1 Samuel 5:8-12

5:8 So they assembled ¹  all the leaders of the Philistines and asked, “What should we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They replied, “The ark of the God of Israel should be moved to Gath.” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.

5:9 But after it had been moved the Lord attacked ²  that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city ³  with sores. ⁴  5:10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.

But when the ark of God arrived at Ekron, the residents of Ekron cried out saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here ⁵  to kill our ⁶  people!” 5:11 So they assembled ⁷  all the leaders of the Philistines and said, “Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us ⁸  and our ⁹  people!” The terror ¹⁰  of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there. ¹¹  5:12 The people ¹²  who did not die were struck with sores; the city’s cry for help went all the way up to heaven.

Bilangan 17:12-13

17:12 The Israelites said to Moses, “We are bound to die! ¹³  We perish, we all perish! 17:13 (17:28) ¹⁴  Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the Lord will die! Are we all to die?” ¹⁵ 

Bilangan 17:2

17:2 “Speak to the Israelites, and receive from them a staff from each tribe, ¹⁶  one from every tribal leader, ¹⁷  twelve staffs; you must write each man’s name on his staff.

1 Samuel 6:7

6:7 So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls.

1 Samuel 6:9

6:9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”

1 Samuel 6:1

The Philistines Return the Ark

6:1 When the ark of the Lord had been in the land ¹⁸  of the Philistines for seven months, ¹⁹ 

1 Samuel 13:11-13

13:11 But Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul replied, “When I saw that the army had started to abandon me ²⁰  and that you didn’t come at the appointed time and that the Philistines had assembled at Micmash, 13:12 I thought, ²¹  ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated ²²  to offer the burnt offering.”

13:13 Then Samuel said to Saul, “You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed ²³  the commandment that the Lord your God gave ²⁴  you. Had you done that, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever!

Mazmur 76:7

76:7 You are awesome! Yes, you!

Who can withstand your intense anger? ²⁵ 

Maleakhi 3:2

3:2 Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, ²⁶  like a launderer’s soap.

Lukas 5:8

5:8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, ²⁷  for I am a sinful man!” ²⁸ 

Lukas 8:37

8:37 Then ²⁹  all the people of the Gerasenes ³⁰  and the surrounding region ³¹  asked Jesus ³²  to leave them alone, ³³  for they were seized with great fear. ³⁴  So ³⁵  he got into the boat and left. ³⁶ 

[5:8]  ¹ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

[5:9]  ² tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”

[5:9]  ³ tn Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”

[5:9]  ⁴ tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”

[5:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “to me.”

[5:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “my.”

[5:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

[5:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “me.”

[5:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “my.”

[5:11]  ¹⁰ tn Or “panic.”

[5:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”

[5:12]  ¹² tn Heb “men.”

[17:12]  ¹³ tn The use of הֵן (hen) and the perfect tense in the nuance of a prophetic perfect expresses their conviction that they were bound to die – it was certain (see GKC 312-13 §106.n).

[17:13]  ¹⁴ sn Num 17:13 in the English Bible is 17:28 in the Hebrew text (BHS). See also the note on 16:36.

[17:13]  ¹⁵ tn The verse stresses the completeness of their death: “will we be consumed by dying” (הַאִם תַּמְנוּ לִגְוֹעַ, ha’im tamnu ligvoa’).

[17:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “receive from them a rod, a rod from the house of a father.”

[17:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “from every leader of them according to their fathers’ house.”

[6:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “field.”

[6:1]  ¹⁹ tc The LXX adds “and their land swarmed with mice.”

[13:11]  ²⁰ tn Heb “dispersed from upon me.”

[13:12]  ²¹ tn Heb “said.”

[13:12]  ²² tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”

[13:13]  ²³ tn Or “kept.”

[13:13]  ²⁴ tn Heb “commanded.”

[76:7]  ²⁵ tc Heb “and who can stand before you from the time of your anger?” The Hebrew expression מֵאָז (me’az, “from the time of”) is better emended to מֵאֹז (me’oz, “from [i.e., “because of”] the strength of your anger”; see Ps 90:11).

[3:2]  ²⁶ sn The refiner’s fire was used to purify metal and refine it by melting it and allowing the dross, which floated to the top, to be scooped off.

[5:8]  ²⁷ sn Lord is a term of high respect in this context. God’s presence in the work of Jesus makes Peter recognize his authority. This vocative is common in Luke (20 times), but does not yet have its full confessional force.

[5:8]  ²⁸ sn Peter was intimidated that someone who was obviously working with divine backing was in his presence (“Go away from me”). He feared his sinfulness might lead to judgment, but Jesus would show him otherwise.

[8:37]  ²⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[8:37]  ³⁰ tc See the tc note on “Gerasenes” in v. 26 for the same geographical options for the textual variants.

[8:37]  ³¹ tn Grk “all the people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes,” but according to L&N 1.80, “περίχωρος may include not only the surrounding region but also the point of reference, for example…‘the Gerasenes and the people living around them’ Lk 8:37.”

[8:37]  ³² tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:37]  ³³ tn Or “to depart from them.”

[8:37]  ³⁴ sn Again there is great fear at God’s activity, but there is a different reaction. Some people want nothing to do with God’s presence. Mark 5:16 hints that economic reasons motivated their request.

[8:37]  ³⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate that Jesus’ departure was the result of the Gerasenes’ response. A new sentence was started in the translation at this point for stylistic reasons.

[8:37]  ³⁶ tn Grk “returned,” but the effect is that he departed from the Gerasene region.