Numbers 26:10

26:10 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.

Deuteronomy 28:46

28:46 These curses ¹  will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants. ² 

Jeremiah 44:29

44:29 Moreover the Lord says, ³  ‘I will make something happen to prove that I will punish you in this place. I will do it so that you will know that my threats to bring disaster on you will prove true. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 14:8

14:8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword ⁵  and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 14:2

14:2 The word of the Lord came to me:

1 Peter 2:6

2:6 For it says ⁶  in scripture, “Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and priceless cornerstone, ⁷  and whoever believes ⁸  in him ⁹  will never ¹⁰  be put to shame.” ¹¹ 

¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the curses mentioned previously) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).

¹ tn Heb “oracle of the Lord.”

² tn Heb “This will be to you the sign, oracle of the Lord, that I will punish you in this place in order that you may know that my threats against you for evil/disaster/harm will certainly stand [see the translator’s note on the preceding verse for the meaning of this word here].” The word “sign” refers to an event that is a pre-omen or portent of something that will happen later (see BDB 16 s.v. אוֹת 2 and compare usage in 1 Sam 14:10; 2 Kgs 19:29). The best way to carry that idea across in this context seems to be “I will make something happen to prove [or portend].” Another possibility would be “I will give you a pre-omen that,” but many readers would probably not be familiar with “omen/pre-omen.” Again the sentence has been broken in two and restructured to better conform with English style.

¹ tn Heb “proverbs.”

¹ tn Grk “it contains,” “it stands.”

² tn Grk “chosen, priceless.”

³ tn Grk “the one who believes.”

⁴ tn Grk either “in him” or “in it,” but the OT and NT uses personify the stone as the King, the Messiah whom God will establish in Jerusalem.

⁵ tn The negative (οὐ μή, ou mh) is emphatic: “will certainly not.”

⁶ sn A quotation from Isa 28:16.