Ibrani 12:3-4

12:3 Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up. 12:4 You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed ¹  in your struggle against sin.

Yosua 7:7-11

7:7 Joshua prayed, ²  “O, Master, Lord! Why did you bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us? 7:8 If only we had been satisfied to live on the other side of the Jordan! O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated ³  before its enemies? 7:9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us ⁴  from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?” ⁵ 

7:10 The Lord responded ⁶  to Joshua, “Get up! Why are you lying there face down? ⁷  7:11 Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment! ⁸  They have taken some of the riches; ⁹  they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions. ¹⁰ 

Yosua 7:2

7:2 Joshua sent men from Jericho ¹¹  to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel ¹² ) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.

1 Samuel 6:7-10

6:7 So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls. 6:8 Then take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart, and put in a chest beside it the gold objects you are sending to him as a guilt offering. You should then send it on its way. 6:9 But keep an eye on it. If it should go up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has brought this great calamity on us. But if that is not the case, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; rather, it just happened to us by accident.”

6:10 So the men did as instructed. ¹³  They took two cows that had calves and harnessed them to a cart; they also removed their calves to their stalls.

1 Samuel 6:1

The Philistines Return the Ark

6:1 When the ark of the Lord had been in the land ¹⁴  of the Philistines for seven months, ¹⁵ 

1 Samuel 13:9-13

13:9 So Saul said, “Bring me the burnt offering and the peace offerings.” Then he offered a burnt offering. 13:10 Just when he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel appeared on the scene. Saul went out to meet him and to greet him. ¹⁶ 

13:11 But Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul replied, “When I saw that the army had started to abandon me ¹⁷  and that you didn’t come at the appointed time and that the Philistines had assembled at Micmash, 13:12 I thought, ¹⁸  ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated ¹⁹  to offer the burnt offering.”

13:13 Then Samuel said to Saul, “You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed ²⁰  the commandment that the Lord your God gave ²¹  you. Had you done that, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever!

1 Samuel 15:12-13

15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where ²²  he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left ²³  and went down to Gilgal.” ²⁴  15:13 When Samuel came to him, ²⁵  Saul said to him, “May the Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said.”

Mazmur 6:1-2

Psalm 6 ²⁶ 

For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments, according to the sheminith style; ²⁷  a psalm of David.

6:1 Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger!

Do not discipline me in your raging fury! ²⁸ 

6:2 Have mercy on me, ²⁹  Lord, for I am frail!

Heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking! ³⁰ 

Mazmur 6:2

6:2 Have mercy on me, ³¹  Lord, for I am frail!

Heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking! ³² 

Kolose 4:8-9

4:8 I sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are doing ³³  and that he may encourage your hearts. 4:9 I sent him ³⁴  with Onesimus, the faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. ³⁵  They will tell ³⁶  you about everything here.

Kolose 1:9-10

Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church

1:9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, ³⁷  have not ceased praying for you and asking God ³⁸  to fill ³⁹  you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 1:10 so that you may live ⁴⁰  worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects ⁴¹  – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,

[12:4]  ¹ tn Grk “until blood.”

[7:7]  ² tn Heb “said.”

[7:8]  ³ tn Heb “turned [the] back.”

[7:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “and cut off our name.”

[7:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “What will you do for your great name?”

[7:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “said.”

[7:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “Why are you falling on your face?”

[7:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “They have violated my covenant which I commanded them.”

[7:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “what was set apart [to the Lord].”

[7:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and also they have stolen, and also they have lied, and also they have placed [them] among their items.”

[7:2]  ¹¹ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[7:2]  ¹² map For the location of Bethel see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[6:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the men did so.”

[6:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “field.”

[6:1]  ¹⁵ tc The LXX adds “and their land swarmed with mice.”

[13:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to bless him.”

[13:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “dispersed from upon me.”

[13:12]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “said.”

[13:12]  ¹⁹ tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”

[13:13]  ²⁰ tn Or “kept.”

[13:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “commanded.”

