Hakim-hakim 6:2

6:2 The Midianites ¹  overwhelmed Israel. ²  Because of Midian the Israelites made shelters ³  for themselves in the hills, as well as caves and strongholds.

Ayub 30:6

30:6 so that they had to live ⁴ 

in the dry stream beds, ⁵ 

in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

Lukas 23:30

23:30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ⁶  ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ ⁷ 

Lukas 6:15

6:15 Matthew, Thomas, ⁸  James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, ⁹ 

[6:2]  ¹ tn Heb “the hand of Midian.”

[6:2]  ² tn Heb “The hand of Midian was strong against Israel.”

[6:2]  ³ tn Or possibly “secret storage places.” The Hebrew word occurs only here in the Hebrew Bible.

[30:6]  ⁴ tn This use of the infinitive construct expresses that they were compelled to do something (see GKC 348-49 §114.h, k).

[30:6]  ⁵ tn The adjectives followed by a partitive genitive take on the emphasis of a superlative: “in the most horrible of valleys” (see GKC 431 §133.h).

[23:30]  ⁶ sn The figure of crying out to the mountains ‘Fall on us!’ (appealing to creation itself to hide them from God’s wrath), means that a time will come when people will feel they are better off dead (Hos 10:8).

[23:30]  ⁷ sn An allusion to Hos 10:8 (cf. Rev 6:16).

[6:15]  ⁸ sn This is the “doubting Thomas” of John 20:24-29.

[6:15]  ⁹ sn The designation Zealot means that Simon was a political nationalist before coming to follow Jesus. He may not have been technically a member of the particular Jewish nationalistic party known as “Zealots” (since according to some scholars this party had not been organized at that time), but simply someone who was zealous for Jewish independence from Rome, in which case the descriptive term applied to Simon means something like “Simon the patriot” (see L&N 25.77 and especially 11.88).