1 Samuel 2:25

2:25 If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the Lord, who then will intercede for him?” But Eli’s sons ¹  would not listen to their father, for the Lord had decided ²  to kill them.

Bilangan 15:30-31

Deliberate Sin

15:30 “‘But the person ³  who acts defiantly, ⁴  whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults ⁵  the Lord. ⁶  That person ⁷  must be cut off ⁸  from among his people. 15:31 Because he has despised ⁹  the word of the Lord and has broken ¹⁰  his commandment, that person ¹¹  must be completely cut off. ¹²  His iniquity will be on him.’” ¹³ 

Mazmur 51:16

51:16 Certainly ¹⁴  you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; ¹⁵ 

you do not desire a burnt sacrifice. ¹⁶ 

Yesaya 22:14

22:14 The Lord who commands armies told me this: ¹⁷  “Certainly this sin will not be forgiven as long as you live,” ¹⁸  says the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies.

Yeremia 7:16

7:16 Then the Lord said, ¹⁹  “As for you, Jeremiah, ²⁰  do not pray for these people! Do not cry out to me or petition me on their behalf! Do not plead with me to save them, ²¹  because I will not listen to you.

Yeremia 15:1

15:1 Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for ²²  these people, I would not feel pity for them! ²³  Get them away from me! Tell them to go away! ²⁴ 

Yehezkiel 24:13

24:13 You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. ²⁵ 

I tried to cleanse you, ²⁶  but you are not clean.

You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness ²⁷ 

until I have exhausted my anger on you.

Ibrani 10:4-10

10:4 For the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins. ²⁸  10:5 So when he came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

10:6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am: ²⁹  I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’” ³⁰ 

10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” ³¹  (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” ³²  He does away with ³³  the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will ³⁴  we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Ibrani 10:26-31

10:26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, ³⁵  10:27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury ³⁶  of fire that will consume God’s enemies. ³⁷  10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death ³⁸  without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ³⁹  10:29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for ⁴⁰  the Son of God, and profanes ⁴¹  the blood of the covenant that made him holy, ⁴²  and insults the Spirit of grace? 10:30 For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” ⁴³  and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” ⁴⁴  10:31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

[2:25]  ¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (Eli’s sons) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:25]  ² tn Heb “desired.”

[15:30]  ³ tn Heb “soul.”

[15:30]  ⁴ tn The sin is described literally as acting “with a high hand” – בְּיָד רָמָה (bÿyad ramah). The expression means that someone would do something with deliberate defiance, with an arrogance in spite of what the Lord said. It is as if the sinner was about to attack God, or at least lifting his hand against God. The implication of the expression is that it was done in full knowledge of the Law (especially since this contrasts throughout with the sins of ignorance). Blatant defiance of the word of the Lord is dealt with differently. For similar expressions, see Exod 14:8 and Num 33:3.

[15:30]  ⁵ tn The verb occurs only in the Piel; it means “to blaspheme,” “to revile.”

[15:30]  ⁶ tn The word order in the Hebrew text places “Yahweh” first for emphasis – it is the Lord such a person insults.

[15:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “soul.”

[15:30]  ⁸ tn The clause begins with “and” because the verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. As discussed with Num 9:13, to be cut off could mean excommunication from the community, death by the community, or death by divine intervention.

[15:31]  ⁹ tn The verb בָּזָה (bazah, “to despise”) means to treat something as worthless, to treat it with contempt, to look down the nose at something as it were.

[15:31]  ¹⁰ tn The verb פָּרַר (parar, “to break”) can mean to nullify, break, or violate a covenant.

[15:31]  ¹¹ tn Heb “soul.”

[15:31]  ¹² tn The construction uses the Niphal imperfect with the modifying Niphal infinitive absolute. The infinitive makes the sentence more emphatic. If the imperfect tense is taken as an instruction imperfect, then the infinitive makes the instruction more binding. If it is a simple future, then the future is certain. In either case, there is no exclusion from being cut off.

[15:31]  ¹³ sn The point is that the person’s iniquity remains with him – he must pay for his sin. The judgment of God in such a case is both appropriate and unavoidable.

[51:16]  ¹⁴ tn Or “For.” The translation assumes the particle is asseverative (i.e., emphasizing: “certainly”). (Some translations that consider the particle asseverative leave it untranslated.) If taken as causal or explanatory (“for”, cf. NRSV), the verse would explain why the psalmist is pleading for forgiveness, rather than merely offering a sacrifice.

