1 Tawarikh 28:7

28:7 I will establish his kingdom permanently, if he remains committed to obeying my commands and regulations, as you are doing this day.’ ¹ 

Yosua 1:7-8

1:7 Make sure you are ²  very strong and brave! Carefully obey ³  all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! ⁴  Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful ⁵  in all you do. ⁶  1:8 This law scroll must not leave your lips! ⁷  You must memorize it ⁸  day and night so you can carefully obey ⁹  all that is written in it. Then you will prosper ¹⁰  and be successful. ¹¹ 

Yosua 1:1

The Lord Commissions Joshua

1:1 After Moses the Lord’s servant died, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant:

Kisah Para Rasul 2:3

2:3 And tongues spreading out like a fire ¹²  appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them.

Kisah Para Rasul 2:2

2:2 Suddenly ¹³  a sound ¹⁴  like a violent wind blowing ¹⁵  came from heaven ¹⁶  and filled the entire house where they were sitting.

Kisah Para Rasul 20:20

20:20 You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming ¹⁷  to you anything that would be helpful, ¹⁸  and from teaching you publicly ¹⁹  and from house to house,

Mazmur 119:6

119:6 Then I would not be ashamed,

if ²⁰  I were focused on ²¹  all your commands.

Yeremia 22:3-4

22:3 The Lord says, “Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those ²²  who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. ²³  Do not kill innocent people ²⁴  in this land. 22:4 If you are careful to ²⁵  obey these commands, then the kings who follow in David’s succession and ride in chariots or on horses will continue to come through the gates of this palace, as will their officials and their subjects. ²⁶ 

[28:7]  ¹ tn Heb “if he is strong to do my commands and my regulations like this day.”

[1:7]  ² tn Or “Only be.”

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “so you can be careful to do.” The use of the infinitive לִשְׁמֹר (lishmor, “to keep”) after the imperatives suggests that strength and bravery will be necessary for obedience. Another option is to take the form לִשְׁמֹר as a vocative lamed (ל) with imperative (see Isa 38:20 for an example of this construction), which could be translated, “Indeed, be careful!”

[1:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “commanded you.”

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[1:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “in all which you go.”

[1:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “mouth.”

[1:8]  sn This law scroll must not leave your lips. The ancient practice of reading aloud to oneself as an aid to memorization is in view here.

[1:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “read it in undertones,” or “recite it quietly” (see HALOT 1:237).

[1:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “be careful to do.”

[1:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you will make your way prosperous.”

[1:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[2:3]  ¹² tn Or “And divided tongues as of fire.” The precise meaning of διαμερίζομαι (diamerizomai) in Acts 2:3 is difficult to determine. The meaning could be “tongues as of fire dividing up one to each person,” but it is also possible that the individual tongues of fire were divided (“And divided tongues as of fire appeared”). The translation adopted in the text (“tongues spreading out like a fire”) attempts to be somewhat ambiguous.

[2:2]  ¹³ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated for stylistic reasons. It occurs as part of the formula καὶ ἐγένετο (kai egeneto) which is often left untranslated in Luke-Acts because it is redundant in contemporary English. Here it is possible (and indeed necessary) to translate ἐγένετο as “came” so that the initial clause of the English translation contains a verb; nevertheless the translation of the conjunction καί is not necessary.

[2:2]  ¹⁴ tn Or “a noise.”

[2:2]  ¹⁵ tn While φέρω (ferw) generally refers to movement from one place to another with the possible implication of causing the movement of other objects, in Acts 2:2 φέρομαι (feromai) should probably be understood in a more idiomatic sense of “blowing” since it is combined with the noun for wind (πνοή, pnoh).

[2:2]  ¹⁶ tn Or “from the sky.” The Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven” depending on the context.

[20:20]  ¹⁷ tn Or “declaring.”

[20:20]  ¹⁸ tn Or “profitable.” BDAG 960 s.v. συμφέρω 2.b.α has “τὰ συμφέροντα what advances your best interests or what is good for you Ac 20:20,” but the broader meaning (s.v. 2, “to be advantageous, help, confer a benefit, be profitable/useful”) is equally possible in this context.

[20:20]  ¹⁹ tn Or “openly.”

[119:6]  ²⁰ tn Or “when.”

[119:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “I gaze at.”

[22:3]  ²² tn Heb “from the hand [or power] of.”

[22:3]  ²³ tn Heb “aliens, orphans, or widows” treating the terms as generic or collective. However, the term “alien” carries faulty connotations and the term “orphan” is not totally appropriate because the Hebrew term does not necessarily mean that both parents have died.

[22:3]  sn These were classes of people who had no one to look out for their rights. The laws of Israel, however, were careful to see that their rights were guarded (cf. Deut 10:18) and that provision was made for meeting their needs (cf. Deut 24:19-21). The Lord promised to protect them (cf. Ps 146:9) and a curse was called down on any who deprived them of justice (cf. Deut 27:19).

[22:3]  ²⁴ tn Heb “Do not shed innocent blood.”

[22:3]  sn Do not kill innocent people. For an example of one of the last kings who did this see Jer 36:20-23. Manasseh was notorious for having done this and the book of 2 Kgs attributes the ultimate destruction of Judah to this crime and his sin of worshiping false gods (2 Kgs 21:16; 24:4).

[22:4]  ²⁵ tn The translation here reflects the emphasizing infinitive absolute before the verb.

[22:4]  ²⁶ tn Heb “There will come through the gates of this city the kings…riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials…” The structure of the original text is broken up here because of the long compound subject which would make the English sentence too long. Compare 17:25 for the structure and wording of this sentence.