1 Samuel 17:46

17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God

1 Samuel 17:2

17:2 Saul and the Israelite army ¹  assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they arranged their battle lines to fight against ²  the Philistines.

Kisah Para Rasul 19:19

19:19 Large numbers ³  of those who had practiced magic ⁴  collected their books ⁵  and burned them up in the presence of everyone. ⁶  When ⁷  the value of the books was added up, it was found to total fifty thousand silver coins. ⁸ 

Kisah Para Rasul 19:2

19:2 and said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” ⁹  They replied, ¹⁰  “No, we have not even ¹¹  heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

Kisah Para Rasul 6:1

The Appointment of the First Seven Deacons

6:1 Now in those ¹²  days, when the disciples were growing in number, ¹³  a complaint arose on the part of the Greek-speaking Jews ¹⁴  against the native Hebraic Jews, ¹⁵  because their widows ¹⁶  were being overlooked ¹⁷  in the daily distribution of food. ¹⁸ 

Mazmur 22:27

22:27 Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the Lord and turn to him! ¹⁹ 

Let all the nations ²⁰  worship you! ²¹ 

Mazmur 67:2

67:2 Then those living on earth will know what you are like;

all nations will know how you deliver your people. ²² 

Mazmur 72:10-11

72:10 The kings of Tarshish ²³  and the coastlands will offer gifts;

the kings of Sheba ²⁴  and Seba ²⁵  will bring tribute.

72:11 All kings will bow down to him;

all nations will serve him.

Mazmur 86:9

86:9 All the nations, whom you created,

will come and worship you, ²⁶  O Lord.

They will honor your name.

Yesaya 11:9

11:9 They will no longer injure or destroy

on my entire royal mountain. ²⁷ 

For there will be universal submission to the Lord’s sovereignty,

just as the waters completely cover the sea. ²⁸ 

Wahyu 11:15

The Seventh Trumpet

11:15 Then ²⁹  the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying:

“The kingdom of the world

has become the kingdom of our Lord

and of his Christ, ³⁰ 

and he will reign for ever and ever.”

[17:2]  ¹ tn Heb “the men of Israel” (so KJV, NASB); NAB, NIV, NRSV “the Israelites.”

[17:2]  ² tn Heb “to meet.”

[19:19]  ³ tn BDAG 472 s.v. ἱκανός 4.a has “many, quite a few” for ἱκανοί (Jikanoi) in this verse.

[19:19]  ⁴ tn On this term see BDAG 800 s.v. περίεργος 2.

[19:19]  ⁵ tn Or “scrolls.”

[19:19]  ⁶ tn Or “burned them up publicly.” L&N 14.66 has “‘they brought their books together and burned them up in the presence of everyone’ Ac 19:19.”

[19:19]  ⁷ tn Grk “and when.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

[19:19]  ⁸ tn Or “fifty thousand silver drachmas” (about $10,000 US dollars). BDAG 128 s.v. ἀργύριον 2.c states, “ἀργυρίου μυριάδας πέντε 50,000 (Attic silver) drachmas Ac 19:19.” Another way to express the value would be in sheep: One drachma could buy one sheep. So this many drachmas could purchase a huge flock of sheep. A drachma also equals a denarius, or a day’s wage for the average worker. So this amount would be equal to 50,000 work days or in excess of 8,300 weeks of labor (the weeks are calculated at six working days because of the Jewish cultural context). The impact of Christianity on the Ephesian economy was considerable (note in regard to this the concerns expressed in 19:26-27).

[19:2]  ⁹ tn The participle πιστεύσαντες (pisteusante") is taken temporally.

[19:2]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “they [said] to him” (the word “said” is implied in the Greek text).

[19:2]  ¹¹ tn This use of ἀλλά (alla) is ascensive and involves an ellipsis (BDAG 45 s.v. ἀλλά 3): “No, [not only did we not receive the Spirit,] but also we have not heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” However, this is lengthy and somewhat awkward in English, and the ascensive meaning can be much more easily represented by including the word “even” after the negation. Apparently these disciples were unaware of the provision of the Spirit that is represented in baptism. The language sounds like they did not know about a Holy Spirit, but this seems to be only linguistic shorthand for not knowing about the Spirit’s presence (Luke 3:15-18). The situation is parallel to that of Apollos. Apollos and these disciples represent those who “complete” their transition to messianic faith as Jews.

[6:1]  ¹² tn Grk “these.” The translation uses “those” for stylistic reasons.

[6:1]  ¹³ tn Grk “were multiplying.”

[6:1]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “the Hellenists,” but this descriptive term is largely unknown to the modern English reader. The translation “Greek-speaking Jews” attempts to convey something of who these were, but it was more than a matter of language spoken; it involved a degree of adoption of Greek culture as well.

[6:1]  sn The Greek-speaking Jews were the Hellenists, Jews who to a greater or lesser extent had adopted Greek thought, customs, and lifestyle, as well as the Greek language. The city of Alexandria in Egypt was a focal point for them, but they were scattered throughout the Roman Empire.

[6:1]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “against the Hebrews,” but as with “Hellenists” this needs further explanation for the modern reader.

[6:1]  ¹⁶ sn The care of widows is a major biblical theme: Deut 10:18; 16:11, 14; 24:17, 19-21; 26:12-13; 27:19; Isa 1:17-23; Jer 7:6; Mal 3:5.

[6:1]  ¹⁷ tn Or “neglected.”

[6:1]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “in the daily serving.”

[6:1]  sn The daily distribution of food. The early church saw it as a responsibility to meet the basic needs of people in their group.

[22:27]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “may all the ends of the earth remember and turn to the Lord.” The prefixed verbal forms in v. 27 are understood as jussives (cf. NEB). Another option (cf. NIV, NRSV) is to take the forms as imperfects and translate, “all the people of the earth will acknowledge and turn…and worship.” See vv. 29-32.

[22:27]  ²⁰ tn Heb “families of the nations.”

[22:27]  ²¹ tn Heb “before you.”

[67:2]  ²² tn Heb “to know in the earth your way, among all nations your deliverance.” The infinitive with -לְ (lamed) expresses purpose/result. When God demonstrates his favor to his people, all nations will recognize his character as a God who delivers. The Hebrew term דֶּרֶךְ (derekh, “way”) refers here to God’s characteristic behavior, more specifically, to the way he typically saves his people.

[72:10]  ²³ sn Tarshish was a distant western port, the precise location of which is uncertain.

[72:10]  ²⁴ sn Sheba was located in Arabia.

[72:10]  ²⁵ sn Seba was located in Africa.

[86:9]  ²⁶ tn Or “bow down before you.”

[11:9]  ²⁷ tn Heb “in all my holy mountain.” In the most basic sense the Lord’s “holy mountain” is the mountain from which he rules over his kingdom (see Ezek 28:14, 16). More specifically it probably refers to Mount Zion/Jerusalem or to the entire land of Israel (see Pss 2:6; 15:1; 43:3; Isa 56:7; 57:13; Ezek 20:40; Ob 16; Zeph 3:11). If the Lord’s universal kingdom is in view in this context (see the note on “earth” at v. 4), then the phrase would probably be metonymic here, standing for God’s worldwide dominion (see the next line).

[11:9]  ²⁸ tn Heb “for the earth will be full of knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.” The translation assumes that a universal kingdom is depicted here, but אֶרֶץ (’erets) could be translated “land” (see the note at v. 4). “Knowledge of the Lord” refers here to a recognition of the Lord’s sovereignty which results in a willingness to submit to his authority. See the note at v. 2.

[11:15]  ²⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[11:15]  ³⁰ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”