasis, one of his generals who had revolted and who was then crowned in his place.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>This is the message.</i> This message, in point of time, follows <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.36" href="/passage/?search=Jer.36&version=TLB">ch. 36</a>.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>before the city was captured.</i> In 609 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>, the year King Josiah died.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Dedan</i> was in Northern Arabia and was a flourishing caravan city at the time of Jeremiah and Ezekiel.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Kedar,</i> an Arab tribe living in the desert east of Palestine. <i>Hazor,</i> not the Hazor mentioned in Joshua and Judges—a great city north of the Sea of Galilee, but rather, a group of Arab tribes.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Merathaim,</i> meaning “double rebellion,” refers to southern Babylonia. <i>Pekod,</i> meaning “punishment,” refers to a people in eastern Babylonia.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Cyrus is,</i> literally, “You are,” Cyrus was used of God to conquer Babylon. See also <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.44.28" href="/passage/?search=Isa.44.28&version=TLB">Isaiah 44:28</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.45.1" href="/passage/?search=Isa.45.1&version=TLB">45:1</a>.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>You shall be desolate forever.</i> This complete destruction of the city of Babylon was accomplished by later Persian kings. Jeremiah here sees the long-range picture of the city’s history, and does not confine himself to Cyrus.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>On the tenth day of the fifth month during the nineteenth year,</i> late in July, 587 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<i>He has shut me into a place of high, smooth walls,</i> literally, “He has walled up my ways with hewn stone.”


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<i>were lean and tanned,</i> literally, “were purer than snow, whiter than milk, more ruddy than rubies, polished like sapphires.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>of leading a revolt against the Roman government,</i> literally, “as one who perverts the people.”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
Some ancient authorities add <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.23.17" href="/passage/?search=Luke.23.17&version=TLB">v. 17</a>, “For it was necessary for him to release unto them at the feast one [prisoner].”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>For if such things as this are done to me, the Living Tree, what will they do to you?</i> literally, “For if they do this when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>the Holy Spirit,</i> implied; literally, “the promise of my Father.” <i>Don’t begin telling others yet—stay here in the city until,</i> literally, “But wait here in the city until.” The paraphrase relates this to <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.24.47" href="/passage/?search=Luke.24.47&version=TLB">v. 47</a>.


bookid: Luke
contenido:
<i>along the road to Bethany,</i> implied; Bethany was a mile or so away, across the valley on the Mount of Olives.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>Before anything else existed,</i> literally, “In the beginning.” <i>Christ,</i> literally, “the Word,” meaning Christ, the wisdom and power of God and the first cause of all things; God’s personal expression of himself to men.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>Christ,</i> literally, “the Word.” <i>loving forgiveness,</i> literally, “grace.” <i>seen his glory,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.17.2" href="/passage/?search=Matt.17.2&version=TLB">Matthew 17:2</a>. <i>the only Son of the heavenly Father,</i> literally, “his unique Son.”


bookid: John
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.18.15" href="/passage/?search=Deut.18.15&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 18:15</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.18.18" href="/passage/?search=Deut.18.18&version=TLB">18</a>.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>with,</i> or “in.” So also <i>with,</i> or “in” the Holy Spirit in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.1.31" href="/passage/?search=John.1.31&version=TLB">vv. 31</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.1.33" href="/passage/?search=John.1.33&version=TLB">33</a>.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>Unless one is born of water and the Spirit,</i> or “Physical birth is not enough. You must be born spiritually.” This alternate paraphrase interprets “born of water” as meaning the normal process observed during every human birth. Some think this means water baptism.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>his only Son,</i> or “the unique Son of God.” So also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.3.18" href="/passage/?search=John.3.18&version=TLB">v. 18</a>.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>some of his miracles,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.2.23" href="/passage/?search=John.2.23&version=TLB">2:23</a>.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>My Father constantly does good, and I’m following his example,</i> implied; literally, “My Father works even until now, and I work.”


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>John the Baptist,</i> implied. However, most commentators believe the reference is to the witness of his Father. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.5.37" href="/passage/?search=John.5.37&version=TLB">v. 37</a>.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>immediately the boat was where they were going,</i> literally, “straightway the boat was at the land.”


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>the Messiah,</i> literally, “the Son of Man.” So also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.6.53" href="/passage/?search=John.6.53&version=TLB">v. 53</a>.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>Only the Holy Spirit gives eternal life,</i> literally, “It is the Spirit who quickens.” <i>with physical birth,</i> literally, “the flesh profits nothing”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.1.13" href="/passage/?search=John.1.13&version=TLB">1:13</a>.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>I’ll come later,</i> literally, “I go not up [yet] unto this feast.” The word <i>yet</i> is included in the text of many ancient manuscripts.


bookid: John
contenido:
Most ancient manuscripts omit <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.7.53-John.8.11" href="/passage/?search=John.7.53-John.8.11&version=TLB">7:53–8:11</a>.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>I have already told you,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.5.19" href="/passage/?search=John.5.19&version=TLB">5:19</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.8.36" href="/passage/?search=John.8.36&version=TLB">8:36</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.8.56" href="/passage/?search=John.8.56&version=TLB">56</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.8.58" href="/passage/?search=John.8.58&version=TLB">58</a>, etc.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>wiped them with her hair,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.12.3" href="/passage/?search=John.12.3&version=TLB">12:3</a>.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>Satan,</i> literally, “the prince of this world”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Cor.4.4" href="/passage/?search=2Cor.4.4&version=TLB">2 Corinthians 4:4</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Eph.2.2" href="/passage/?search=Eph.2.2&version=TLB">Ephesians 2:2</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Eph.6.12" href="/passage/?search=Eph.6.12&version=TLB">6:12</a>.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>forbidden to the Jews for food,</i> implied; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Lev.11" href="/passage/?search=Lev.11&version=TLB">Leviticus 11</a> for the forbidden list.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>Turkey,</i> literally, “Pamphylia.” <i>deserted them,</i> literally, “departed from them”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Acts.15.38" href="/passage/?search=Acts.15.38&version=TLB">15:38</a>.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>waved a greeting to them,</i> literally, “beckoned with the hand.” <i>let me begin my remarks with a bit of history,</i> implied.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>No, it was a reference to another,</i> implied. <i>was not touched at all by the ravages of death,</i> literally, “saw no corruption.”


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>from the prophet Amos,</i> implied; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Amos.9.11-Amos.9.12" href="/passage/?search=Amos.9.11-Amos.9.12&version=TLB">Amos 9:11-12</a>.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>says the Lord,</i> implied. <i>renew the broken contract with David,</i> literally, “rebuild the tabernacle of David which is fallen.”


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>return again to Turkey and visit each city where they had preached before,</i> implied; literally, “return now and visit every city wherein we proclaimed the word of the Lord.”


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>many important women of the city.</i> Some manuscripts read, “many of the wives of the leading men.”


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>for he had taken a vow;</i> probably a vow to offer a sacrifice in Jerusalem in thanksgiving for answered prayer. The head was shaved thirty days before such gifts and sacrifices were given to God at the Temple.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>he felt that he had no time to lose;</i> possibly in order to arrive in Jerusalem within the prescribed thirty days.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>holiday,</i> literally, “feast.” This entire sentence is omitted in many of the ancient manuscripts.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>explained what had happened to Jesus since the time of John, and all that it meant,</i> literally, “explained to him the way of God more accurately.”


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>each Sabbath day,</i> implied. <i>telling what he believed and why,</i> literally, “concerning the Kingdom of God.”


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>On Sunday,</i> or “On Saturday night”; literally, “On the first day of the week,” by Jewish reckoning, from sundown to sundown.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>one of the first seven deacons,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Acts.6.5" href="/passage/?search=Acts.6.5&version=TLB">6:5</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Acts.8.1-Acts.8.13" href="/passage/?search=Acts.8.1-Acts.8.13&version=TLB">8:1-13</a>.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>they are all very insistent that Jewish believers must continue to follow the Jewish traditions and customs,</i> literally, “they are all zealous for the law.”


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>who knew Christians didn’t go around starting riots,</i> literally, “having more accurate knowledge.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>The Lord demands fairness in every business deal,</i> literally, “A just balance and scales are the Lord’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>His right to rule depends upon his fairness,</i> literally, “For the throne is established by righteousness.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>Idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece,</i> literally, “A worthless man devises mischief; and in his lips there is a scorching fire.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>Wickedness loves company—and leads others into sin,</i> or “An evil man deceives his neighbor and leads him into loss.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>they shall be severely punished,</i> literally, “a stern [ruthless] messenger will be sent against him.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>The wicked will finally lose; the righteous will finally win,</i> literally, “The wicked is a ransom for the righteous.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>The wise man saves for the future,</i> literally, “There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>An evil man is stubborn, but a godly man will reconsider,</i> or “The wicked man is brazen; the godly man is thoughtful.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>Go ahead and prepare for the conflict,</i> literally, “The horse is prepared against the day of battle.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>That is stealing,</i> implied, see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Prov.23.10-Prov.23.11" href="/passage/?search=Prov.23.10-Prov.23.11&version=TLB">23:10-11</a>.


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>These proverbs of Solomon,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.4.32" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.4.32&version=TLB">1 Kings 4:32</a>. <i>King Hezekiah.</i> Hezekiah lived 200 years after Solomon.


