Kejadian 19:17

19:17 When they had brought them outside, they ¹  said, “Run ²  for your lives! Don’t look ³  behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! ⁴  Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”

Kejadian 19:30

19:30 Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.

Yosua 2:16

2:16 She told them, “Head ⁵  to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. ⁶  Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you ⁷  to return. Then you can be on your way.”

Mazmur 11:1

Psalm 11 ⁸ 

For the music director; by David.

11:1 In the Lord I have taken shelter. ⁹ 

How can you say to me, ¹⁰ 

“Flee to a mountain like a bird! ¹¹ 

[19:17]  ¹ tn Or “one of them”; Heb “he.” Several ancient versions (LXX, Vulgate, Syriac) read the plural “they.” See also the note on “your” in v. 19.

[19:17]  ² tn Heb “escape.”

[19:17]  ³ tn The Hebrew verb translated “look” signifies an intense gaze, not a passing glance. This same verb is used later in v. 26 to describe Lot’s wife’s self-destructive look back at the city.

[19:17]  ⁴ tn Or “in the plain”; Heb “in the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.

[2:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “Go.”

[2:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “so that the pursuers might not meet you.”

[2:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“you”) is not in the Hebrew text but is implied.

[11:1]  ⁸ sn Psalm 11. The psalmist rejects the advice to flee from his dangerous enemies. Instead he affirms his confidence in God’s just character and calls down judgment on evildoers.

[11:1]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew perfect verbal form probably refers here to a completed action with continuing results.

[11:1]  ¹⁰ tn The pronominal suffix attached to נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) is equivalent to a personal pronoun. See Ps 6:3.

[11:1]  ¹¹ tc The MT is corrupt here. The Kethib (consonantal text) reads: “flee [masculine plural!] to your [masculine plural!] mountain, bird.” The Qere (marginal reading) has “flee” in a feminine singular form, agreeing grammatically with the addressee, the feminine noun “bird.” Rather than being a second masculine plural pronominal suffix, the ending כֶם- (-khem) attached to “mountain” is better interpreted as a second feminine singular pronominal suffix followed by an enclitic mem (ם). “Bird” may be taken as vocative (“O bird”) or as an adverbial accusative of manner (“like a bird”). Either way, the psalmist’s advisers compare him to a helpless bird whose only option in the face of danger is to fly away to an inaccessible place.