Kejadian 42:9

42:9 Then Joseph remembered ¹  the dreams he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see if our land is vulnerable!” ² 

Kejadian 42:16

42:16 One of you must go and get ³  your brother, while ⁴  the rest of you remain in prison. ⁵  In this way your words may be tested to see if ⁶  you are telling the truth. ⁷  If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

Kejadian 42:30-31

42:30 “The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us ⁸  as if we were ⁹  spying on the land. 42:31 But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies!

Kejadian 42:34

42:34 But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know ¹⁰  that you are honest men and not spies. ¹¹  Then I will give your brother back to you and you may move about freely in the land.’” ¹² 

Bilangan 13:2

13:2 “Send out men to investigate ¹³  the land of Canaan, which I am giving ¹⁴  to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, ¹⁵  each one a leader among them.”

Bilangan 13:16-20

13:16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua. ¹⁶ 

The Spies’ Instructions

13:17 When Moses sent ¹⁷  them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev, ¹⁸  and then go up into the hill country 13:18 and see ¹⁹  what the land is like, ²⁰  and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many, 13:19 and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities, 13:20 and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether or not there are forests in it. And be brave, ²¹  and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” Now it was the time of year ²²  for the first ripe grapes. ²³ 

Yosua 2:1

Joshua Sends Spies into the Land

2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: ²⁴  “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” ²⁵  They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. ²⁶ 

Yosua 6:23

6:23 So the young spies went and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and took them to a place outside ²⁷  the Israelite camp.

Yudas 1:24

Final Blessing

1:24 Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling, ²⁸  and to cause you to stand, rejoicing, ²⁹  without blemish ³⁰  before his glorious presence, ³¹ 

Yudas 1:1

Salutation

1:1 From Jude, ³²  a slave ³³  of Jesus Christ and brother of James, ³⁴  to those who are called, wrapped in the love of ³⁵  God the Father and kept for ³⁶  Jesus Christ.

1 Samuel 26:4

26:4 David sent scouts and verified that Saul had indeed arrived. ³⁷ 

Lukas 20:20

Paying Taxes to Caesar

20:20 Then ³⁸  they watched him carefully and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. ³⁹  They wanted to take advantage of what he might say ⁴⁰  so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction ⁴¹  of the governor.

Ibrani 11:31

11:31 By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of ⁴²  the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.

[42:9]  ¹ sn You are spies. Joseph wanted to see how his brothers would react if they were accused of spying.

[42:9]  ² tn Heb “to see the nakedness of the land you have come.”

[42:16]  ³ tn Heb “send from you one and let him take.” After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose.

[42:16]  ⁴ tn The disjunctive clause is here circumstantial-temporal.

[42:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “bound.”

[42:16]  ⁶ tn The words “to see” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[42:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “the truth [is] with you.”

[42:30]  ⁸ tn Heb “made us.”

[42:30]  ⁹ tn The words “if we were” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[42:34]  ¹⁰ tn After the imperative, the cohortative with prefixed vav indicates purpose/result.

[42:34]  ¹¹ tn Heb “that you are not spies, that you are honest men.”

[42:34]  ¹² sn Joseph’s brothers soften the news considerably, making it sound like Simeon was a guest of Joseph (Leave one of your brothers with me) instead of being bound in prison. They do not mention the threat of death and do not at this time speak of the money in the one sack.

[13:2]  ¹³ tn The imperfect tense with the conjunction is here subordinated to the preceding imperative to form the purpose clause. It can thus be translated “send…to investigate.”

[13:2]  ¹⁴ tn The participle here should be given a future interpretation, meaning “which I am about to give” or “which I am going to give.”

[13:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “one man one man of the tribe of his fathers.”

[13:16]  ¹⁶ sn The difference in the names is slight, a change from “he saves” to “the Lord saves.” The Greek text of the OT used Iesoun for Hebrew Yeshua.

[13:17]  ¹⁷ tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the next verb of the same formation to express a temporal clause.

[13:17]  ¹⁸ tn The instructions had them first go up into the southern desert of the land, and after passing through that, into the hill country of the Canaanites. The text could be rendered “into the Negev” as well as “through the Negev.”

[13:18]  ¹⁹ tn The form is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; the word therefore carries the volitional mood of the preceding imperatives. It may be either another imperative, or it may be subordinated as a purpose clause.

[13:18]  ²⁰ tn Heb “see the land, what it is.”