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>Prick his conceit with silly replies,</i> implied; literally, “Reply to a fool as his folly requires.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>as easily as a match sets fire to paper,</i> literally, “like coals to hot embers and wood to fire.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>The growth of love between a man and a girl,</i> literally, “The way of a man with a maid.” Some linguists believe the meaning is, “Why a girl will let herself be seduced.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>These good deeds of hers shall bring her honor and recognition from people of importance,</i> literally, “Give her the fruit of her hands; and let her works praise her in the gates.”


bookid: Eccl
contenido:
<i>Solomon,</i> implied; literally, “the words of the Preacher, the son [or descendant] of David, King of Jerusalem.”


bookid: Eccl
contenido:
<i>but it makes no difference,</i> literally, “but the earth remains forever.” <i>getting nowhere,</i> implied.


bookid: Eccl
contenido:
<i>So I worked hard to be wise instead of foolish,</i> or “So I sought to learn about composure and madness.”


bookid: Eccl
contenido:
<i>and anyone else would come to the same conclusion I did,</i> literally, “for what can the man do who comes after the king?”


bookid: Eccl
contenido:
<i>God brings to pass again what was in the distant past and disappeared,</i> literally, “God seeks what has been driven away.”


bookid: Eccl
contenido:
<i>And so the matter is lost in red tape and bureaucracy,</i> literally, “And there are yet higher ones over them.”


bookid: Eccl
contenido:
<i>But the dead know nothing; they don’t even have their memories.</i> These statements are Solomon’s discouraged opinion and do not reflect a knowledge of God’s truth on these points. Also <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Eccl.9.10" href="/passage/?search=Eccl.9.10&version=TLB">v. 10</a>.


bookid: Eccl
contenido:
<i>When the horse is stolen, it is too late to lock the barn,</i> literally, “If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage to the charmer.”


bookid: Eccl
contenido:
<i>If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done,</i> literally, “He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.”


bookid: Song
contenido:
<i>The Girl.</i> The headings identifying the speakers are conjectures and are not in the original text.


bookid: Song
contenido:
<i>you city girls,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Song.1.5" href="/passage/?search=Song.1.5&version=TLB">v. 5</a>. <i>sent me out into the sun,</i> implied. <i>but see what it has done to me,</i> literally, “but my own vineyards are neglected.”


bookid: Song
contenido:
<i>What a lovely filly you are,</i> literally, “I compare you to my mare harnessed to Pharaoh’s chariot.”


bookid: Song
contenido:
<i>matched loveliness,</i> literally, “like halves of a pomegranate.” <i>behind your locks,</i> literally, “behind your veil.”


bookid: Song
contenido:
<i>look down from the summit of the mountain, from the top of Mount Hermon,</i> literally, “depart from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon.”


bookid: Song
contenido:
<i>You are like a lovely orchard bearing precious fruit,</i> literally, “Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates.”


bookid: Song
contenido:
<i>among my own people,</i> literally, “among the chariots of my princely people.” Another possible reading is, “beside my beloved in his chariot.”


bookid: Song
contenido:
<i>If she has no breasts,</i> literally, “If she be a wall.” <i>build upon her a battlement of silver . . . enclose her with cedar boards,</i> the meaning is obscure.


bookid: Song
contenido:
<i>I am slim, tall,</i> literally, “I am as a wall.” <i>full-breasted,</i> literally, “my breasts are as towers.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>will become the world’s greatest attraction,</i> literally, “shall be established as the highest of the mountains.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>will convert their weapons of war into implements of peace,</i> literally, “will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>God's holy people,</i> literally, “the branch of the Lord.” The phrase “branch of the Lord” refers to God’s people, or it may be a prophecy of the coming Messiah.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>crop of justice, but found bloodshed instead . . . expected righteousness, but the cries of deep oppression met his ears.</i> Here is an example of serious punning often used by the prophets: the Hebrew words for “justice” and “bloodshed” sound very much alike, as do those for “righteousness” and “cry.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>Ephraim, too, will be crushed and broken.</i> Samaria, the capital of “Ephraim,” fell to the Assyrian armies in 722 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>, thirteen years after this oracle—ending the Northern Kingdom.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>Ask anything you like, in heaven or on earth,</i> literally, “Let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>a child shall be born to a virgin.</i> The controversial Hebrew word used here sometimes means “virgin” and sometimes “young woman.” Its immediate use here refers to Isaiah’s young wife and her newborn son (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.8.1-Isa.8.4" href="/passage/?search=Isa.8.1-Isa.8.4&version=TLB">8:1-4</a>). This, of course, was not a virgin birth. God’s sign was that before this child was old enough to talk (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.8.4" href="/passage/?search=Isa.8.4&version=TLB">v. 4</a>), the two invading kings would be destroyed. However, the Gospel of Matthew (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.1.23" href="/passage/?search=Isa.1.23&version=TLB">1:23</a>) tells us that there was a further fulfillment of this prophecy, in that a virgin (Mary) conceived and bore a son, Immanuel, the Christ. We have therefore properly used this higher meaning, “virgin,” in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.1.14" href="/passage/?search=Isa.1.14&version=TLB">v. 14</a>, as otherwise the Matthew account loses its significance.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>By the time this child is weaned,</i> literally, “For before this child shall know [is old enough] to refuse evil and to choose the good . . . and [is old enough to] eat curds and honey.” <i>the kings of Israel and Syria,</i> implied. <i>will both be dead,</i> or “the lands will be deserted [of their kings].”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>the army of Upper Egypt,</i> literally, “the sources of the streams of Egypt” refers to Upper Egypt where the powerful 25th Ethiopian Dynasty would soon arise.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>hired to save you,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.16.7-2Kgs.16.8" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.16.7-2Kgs.16.8&version=TLB">2 Kings 16:7-8</a>. <i>your land, your crops, your people,</i> literally, “head hair, beard, body hair.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>Your enemies will soon be destroyed,</i> literally, “Plundering and despoiling [will] come quickly.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>are planning to refuse my gentle care,</i> literally, “have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>O Syria and Israel,</i> literally, “O peoples.” <i>our enemies,</i> implied. <i>For God is with us,</i> or “Immanuel.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>land of Israel,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.19.35" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.19.35&version=TLB">2 Kings 19:35</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.37.36" href="/passage/?search=Isa.37.36&version=TLB">Isaiah 37:36</a>.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>as decreed,</i> literally, “because of ointment.” Some see here a reference to the Messiah, the Anointed One.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>David,</i> literally, “Jesse.” <i>from the stump will grow a Shoot—yes, a new Branch,</i> Christ, the Messiah.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>the royal dynasty of David,</i> literally, “the Root of Jesse.” Possibly the meaning is, “the Heir of David’s royal line.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>the angels,</i> literally, “the stars of God.” <i>I will preside on the Mount of Assembly far away in the north,</i> literally, “I will sit upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north” (see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.48.2" href="/passage/?search=Ps.48.2&version=TLB">Psalm 48:2</a>) or “on the slopes of Mount Saphon.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>upper reaches of the Nile,</i> literally, “land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.” Ethiopia was the seat of the powerful 25th Egyptian Dynasty (730–660 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>).


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>Babylon,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.21.9" href="/passage/?search=Isa.21.9&version=TLB">v. 9</a>.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>pull up their chairs,</i> literally, “spread out the rugs.” <i>You are being attacked.</i> More details of the feast are seen in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.5" href="/passage/?search=Dan.5&version=TLB">Daniel 5</a>, as this prophecy was fulfilled when Cyrus captured the city.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>in my vision,</i> implied. <i>riders in pairs on donkeys and camels,</i> literally, “a troop, horsemen in pairs, riders on asses, riders on camels.” Possibly the meaning is that the asses and camels were paired for the attack. The city fell to the Medes and Persians, perhaps represented by these paired riders.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>But a long year from now.</i> The Dead Sea manuscript reads, “within <i>three</i> years, according to the year of a hireling,” like <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.16.14" href="/passage/?search=Isa.16.14&version=TLB">16:14</a>. <i>the great power of their enemy,</i> implied.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>Tyre.</i> Tyre was originally a colony of the mother city, Sidon. Also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.23.4" href="/passage/?search=Isa.23.4&version=TLB">v. 4</a>.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>Israel,</i> implied. Also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.27.4" href="/passage/?search=Isa.27.4&version=TLB">v. 4</a>.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>a second wheel crosswise inside,</i> literally, “a wheel within a wheel,” perhaps as in a gyroscope.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>son of dust,</i> or “son of man,” appears eighty-seven times throughout the book of Ezekiel. The connotation is “mortal man.” In <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.7.13" href="/passage/?search=Dan.7.13&version=TLB">Daniel 7:13</a>, the corresponding Aramaic expression is used for the Messiah as representative of the human race of which he is the head.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>accompanied by the sound of a great earthquake,</i> literally, “I heard behind me the sound of a great earthquake.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>I went in bitterness and anger,</i> literally, “I went in the heat of my spirit”—not necessarily anger, but indicated here by this reaction.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>the kinds of animals our law forbids,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Lev.11" href="/passage/?search=Lev.11&version=TLB">Leviticus 11</a> for the dietary laws Ezekiel refers to here.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>Raise your hands in horror and shake your head,</i> literally, “Clap your hands and stamp your feet.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>there sat women weeping for Tammuz.</i> The women wept for Tammuz, the god of fertility, because, according to Mesopotamian myths, he had been killed, and fertility had vanished with him.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>an ox,</i> literally, “a cherub’s face”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezek.1.10" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.1.10&version=TLB">1:10</a>.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>for the spirit of the Guardian Angels was in the wheels.</i> That is, the wheel was a living part of the bodies of the cherubim. Hence it could not be separated from the cherubim.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>for our city is an iron shield and will protect us from all harm,</i> literally, “this city the caldron and we the flesh.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>Your slain will lie within it, but you will be dragged out and slaughtered,</i> literally, “Your slain are the flesh and this is the caldron, but you will be brought out from it.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>for he won’t be able to see,</i> literally, “that he may not see the land with his eyes.” Apparently a reference to the fact that his eyes were put out before he was taken to Babylon; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.52.11" href="/passage/?search=Jer.52.11&version=TLB">Jeremiah 52:11</a>. Also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.52.13" href="/passage/?search=Jer.52.13&version=TLB">v. 13</a>.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>They refuse to even offer help unless they get a profit from it,</i> literally, “Will you hunt the souls of my people and save your own souls alive?”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>your father must have been an Amorite and your mother a Hittite!</i> The Amorites and Hittites were nations who turned their backs to all knowledge of God.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>(the first of the two eagles) . . . (her topmost buds and shoots) . . . (Zedekiah),</i> implied. So also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezek.17.16" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.17.16&version=TLB">v. 16</a>.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>The children are punished for their fathers’ sins,</i> literally, “The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>It is decaying from within,</i> literally, “A fire is gone out of its branches and devoured its fruit.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>six years after King Jeconiah was captured,</i> literally, “in the seventh year of Jeconiah’s captivity.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>let them adopt,</i> literally, “gave them.” <i>Through the keeping of them they could not attain life,</i> literally, “Ordinances by which they could not have life.” Doubtless, the reference is to the pagan customs of <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezek.20.18" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.20.18&version=TLB">vv. 18</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezek.20.26" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.20.26&version=TLB">26</a>. In contrast, see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezek.20.11" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.20.11&version=TLB">v. 11</a>.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>place of sacrifice,</i> literally, “bamah”—a hilltop area where sacrifices were made to the gods.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>my desert judgment hall,</i> literally, “the wilderness of the people,” meaning the Syro-Arabian deserts, peopled by nomadic tribes. This desert would be traversed in returning to Israel from Babylon.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>inspect the liver.</i> A very common type of divination by which ancients thought they could obtain information from the gods.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>There are men who commit adultery with their father’s wives and lie with menstruous women,</i> or “You degrade yourselves through homosexual practices and through lying with women in their time of menstruation.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>She fawned over her Assyrian neighbors,</i> i.e., when Ahaz paid “protection money” to Tiglath-pileser II (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.16.7-2Kgs.16.8" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.16.7-2Kgs.16.8&version=TLB">2 Kings 16:7-8</a>).