[15:12]  ²² tn Heb “and look.”

[15:12]  ²³ tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”

[15:12]  ²⁴ tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin ms include the following words not found in the MT: “to Saul. And behold, he was offering as a burnt offering to the Lord the best of the spoils that he had brought from the Amalekites.”

[15:13]  ²⁵ tn Heb “to Saul.”

[6:1]  ²⁶ sn Psalm 6. The psalmist begs the Lord to withdraw his anger and spare his life. Having received a positive response to his prayer, the psalmist then confronts his enemies and describes how they retreat.

[6:1]  ²⁷ tn The meaning of the Hebrew term שְׁמִינִית (shÿminit, “sheminith”) is uncertain; perhaps it refers to a particular style of music. See 1 Chr 15:21.

[6:1]  ²⁸ sn The implication is that the psalmist has sinned, causing God to discipline him by bringing a life-threatening illness upon him (see vv. 2-7).

[6:2]  ²⁹ tn Or “show me favor.”

[6:2]  ³⁰ tn Normally the verb בָּהַל (bahal) refers to an emotional response and means “tremble with fear, be terrified” (see vv. 3, 10). Perhaps here the “bones” are viewed as the seat of the psalmist’s emotions. However, the verb may describe one of the effects of his physical ailment, perhaps a fever. In Ezek 7:27 the verb describes how the hands of the people will shake with fear when they experience the horrors of divine judgment.

[6:2]  ³¹ tn Or “show me favor.”

[6:2]  ³² tn Normally the verb בָּהַל (bahal) refers to an emotional response and means “tremble with fear, be terrified” (see vv. 3, 10). Perhaps here the “bones” are viewed as the seat of the psalmist’s emotions. However, the verb may describe one of the effects of his physical ailment, perhaps a fever. In Ezek 7:27 the verb describes how the hands of the people will shake with fear when they experience the horrors of divine judgment.

[4:8]  ³³ tn Grk “the things concerning us.”

[4:9]  ³⁴ tn The Greek sentence continues v. 9 with the phrase “with Onesimus,” but this is awkward in English, so the verb “I sent” was inserted and a new sentence started at the beginning of v. 9 in the translation.

[4:9]  ³⁵ tn Grk “is of you.”

[4:9]  ³⁶ tn Grk “will make known to you.” This has been simplified in the translation to “will tell.”

[1:9]  ³⁷ tn Or “heard about it”; Grk “heard.” There is no direct object stated in the Greek (direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context). A direct object is expected by an English reader, however, so most translations supply one. Here, however, it is not entirely clear what the author “heard”: a number of translations supply “it” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV; NAB “this”), but this could refer back either to (1) “your love in the Spirit” at the end of v. 8, or (2) “your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints” (v. 4). In light of this uncertainty, other translations supply “about you” (TEV, NIV, CEV, NLT). This is preferred by the present translation since, while it does not resolve the ambiguity entirely, it does make it less easy for the English reader to limit the reference only to “your love in the Spirit” at the end of v. 8.

[1:9]  ³⁸ tn The term “God” does not appear in the Greek text, but the following reference to “the knowledge of his will” makes it clear that “God” is in view as the object of the “praying and asking,” and should therefore be included in the English translation for clarity.

[1:9]  ³⁹ tn The ἵνα (Jina) clause has been translated as substantival, indicating the content of the prayer and asking. The idea of purpose may also be present in this clause.

[1:10]  ⁴⁰ tn The infinitive περιπατῆσαι (peripathsai, “to walk, to live, to live one’s life”) is best taken as an infinitive of purpose related to “praying” (προσευχόμενοι, proseucomenoi) and “asking” (αἰτούμενοι, aitoumenoi) in v. 9 and is thus translated as “that you may live.”

[1:10]  ⁴¹ tn BDAG 129 s.v. ἀρεσκεία states that ἀρεσκείαν (areskeian) refers to a “desire to please εἰς πᾶσαν ἀ. to please (the Lord) in all respects Col 1:10.”