Mazmur 125:5

125:5 As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, ¹ 

may the Lord remove them, ²  along with those who behave wickedly! ³ 

May Israel experience peace! ⁴ 

Mazmur 125:1

Psalm 125 ⁵ 

A song of ascents. ⁶ 

125:1 Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion;

it cannot be upended and will endure forever.

1 Samuel 11:6-13

11:6 The Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and he became very angry. 11:7 He took a pair ⁷  of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said, “Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out as one army. ⁸  11:8 When Saul counted them at Bezek, the Israelites were 300,000 ⁹  strong and the men of Judah numbered 30,000. ¹⁰ 

11:9 They said to the messengers who had come, “Here’s what you should say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: ‘Tomorrow deliverance will come to you when the sun is fully up.’” When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh Gilead, they were happy. 11:10 The men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you ¹¹  and you can do with us whatever you wish.” ¹² 

11:11 The next day Saul placed the people in three groups. They went to the Ammonite camp during the morning watch and struck them ¹³  down until the hottest part of the day. The survivors scattered; no two of them remained together.

Saul Is Established as King

11:12 Then the people said to Samuel, “Who were the ones asking, ‘Will Saul reign over us?’ Hand over those men so we may execute them!” 11:13 But Saul said, “No one will be killed on this day. For today the Lord has given Israel a victory!”

1 Samuel 13:13-14

13:13 Then Samuel said to Saul, “You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed ¹⁴  the commandment that the Lord your God gave ¹⁵  you. Had you done that, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever! 13:14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The Lord has sought out ¹⁶  for himself a man who is loyal to him ¹⁷  and the Lord has appointed ¹⁸  him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Samuel 15:26

15:26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel!”

1 Samuel 16:14

David Appears before Saul

16:14 Now the Spirit of the Lord had turned away from Saul, and an evil spirit ¹⁹  from the Lord tormented him.

Zefanya 1:6

1:6 and those who turn their backs on ²⁰  the Lord

and do not want the Lord’s help or guidance.” ²¹ 

Ibrani 10:39

10:39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls. ²² 

Ibrani 10:1

Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted

10:1 For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship. ²³ 

Yohanes 2:19

2:19 Jesus replied, ²⁴  “Destroy ²⁵  this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”

[125:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and the ones making their paths twisted.” A sinful lifestyle is compared to a twisting, winding road.

[125:5]  ² tn Heb “lead them away.” The prefixed verbal form is understood as a jussive of prayer here (note the prayers directly before and after this). Another option is to translate, “the Lord will remove them” (cf. NIV, NRSV).

[125:5]  ³ tn Heb “the workers of wickedness.”

[125:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “peace [be] upon Israel.” The statement is understood as a prayer (see Ps 122:8 for a similar prayer for peace).

[125:1]  ⁵ sn Psalm 125. The psalmist affirms his confidence in the Lord’s protection and justice.

[125:1]  ⁶ sn The precise significance of this title, which appears in Pss 120-134, is unclear. Perhaps worshipers recited these psalms when they ascended the road to Jerusalem to celebrate annual religious festivals. For a discussion of their background see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 219-21.

[11:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “yoke.”

[11:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “like one man.”

[11:8]  ⁹ tc The LXX and two Old Latin mss read 600,000 here, rather than the MT’s 300,000.

[11:8]  ¹⁰ tc The LXX, two Old Latin mss, and a Qumran ms read 70,000 here, rather than the MT’s 30,000.

[11:10]  ¹¹ tn The second masculine plural forms in this quotation indicate that Nahash and his army are addressed.

[11:10]  ¹² tn Heb “according to all that is good in your eyes.”

[11:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “Ammon.” By metonymy the name “Ammon” is used collectively for the soldiers in the Ammonite army.

[13:13]  ¹⁴ tn Or “kept.”

[13:13]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “commanded.”

[13:14]  ¹⁶ tn This verb form, as well as the one that follows (“appointed”), indicates completed action from the standpoint of the speaker. This does not necessarily mean that the Lord had already conducted his search and made his choice, however. The forms may be used for rhetorical effect to emphasize the certainty of the action. The divine search for a new king is as good as done, emphasizing that the days of Saul’s dynasty are numbered.

[13:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “according to his heart.” The idiomatic expression means to be like-minded with another, as its use in 1 Sam 14:7 indicates.

[13:14]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “commanded.”

[16:14]  ¹⁹ tn Or “an injurious spirit”; cf. NLT “a tormenting spirit.” The phrase need not refer to an evil, demonic spirit. The Hebrew word translated “evil” may refer to the character of the spirit or to its effect upon Saul. If the latter, another translation option might be “a mischief-making spirit.”

[1:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “turn back from [following] after.”

[1:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “who do not seek the Lord and do not inquire of him.” The present translation assumes the first verb refers to praying for divine help and the second to seeking his revealed will through an oracle. Note the usage of the two verbs in 2 Chr 20:3-4.

[10:39]  ²² tn Grk “not…of shrinking back to perdition but of faith to the preservation of the soul.”

[10:1]  ²³ tn Grk “those who approach.”

[2:19]  ²⁴ tn Grk “answered and said to them.”

[2:19]  ²⁵ tn The imperative here is really more than a simple conditional imperative (= “if you destroy”); its semantic force here is more like the ironical imperative found in the prophets (Amos 4:4, Isa 8:9) = “Go ahead and do this and see what happens.”