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>so she sent messengers to Chaldea.</i> This occurred when Hezekiah entertained the embassy from Babylon (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.38-Isa.39" href="/passage/?search=Isa.38-Isa.39&version=TLB">Isaiah 38–39</a>), also during the reign of Manasseh.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>and broke off all relations with them.</i> The anti-Babylonian party in Judah looked to Egypt for help during the reigns of the last two Judean kings, Jehoiakim and Zedekiah.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>I will make your island a bare rock.</i> Certain aspects of <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezek.26.12" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.26.12&version=TLB">vv. 12</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezek.26.14" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.26.14&version=TLB">14</a> exceed the actual damage done to Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar and foreshadow what happened to the island settlement later as a result of the conquest by Alexander the Great.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>with wheat from Minnith and Pannag,</i> or “with wheat, minnith, and pannag.” If these were commodities, their identification is uncertain.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>Vedan and Javan bring Arabian yarn,</i> or probably better, “They exchanged wine from Uzal for your wares.” The text here is uncertain.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>weep for the king of Tyre.</i> In this passage (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezek.28.11-Ezek.28.19" href="/passage/?search=Ezek.28.11-Ezek.28.19&version=TLB">vv. 11-19</a>) some descriptive phrases apply to a human king of Tyre, and some seem to apply to Satan. Great care therefore must be taken to apply these verses with discernment.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>O Guardian Angel, from the midst of the stones of fire,</i> or “and the guardian cherub drove you out from the midst of the stones of fire.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>with lust for gain,</i> literally, “in the unrighteousness of your trade.” <i>I brought forth fire from your own actions,</i> literally, “I brought fire from the midst of you.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>and could not pay the army for all this work.</i> Tyre capitulated to Nebuchadnezzar at the end of a thirteen-year siege (587–574 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>) There was little left to pay the “salary” of Nebuchadnezzar, so the Lord was giving Egypt to him to make up for what he was “shortchanged” at Tyre.


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>A year later,</i> 587 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>, the year Jerusalem fell to Nebuchadnezzar and was destroyed. <i>the eleventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,</i> literally, “the eleventh year of our exile.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>I have broken the arm of Pharaoh.</i> When Pharaoh Hophra sent an army to relieve Jerusalem in 588 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>, Nebuchadnezzar withdrew from the siege just long enough to defeat the Egyptian force. This is what Ezekiel means by the first “broken arm.”


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<i>the eleventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,</i> implied. It was the year 587 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>, the year Jerusalem fell.


bookid: Hab
contenido:
<i>as these Chaldeans do,</i> implied. <i>the righteous man trusts in me and lives,</i> or “the righteous shall live by his faith.”


bookid: Hab
contenido:
Literally, “Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? Were you angry with them? Was your wrath against their sin that you rode upon your horses? Your chariots were salvation. Your bow was pulled from its sheath and you put arrows to the string. You ribboned the earth with rivers.”


bookid: Zeph
contenido:
The Great Revival under King Josiah followed about ten years after this prophecy, and then, a dozen years later, the deportation and exile. The prophet Jeremiah was active during this same period.


bookid: Zeph
contenido:
<i>has chosen their executioners,</i> literally, “has prepared a sacrifice and sanctified his guests.”


bookid: Zeph
contenido:
<i>wearing heathen clothing,</i> i.e., showing their desire for foreign gods and foreign ways and their contempt for the Lord.


bookid: Zeph
contenido:
<i>Philistines,</i> literally, “Cherethites [or Cretans].” With the Philistines, they were part of a great wave of immigrants to the southern coast of Palestine around 1200 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>


bookid: Zeph
contenido:
<i>will mock or shake his head in disbelief.</i> “Nothing seemed more improbable than that the capital of so vast an empire, a city of sixty miles around with walls 100 feet high and so thick that three chariots could go abreast on them, and with 1500 towers, should be so totally destroyed that its site is with difficulty discovered.”—Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary.


bookid: Zeph
contenido:
<i>I will change the speech of my returning people to pure Hebrew,</i> literally, “I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech.” See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.19.18" href="/passage/?search=Isa.19.18&version=TLB">Isaiah 19:18</a>.


bookid: Hag
contenido:
<i>for it was addressed to them,</i> that is, to the exiles who had returned from Babylon to rebuild Jerusalem.


bookid: Hag
contenido:
<i>the Desire of All Nations,</i> i.e., Christ the Messiah, literally, “the Treasures” or “that which is choice.” But many commentators prefer this rendering: “the treasures of the nations will pour into this Temple, and I will fill it with splendor.”


bookid: Hag
contenido:
<i>I will give peace,</i> i.e., peace with God through Christ who, 500 years later, came often to this Temple.


bookid: Hag
contenido:
<i>24th day of the month,</i> i.e., of Kislev, which is early in December, according to our calendar.


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>I will engrave this inscription on it seven times,</i> literally, “See the stone with seven facets I have set before Joshua, and I will engrave its inscription.”


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>to Zerubbabel,</i> Governor of Judah, who was given the responsibility for rebuilding the Temple. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hag.1.1" href="/passage/?search=Hag.1.1&version=TLB">Haggai 1:1</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hag.2.23" href="/passage/?search=Hag.2.23&version=TLB">2:23</a>, etc.


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>Zerubbabel will finish building this Temple,</i> literally, “he will bring forth the capstone.” <i>declaring that all was done by grace alone,</i> or “with mighty shouts, ‘How beautiful it is!’” or “‘The Lord bless it!’”


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>To Babylon</i> (the land of Shinar). By the time of Zechariah, Babylon had become a symbol, the center of world idolatry and wickedness.


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>July, August, October, and January,</i> literally, “fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months” of the Hebrew calendar.


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>for the Lord is closely watching all mankind, as well as Israel,</i> or “for the cities of Syria belong to the Lord, as much as do the tribes of Israel.”


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>from the river to the ends of the earth,</i> or “to the ends of the land” of Palestine. Either interpretation is possible from the Hebrew text, but many other passages indicate Christ’s universal rule.


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>the sea of distress,</i> or “the Sea of Egypt,” referring to the Red Sea, which the people of Israel were miraculously brought through when God delivered them out of slavery the first time.


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>thirty little silver coins,</i> the price of a slave; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.21.32" href="/passage/?search=Exod.21.32&version=TLB">Exodus 21:32</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.27.3-Matt.27.9" href="/passage/?search=Matt.27.3-Matt.27.9&version=TLB">Matthew 27:3-9</a>.


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>King Josiah,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Chr.35.24-2Chr.35.25" href="/passage/?search=2Chr.35.24-2Chr.35.25&version=TLB">2 Chronicles 35:24-25</a>; literally, “like the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.”


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>these scars on your chest and your back.</i> Evidently self-inflicted cuts, as practiced by false prophets; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.18.28" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.18.28&version=TLB">1 Kings 18:28</a>. <i>I got into a brawl at the home of a friend,</i> literally, “[These are] wounds I received in the house of my friends.” Some think this refers to Christ; others believe this refers to a false prophet who is lying about the reasons for his scars.


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>Two-thirds of all the nation of Israel will be cut off and die.</i> Something of this sort has already happened twice: 2 million Jews perished in the Roman wars, and 6 million under Hitler. Is a yet future disaster predicted here?


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>for it will reach across to the city gate,</i> literally, “for the valley of my mountain shall touch Azel”—apparently a hamlet on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem. <i>all his saints and angels,</i> literally, “his holy ones.”


bookid: Zech
contenido:
<i>to celebrate a time of thanksgiving,</i> literally, “to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles,” or “Booths.”


bookid: Mal
contenido:
<i>another prophet like Elijah,</i> literally, “the prophet Elijah.” Compare <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.17.10-Matt.17.12" href="/passage/?search=Matt.17.10-Matt.17.12&version=TLB">Matthew 17:10-12</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.1.17" href="/passage/?search=Luke.1.17&version=TLB">Luke 1:17</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>These are fourteen,</i> literally, “So all the generations from Abraham unto David are fourteen.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>her fiancé,</i> literally, “her husband.” <i>a man of stern principle,</i> literally, “a just man.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>Micah,</i> implied; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mic.5.2" href="/passage/?search=Mic.5.2&version=TLB">Micah 5:2</a>.


bookid: Matt
contenido:
<i>appeared to them again, standing over Bethlehem,</i> literally, “went before them until it came and stood over where the baby lay.”


bookid: Matt
contenido:
Compare <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Hos.11.1" href="/passage/?search=Hos.11.1&version=TLB">Hosea 11:1</a>.


bookid: Judg
contenido:
The ephod was usually a linen pouch worn by the priests on their chests. In this case the ephod evidently was highly decorated with gold, and probably, because of its weight, hung upon a wall.


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<i>meaning me, your own flesh and blood.</i> Of all Gideon’s wives, only Abimelech’s mother was from Shechem (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Judg.8.30-Judg.8.31" href="/passage/?search=Judg.8.30-Judg.8.31&version=TLB">8:30-31</a>), so Abimelech felt his close kinship there.


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<i>So she was never married.</i> It is not clear whether he killed her or satisfied his vow by consecrating her to perpetual virginity.


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<i>and while he slept,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Judg.16.14" href="/passage/?search=Judg.16.14&version=TLB">v. 14</a>.


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<i>Do I have younger sons . . . to be your husbands?</i> This refers to the custom of the day. Levirate marriage (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.25.5-Deut.25.10" href="/passage/?search=Deut.25.5-Deut.25.10&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 25:5-10</a>) was a common practice. The brother of a deceased husband was to marry the widow.


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<i>glean the free grain,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Lev.19.9" href="/passage/?search=Lev.19.9&version=TLB">Leviticus 19:9</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.24.19" href="/passage/?search=Deut.24.19&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 24:19</a>, which established this custom.


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<i>the marketplace,</i> literally, “the gate” of the city, where legal affairs were usually transacted.


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<i>“For her son would become an heir to my property too,”</i> or “That would ruin my own inheritance,” i.e., complicate his estate for the children he already had.


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<i>and his hair shall never be cut.</i> This was an approved custom for those who were wholly dedicated to God.


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<i>named him Samuel (meaning “asked of God”).</i> This was a play on words. The word <i>Samuel</i> in Hebrew sounds like the word “to ask.”


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<i>Samuel had never had a message from Jehovah before,</i> literally, “Samuel did not yet know Jehovah.”


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<i>Is Saul a prophet too?</i> This was an expression of surprise concerning worldly Saul becoming religious, equivalent to our “He’s got religion?”


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<i>Saul had reigned for one year.</i> The Hebrew, from which the numbers have evidently dropped out in copying, reads: “Saul was . . . years old when he began to reign, and he reigned . . . and two years over Israel.”


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<i>When Saul.</i> Probably King Saul was especially worried, for he was tallest of the Israelites and was obviously the best match!


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<i>what sort of family does this young fellow come from?</i> literally, “Whose son is this?” Since David was, if successful, scheduled to marry Saul’s daughter, Saul wanted to know more about his family! The other explanation of this confusing passage is that Saul’s mental condition caused forgetfulness, so that he didn’t recognize David.