[51:16]  ¹⁵ tn The translation assumes that the cohortative is used in a hypothetical manner in a formally unmarked conditional sentence, “You do not want a sacrifice, should I offer [it]” (cf. NEB). For other examples of cohortatives in the protasis (“if” clause) of a conditional sentence, see GKC 320 §108.e. (It should be noted, however, that GKC understands this particular verse in a different manner. See GKC 320 §108.f, where it is suggested that the cohortative is part of an apodosis with the protasis being suppressed.)

[51:16]  ¹⁶ sn You do not desire a burnt sacrifice. The terminology used in v. 16 does not refer to expiatory sacrifices, but to dedication and communion offerings. This is not a categorical denial of the sacrificial system in general or of the importance of such offerings. The psalmist is talking about his specific situation. Dedication and communion offerings have their proper place in worship (see v. 19), but God requires something more fundamental, a repentant and humble attitude (see v. 17), before these offerings can have real meaning.

[22:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “it was revealed in my ears [by?] the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts].”

[22:14]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Certainly this sin will not be atoned for until you die.” This does not imply that their death will bring atonement; rather it emphasizes that their sin is unpardonable. The statement has the form of an oath.

[7:16]  ¹⁹ tn The words “Then the Lord said” are not in the text but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[7:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “As for you.” The personal name Jeremiah is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[7:16]  ²¹ tn The words “to save them” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[15:1]  ²² tn The words “pleading for” have been supplied in the translation to explain the idiom (a metonymy). For parallel usage see BDB 763 s.v. עָמַד Qal.1.a and compare usage in Gen 19:27, Deut 4:10.

[15:1]  sn Moses and Samuel were well-known for their successful intercession on behalf of Israel. See Ps 99:6-8 and see, e.g., Exod 32:11-14, 30-34; 1 Sam 7:5-9. The Lord is here rejecting Jeremiah’s intercession on behalf of the people (14:19-22).

[15:1]  ²³ tn Heb “my soul would not be toward them.” For the usage of “soul” presupposed here see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 6 in the light of the complaints and petitions in Jeremiah’s prayer in 14:19, 21.

[15:1]  ²⁴ tn Heb “Send them away from my presence and let them go away.”

[24:13]  ²⁵ tn Heb “in your uncleanness (is) obscene conduct.”

[24:13]  ²⁶ tn Heb “because I cleansed you.” In this context (see especially the very next statement), the statement must refer to divine intention and purpose. Despite God’s efforts to cleanse his people, they resisted him and remained morally impure.

[24:13]  ²⁷ tn The Hebrew text adds the word “again.”

[10:4]  ²⁸ tn Grk “for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.”

[10:7]  ²⁹ tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).

[10:7]  ³⁰ sn A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”

[10:8]  ³¹ sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.

[10:9]  ³² tc The majority of mss, especially the later ones (א² 0278^vid 1739 Ï lat), have ὁ θεός (Jo qeo", “God”) at this point, while most of the earliest and best witnesses lack such an explicit addressee (so Ì⁴⁶ א* A C D K P Ψ 33 1175 1881 2464 al). The longer reading is a palpable corruption, apparently motivated in part by the wording of Ps 40:8 (39:9 LXX) and by the word order of this same verse as quoted in Heb 10:7.

[10:9]  ³³ tn Or “abolishes.”

[10:10]  ³⁴ tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[10:26]  ³⁵ tn Grk “is left,” with “for us” implied by the first half of the verse.

[10:27]  ³⁶ tn Grk “zeal,” recalling God’s jealous protection of his holiness and honor (cf. Exod 20:5).

[10:27]  sn An allusion to Zeph 1:18.

[10:27]  ³⁷ tn Grk “the enemies.”

[10:27]  sn An allusion to Isa 26:11.

[10:28]  ³⁸ tn Grk “dies.”

[10:28]  ³⁹ sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.

[10:29]  ⁴⁰ tn Grk “tramples under foot.”

[10:29]  ⁴¹ tn Grk “regarded as common.”

[10:29]  ⁴² tn Grk “by which he was made holy.”

[10:30]  ⁴³ sn A quotation from Deut 32:35.

[10:30]  ⁴⁴ sn A quotation from Deut 32:36.