2 Raja-raja 10:25

10:25 When he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Jehu ordered the royal guard ¹  and officers, “Come in and strike them down! Don’t let any escape!” So the royal guard and officers struck them down with the sword and left their bodies lying there. ²  Then they entered the inner sanctuary of the temple of Baal. ³ 

2 Raja-raja 11:18

11:18 All the people of the land went and demolished ⁴  the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols ⁵  to bits. ⁶  They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest ⁷  then placed guards at the Lord’s temple.

Keluaran 22:20

22:20 “Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord ⁸  alone must be utterly destroyed. ⁹ 

Ulangan 13:5

13:5 As for that prophet or dreamer, ¹⁰  he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the Lord your God has commanded you to go. In this way you must purge out evil from within. ¹¹ 

Ulangan 13:1

13:1 Suppose a prophet or one who foretells by dreams ¹²  should appear among you and show you a sign or wonder, ¹³ 

Kisah Para Rasul 13:2

13:2 While they were serving ¹⁴  the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart ¹⁵  for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

Kisah Para Rasul 18:1

Paul at Corinth

18:1 After this ¹⁶  Paul ¹⁷  departed from ¹⁸  Athens ¹⁹  and went to Corinth. ²⁰ 

Yesaya 34:6

34:6 The Lord’s sword is dripping with blood,

it is covered ²¹  with fat;

it drips ²²  with the blood of young rams and goats

and is covered ²³  with the fat of rams’ kidneys.

For the Lord is holding a sacrifice ²⁴  in Bozrah, ²⁵ 

a bloody ²⁶  slaughter in the land of Edom.

Zakharia 13:2-3

13:2 And also on that day,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will remove ²⁷  the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land. 13:3 Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him, ‘You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the Lord.’ Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies. ²⁸ 

[10:25]  ¹ tn Heb “runners.”

[10:25]  ² tn Heb “and they threw.” No object appears. According to M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 116), this is an idiom for leaving a corpse unburied.

[10:25]  ³ tn Heb “and they came to the city of the house of Baal.” It seems unlikely that a literal city is meant. Some emend עִיר (’ir), “city,” to דְּבִיר (dÿvir) “holy place,” or suggest that עִיר is due to dittography of the immediately preceding עַד (’ad) “to.” Perhaps עִיר is here a technical term meaning “fortress” or, more likely, “inner room.”

[11:18]  ⁴ tn Or “tore down.”

[11:18]  ⁵ tn Or “images.”

[11:18]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew construction translated “smashed…to bits” is emphatic. The adverbial infinitive absolute (הֵיטֵב [hetev], “well”) accompanying the Piel form of the verb שָׁבַר (shavar), “break,” suggests thorough demolition.

[11:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “the priest.” Jehoiada’s name is added for clarification.

[22:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “not to Yahweh.”

[22:20]  ⁹ tn The verb חָרַם (kharam) means “to be devoted” to God or “to be banned.” The idea is that it would be God’s to do with as he liked. What was put under the ban was for God alone, either for his service or for his judgment. But it was out of human control. Here the verb is saying that the person will be utterly destroyed.

[13:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “or dreamer of dreams.” See note on this expression in v. 1.

[13:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “your midst” (so NAB, NRSV). The severity of the judgment here (i.e., capital punishment) is because of the severity of the sin, namely, high treason against the Great King. Idolatry is a violation of the first two commandments (Deut 5:6-10) as well as the spirit and intent of the Shema (Deut 6:4-5).

[13:1]  ¹² tn Heb “or a dreamer of dreams” (so KJV, ASV, NASB). The difference between a prophet (נָבִיא, navi’) and one who foretells by dreams (חֹלֵם אוֹ, ’o kholem) was not so much one of office – for both received revelation by dreams (cf. Num 12:6) – as it was of function or emphasis. The prophet was more a proclaimer and interpreter of revelation whereas the one who foretold by dreams was a receiver of revelation. In later times the role of the one who foretold by dreams was abused and thus denigrated as compared to that of the prophet (cf. Jer 23:28).

[13:1]  ¹³ tn The expression אוֹת אוֹ מוֹפֵת (’ot ’o mofet) became a formulaic way of speaking of ways of authenticating prophetic messages or other works of God (cf. Deut 28:46; Isa 20:3). The NT equivalent is the Greek term σημεῖον (shmeion), a sign performed (used frequently in the Gospel of John, cf. 2:11, 18; 20:30-31). They could, however, be counterfeited or (as here) permitted to false prophets by the Lord as a means of testing his people.

[13:2]  ¹⁴ tn This term is frequently used in the LXX of the service performed by priests and Levites in the tabernacle (Exod 28:35, 43; 29:30; 30:20; 35:19; 39:26; Num 1:50; 3:6, 31) and the temple (2 Chr 31:2; 35:3; Joel 1:9, 13; 2:17, and many more examples). According to BDAG 591 s.v. λειτουργέω 1.b it is used “of other expression of religious devotion.” Since the previous verse described the prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch, it is probable that the term here describes two of them (Barnabas and Saul) as they were serving in that capacity. Since they were not in Jerusalem where the temple was located, general religious service is referred to here.

[13:2]  ¹⁵ tn Or “Appoint.”

[18:1]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “After these things.”

[18:1]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Paul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:1]  ¹⁸ tn Or “Paul left.”

[18:1]  ¹⁹ map For location see JP1 C2; JP2 C2; JP3 C2; JP4 C2.

[18:1]  ²⁰ sn Corinth was the capital city of the senatorial province of Achaia and the seat of the Roman proconsul. It was located 55 mi (88 km) west of Athens. Corinth was a major rival to Athens and was the largest city in Greece at the time.

[18:1]  map For location see JP1 C2; JP2 C2; JP3 C2; JP4 C2.

[34:6]  ²¹ tn The verb is a rare Hotpaal passive form. See GKC 150 §54.h.

[34:6]  ²² tn The words “it drips” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[34:6]  ²³ tn The words “and is covered” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[34:6]  ²⁴ tn Heb “for there is a sacrifice to the Lord.”

[34:6]  ²⁵ sn The Lord’s judgment of Edom is compared to a bloody sacrificial scene.

[34:6]  ²⁶ tn Heb “great” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[13:2]  ²⁷ tn Heb “cut off” (so NRSV); NAB “destroy”; NIV “banish.”

[13:3]  ²⁸ sn Death (in this case being run…through with a sword) was the penalty required in the OT for prophesying falsely (Deut 13:6-11; 18:20-22).