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<i>Is Saul a prophet too?</i> implied; literally, “Hence it is said, ‘Is Saul also among the prophets?’” See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Sam.10.10-1Sam.10.12" href="/passage/?search=1Sam.10.10-1Sam.10.12&version=TLB">10:10-12</a>.


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<i>You fool,</i> literally, “Son of a perverse, rebellious woman.” The modern equivalent is “son of a bitch.” <i>this son of a nobody,</i> literally, “son of Jesse.”


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<i>Both of them were crying . . . especially David,</i> literally, “David . . . bowed himself three times and they kissed each other and wept until David exceeded.”


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<i>he had a stroke and lay paralyzed,</i> literally, “his heart died within him and he became as stone.”


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<i>or by Urim.</i> The Urim and Thummim were holy instruments which were used as lots in determining the will of God. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.28.30" href="/passage/?search=Exod.28.30&version=TLB">Exodus 28:30</a>.


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>So I killed him.</i> He was evidently lying. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Sam.31.3" href="/passage/?search=1Sam.31.3&version=TLB">1 Samuel 31:3</a> for the true account. Probably he had found Saul dead upon the field and thought David would reward him for killing his rival.


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>Let no crops of grain grow on your slopes.</i> The text is uncertain in the original manuscripts.


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>Palti,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Sam.25.44" href="/passage/?search=1Sam.25.44&version=TLB">1 Samuel 25:44</a>.


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>captain of his bodyguard,</i> literally, “the Cherethites and Pelethites.” <i>were his assistants,</i> literally, “were priests”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.18.17" href="/passage/?search=1Chr.18.17&version=TLB">1 Chronicles 18:17</a>.


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>The sword kills one as well as another,</i> literally, “The sword devours now one and now another.”


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>and sent congratulations,</i> literally, “Jehovah sent word by Nathan the prophet.” <i>because of the Lord’s interest,</i> literally, “because of the Lord.”


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>made them labor with saws, picks, and axes and work in the brick kilns,</i> or “killed them with saws and iron harrows, and in the brick kilns.”


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>for the girls and young men were kept strictly apart,</i> literally, “for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.”


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>You know what a serious crime it is in Israel,</i> literally, “No such thing ought to be done in Israel; do not this folly.”


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>God will bless you . . . if you . . . bring your son back from his exile,</i> or “God does not sweep life away, but has made provision to bring back those he banishes, so that they will not be forever exiles.”


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>So Absalom went to Hebron.</i> Hebron was King David’s first capital, and it was also Absalom’s hometown, whose people doubtless were very proud of him.


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>they will all close ranks behind you,</i> literally, “the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>made you a commissioned officer,</i> literally, “given you ten pieces of silver and a belt.” There is no way of knowing the value of the silver. The belt was probably that worn by a commissioned officer.


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>I didn’t know what was happening.</i> Ahimaaz apparently was afraid to tell the king what actually had happened.


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>the mother of two of the men,</i> implied. <i>the entire harvest season,</i> which lasted six months, from April until October.


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>the brother of Goliath the Gittite,</i> literally, “slew Goliath of Gath.” See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.20.5" href="/passage/?search=1Chr.20.5&version=TLB">1 Chronicles 20:5</a>.


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>He will constantly look after my safety and success,</i> literally, “He will cause my salvation and my desire to sprout.”


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>thirty-seven in all.</i> The Thirty, plus the Top Three, plus Generals Joab, Abishai, Asahel, and Benaiah. Apparently new names were elected to this hall of fame to replace those who died.


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<i>But you have no right to rejoice in their strength,</i> literally, “But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Sam.2.31-1Sam.2.35" href="/passage/?search=1Sam.2.31-1Sam.2.35&version=TLB">1 Samuel 2:31-35</a>.


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>Jachin Pillar</i> and <i>Boaz Pillar.</i> Jachin means “to establish,” and Boaz means “strength.”


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>square,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.7.31" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.7.31&version=TLB">v. 31</a>.


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>heard how wonderfully the Lord had blessed Solomon with wisdom,</i> literally, “heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord.”


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>the Lord gave him the right answers every time,</i> literally, “there was nothing hidden from the king that he could not explain to her.”


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>I will leave him one tribe.</i> Of the twelve tribes, Judah and Benjamin were left to Solomon’s son. These two tribes were often called “Judah,” the larger of the two.


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>Only the tribe of Judah.</i> Judah and Benjamin were sometimes (as in this instance) counted together as one tribe.


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>on the first of November,</i> literally, “on the fifteenth day of the eighth month” (of the Hebrew calendar). This was a month later than the annual celebration in Jerusalem, which God had ordained.


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>this boy who is sick and all those who are well,</i> literally, “every male, both bond and free.”


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>Asa did not realize that these were wrong,</i> literally, “the heart of Asa was perfect toward Jehovah all his days.”


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>the bronze shields his grandfather had dedicated,</i> literally, “the dedicated objects of his grandfather,” see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.14.27" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.14.27&version=TLB">14:27</a>.


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>the Lord’s curse upon Jericho,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.6.26" href="/passage/?search=Josh.6.26&version=TLB">Joshua 6:26</a>.


bookid: 1Kgs
contenido:
<i>one to represent each of the tribes of Israel,</i> literally, “each of the tribes of the sons of Jacob to whom the Lord had said, ‘Israel shall be your name.’”


bookid: Neh
contenido:
<i>except for washing,</i> or “even when we went for water,” or “not even at night.” The meaning of the Hebrew text is uncertain.


bookid: Neh
contenido:
<i>I invoked the curse of God upon any of them who refused,</i> literally, “Then I shook out the lap of my gown.”


bookid: Neh
contenido:
<i>even though they should have obeyed them,</i> literally, “by the observance of which a man shall live.”


bookid: Neh
contenido:
<i>He was appointed by King David,</i> literally, “There was a commandment from the king concerning them.”


bookid: Neh
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.23.3-Deut.23.5" href="/passage/?search=Deut.23.3-Deut.23.5&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 23:3-5</a>.


bookid: Esth
contenido:
<i>fastened with purple ribbons,</i> literally, “fastened with cords of fine linen and purple thread.”


bookid: Esth
contenido:
<i>Esther’s,</i> literally, “Esther, the daughter of Abihail, who was Mordecai’s uncle, who had adopted her.”


bookid: Esth
contenido:
<i>Later . . . a second bevy of beautiful girls,</i> or “When Esther and the other girls had been transferred to the second harem.”


bookid: Esth
contenido:
<i>impaled alive,</i> literally, “hanged on a tree.” Possibly the meaning is that they were crucified.


bookid: Esth
contenido:
<i>told the king that he was her cousin and foster father,</i> literally, “had made known how they were related.”


bookid: Esth
contenido:
<i>so that it can never be reversed.</i> Haman’s message, too, had been sealed with the king’s ring and could not be reversed, even by the king. This was part of the famed “law of the Medes and Persians.” Now the king is giving permission for whatever other decree Mordecai can devise that will offset the first without actually canceling it.


bookid: Esth
contenido:
<i>the 28th day of February.</i> This was the same day set by Haman for the extermination of the Jews.


bookid: Job
contenido:
<i>Let those who are experts at cursing curse it,</i> literally, “Let them who can curse the sea, who know how to rouse the sea monster, curse it.”


bookid: Job
contenido:
<i>In the past,</i> implied. <i>you have told many a troubled soul to trust in God,</i> literally, “you have instructed many.”


bookid: Job
contenido:
<i>that God will care for those who are good?</i> Literally, “the integrity of your ways, your hope.”


bookid: Job
contenido:
<i>Go to God and confess your sins to him,</i> literally, “I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause.”


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>Who will accept God’s mighty miracles as proof?</i> literally, “To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.53.1" href="/passage/?search=Isa.53.1&version=TLB">Isaiah 53:1</a>).


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>God,</i> literally, “He.” The Greek here is a very free rendering, or paraphrase, of <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.6.10" href="/passage/?search=Isa.6.10&version=TLB">Isaiah 6:10</a>.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>Since I,</i> literally, “There was one at the table.” All commentators believe him to be John, the writer of this book. <i>was sitting next to Jesus,</i> literally, “was reclining on Jesus’ bosom.” The custom of the period was to recline around the table, leaning on the left elbow. John, next to Jesus, was at his side.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>the bread dipped in the sauce,</i> literally, “dip the sop.” The honored guest was thus singled out in the custom of that time.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>none wonders why,</i> literally, “none of you is asking me whither I am going.” The question had been asked before (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.13.36" href="/passage/?search=John.13.36&version=TLB">13:36</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.14.5" href="/passage/?search=John.14.5&version=TLB">14:5</a>), but apparently not in this deeper sense.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>of deliverance from judgment,</i> literally, “he will convict the world of sin and righteousness and judgment.”


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>you will present your petitions over my signature,</i> literally, “you shall ask in my name.” The above paraphrase is the modern equivalent of this idea, otherwise obscure.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>don’t need anyone to tell you anything,</i> literally, “need not that anyone should ask you,” i.e., discuss what is true.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>kept safe . . . all of these you gave me,</i> literally, “kept in your name those whom you have given me.”


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>that would “defile” them.</i> By Jewish law, entering the house of a Gentile was a serious offense.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>prediction concerning the method of his execution.</i> This prophecy is recorded in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.20.19" href="/passage/?search=Matt.20.19&version=TLB">Matthew 20:19</a> and indicates his death by crucifixion, a practice under Roman law.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>“‘King’ as you use the word or as the Jews use it?” Jesus asked.</i> An extended paraphrase of this verse would be, “Do you mean their King, or their Messiah?” If Pilate was asking as the Roman governor, he would be inquiring whether Jesus was setting up a rebel government. But the Jews were using the word <i>King</i> to mean their religious ruler, the Messiah. Literally, this verse reads: “Are you saying this of yourself, or did someone else say it about me?”


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>the judgment bench on the stone-paved platform,</i> literally, “the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.”


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>cast lots for my robe,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.22.18" href="/passage/?search=Ps.22.18&version=TLB">Psalm 22:18</a>.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>standing there beside me, his close friend,</i> literally, “standing by the disciple whom he loved.”


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>I saw all this . . . so that you also can believe,</i> literally, “And he who has seen has borne witness, and his witness is true; and he knows what he says is true, that you also may believe.”


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>at night,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.3" href="/passage/?search=John.3&version=TLB">ch. 3</a>.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>We,</i> literally, “Peter and the other disciple.” <i>I,</i> literally, “the other disciple also, who came first.”