[13:20]  ²¹ tn The verb is the Hitpael perfect with vav (ו) consecutive, from the root חָזַק (khazaq, “to be strong”). Here it could mean “strengthen yourselves” or “be courageous” or “determined.” See further uses in 2 Sam 10:12; 1 Kgs 20:22; 1 Chr 19:13.

[13:20]  ²² tn Heb “Now the days were the days of.”

[13:20]  ²³ sn The reference to the first ripe grapes would put the time somewhere at the end of July.

[2:1]  ²⁴ tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”

[2:1]  ²⁵ tn Heb “go, see the land, and Jericho.”

[2:1]  map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[2:1]  ²⁶ tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”

[6:23]  ²⁷ tn Or “placed them outside.”

[1:24]  ²⁸ tn The construction in Greek is a double accusative object-complement. “You” is the object and “free from falling” is the adjectival complement.

[1:24]  ²⁹ tn Grk “with rejoicing.” The prepositional clause is placed after “his glorious presence” in Greek, but most likely goes with “cause you to stand.”

[1:24]  ³⁰ tn The construction in Greek is a double accusative object-complement. “You” is the object and “without blemish” is the adjectival complement.

[1:24]  ³¹ tn Or “in the presence of his glory,” “before his glory.”

[1:1]  ³² tn Grk “Judas,” traditionally “Jude” in English versions to distinguish him from the one who betrayed Jesus. The word “From” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.

[1:1]  ³³ tn Though δοῦλος (doulos) is normally translated “servant,” the word does not bear the connotation of a free individual serving another. BDAG notes that “‘servant’ for ‘slave’ is largely confined to Biblical transl. and early American times…in normal usage at the present time the two words are carefully distinguished” (BDAG 260 s.v.). At the same time, perhaps “servant” is apt in that the δοῦλος of Jesus Christ took on that role voluntarily, unlike a slave. The most accurate translation is “bondservant” (sometimes found in the ASV for δοῦλος), in that it often indicates one who sells himself into slavery to another. But as this is archaic, few today understand its force.

[1:1]  sn Undoubtedly the background for the concept of being the Lord’s slave or servant is to be found in the Old Testament scriptures. For a Jew this concept did not connote drudgery, but honor and privilege. It was used of national Israel at times (Isa 43:10), but was especially associated with famous OT personalities, including such great men as Moses (Josh 14:7), David (Ps 89:3; cf. 2 Sam 7:5, 8) and Elijah (2 Kgs 10:10); all these men were “servants (or slaves) of the Lord.”

[1:1]  ³⁴ sn Although Jude was half-brother of Jesus, he humbly associates himself with James, his full brother. By first calling himself a slave of Jesus Christ, it is evident that he wants no one to place stock in his physical connections. At the same time, he must identify himself further: Since Jude was a common name in the 1st century (two of Jesus’ disciples were so named, including his betrayer), more information was needed, that is to say, brother of James.

[1:1]  ³⁵ tn Grk “loved in.” The perfect passive participle suggests that the audience’s relationship to God is not recent; the preposition ἐν (en) before πατρί (patri) could be taken as sphere or instrument (agency is unlikely, however). Another possible translation would be “dear to God.”

[1:1]  ³⁶ tn Or “by.” Datives of agency are quite rare in the NT (and other ancient Greek), almost always found with a perfect verb. Although this text qualifies, in light of the well-worn idiom of τηρέω (threw) in eschatological contexts, in which God or Christ keeps the believer safe until the parousia (cf. 1 Thess 5:23; 1 Pet 1:4; Rev 3:10; other terms meaning “to guard,” “to keep” are also found in similar eschatological contexts [cf. 2 Thess 3:3; 2 Tim 1:12; 1 Pet 1:5; Jude 24]), it is probably better to understand this verse as having such an eschatological tinge. It is at the same time possible that Jude’s language was intentionally ambiguous, implying both ideas (“kept by Jesus Christ [so that they might be] kept for Jesus Christ”). Elsewhere he displays a certain fondness for wordplays; this may be a hint of things to come.

[26:4]  ³⁷ tn Heb “and David sent scouts and he knew that Saul had certainly come.”

[20:20]  ³⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[20:20]  ³⁹ tn Grk “righteous,” but in this context the point is their false sincerity.

[20:20]  ⁴⁰ tn Grk “so that they might catch him in some word.”

[20:20]  ⁴¹ tn This word is often translated “authority” in other contexts, but here, in combination with ἀρχή (arch), it refers to the domain or sphere of the governor’s rule (L&N 37.36).

[11:31]  ⁴² tn Grk “did not perish together with.”