2 Tawarikh 6:28-30

6:28 “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust ¹  invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, ²  or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs. 6:29 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ³  as they acknowledge their intense pain ⁴  and spread out their hands toward this temple, 6:30 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ⁵  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives. ⁶  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 6:1

6:1 Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness.

Kisah Para Rasul 8:33

8:33 In humiliation ⁸  justice was taken from him. ⁹ 

Who can describe his posterity? ¹⁰ 

For his life was taken away ¹¹  from the earth.” ¹² 

Kisah Para Rasul 8:37

8:37 [[EMPTY]] ¹³ 

[6:28]  ¹ tn Actually two Hebrew words appear here, both of which are usually (but not always) taken as referring to locusts. Perhaps different stages of growth or different varieties are in view, but this is uncertain. NEB has “locusts new-sloughed or fully grown”; NASB has “locust or grasshopper”; NIV has “locusts or grasshoppers”; NRSV has “locust, or caterpillar.”

[6:28]  ² tn Heb “in the land, his gates.”

[6:29]  ³ tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

[6:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “which they know, each his pain and his affliction.”

[6:30]  ⁵ tn The words “their sin” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for clarification.

[6:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 28-30a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

[6:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

[8:33]  ⁸ tc ‡ Most later mss (C E Ψ 33^vid Ï sy) read “In his humiliation,” adding αὐτοῦ (autou, “his”) after ταπεινώσει (tapeinwsei, “humiliation”), while the earlier and better witnesses lack the pronoun (so Ì⁷⁴ א A B 1739 pc lat). However, the LXX of Isa 53:8 also lacks the pronoun, supplying motivation for scribes to omit it here. At the same time, scribes would also be motivated to add the pronoun both for clarity’s sake (note the similar impulse that led to the addition of δέ [de] by many of the same mss at the beginning of the next line) and to give balance to the lines (the pronoun is indisputably used five other times in vv. 32-33 in quoting Isa 53). On balance, the shorter reading is preferred.

[8:33]  ⁹ tn Or “justice was denied him”; Grk “his justice was taken away.”

[8:33]  ¹⁰ tn Or “family; or “origin.” The meaning of γενεά (genea) in the quotation is uncertain; BDAG 192 s.v. γενεά 4 suggests “family history.”

[8:33]  sn The rhetorical question suggests the insensitivity of this generation for its act against God’s servant, who was slain unjustly as he was silent.

[8:33]  ¹¹ tn Grk “is taken away.” The present tense here was translated as a past tense to maintain consistency with the rest of the quotation.

[8:33]  ¹² sn A quotation from Isa 53:7-8.

[8:37]  ¹³ tc A few later mss (E 36 323 453 945 1739 1891 pc) add, with minor variations, 8:37 “He said to him, ‘If you believe with your whole heart, you may.’ He replied, ‘I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.’” Verse 37 is lacking in {Ì^45,74 א A B C 33 614 vg sy^p,h co}. It is clearly not a part of the original text of Acts. The variant is significant in showing how some in the early church viewed a confession of faith. The present translation follows NA²⁷ in omitting the verse number, a procedure also followed by a number of other modern translations.