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>Then I,</i> literally, “Then that disciple therefore whom Jesus loved.” <i>and swam ashore,</i> implied.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>more than these others,</i> literally, “more than these”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mark.14.29" href="/passage/?search=Mark.14.29&version=TLB">Mark 14:29</a>.


bookid: John
contenido:
<i>live,</i> literally, “tarry.” So also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.21.23" href="/passage/?search=John.21.23&version=TLB">v. 23</a>.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>In my first letter,</i> i.e., the book of Luke; see footnote <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.1.1-Luke.1.2" href="/passage/?search=Luke.1.1-Luke.1.2&version=TLB">Luke 1:1-2</a>.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
This annual celebration came fifty days after the Passover ceremonies, when Christ was crucified. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Lev.23.16" href="/passage/?search=Lev.23.16&version=TLB">Leviticus 23:16</a>.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>the Roman government,</i> literally, “men without the law”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rom.2.12" href="/passage/?search=Rom.2.12&version=TLB">Romans 2:12</a>.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>be the Messiah and,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Acts.2.31" href="/passage/?search=Acts.2.31&version=TLB">v. 31</a>.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>No, David was not speaking of himself in these words of his I have quoted,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Acts.2.31" href="/passage/?search=Acts.2.31&version=TLB">v. 31</a>.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>the Sadducees,</i> who were members of a Jewish religious sect that denied the resurrection of the dead.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>there was warm fellowship among all the believers,</i> literally, “great grace was upon them all.”


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>to test the Spirit of God’s ability to know what is going on,</i> literally, “to try the Spirit of the Lord.”


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>full of faith and the Holy Spirit’s power,</i> literally, “full of grace and truth”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Acts.6.5" href="/passage/?search=Acts.6.5&version=TLB">v. 5</a>.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>Iraq,</i> literally, “Mesopotamia.” <i>Syria,</i> literally, “Haran,” a city in the area we now know as Syria.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>God’s Laws, though you received them from the hands of angels,</i> literally, “the Law as it was ordained by angels.”


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>godly Jews,</i> literally, “devout men.” It is not clear whether these were Christians who braved the persecution, or whether they were godly and sympathetic Jews.


bookid: Acts
contenido:
<i>who can express the wickedness of the people of his generation,</i> implied; literally, “who can declare his generation?” Alternatively, “who will be able to speak of his posterity?”


bookid: Acts
contenido:
Many ancient manuscripts omit <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Acts.8.37" href="/passage/?search=Acts.8.37&version=TLB">v. 37</a> wholly or in part.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>and protect Jerusalem,</i> literally, “do good in your good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>And when my heart is right,</i> implied. <i>then you will rejoice in the good that I do,</i> literally, “then you will delight in the sacrifice of righteousness.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>become ever more bold in their wickedness,</i> literally, “strengthened himself in his wickedness.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>destroy them with their own violence and strife,</i> literally, “for I have seen violence and strife in the city.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>you give “justice” in exchange for bribes,</i> literally, “you deal out the violence of your hands in the land.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>Make their weapons useless in their hands,</i> or “Let them be trodden down and wither like grass.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>all who love truth will rally to it,</i> literally, “that it may be displayed because of the truth.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>to praise,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.61.8" href="/passage/?search=Ps.61.8&version=TLB">v. 8</a>.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>They spend long hours with all their endless evil thoughts and plans,</i> literally, “And the inward thought and the heart of everyone is deep.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>You sent troops to ride across our broken bodies,</i> literally, “You caused men to ride over our heads.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>he receives gifts for men,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Eph.4.8" href="/passage/?search=Eph.4.8&version=TLB">Ephesians 4:8</a>.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>submissive, tax in hand,</i> literally, “everyone submitting himself with pieces of silver.” An alternate rendering of <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.68.30" href="/passage/?search=Ps.68.30&version=TLB">v. 30</a> could be, “Trample upon those who lust after the tribute of smaller nations and who delight in aggressive wars.”


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<i>by making us all one family,</i> literally, “by making us one.” <i>breaking down the wall of contempt,</i> implied.


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<i>he is the one . . . salvation from sin will be complete,</i> literally, “he is the one in whom you were sealed unto the day of redemption.”


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<i>washed by baptism and God’s Word,</i> literally, “having cleansed it by washing of water with the word.”


bookid: Phil
contenido:
<i>going so far as actually to die a criminal’s death on a cross,</i> literally, “became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.”


bookid: Col
contenido:
<i>He existed before God made anything at all,</i> literally, “He is the firstborn of all creation.”


bookid: Col
contenido:
<i>he is the Leader of all those who arise from the dead,</i> literally, “he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead.”


bookid: 2Thess
contenido:
<i>the work . . . is already going on,</i> literally, “the mystery of lawlessness is already at work.”


bookid: 2Thess
contenido:
<i>because God chose from the very first to give you salvation,</i> or “because God chose you to be among the first to believe.”


bookid: 2Tim
contenido:
<i>he saved me from being thrown to the lions,</i> literally, “I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.”


bookid: Titus
contenido:
<i>pastors,</i> more literally, “elders.” Also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Titus.1.7" href="/passage/?search=Titus.1.7&version=TLB">v. 7</a>.


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<i>today I have given you the honor that goes with that name,</i> literally, “this day I have begotten you.”


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<i>honored you,</i> literally, “begotten you.” Probably the reference is to the day of Christ’s resurrection.


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<i>premature,</i> implied. Christ’s longing was to live until he could die on the cross for all mankind. There is a strong case to be made that Satan’s great desire was that Christ should die prematurely, before the mighty work at the cross could be performed. Christ’s body, being human, was frail and weak like ours (except that his was sinless). He had said just a few moments before, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful <i>unto death.”</i> And can a human body live long under such pressure of spirit as he underwent in the Garden, that caused sweating of great drops of blood? But God graciously heard and answered his anguished cry in Gethsemane (“Let this cup pass from me”) and preserved him from seemingly imminent and premature death: for an angel was sent to strengthen him so that he could live to accomplish God’s perfect will at the cross. But some readers may prefer the explanation that Christ’s plea was that he be saved <i>out from death</i> at the resurrection.


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<i>Melchizedek had no father or mother.</i> No one can be sure whether this means that Melchizedek was Christ appearing to Abraham in human form or simply that there is no <i>record</i> of who Melchizedek’s father and mother were, no <i>record</i> of his birth or death.


bookid: Heb
contenido:
The blood of bulls and goats merely covered over the sins, taking them out of sight for hundreds of years until Jesus Christ came to die on the cross. There he gave his own blood which forever took those sins away.


bookid: Jas
contenido:
<i>don’t be too eager to tell others their faults,</i> literally, “not many [of you] should become masters [teachers].”


bookid: 1Pet
contenido:
An alternative paraphrase of these verses could read: “If you have tasted the Lord’s goodness and kindness, cry for more, as a baby cries for milk. Eat God’s Word—read it, think about it—and grow strong in the Lord and be saved.”


bookid: 1Pet
contenido:
<i>In baptism we show that we have been saved from death and doom by the resurrection of Christ,</i> or “Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you through the resurrection.”


bookid: 1Pet
contenido:
<i>killed by the flood,</i> implied; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Pet.3.19-1Pet.3.20" href="/passage/?search=1Pet.3.19-1Pet.3.20&version=TLB">3:19-20</a>.


bookid: 1Pet
contenido:
<i>the Spirit of God will come upon you with great glory,</i> or “the glory of the Spirit of God is being seen in you.”


bookid: 1Pet
contenido:
<i>The church here in Rome,</i> literally, “She who is at Babylon is likewise chosen”; but Babylon was the Christian nickname for Rome, and the “she” is thought by many to be Peter’s wife to whom reference is made in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.8.14" href="/passage/?search=Matt.8.14&version=TLB">Matthew 8:14</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Cor.9.5" href="/passage/?search=1Cor.9.5&version=TLB">1 Corinthians 9:5</a>, etc. Others believe this verse should read: “Your sister church here in Babylon salutes you, and so does my son Mark.”


bookid: 2Pet
contenido:
<i>the terrifying powers . . . they know so little about,</i> literally, “the things they do not understand.” <i>will be destroyed along with all the demons and powers of hell,</i> implied; literally, “will be destroyed in the same destruction with them.”


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<i>confess our sins to him,</i> implied; literally, “confess our sins.” <i>Christ died to wash away our sins,</i> literally, “he is . . . just.”


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<i>the Lord will surely feel it even more,</i> or perhaps “the Lord will be merciful anyway”; literally, “God is greater than our heart.”


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<i>as he was facing death,</i> literally, “This is he who came by water and blood,” see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.3.16-Matt.3.17" href="/passage/?search=Matt.3.16-Matt.3.17&version=TLB">Matthew 3:16-17</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.9.31" href="/passage/?search=Luke.9.31&version=TLB">Luke 9:31</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.9.35" href="/passage/?search=Luke.9.35&version=TLB">35</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.12.27-John.12.28" href="/passage/?search=John.12.27-John.12.28&version=TLB">John 12:27-28</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.12.32-John.12.33" href="/passage/?search=John.12.32-John.12.33&version=TLB">32-33</a>. Other interpretations of this verse are equally possible. <i>as he faced death,</i> literally, “not by water only, but by water and blood.” <i>and the voice before he died,</i> literally, “the Spirit, and the water, and the blood.” <i>that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,</i> implied.


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<i>that one that ends in death.</i> Commentators differ widely in their thoughts about what sin this is and whether it causes physical death or spiritual death. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit results in spiritual death (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Mark.3.29" href="/passage/?search=Mark.3.29&version=TLB">Mark 3:29</a>), but can a Christian ever sin in such a way? Impenitence at the Communion Table sometimes ends in physical death (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Cor.11.30" href="/passage/?search=1Cor.11.30&version=TLB">1 Corinthians 11:30</a>). And <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Heb.6.4-Heb.6.8" href="/passage/?search=Heb.6.4-Heb.6.8&version=TLB">Hebrews 6:4-8</a> speaks of the terrible end of those who fall away.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>This book unveils . . . the life of Jesus Christ,</i> literally, “This is the revelation of [concerning, or from] Jesus Christ.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>in Turkey,</i> literally, “in Asia.” <i>the sevenfold Spirit,</i> literally, “the seven Spirits.” But see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.11.2" href="/passage/?search=Isa.11.2&version=TLB">Isaiah 11:2</a>, where various aspects of the Holy Spirit are described, and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Zech.4.2-Zech.4.6" href="/passage/?search=Zech.4.2-Zech.4.6&version=TLB">Zechariah 4:2-6</a>, giving probability to the paraphrase; see also <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Zech.2.7" href="/passage/?search=Zech.2.7&version=TLB">2:7</a>.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>He was the first to rise from death, to die no more,</i> literally, “He was the firstborn from the dead.” Others (Lazarus, etc.) rose to die again. As used here the expression therefore implies “to die no more.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>and those who pierced him.</i> John saw this happen with his own eyes—the piercing of Jesus—and never forgot the horror of it.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>I am the A and the Z,</i> literally, “I am Alpha and Omega.” These are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. <i>is coming again,</i> literally, “who comes” or “who is to come.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>like Jesus, who called himself the Son of Man,</i> literally, “like unto a Son of Man.” John recognizes him from having lived with him for three years, and from seeing him in glory at the Transfiguration.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>leaders,</i> literally, “angels.” Some expositors (Origen, Jerome, etc.) believe from this that an angelic being is appointed by God to oversee each local church.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>leader,</i> literally, “angel” and so also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.2.8" href="/passage/?search=Rev.2.8&version=TLB">2:8</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.2.12" href="/passage/?search=Rev.2.12&version=TLB">2:12</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.2.18" href="/passage/?search=Rev.2.18&version=TLB">2:18</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.3.1" href="/passage/?search=Rev.3.1&version=TLB">3:1</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.3.7" href="/passage/?search=Rev.3.7&version=TLB">3:7</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.3.14" href="/passage/?search=Rev.3.14&version=TLB">3:14</a>. <i>from him who walks among the churches,</i> literally, “from him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the golden candlesticks.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>Nicolaitans,</i> which, when translated from Greek to Hebrew, becomes <i>Balaamites,</i> who were followers of the man who induced the Israelites to fall by lust. (See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.2.14" href="/passage/?search=Rev.2.14&version=TLB">2:14</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.31.15-Num.31.16" href="/passage/?search=Num.31.15-Num.31.16&version=TLB">Numbers 31:15-16</a>.)


