Yeremia 3:17

3:17 At that time the city of Jerusalem ¹  will be called the Lord’s throne. All nations will gather there in Jerusalem to honor the Lord’s name. ²  They will no longer follow the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. ³ 

Yeremia 14:21

14:21 For the honor of your name, ⁴  do not treat Jerusalem ⁵  with contempt.

Do not treat with disdain the place where your glorious throne sits. ⁶ 

Be mindful of your covenant with us. Do not break it! ⁷ 

Yeremia 14:2

14:2 “The people of Judah are in mourning.

The people in her cities are pining away.

They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow. ⁸ 

Cries of distress come up to me ⁹  from Jerusalem. ¹⁰ 

Yeremia 2:5-6

2:5 This is what the Lord says:

“What fault could your ancestors ¹¹  have possibly found in me

that they strayed so far from me? ¹² 

They paid allegiance to ¹³  worthless idols, and so became worthless to me. ¹⁴ 

2:6 They did not ask:

‘Where is the Lord who delivered us out of Egypt,

who brought us through the wilderness,

through a land of desert sands and rift valleys,

through a land of drought and deep darkness, ¹⁵ 

through a land in which no one travels,

and where no one lives?’ ¹⁶ 

Mazmur 96:6

96:6 Majestic splendor emanates from him; ¹⁷ 

his sanctuary is firmly established and beautiful. ¹⁸ 

Mazmur 103:19

103:19 The Lord has established his throne in heaven;

his kingdom extends over everything. ¹⁹ 

Yesaya 6:1

Isaiah’s Commission

6:1 In the year of King Uzziah’s death, ²⁰  I saw the sovereign master ²¹  seated on a high, elevated throne. The hem of his robe filled the temple.

Yesaya 66:1

66:1 This is what the Lord says:

“The heavens are my throne

and the earth is my footstool.

Where then is the house you will build for me?

Where is the place where I will rest?

Yehezkiel 1:26

1:26 Above the platform over their heads was something like a sapphire shaped like a throne. High above on the throne was a form that appeared to be a man.

Yehezkiel 43:7

43:7 He said to me: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne ²²  and the place for the soles of my feet, ²³  where I will live among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no longer profane my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their spiritual prostitution or by the pillars of their kings set up when they die. ²⁴ 

Matius 25:31

The Judgment

25:31 “When ²⁵  the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

Ibrani 4:16

4:16 Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help. ²⁶ 

Ibrani 12:2

12:2 keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ²⁷ 

Wahyu 3:21

3:21 I will grant the one ²⁸  who conquers ²⁹  permission ³⁰  to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered ³¹  and sat down with my Father on his throne.

[3:17]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[3:17]  ² tn Heb “will gather to the name of the Lord.”

[3:17]  ³ tn Heb “the stubbornness of their evil hearts.”

[14:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “For the sake of your name.”

[14:21]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[14:21]  ⁶ tn English versions quite commonly supply “us” as an object for the verb in the first line. This is probably wrong. The Hebrew text reads: “Do not treat with contempt for the sake of your name; do not treat with disdain your glorious throne.” This is case of poetic parallelism where the object is left hanging until the second line. For an example of this see Prov 13:1 in the original and consult E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 103-4. There has also been some disagreement whether “your glorious throne” refers to the temple (as in 17:12) or Jerusalem (as in 3:17). From the beginning of the prayer in v. 19 where a similar kind of verb has been used with respect to Zion/Jerusalem it would appear that the contextual referent is Jerusalem. The absence of an object from the first line makes it possible to retain part of the metaphor in the translation and still convey some meaning.

[14:21]  sn The place of God’s glorious throne was first of all the ark of the covenant where God was said to be enthroned between the cherubim, then the temple that housed it, then the city itself. See 2 Kgs 19:14-15 in the context of Sennacherib’s attack on Jerusalem.

[14:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “Remember, do not break your covenant with us.”

