Kejadian 14:20

14:20 Worthy of praise is ¹  the Most High God,

who delivered ²  your enemies into your hand.”

Abram gave Melchizedek ³  a tenth of everything.

Yosua 6:19

6:19 All the silver and gold, as well as bronze and iron items, belong to the Lord. ⁴  They must go into the Lord’s treasury.”

Yosua 6:24

6:24 But they burned ⁵  the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the Lord’s house. ⁶ 

Yosua 6:2

6:2 The Lord told Joshua, “See, I am about to defeat Jericho for you, ⁷  along with its king and its warriors.

1 Samuel 8:11-12

8:11 He said, “Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot. 8:12 He will appoint for himself leaders of thousands and leaders of fifties, ⁸  as well as those who plow his ground, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and his chariot equipment.

1 Samuel 8:1

Israel Seeks a King

8:1 In his old age Samuel appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

1 Samuel 18:11

18:11 and Saul threw the spear, thinking, “I’ll nail David to the wall!” But David escaped from him on two different occasions.

1 Samuel 26:1

David Spares Saul’s Life Again

26:1 The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding on the hill of Hakilah near ⁹  Jeshimon?”

1 Samuel 26:1

David Spares Saul’s Life Again

26:1 The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding on the hill of Hakilah near ¹⁰  Jeshimon?”

Amsal 3:9-10

3:9 Honor ¹¹  the Lord from your wealth

and from the first fruits of all your crops; ¹² 

3:10 then your barns will be filled completely, ¹³ 

and your vats ¹⁴  will overflow ¹⁵  with new wine.

Yesaya 18:7

18:7 At that time

tribute will be brought to the Lord who commands armies,

by a people that are tall and smooth-skinned,

a people that are feared far and wide,

a nation strong and victorious,

whose land rivers divide. ¹⁶ 

The tribute ¹⁷  will be brought to the place where the Lord who commands armies has chosen to reside, on Mount Zion. ¹⁸ 

Yesaya 23:18

23:18 Her profits and earnings will be set apart for the Lord. They will not be stored up or accumulated, for her profits will be given to those who live in the Lord’s presence and will be used to purchase large quantities of food and beautiful clothes. ¹⁹ 

Yesaya 60:9

60:9 Indeed, the coastlands ²⁰  look eagerly for me,

the large ships ²¹  are in the lead,

bringing your sons from far away,

along with their silver and gold,

to honor the Lord your God, ²² 

the Holy One of Israel, ²³  for he has bestowed honor on you.

Matius 22:21

22:21 They replied, ²⁴  “Caesar’s.” He said to them, ²⁵  “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” ²⁶ 

[14:20]  ¹ tn Heb “blessed be.” For God to be “blessed” means that is praised. His reputation is enriched in the world as his name is praised.

[14:20]  ² sn Who delivered. The Hebrew verb מִגֵּן (miggen, “delivered”) foreshadows the statement by God to Abram in Gen 15:1, “I am your shield” (מָגֵן, magen). Melchizedek provided a theological interpretation of Abram’s military victory.

[14:20]  ³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Melchizedek) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “it is holy to the Lord.”

[6:24]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”

[6:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “the treasury of the house of the Lord.” Technically the Lord did not have a “house” yet, so perhaps this refers to the tabernacle using later terminology.

[6:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “I have given into your hand Jericho.” The Hebrew verb נָתַתִּי (natatti, “I have given”) is probably best understood as a perfect of certitude, indicating the certainty of the action. The Hebrew pronominal suffix “your” is singular, being addressed to Joshua as the leader and representative of the nation. To convey to the modern reader what is about to happen and who is doing it, the translation “I am about to defeat Jericho for you” has been used.

[8:12]  ⁸ tc The numbers of v. 12 are confused in the Greek and Syriac versions. For “fifties” the LXX has “hundreds.” The Syriac Peshitta has “heads of thousands and heads of hundreds and heads of fifties and heads of tens,” perhaps reflecting influence from Deut 1:15.

[26:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[26:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[3:9]  ¹¹ tn The imperative כַּבֵּד (kabbed, “honor”) functions as a command, instruction, counsel or exhortation. To honor God means to give him the rightful place of authority by rendering to him gifts of tribute. One way to acknowledge God in one’s ways (v. 6) is to honor him with one’s wealth (v. 9).

[3:9]  ¹² tn Heb “produce.” The noun תְּבוּאָה (tÿvu’ah) has a two-fold range of meaning: (1) “product; yield” of the earth (= crops; harvest) and (2) “income; revenue” in general (BDB 100 s.v.). The imagery in vv. 9-10 is agricultural; however, all Israelites – not just farmers – were expected to give the best portion (= first fruits) of their income to Lord.

[3:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “with plenty” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “to overflowing.” The noun שָׂבָע (sava’, “plenty; satiety”) functions as an adverbial accusative of manner or contents: “completely.”

[3:10]  ¹⁴ sn This pictures the process of pressing grapes in which the upper receptacle is filled with grapes and the lower one catches the juice. The harvest of grapes will be so plentiful that the lower vat will overflow with grape juice. The pictures in v. 10 are metonymies of effect for cause (= the great harvest that God will provide when they honor him).

[3:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “burst open.” The verb פָּרַץ (parats, “to burst open”) functions as hyperbole here to emphasize the fullness of the wine vats (BDB 829 s.v. 9).

[18:7]  ¹⁶ tn On the interpretive difficulties of this verse, see the notes at v. 2, where the same terminology is used.

[18:7]  ¹⁷ tn The words “the tribute” are repeated here in the translation for clarity.

[18:7]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “to the place of the name of the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts], Mount Zion.”

[23:18]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “for eating to fullness and for beautiful covering[s].”

[23:18]  sn The point of this verse, which in its blatant nationalism comes precariously close to comparing the Lord to one who controls or manages a prostitute, is that Tyre will become a subject of Israel and her God. Tyre’s commercial profits will be used to enrich the Lord’s people.

[60:9]  ²⁰ tn Or “islands” (NIV); CEV “distant islands”; TEV “distant lands.”

[60:9]  ²¹ tn Heb “the ships of Tarshish.” See the note at 2:16.

[60:9]  ²² tn Heb “to the name of the Lord your God.”

[60:9]  ²³ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

[22:21]  ²⁴ tn Grk “they said to him.”

[22:21]  ²⁵ tn Grk “then he said to them.” τότε (tote) has not been translated to avoid redundancy.

[22:21]  ²⁶ sn Jesus’ answer to give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s was a both/and, not the questioners’ either/or. So he slipped out of their trap.