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>along with all her immoral followers,</i> literally, “together with all those who commit adultery with her.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>the sevenfold Spirit,</i> see note on <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.1.4" href="/passage/?search=Rev.1.4&version=TLB">1:4</a>.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>those supporting the causes of Satan while claiming to be mine,</i> literally, “those who say they are Jews but are not.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>I will protect you from the time of Great Tribulation and temptation,</i> or “I will keep you from failing in the hour of testing.” The inference is not clear in the Greek as to whether this means “kept from” or “kept through” the coming horror.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>from the one who stands firm,</i> literally, “from the Amen.” <i>of all that is or was or evermore shall be,</i> implied.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>the sevenfold Spirit of God,</i> literally, “the seven spirits of God.” But see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Zech.4.2-Zech.4.6" href="/passage/?search=Zech.4.2-Zech.4.6&version=TLB">Zechariah 4:2-6</a> where the lamps are equated with the one Spirit; also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Zech.5.6" href="/passage/?search=Zech.5.6&version=TLB">5:6</a>.


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>I cannot overemphasize this point,</i> literally, “Forget not nor turn from the words of my mouth.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>Spurn the careless kiss of a prostitute,</i> implied; literally, “Put away from you a wayward mouth.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>But afterwards only a bitter conscience is left you,</i> literally, “But in the end she is bitter as wormwood.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>and give the remainder of your life to the cruel and merciless.</i> Perhaps the reference is to blackmail or to fear of vengeance from the wronged husband.


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>Let her breasts and tender embrace,</i> literally, “As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, let her breasts.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>I’ll fix you a wonderful dinner,</i> literally, “Sacrifices of peace offerings were due from me; this day have I paid my vows.” If she meant this literally, she was telling him that she had plenty of food on hand, left from her sacrifice at the temple.


bookid: Prov
contenido:
The reference here is to Wisdom. If this verse refers to Christ, this alternate translation is possible from the Hebrew text: “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>an evil man inwardly curses his luck,</i> literally, “but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>Evil words destroy; godly skill rebuilds,</i> or “When a godless man slanders his neighbor, the charges won’t stick because everyone knows his reputation.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>Hard work means prosperity,</i> literally, “He who tills his ground shall have his fill of bread.”


bookid: Prov
contenido:
<i>The common bond of rebels is their guilt,</i> or “Fools make a mock at sin.” The Hebrew is obscure.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>the surging birthrate and the expanding economy,</i> literally, “his children, the work of my hands, in his midst.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
Hezekiah was seeking a defensive alliance with Ethiopia’s Egyptian dynasty against Sennacherib of Assyria.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>fallen army of Assyria,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.19.35" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.19.35&version=TLB">2 Kings 19:35</a>.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>peace pact,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.18.14-2Kgs.18.17" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.18.14-2Kgs.18.17&version=TLB">2 Kings 18:14-17</a>.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>Please talk to us in Aramaic.</i> Aramaic was the language used in international diplomacy at this time.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>This year,</i> implied. <i>two years from now you will be living in luxury again.</i> The third harvest from then would yield a bumper crop.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>For dead men cannot praise you.</i> The meaning is unclear. Perhaps Hezekiah was unaware of the blessedness of the future life for those who trust in God (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.57.1-Isa.57.2" href="/passage/?search=Isa.57.1-Isa.57.2&version=TLB">57:1-2</a>). Or perhaps his meaning is, “Dead bodies cannot praise you.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>Merodach-baladan . . . sent Hezekiah a present and his best wishes.</i> Merodach-baladan was at this time planning a revolt in the east against Sennacherib, so he was especially interested in Hezekiah’s activities in the west.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>this one from the east.</i> Doubtless Cyrus the Great of Persia; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.44.28" href="/passage/?search=Isa.44.28&version=TLB">44:28</a>.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>Cyrus’s,</i> implied from <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.45.1" href="/passage/?search=Isa.45.1&version=TLB">45:1</a>.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>See my servant.</i> Not Cyrus, as in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.41" href="/passage/?search=Isa.41&version=TLB">ch. 41</a>, but Christ.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>I have given you to my people as the personal confirmation of my covenant with them,</i> or “you will be my covenant with all the people.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>these who were to demonstrate to all the world the glory of his law,</i> implied in previous verse.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>I have raised up Cyrus,</i> literally, “I have raised up him.” The reference probably is also to Christ in the more distant future, as well as to Cyrus.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>remove your veil.</i> In ancient Babylonia (and in many Eastern lands today) only harlots were permitted to go without veils.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>my Servant.</i> The Servant of the Lord, as the term is used here, is the Messiah, our Lord Jesus. This was the interpretation of this passage by Christ himself, the writers of the New Testament, and orthodox Christianity ever since.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>everlasting covenant . . . I had for King David.</i> See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Sam.7" href="/passage/?search=2Sam.7&version=TLB">2 Samuel 7</a> for the terms of God’s covenant with David here remembered.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>In all their affliction he was afflicted, and he personally saved them,</i> or “The Angel of his Presence saved them out of their affliction.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>People,</i> literally, “those.” Also, <i>Nations.</i> Some believe this verse as well as the next applies to Israelites rather than to the nations. But see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rom.10.20-Rom.10.21" href="/passage/?search=Rom.10.20-Rom.10.21&version=TLB">Romans 10:20-21</a>.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>by another name,</i> i.e., “Christians”? See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Acts.11.26" href="/passage/?search=Acts.11.26&version=TLB">Acts 11:26</a>.


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>poisonous snakes shall strike no more,</i> literally, “dust [not men!] shall be the serpent’s food.”


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<i>I will send those who escape.</i> It is not clear from the Hebrew whether “those who escape” means survivors of the armies of the nations, or survivors of the Jews in Israel. The context seems to favor the former. Put and Lud were in North Africa; Meshech, Rosh, and Tubal were in Asia Minor and Armenia.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>I will surely carry out my threats of punishment.</i> There is a wordplay here between <i>shaqedh</i> (almond) in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.1.11" href="/passage/?search=Jer.1.11&version=TLB">v. 11</a> and <i>shoqedh</i> (watching) in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.1.12" href="/passage/?search=Jer.1.12&version=TLB">v. 12</a>: “For I am watching over my word to perform it.”


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>I see great armies marching on Jerusalem with mighty shouts,</i> literally, “The lions have roared against him.”


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>How can you disown your God like that?</i> implied. <i>the most precious of their treasures,</i> implied.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>There is a law,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.24.1-Deut.24.4" href="/passage/?search=Deut.24.1-Deut.24.4&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 24:1-4</a>.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Cleanse your minds and hearts,</i> literally, “Circumcise yourselves . . . remove the foreskin of your hearts.”


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>an ancient nation.</i> The kingdom of Babylonia, being revived in Jeremiah’s time (around 626 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>) had a long and illustrious history. The old Babylonian Empire lasted from about 1900 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>–1550 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span> (the days of the Hebrew patriarchs), and earlier kingdoms had ruled on Babylonian soil as early as 3000 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>Queen of Heaven,</i> a name by which Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war, was called. After the fall of Jerusalem, the refugees who fled to Egypt continued to worship her (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.44" href="/passage/?search=Jer.44&version=TLB">ch. 44</a>). A papyrus dating from the fifth century <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span> found at Hermopolis in Egypt mentions the “Queen of Heaven” among the gods honored by the Jewish community.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>The noise of war resounds from the northern border,</i> literally, “The snorting of their war horses can be heard all the way from Dan in the north.”


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>for Jerusalem cannot help,</i> literally, “for the cities are closed and none can open them.” Perhaps the meaning is that they are permanently abandoned.


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<i>And when they come in that spirit, I will show them,</i> literally, “Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know.”


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>fifteenth day of April,</i> literally, “on the first day of the second month” (of the Jewish calendar). So also for <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.1.17-Num.1.19" href="/passage/?search=Num.1.17-Num.1.19&version=TLB">vv. 17-19</a> <i>On the same day.</i>


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>Here are the tribal locations,</i> implied. <i>Reuel.</i> Deuel in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.1" href="/passage/?search=Num.1&version=TLB">ch. 1</a>.


bookid: Num
contenido:
The original text repeats the lists of the offerings recorded in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.7.13-Num.7.17" href="/passage/?search=Num.7.13-Num.7.17&version=TLB">vv. 13-17</a>.


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>There the leaders,</i> implied. Also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.8.12" href="/passage/?search=Num.8.12&version=TLB">v. 12</a>.


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>on April first,</i> literally, “on the fourteenth day of the first month” (of the Hebrew calendar). This corresponds approximately to our first day of April.


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>and the signal to break camp and move onward,</i> more literally, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.10.7" href="/passage/?search=Num.10.7&version=TLB">v. 7</a> reads: “But when the Assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow but you shall not sound the alarm.”


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>on the twentieth day of the second month</i> (of the Hebrew calendar), this was approximately May 5.


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>for you know the ways of the wilderness and will be a great help to us,</i> literally, “you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.”


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>there were quail flying three or four feet above the ground,</i> or “The ground was covered with them, three feet thick.”


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>Cushite woman,</i> literally, “because of the Cushite woman he had married.” Apparently they were referring to his wife Zipporah, the Midianite daughter of Reuel (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.2.21" href="/passage/?search=Exod.2.21&version=TLB">Exodus 2:21</a>); for the land of Midian from which she came was sometimes called Cush. But areas of Ethiopia and Babylon were also known as Cush, so it is possible that the reference is to a second wife of Moses. It is indeterminate from the text whether she was criticized for being a Gentile, or (if she was a Cushite from Ethiopia) because of her color.