[14:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “Judah mourns, its gates pine away, they are in mourning on the ground.” There are several figures of speech involved here. The basic figure is that of personification where Judah and it cities are said to be in mourning. However, in the third line the figure is a little hard to sustain because “they” are in mourning on the ground. That presses the imagination of most moderns a little too far. Hence the personification has been interpreted “people of” throughout. The term “gates” here is used as part for whole for the “cities” themselves as in several other passages in the OT (cf. BDB 1045 s.v. שַׁעַר 2.b, c and see, e.g., Isa 14:31).

[14:2]  ⁹ tn The words “to me” are not in the text. They are implicit from the fact that the Lord is speaking. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[14:2]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[2:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “fathers.”

[2:5]  ¹² tn Or “I did not wrong your ancestors in any way. Yet they went far astray from me.” Both translations are an attempt to render the rhetorical question which demands a negative answer.

[2:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “They went/followed after.” This idiom is found most often in Deuteronomy or covenant contexts. It refers to loyalty to God and to his covenant or his commandments (e.g., 1 Kgs 14:8; 2 Chr 34:31) with the metaphor of a path or way underlying it (e.g., Deut 11:28; 28:14). To “follow other gods” was to abandon this way and this loyalty (i.e., to “abandon” or “forget” God, Judg 2:12; Hos 2:13) and to follow the customs or religious traditions of the pagan nations (e.g., 2 Kgs 17:15). The classic text on “following” God or another god is 1 Kgs 18:18, 21 where Elijah taunts the people with “halting between two opinions” whether the Lord was the true God or Baal was. The idiom is often found followed by “to serve and to worship” or “they served and worshiped” such and such a god or entity (see, e.g., Jer 8:2; 11:10; 13:10; 16:11; 25:6; 35:15).

[2:5]  ¹⁴ tn The words “to me” are not in the Hebrew text but are implicit from the context: Heb “they followed after the worthless thing/things and became worthless.” There is an obvious wordplay on the verb “became worthless” and the noun “worthless thing,” which is probably to be understood collectively and to refer to idols as it does in Jer 8:19; 10:8; 14:22; Jonah 2:8.

[2:6]  ¹⁵ tn This word is erroneously rendered “shadow of death” in most older English versions; that translation is based on a faulty etymology. Contextual studies and comparative Semitic linguistics have demonstrated that the word is merely another word for darkness. It is confined to poetic texts and often carries connotations of danger and distress. It is associated in poetic texts with the darkness of a prison (Ps 107:10, 14), a mine (Job 28:3), and a ravine (Ps 23:4). Here it is associated with the darkness of the wasteland and ravines of the Sinai desert.

[2:6]  ¹⁶ sn The context suggests that the question is related to a lament where the people turn to God in their troubles, asking him for help and reminding him of his past benefactions. See for example Isa 63:11-19 and Ps 44. It is an implicit prayer for his intervention, cf. 2 Kgs 2:14.

[96:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “majesty and splendor [are] before him.”

[96:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “strength and beauty [are] in his sanctuary.”

[103:19]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “his kingdom rules over all.”

[6:1]  ²⁰ sn That is, approximately 740 b.c.

[6:1]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in vv. 8, 11 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[43:7]  ²² sn God’s throne is mentioned in Isa 6:1; Jer 3:17.

[43:7]  ²³ sn See 1 Chr 28:2; Ps 99:5; 132:7; Isa 60:13; Lam 2:1.

[43:7]  ²⁴ tn Heb “by their corpses in their death.” But the term normally translated “corpses” is better understood here as a reference to funeral pillars or funerary offerings. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:583-85, and L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:257.

[25:31]  ²⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[4:16]  ²⁶ tn Grk “for timely help.”

[12:2]  ²⁷ sn An allusion to Ps 110:1.

[3:21]  ²⁸ tn Grk “The one who conquers, to him I will grant.”

[3:21]  ²⁹ tn Or “who is victorious”; traditionally, “who overcomes.”

[3:21]  ³⁰ tn Grk “I will give [grant] to him.”

[3:21]  ³¹ tn Or “have been victorious”; traditionally, “have overcome.”