Bilangan 14:28-29

14:28 Say to them, ‘As I live, ¹  says ²  the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing. ³  14:29 Your dead bodies ⁴  will fall in this wilderness – all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.

Bilangan 23:19

23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie,

nor a human being, ⁵  that he should change his mind.

Has he said, and will he not do it?

Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen? ⁶ 

Mazmur 95:11

95:11 So I made a vow in my anger,

‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’” ⁷ 

Yehezkiel 24:14

24:14 “‘I the Lord have spoken; judgment ⁸  is coming and I will act! I will not relent, or show pity, or be sorry! ⁹  I will judge you ¹⁰  according to your conduct ¹¹  and your deeds, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 24:2

24:2 “Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege ¹²  to Jerusalem ¹³  this very day.

Titus 2:13

2:13 as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing ¹⁴  of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. ¹⁵ 

Titus 1:2

1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the ages began. ¹⁶ 

Ibrani 6:18

6:18 so that we who have found refuge in him ¹⁷  may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

[14:28]  ¹ sn Here again is the oath that God swore in his wrath, an oath he swore by himself, that they would not enter the land. “As the Lord lives,” or “by the life of the Lord,” are ways to render it.

[14:28]  ² tn The word נְאֻם (nÿ’um) is an “oracle.” It is followed by the subjective genitive: “the oracle of the Lord” is equal to saying “the Lord says.”

[14:28]  ³ tn Heb “in my ears.”

[14:28]  sn They had expressed the longing to have died in the wilderness, and not in war. God will now give them that. They would not say to God “your will be done,” so he says to them, “your will be done” (to borrow from C. S. Lewis).

[14:29]  ⁴ tn Or “your corpses” (also in vv. 32, 33).

[23:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “son of man.”

[23:19]  ⁶ tn The verb is the Hiphil of קוּם (qum, “to cause to rise; to make stand”). The meaning here is more of the sense of fulfilling the promises made.

[95:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “my resting place.” The promised land of Canaan is here viewed metaphorically as a place of rest for God’s people, who are compared to sheep (see v. 7).

[24:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “it”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:14]  ⁹ tn Or perhaps, “change my mind.”

[24:14]  ¹⁰ tc Some medieval Hebrew mss and the major ancient versions read a first person verb here. Most Hebrew mss read have an indefinite subject, “they will judge you,” which could be translated, “you will be judged.”

[24:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “ways.”

[24:2]  ¹² tn Heb “lean on, put pressure on.”

[24:2]  ¹³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[2:13]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “the blessed hope and glorious appearing.”

[2:13]  ¹⁵ tn The terms “God and Savior” both refer to the same person, Jesus Christ. This is one of the clearest statements in the NT concerning the deity of Christ. The construction in Greek is known as the Granville Sharp rule, named after the English philanthropist-linguist who first clearly articulated the rule in 1798. Sharp pointed out that in the construction article-noun-καί-noun (where καί [kai] = “and”), when two nouns are singular, personal, and common (i.e., not proper names), they always had the same referent. Illustrations such as “the friend and brother,” “the God and Father,” etc. abound in the NT to prove Sharp’s point. The only issue is whether terms such as “God” and “Savior” could be considered common nouns as opposed to proper names. Sharp and others who followed (such as T. F. Middleton in his masterful The Doctrine of the Greek Article) demonstrated that a proper name in Greek was one that could not be pluralized. Since both “God” (θεός, qeos) and “savior” (σωτήρ, swthr) were occasionally found in the plural, they did not constitute proper names, and hence, do fit Sharp’s rule. Although there have been 200 years of attempts to dislodge Sharp’s rule, all attempts have been futile. Sharp’s rule stands vindicated after all the dust has settled. For more information on Sharp’s rule see ExSyn 270-78, esp. 276. See also 2 Pet 1:1 and Jude 4.

[1:2]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “before eternal ages.”

[6:18]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “have taken refuge”; the basis of that refuge is implied in the preceding verse.