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>Hoshea,</i> or “Joshua.” See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.13.16" href="/passage/?search=Num.13.16&version=TLB">v. 16</a>.


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>Moses changed Hoshea’s name to Joshua. Hoshea</i> means “salvation”; <i>Joshua</i> means “Jehovah is salvation.” Joshua is the same name in Hebrew as the Greek name “Jesus.”


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>Tanis,</i> or “Zoan,” also known as “Avaris,” was built ca. 1700 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span>


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>all are the same before the Lord,</i> literally, “as you are, so shall the foreigner be before Jehovah.”


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>he must be executed,</i> literally, “that soul shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.”


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>run through the ashes of the red heifer,</i> implied; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.19.17" href="/passage/?search=Num.19.17&version=TLB">v. 17</a>.


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>did not believe me,</i> literally, “did not sanctify me.” The Lord had said to <i>speak</i> to the rock. Moses <i>struck</i> it, not once, but <i>twice.</i>


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>your brother, Israel.</i> The people of Edom were descended from Esau, while the people of Israel were descended from his brother Jacob, whose name was later changed to Israel.


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>but they were stopped there by the rugged terrain,</i> literally, “for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.” <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.2.19" href="/passage/?search=Deut.2.19&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 2:19</a> indicates that God had promised the land of the Ammonites to the descendants of Lot.


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>God was angry about Balaam’s eager attitude,</i> literally, “God was angry because he went.” He said much more than God had told him to. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.25.1-Num.25.3" href="/passage/?search=Num.25.1-Num.25.3&version=TLB">25:1-3</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.31.16" href="/passage/?search=Num.31.16&version=TLB">31:16</a>.


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>So Balaam and Balak returned to their homes.</i> But not before Balaam gave insidious advice that brought about the situation described in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.25.1-Num.25.3" href="/passage/?search=Num.25.1-Num.25.3&version=TLB">25:1-3</a>. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.31.16" href="/passage/?search=Num.31.16&version=TLB">31:16</a>.


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>Not one person . . . had been counted in the previous census.</i> Forty years earlier, at the time of the first census, they had been under twenty years of age, and so were not counted. All who at that time were older than twenty years of age were now dead.


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>on April first,</i> literally, “on the fourteenth day of the first month” (of the Hebrew calendar). <i>when the death angel passed over . . . leaving them unharmed,</i> implied.


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>fifteenth day of September,</i> literally, “upon the first day of the seventh month” (of the Hebrew calendar).


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>Five days later,</i> literally, “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month” (of the Hebrew calendar).


bookid: Num
contenido:
<i>on the first day of April,</i> literally, “on the fifteenth day of the first month” (of the Hebrew calendar).


bookid: Deut
contenido:
<i>February 15,</i> literally, “the first day of the eleventh month” (of the Hebrew calendar). <i>eleven days to travel by foot from Mount Horeb to Kadesh-barnea.</i> Kadesh-barnea was at the southern edge of the Promised Land.


bookid: Deut
contenido:
<i>You must never use my name to make a vow you don’t intend to keep,</i> literally, “You must not utter the name of the Lord your God to misuse it.”


bookid: Deut
contenido:
<i>Those were the only commandments he gave you at that time,</i> literally, “And he added no more.”


bookid: Deut
contenido:
<i>With certain exceptions,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Lev.11.20-Lev.11.23" href="/passage/?search=Lev.11.20-Lev.11.23&version=TLB">Leviticus 11:20-23</a>.


bookid: Deut
contenido:
<i>you left Egypt in such a hurry that there was no time for the bread to rise,</i> literally, “for you left Egypt in hurried flight.”


bookid: Deut
contenido:
<i>not to those in the Promised Land itself,</i> literally, “which are not of the cities of these nations.”


bookid: Deut
contenido:
<i>the grapes shall be confiscated by the priests,</i> literally, “lest the fulness of the fruit be consecrated.”


bookid: Deut
contenido:
<i>one hundred dollars,</i> literally, “a hundred shekels of silver.” The exact value cannot be determined.


bookid: Deut
contenido:
<i>his father’s widow,</i> literally, “his father’s wife.” The general law against adultery protected her and other wives while their husbands were living.


bookid: Deut
contenido:
<i>gave the people these further instructions to obey,</i> literally, “Keep all the commandments I enjoin on you today.”


bookid: Deut
contenido:
<i>upon the monument,</i> implied; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.27.1-Deut.27.4" href="/passage/?search=Deut.27.1-Deut.27.4&version=TLB">vv. 1-4</a>.


bookid: Deut
contenido:
<i>widowed,</i> implied. If she were still married, no special law would be needed to prohibit adultery.


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>for a special task.</i> Their duties are explained in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.4.2-Josh.4.7" href="/passage/?search=Josh.4.2-Josh.4.7&version=TLB">4:2-7</a>.


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>your shame of not being circumcised,</i> literally “the shame of Egypt.” <i>to end,</i> literally, “to roll” (away).


bookid: Josh
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.16.34" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.16.34&version=TLB">1 Kings 16:34</a> for the fulfillment of this curse.


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>for they are cursed,</i> literally, “they have become ‘something which must be totally destroyed’ or else become totally God’s.”


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>another five thousand men.</i> These were evidently additional to the thirty thousand men already hiding there. Perhaps the additional five thousand were to intercept the forces expected from Bethel (<a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.8.17" href="/passage/?search=Josh.8.17&version=TLB">v. 17</a>).


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<i>as Moses had commanded,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.27.2-Deut.27.8" href="/passage/?search=Deut.27.2-Deut.27.8&version=TLB">Deuteronomy 27:2-8</a>.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>singing,</i> literally, “saying,” or “said”; also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.5.11-Rev.5.12" href="/passage/?search=Rev.5.11-Rev.5.12&version=TLB">vv. 11-12</a>.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>A loaf of bread for $20, or three pounds of barley flour,</i> literally, “A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius” <i>there is no olive oil or wine,</i> literally, “do not damage the oil and wine.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>in front of the throne,</i> literally, “in the center of the throne”; i.e., directly in front, not to one side. An alternate rendering might be, “at the heart of the throne.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>one who had fallen to earth from heaven,</i> literally, “a star fallen from heaven”; it is unclear whether this person is of satanic origin, as most commentators believe, or whether the reference is to Christ.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
If this is a literal figure, it is no longer incredible, in view of a world population in excess of 6 billion in the near future. In China alone, in 1961, there were an “estimated 200 million armed and organized militiamen” (Associated Press Release, April 24, 1964). <i>warriors,</i> literally, “horsemen.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>a measuring stick . . . and to count the number of worshipers,</i> literally, “Rise and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>forty-two months,</i> three and a half years, as in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.12.7" href="/passage/?search=Dan.12.7&version=TLB">Daniel 12:7</a>; also for <i>1,260 days</i> in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Dan.12.3" href="/passage/?search=Dan.12.3&version=TLB">v. 3</a>.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>two olive trees,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Zech.4.3" href="/passage/?search=Zech.4.3&version=TLB">Zechariah 4:3</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Zech.4.11" href="/passage/?search=Zech.4.11&version=TLB">11</a>.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>the bottomless pit,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.9.11" href="/passage/?search=Rev.9.11&version=TLB">9:11</a>.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>The Kingdom of this world now belongs to our Lord, and to his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever,</i> or “The Lord and his Anointed shall now rule the world from this day to eternity.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>The Dragon gave him power to fight against God’s people,</i> literally, “It was permitted to fight against God’s people.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>whose names were not written . . . in the slain Lamb’s Book of Life,</i> or “those whose names were not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain before the founding of the world.” That is, regarded as slain in the eternal plan and knowledge of God.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>The people of God . . . will be killed,</i> or “If anyone imprisons you, he will be imprisoned! If anyone kills you, he will be killed.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>For they are spiritually undefiled, pure as virgins,</i> literally, “They have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>his martyrs,</i> literally, “those who die in the faith of Jesus”; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.14.12" href="/passage/?search=Rev.14.12&version=TLB">v. 12</a> implies death from persecution for Christ’s sake.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>his False Prophet,</i> described in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.13.11-Rev.13.15" href="/passage/?search=Rev.13.11-Rev.13.15&version=TLB">13:11-15</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.19.20" href="/passage/?search=Rev.19.20&version=TLB">19:20</a>.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>a scarlet animal that had seven heads and ten horns.</i> The Dragon—Satan—and the Creature from the sea are also described in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.12.3" href="/passage/?search=Rev.12.3&version=TLB">12:3</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.12.9" href="/passage/?search=Rev.12.9&version=TLB">9</a>, and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.13.1" href="/passage/?search=Rev.13.1&version=TLB">13:1</a>.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>go to eternal destruction,</i> literally, “go to perdition.” <i>dumbfounded at his reappearance after being dead,</i> literally, “dumbfounded at the ruler who was, and is not, and will be present.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>represent a certain city,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.17.18" href="/passage/?search=Rev.17.18&version=TLB">v. 18</a>.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>sin,</i> literally, “fornication,” the word used symbolically throughout the prophets for the worship of false gods.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>the angel,</i> literally, “he”; the exact antecedent is unclear. <i>God himself has stated this,</i> literally, “These are the true words of God.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>The purpose of all prophecy . . . is to tell about Jesus,</i> literally, “The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>“The Word of God,”</i> literally, “The Logos,” as in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.1.1" href="/passage/?search=John.1.1&version=TLB">John 1:1</a>—the ultimate method of God’s revealing himself to man.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>the False Prophet;</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.13.11-Rev.13.16" href="/passage/?search=Rev.13.11-Rev.13.16&version=TLB">13:11-16</a>.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>will again,</i> implied from <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.20.3" href="/passage/?search=Rev.20.3&version=TLB">v. 3</a>.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>216 feet across . . . using standard units,</i> literally, “144 cubits by human measurements.” A cubit was the average length of a man’s arm—not an angel’s! The angel used normal units of measurement that John could understand.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>Trees of Life,</i> literally, “The tree of life”—used here as a collective noun, implying plurality.


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<i>soon,</i> or “suddenly,” “unexpectedly”; also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.22.12" href="/passage/?search=Rev.22.12&version=TLB">vv. 12</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rev.22.20" href="/passage/?search=Rev.22.20&version=TLB">20</a>.


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>Tiglath-pileser,</i> also called Pul, in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.15.19" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.15.19&version=TLB">v. 19</a> above.


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>begging him to . . . fight . . . Syria and Israel,</i> literally, “saying, ‘I am your servant and your son. Come and rescue me.’”


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>built altars to other gods throughout the land,</i> literally, “built them high places in all their cities.”


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>cities both large and small,</i> literally, “from the tower of the watchman to the fortified cities.”


