Ulangan 32:39

The Vindication of the Lord

32:39 “See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, ¹ 

“and there is no other god besides me.

I kill and give life,

I smash and I heal,

and none can resist ²  my power.

Ulangan 32:1

Invocation of Witnesses

32:1 Listen, O heavens, and I will speak;

hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

1 Samuel 25:38

25:38 After about ten days the Lord struck Nabal down and he died.

1 Samuel 26:10

26:10 David went on to say, “As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.

1 Samuel 26:2

26:2 So Saul arose and

went down to the desert of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand select men of Israel, to look for David in the desert of Ziph.

Kisah Para Rasul 15:5

15:5 But some from the religious party of the Pharisees ³  who had believed stood up and said, “It is necessary ⁴  to circumcise the Gentiles ⁵  and to order them to observe ⁶  the law of Moses.”

Kisah Para Rasul 15:2

15:2 When Paul and Barnabas had a major argument and debate ⁷  with them, the church ⁸  appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to meet with ⁹  the apostles and elders in Jerusalem ¹⁰  about this point of disagreement. ¹¹ 

Kisah Para Rasul 13:20

13:20 All this took ¹²  about four hundred fifty years. After this ¹³  he gave them judges until the time of ¹⁴  Samuel the prophet.

Mazmur 104:29

104:29 When you ignore them, they panic. ¹⁵ 

When you take away their life’s breath, they die

and return to dust.

Kisah Para Rasul 12:23

12:23 Immediately an angel of the Lord ¹⁶  struck ¹⁷  Herod ¹⁸  down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died. ¹⁹ 

[32:39]  ¹ tn Verses 39-42 appear to be a quotation of the Lord and so the introductory phrase “says the Lord” is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[32:39]  ² tn Heb “deliver from” (so NRSV, NLT).

[15:5]  ³ sn See the note on Pharisee in 5:34.

[15:5]  ⁴ sn The Greek word used here (δεῖ, dei) is a strong term that expresses divine necessity. The claim is that God commanded the circumcision of Gentiles.

[15:5]  ⁵ tn Grk “them”; the referent (the Gentiles) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:5]  ⁶ tn Or “keep.”

[15:2]  ⁷ tn Grk “no little argument and debate” (an idiom).

[15:2]  ⁸ tn Grk “they”; the referent (the church, or the rest of the believers at Antioch) has been specified to avoid confusion with the Judaizers mentioned in the preceding clause.

[15:2]  ⁹ tn Grk “go up to,” but in this context a meeting is implied.

[15:2]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[15:2]  ¹¹ tn Or “point of controversy.” It is unclear whether this event parallels Gal 2:1-10 or that Gal 2 fits with Acts 11:30. More than likely Gal 2:1-10 is to be related to Acts 11:30.

[13:20]  ¹² tn The words “all this took” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied to make a complete statement in English. There is debate over where this period of 450 years fits and what it includes: (1) It could include the years in Egypt, the conquest of Canaan, and the distribution of the land; (2) some connect it with the following period of the judges. This latter approach seems to conflict with 1 Kgs 6:1; see also Josephus, Ant. 8.3.1 (8.61).

[13:20]  ¹³ tn Grk “And after these things.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[13:20]  ¹⁴ tn The words “the time of” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.

[104:29]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “you hide your face, they are terrified.”

[12:23]  ¹⁶ tn Or “the angel of the Lord.” See the note on the word “Lord” in 5:19.

[12:23]  ¹⁷ sn On being struck…down by an angel, see Acts 23:3; 1 Sam 25:28; 2 Sam 12:15; 2 Kgs 19:35; 2 Chr 13:20; 2 Macc 9:5.

[12:23]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Herod) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:23]  ¹⁹ sn He was eaten by worms and died. Josephus, Ant. 19.8.2 (19.343-352), states that Herod Agrippa I died at Caesarea in a.d. 44. The account by Josephus, while not identical to Luke’s account, is similar in many respects: On the second day of a festival, Herod Agrippa appeared in the theater with a robe made of silver. When it sparkled in the sun, the people cried out flatteries and declared him to be a god. The king, carried away by the flattery, saw an owl (an omen of death) sitting on a nearby rope, and immediately was struck with severe stomach pains. He was carried off to his house and died five days later. The two accounts can be reconciled without difficulty, since while Luke states that Herod was immediately struck down by an angel, his death could have come several days later. The mention of worms with death adds a humiliating note to the scene. The formerly powerful ruler had been thoroughly reduced to nothing (cf. Jdt 16:17; 2 Macc 9:9; cf. also Josephus, Ant. 17.6.5 [17.168-170], which details the sickness which led to Herod the Great’s death).