Kejadian 16:11

16:11 Then the Lord’s angel said to her,

“You are now ¹  pregnant

and are about to give birth ²  to a son.

You are to name him Ishmael, ³ 

for the Lord has heard your painful groans. ⁴ 

Kejadian 16:2

16:2 So Sarai said to Abram, “Since ⁵  the Lord has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with ⁶  my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” ⁷  Abram did what ⁸  Sarai told him.

1 Raja-raja 6:16-17

6:16 He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. ⁹  He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters. ¹⁰  6:17 The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long. ¹¹ 

1 Raja-raja 6:1

The Building of the Temple

6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv ¹²  (the second month), he began building the Lord’s temple.

1 Tawarikh 21:15

21:15 God sent an angel ¹³  to ravage ¹⁴  Jerusalem. As he was doing so, ¹⁵  the Lord watched ¹⁶  and relented from ¹⁷  his judgment. ¹⁸  He told the angel who was destroying, “That’s enough! ¹⁹  Stop now!” ²⁰ 

Now the Lord’s angel was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan ²¹  the Jebusite.

Mazmur 34:8

34:8 Taste ²²  and see that the Lord is good!

How blessed ²³  is the one ²⁴  who takes shelter in him! ²⁵ 

Mazmur 35:5

35:5 May they be ²⁶  like wind-driven chaff,

as the Lord’s angel ²⁷  attacks them! ²⁸ 

Mazmur 91:11

91:11 For he will order his angels ²⁹ 

to protect you in all you do. ³⁰ 

Daniel 6:23

6:23 Then the king was delighted and gave an order to haul Daniel up from the den. So Daniel was hauled up out of the den. He had no injury of any kind, because he had trusted in his God.

[16:11]  ¹ tn The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) focuses on her immediate situation: “Here you are pregnant.”

[16:11]  ² tn The active participle refers here to something that is about to happen.

[16:11]  ³ sn The name Ishmael consists of the imperfect or jussive form of the Hebrew verb with the theophoric element added as the subject. It means “God hears” or “may God hear.”

[16:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “affliction,” which must refer here to Hagar’s painful groans of anguish.

[16:11]  sn This clause gives the explanation of the name Ishmael, using a wordplay. Ishmael’s name will be a reminder that “God hears” Hagar’s painful cries.

[16:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “look.” The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) introduces the foundational clause for the imperative to follow.

[16:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “enter to.” The expression is a euphemism for sexual relations (also in v. 4).

[16:2]  sn The Hebrew expression translated have sexual relations with does not convey the intimacy of other expressions, such as “so and so knew his wife.” Sarai simply sees this as the social custom of having a child through a surrogate. For further discussion see C. F. Fensham, “The Son of a Handmaid in Northwest Semitic,” VT 19 (1969): 312-21.

[16:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “perhaps I will be built from her.” Sarai hopes to have a family established through this surrogate mother.

[16:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “listened to the voice of,” which is an idiom meaning “obeyed.”

[16:2]  sn Abram did what Sarai told him. This expression was first used in Gen 3:17 of Adam’s obeying his wife. In both cases the text highlights weak faith and how it jeopardized the plan of God.

[6:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “He built twenty cubits from the rear areas of the temple with cedar planks from the floor to the walls, and he built it on the inside for an inner sanctuary, for a holy place of holy places.”

[6:16]  ¹⁰ tc The MT has קְלָעִים (qÿla’im, “curtains”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.

[6:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and the house was forty cubits, that is, the main hall before it.”

[6:1]  ¹² sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

[21:15]  ¹³ tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:15 reports that God sent a plague, while 24:16-17 attributes this to the instrumentality of an angel.

[21:15]  ¹⁴ tn Or “destroy.”

[21:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “while he was destroying.”

[21:15]  ¹⁶ tn Or “saw.”

[21:15]  ¹⁷ tn Or “was grieved because of.”

[21:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”

[21:15]  ¹⁹ tn For this nuance of the Hebrew word רַב (rav), see BDB 913 s.v. 1.f.

[21:15]  ²⁰ tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”

[21:15]  ²¹ tn In the parallel text in 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (’aravna’, “Aravna”), traditionally “Araunah.” The form of the name found here also occurs in vv. 18-28.

[34:8]  ²² tn This verb is normally used of tasting or savoring food. The metaphor here appears to compare the Lord to a tasty meal.

[34:8]  ²³ tn The Hebrew noun is an abstract plural. The word often refers metonymically to the happiness that God-given security and prosperity produce (see Pss 1:1, 3; 2:12; 41:1; 65:4; 84:12; 89:15; 106:3; 112:1; 127:5; 128:1; 144:15).

[34:8]  ²⁴ tn Heb “man.” The principle of the psalm is certainly applicable to all people, regardless of their gender or age. To facilitate modern application, we translate the gender and age specific “man” with the more neutral “one.”

[34:8]  ²⁵ tn “Taking shelter” in the Lord is an idiom for seeking his protection. Seeking his protection presupposes and even demonstrates the subject’s loyalty to the Lord. In the psalms those who “take shelter” in the Lord are contrasted with the wicked and equated with those who love, fear, and serve the Lord (Pss 2:12; 5:11-12; 31:17-20; 34:21-22).

[35:5]  ²⁶ tn The prefixed verbal form is taken as a jussive. See v. 4.

[35:5]  ²⁷ sn See the mention of the Lord’s angel in Ps 34:7.

[35:5]  ²⁸ tn Heb “as the Lord’s angel pushes [them].”

[91:11]  ²⁹ tn Heb “for his angels he will command concerning you.”

[91:11]  ³⁰ tn Heb “in all your ways.”