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>on the sundial of Ahaz,</i> or “on the steps of Ahaz.” Egyptian sundials in this period were made in the form of miniature staircases, so that the shadow moved up and down the steps.


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
<i>Jeroboam’s altar,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.13.2" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.13.2&version=TLB">1 Kings 13:2</a>.


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.13.31-1Kgs.13.32" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.13.31-1Kgs.13.32&version=TLB">1 Kings 13:31-32</a>.


bookid: 2Kgs
contenido:
Implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.23.31" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.23.31&version=TLB">23:31</a> and <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.24.18" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.24.18&version=TLB">24:18</a>.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>These are the earliest generations of mankind,</i> implied. <i>Shem, Ham, and Japheth.</i> The names in boldface type are referred to in the following verse or verses. The use of bold type or italic type does not mean that these persons were more important; it is simply a way of easier identification of ancestors and descendants.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>son,</i> or “descendant.” The subsequent use of the word <i>son</i> could also be interpreted <i>descendant.</i>


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>Sheshan,</i> apparently a different Sheshan than in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.2.31" href="/passage/?search=1Chr.2.31&version=TLB">v. 31</a>.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>Caleb,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.2.24" href="/passage/?search=1Chr.2.24&version=TLB">2:24</a>.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>Shallum,</i> that is, <i>Jehoahaz,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.22.11" href="/passage/?search=Jer.22.11&version=TLB">Jeremiah 22:11</a>.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>Jabez means.</i> A play on words. <i>Jabez</i> sounds like <i>ozeb,</i> the Hebrew word meaning “distress.”


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>These Reubenites,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.5.1" href="/passage/?search=1Chr.5.1&version=TLB">5:1</a>.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>As previously stated,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.6.1" href="/passage/?search=1Chr.6.1&version=TLB">6:1</a>.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>Huppim and Shuppim,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.7.12" href="/passage/?search=1Chr.7.12&version=TLB">v. 12</a>. <i>only daughters,</i> implied, see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.26.33" href="/passage/?search=Num.26.33&version=TLB">Numbers 26:33</a>.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
The remainder of 1 Chronicles deals with events preceding <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.9" href="/passage/?search=1Chr.9&version=TLB">ch. 9</a>.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>medium,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Sam.28" href="/passage/?search=1Sam.28&version=TLB">1 Samuel 28</a>.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>sons,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Sam.23.30" href="/passage/?search=2Sam.23.30&version=TLB">2 Samuel 23:30</a>.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>from all across the nation,</i> literally, “from Shihor—the brook of Egypt—to the entrance of Hamath.”


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>were the harpists,</i> literally, “were to lead with zithers (or harps) set to the Shiminith.” The meaning is uncertain.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>Milcom,</i> implied, see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.11.5" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.11.5&version=TLB">1 Kings 11:5</a>.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>He . . . set them to work with saws,</i> literally “He conducted them to the saw.” Whether this means that he made them labor with saws or that he sawed them to pieces is uncertain.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>several billion dollars worth of gold bullion, millions in silver,</i> literally, “a hundred thousand talents of gold” and “a million talents of silver.”


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>Shimei,</i> probably not the same Shimei as in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.23.7" href="/passage/?search=1Chr.23.7&version=TLB">v. 7</a>.


bookid: 1Chr
contenido:
<i>The Lord had promised a population explosion for his people,</i> literally, “the Lord had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.”


bookid: 2Chr
contenido:
<i>He summoned all the army officers and judges to Gibeon,</i> implied. <i>He led them up the hill to the old Tabernacle.</i> Moses had built the Tabernacle 500 years before the reign of King Solomon.


bookid: 2Chr
contenido:
<i>with wings stretched . . . from wall to wall,</i> literally, “one wing of a cherub, five cubits long.”


bookid: 2Chr
contenido:
<i>where you tell them to go,</i> or “as long as they are living in this land which you gave to our fathers.”


bookid: 2Chr
contenido:
<i>to fulfill his prediction,</i> see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.11.30-1Kgs.11.31" href="/passage/?search=1Kgs.11.30-1Kgs.11.31&version=TLB">1 Kings 11:30-31</a>.


bookid: 2Chr
contenido:
<i>as King David and King Solomon had done,</i> literally, “they walked in the way of David and Solomon.”


bookid: 2Chr
contenido:
<i>for his son,</i> implied. <i>the daughter of,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Chr.21.6" href="/passage/?search=2Chr.21.6&version=TLB">21:6</a>.


bookid: 2Chr
contenido:
<i>Jehoram attacked him . . . and almost,</i> literally, “Jehoram . . . struck down the Edomites. . . . Nevertheless Edom . . . revolted.”


bookid: 2Chr
contenido:
<i>twenty-two years old.</i> Some manuscripts read “forty-two years old”; but see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Kgs.8.26" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.8.26&version=TLB">2 Kings 8:26</a>.


bookid: 2Chr
contenido:
<i>King Ahaz of Israel.</i> King Ahaz ruled two tribes of Israel—Judah and Benjamin—and so is referred to here in this unusual way as a king of Israel.


bookid: 2Chr
contenido:
<i>They had not kept it in great numbers as prescribed,</i> or “The Passover had not been celebrated by the northern tribes of Israel for a long time; only a faithful few had been doing it in the proper way.”


bookid: Ezra
contenido:
<i>the Lord fulfilled Jeremiah’s prophecy</i> (see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.25.12" href="/passage/?search=Jer.25.12&version=TLB">Jeremiah 25:12</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.29.10" href="/passage/?search=Jer.29.10&version=TLB">29:10</a>), i.e., the prediction that the Jews would remain in captivity in Babylon for seventy years.


bookid: Ezra
contenido:
<i>Those Jews,</i> implied; also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezra.1.6" href="/passage/?search=Ezra.1.6&version=TLB">v. 6</a>.


bookid: Ezra
contenido:
<i>the fifteenth day of September,</i> literally, “the first day of the seventh month” of the Hebrew calendar.


bookid: Ezra
contenido:
<i>first day of April,</i> literally, “the fourteenth day of the first month” of the Hebrew calendar.


bookid: Ezra
contenido:
<i>the fifth day of December,</i> literally, “the twentieth day of the ninth month” of the Hebrew calendar.


bookid: Job
contenido:
<i>God may kill me . . . I am going to argue my case with him,</i> or “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. I will argue my case before him.”


bookid: Job
contenido:
<i>fall to the ground like a withered grape,</i> literally, “shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.”


bookid: Job
contenido:
<i>The heavens are made beautiful by his Spirit,</i> or “The bars of heaven are afraid of him”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Job.26.11" href="/passage/?search=Job.26.11&version=TLB">v. 11</a>.


bookid: Job
contenido:
<i>They dam up streams of water and pan the gold,</i> literally, “He brings forth to the light things that are hidden.”


bookid: Job
contenido:
<i>For I, as an honest judge,</i> implied in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Job.29.7" href="/passage/?search=Job.29.7&version=TLB">v. 7</a>.


bookid: Job
contenido:
<i>Who gives intuition and instinct?</i> or “Who has put wisdom in the inward parts and given understanding to the mind?”


bookid: Job
contenido:
<i>gave him seven more sons and three more daughters,</i> making a total of twenty children, ten of whom were in heaven. <i>Keren,</i> literally “Keren-happuch.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>What fools . . . to rage,</i> literally, “Why do the heathen rage?” <i>try to outwit God,</i> literally, “meditate a vain thing.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>For the Lord declares,</i> implied. <i>in Jerusalem, my holy city,</i> literally, “upon Zion, my holy mountain.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>His chosen one replies,</i> implied. <i>This is your Coronation Day,</i> literally, “This day have I begotten you.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>For if I die, I cannot give you glory by praising you before my friends,</i> literally, “In the grave, who shall give you thanks?” <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Isa.57.1-Isa.57.2" href="/passage/?search=Isa.57.1-Isa.57.2&version=TLB">Isaiah 57:1-2</a> may indicate that Old Testament saints believed in a conscious and pleasant hereafter for those who love God.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>you have endorsed my work, declaring from your throne that it is good,</i> literally, “you sit on the throne, judging righteously.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
The Hebrew text adds at the end of the verse: “Higgaion. Selah.” The meanings of these words are not known.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>He sees that I am given pleasant brooks and meadows as my share,</i> literally, “The boundary lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>And you do not punish those who run from evil,</i> literally, “With the upright you show yourself upright.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>as radiant as a bridegroom,</i> literally, “like a bridegroom.” <i>going to his wedding,</i> implied; literally, “going forth from his chamber.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>God’s laws are pure, eternal, just,</i> or “The rules governing the worship of the Lord are pure and need never be changed.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>Rescue me from death; spare my precious life from all these evil men,</i> literally, “Deliver my soul from the sword, my only one from the power of the dog!”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>You have welcomed me as your guest,</i> literally, “You have anointed my head with oil, my cup runs over.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>He is the one who pushed the oceans back to let dry land appear,</i> literally, “He has founded it upon the seas.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>My sins have sapped my strength; I stoop with sorrow and with shame,</i> literally, “Even my bones are rotting away.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>Judgment will not touch him,</i> literally, “When the great waters overflow they shall not reach him.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>all those who are his,</i> literally, “you righteous.” <i>all those who try to obey him,</i> literally, “all who are upright in heart.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>I will constantly speak of his glories and grace,</i> literally, “His praise shall continually be in my mouth.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>Declare me “not guilty,” for you are just,</i> literally, “Judge me according to your righteousness.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
This verse was quoted by Christ as applying to himself. See <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="John.4.34" href="/passage/?search=John.4.34&version=TLB">John 4:34</a>.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>the good news that you forgive people’s sins,</i> literally, “your righteousness.” Also in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.40.10" href="/passage/?search=Ps.40.10&version=TLB">v. 10</a>.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>He nurses them when they are sick and soothes their pains and worries,</i> literally, “You make all his bed in his sickness.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>floods of sorrow pour upon me like a thundering cataract,</i> literally, “deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>God himself is the defender of Jerusalem,</i> literally, “God has made himself known in her palaces for a high tower.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>You are praised everywhere for the salvation,</i> literally, “Your right hand is filled with righteousness.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>For the power of their wealth is gone when they die,</i> literally, “Their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>with all his pomp,</i> literally, “but without insight.” It is uncertain whether this phrase was part of the original text.


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>who by their sacrifice upon my altar have promised to obey me,</i> literally, “who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”


bookid: Ps
contenido:
<i>Sprinkle me with the cleansing blood,</i> literally, “Purge me with hyssop”; see <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Exod.12.22" href="/passage/?search=Exod.12.22&version=TLB">Exodus 12:22</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Heb.9.18-Heb.9.22" href="/passage/?search=Heb.9.18-Heb.9.22&version=TLB">Hebrews 9:18-22</a>.


