Yesaya 29:13
Konteks29:13 The sovereign master 1 says,
“These people say they are loyal to me; 2
they say wonderful things about me, 3
but they are not really loyal to me. 4
Their worship consists of
nothing but man-made ritual. 5
Yesaya 58:2
Konteks58:2 They seek me day after day;
they want to know my requirements, 6
like a nation that does what is right
and does not reject the law of their God.
They ask me for just decrees;
they want to be near God.
Yeremia 23:35
Konteks23:35 So I, Jeremiah, tell you, 7 “Each of you people should say to his friend or his relative, ‘How did the Lord answer? Or what did the Lord say?’ 8
Yeremia 42:1-6
Konteks42:1 Then all the army officers, including Johanan son of Kareah and Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah 9 and all the people of every class, 10 went to the prophet Jeremiah. 42:2 They said to him, “Please grant our request 11 and pray to the Lord your God for all those of us who are still left alive here. 12 For, as you yourself can see, there are only a few of us left out of the many there were before. 13 42:3 Pray that the Lord your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do.” 42:4 The prophet Jeremiah answered them, “Agreed! 14 I will indeed pray to the Lord your God as you have asked. I will tell you everything the Lord replies in response to you. 15 I will not keep anything back from you.” 42:5 They answered Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not do just as 16 the Lord sends you to tell us to do. 42:6 We will obey what the Lord our God to whom we are sending you tells us to do. It does not matter whether we like what he tells us or not. We will obey what he tells us to do so that things will go well for us.” 17
Yeremia 42:20
Konteks42:20 You are making a fatal mistake. 18 For you sent me to the Lord your God and asked me, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us. Tell us what the Lord our God says and we will do it.’ 19
Matius 15:8
Konteks15:8 ‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart 20 is far from me,
Matius 22:16-17
Konteks22:16 They sent to him their disciples along with the Herodians, 21 saying, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. 22 You do not court anyone’s favor because you show no partiality. 23 22:17 Tell us then, what do you think? Is it right 24 to pay taxes 25 to Caesar 26 or not?”
[29:13] 1 tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonai).
[29:13] 2 tn Heb “Because these people draw near to me with their mouth.”
[29:13] 3 tn Heb “and with their lips they honor me.”
[29:13] 4 tn Heb “but their heart is far from me.” The heart is viewed here as the seat of the will, from which genuine loyalty derives.
[29:13] 5 tn Heb “their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught.”
[58:2] 6 tn Heb “ways” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV); NLT “my laws.”
[23:35] 7 tn The words “So, I, Jeremiah tell you” are not in the text. They are supplied in the translation for clarity to show that it is he who is addressing the people, not the
[23:35] 8 tn This line is sometimes rendered as a description of what the people are doing (cf. NIV). However, repetition with some slight modification referring to the prophet in v. 37 followed by the same kind of prohibition that follows here shows that what is being contrasted is two views toward the
[42:1] 9 sn Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah may have been the same as the Jezaniah son of the Maacathite mentioned in 40:8. The title “the Maacathite” would identify the locality from which his father came, i.e., a region in northern Transjordan east of Lake Huleh. Many think he is also the same man who is named “Azariah” in Jer 43:2 (the Greek version has Azariah both here and in 43:2). It was not uncommon for one man to have two names, e.g., Uzziah who was also named Azariah (compare 2 Kgs 14:21 with 2 Chr 26:1).
[42:1] 10 tn Or “without distinction,” or “All the people from the least important to the most important”; Heb “from the least to the greatest.” This is a figure of speech that uses polar opposites as an all-inclusive designation of everyone without exception (i.e., it included all the people from the least important or poorest to the most important or richest.)
[42:2] 11 tn Heb “please let our petition fall before you.” For the idiom here see 37:20 and the translator’s note there.
[42:2] 12 tn Heb “on behalf of us, [that is] on behalf of all this remnant.”
[42:2] sn This refers to the small remnant of people who were left of those from Mizpah who had been taken captive by Ishmael after he had killed Gedaliah and who had been rescued from him at Gibeon. There were other Judeans still left in the land of Judah who had not been killed or deported by the Babylonians.
[42:2] 13 tn Heb “For we are left a few from the many as your eyes are seeing us.” The words “used to be” are not in the text but are implicit. These words are supplied in the translation for clarity and smoothness of English style.
[42:4] 14 tn Heb “I have heard” = “I agree.” For this nuance of the verb see BDB 1034 s.v. שָׁמַע Qal.1.j and compare the usage in Gen 37:27 and Judg 11:17 listed there.
[42:4] 15 tn Heb “all the word which the
[42:5] 16 tn Heb “do according to all the word which.”
[42:6] 17 tn Heb “Whether good or whether evil we will hearken to the voice of the
[42:20] 18 tn Heb “you are erring at the cost of your own lives” (BDB 1073 s.v. תָּעָה Hiph.3 and HALOT 1626 s.v. תָּעָה Hif 4, and cf. BDB 90 s.v. בְּ 3 and see parallels in 1 Kgs 2:23; 2 Sam 23:17 for the nuance of “at the cost of your lives”). This fits the context better than “you are deceiving yourselves” (KBL 1035 s.v. תָּעָה Hif 4). The reading here follows the Qere הִתְעֵיתֶם (hit’etem) rather than the Kethib which has a metathesis of י (yod) and ת (tav), i.e., הִתְעֵתֶים. The Greek text presupposes הֲרֵעֹתֶם (hare’otem, “you have done evil”), but that reading is generally rejected as secondary.
[42:20] 19 tn Heb “According to all which the
[15:8] 20 tn The term “heart” is a collective singular in the Greek text.
[22:16] 21 sn The Herodians are mentioned in the NT only once in Matt (22:16 = Mark 12:13) and twice in Mark (3:6; 12:13; some
[22:16] 22 sn Teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Very few comments are as deceitful as this one; they did not really believe this at all. The question of the Pharisees and Herodians was specifically designed to trap Jesus.
[22:16] 23 tn Grk “And it is not a concern to you about anyone because you do not see the face of men.”
[22:17] 24 tn Or “lawful,” that is, in accordance with God’s divine law. On the syntax of ἔξεστιν (exestin) with an infinitive and accusative, see BDF §409.3.
[22:17] 25 tn According to L&N 57.180 the term κῆνσος (khnso") was borrowed from Latin and referred to a poll tax, a tax paid by each adult male to the Roman government.
[22:17] sn This question concerning taxes was specifically designed to trap Jesus. If he answered yes, then his opponents could publicly discredit him as a sympathizer with Rome. If he answered no, then they could go to the Roman governor and accuse Jesus of rebellion.
[22:17] 26 tn Or “to the emperor” (“Caesar” is a title for the Roman emperor).
