Nehemia 2:18

2:18 Then I related to them how the good hand of my God was on me and what ¹  the king had said to me. Then they replied, “Let’s begin rebuilding right away!” ²  So they readied themselves ³  for this good project.

Kejadian 32:28

32:28 “No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, ⁴  “but Israel, ⁵  because you have fought ⁶  with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Ezra 5:5

5:5 But God was watching over ⁷  the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped ⁸  until a report could be dispatched ⁹  to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this.

Ezra 6:22

6:22 They observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, for the Lord had given them joy and had changed the opinion ¹⁰  of the king of Assyria ¹¹  toward them, so that he assisted ¹²  them in the work on the temple of God, the God of Israel.

Ezra 7:6

7:6 This Ezra is the one who came up from Babylon. He was a scribe who was skilled in the law of Moses which the Lord God of Israel had given. The king supplied him with everything he requested, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

Ezra 7:9

7:9 On the first day of the first month he had determined to make ¹³  the ascent from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he arrived at Jerusalem, ¹⁴  for the good hand of his God was on him.

Ezra 7:27-28

7:27 ¹⁵ Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who so moved in the heart of the king to so honor the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem! 7:28 He has also conferred his favor on me before the king, his advisers, and all the influential leaders of the king. I gained strength as the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.

Amsal 21:1

21:1 The king’s heart ¹⁶  is in the hand ¹⁷  of the Lord like channels of water; ¹⁸ 

he turns it wherever he wants.

Yesaya 66:14

66:14 When you see this, you will be happy, ¹⁹ 

and you will be revived. ²⁰ 

The Lord will reveal his power to his servants

and his anger to his enemies. ²¹ 

Daniel 1:9

1:9 Then God made the overseer of the court officials sympathetic to Daniel. ²² 

Kisah Para Rasul 7:10

7:10 and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made ²³  him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

Kisah Para Rasul 26:22

26:22 I have experienced ²⁴  help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except ²⁵  what the prophets and Moses said ²⁶  was going to happen:

Kisah Para Rasul 26:2

26:2 “Regarding all the things I have been accused of by the Jews, King Agrippa, ²⁷  I consider myself fortunate that I am about to make my defense before you today,

Kolose 1:16

1:16 for all things in heaven and on earth were created by him – all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, ²⁸  whether principalities or powers – all things were created through him and for him.

[2:18]  ¹ tn Heb “the words of the king which he had spoken to me.”

[2:18]  ² tn Heb “Arise! Let us rebuild!”

[2:18]  ³ tn Heb “strengthened their hands.”

[32:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he said.” The referent of the pronoun “he” (the man who wrestled with Jacob) has been specified for clarity, and the order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[32:28]  ⁵ sn The name Israel is a common construction, using a verb with a theophoric element (אֵל, ’el) that usually indicates the subject of the verb. Here it means “God fights.” This name will replace the name Jacob; it will be both a promise and a call for faith. In essence, the Lord was saying that Jacob would have victory and receive the promises because God would fight for him.

[32:28]  ⁶ sn You have fought. The explanation of the name Israel includes a sound play. In Hebrew the verb translated “you have fought” (שָׂרִיתָ, sarita) sounds like the name “Israel” (יִשְׂרָאֵל, yisra’el ), meaning “God fights” (although some interpret the meaning as “he fights [with] God”). The name would evoke the memory of the fight and what it meant. A. Dillmann says that ever after this the name would tell the Israelites that, when Jacob contended successfully with God, he won the battle with man (Genesis, 2:279). To be successful with God meant that he had to be crippled in his own self-sufficiency (A. P. Ross, “Jacob at the Jabboq, Israel at Peniel,” BSac 142 [1985]: 51-62).

[5:5]  ⁷ tn Aram “the eye of their God was on.” The idiom describes the attentive care that one exercises in behalf of the object of his concern.

[5:5]  ⁸ tn Aram “they did not stop them.”

[5:5]  ⁹ tn Aram “[could] go.” On this form see F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 58, §169.

[6:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “heart.”

[6:22]  ¹¹ sn The expression “king of Assyria” is anachronistic, since Assyria fell in 612 b.c., long before the events of this chapter. Perhaps the expression is intended subtly to contrast earlier kings of Assyria who were hostile toward Israel with this Persian king who showed them favor.

[6:22]  ¹² tn Heb “to strengthen their hands.”

[7:9]  ¹³ tc The translation reads יִסַּד (yissad, “he appointed” [= determined]) rather than the reading יְסֻד (yÿsud, “foundation”) of the MT. (The words “to make” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.)

[7:9]  ¹⁴ sn Apparently it took the caravan almost four months to make the five hundred mile journey.

[7:27]  ¹⁵ sn At this point the language of the book reverts from Aramaic (7:12-26) back to Hebrew.

[21:1]  ¹⁶ sn “Heart” is a metonymy of subject; it signifies the ability to make decisions, if not the decisions themselves.

[21:1]  ¹⁷ sn “Hand” in this passage is a personification; the word is frequently used idiomatically for “power,” and that is the sense intended here.

[21:1]  ¹⁸ tn “Channels of water” (פַּלְגֵי, palge) is an adverbial accusative, functioning as a figure of comparison – “like channels of water.” Cf. NAB “Like a stream”; NIV “watercourse”; NRSV, NLT “a stream of water.”

[21:1]  sn The farmer channels irrigation ditches where he wants them, where they will do the most good; so does the Lord with the king. No king is supreme; the Lord rules.

[66:14]  ¹⁹ tn “and you will see and your heart will be happy.”

[66:14]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and your bones like grass will sprout.”

[66:14]  ²¹ tn Heb “and the hand of the Lord will be made known to his servants, and anger to his enemies.”

[1:9]  ²² tn Heb “Then God granted Daniel loyal love and compassion before the overseer of the court officials.” The expression “loyal love and compassion” is a hendiadys; the two words combine to express one idea.

[7:10]  ²³ tn Or “appointed.” See Gen 41:41-43.

[26:22]  ²⁴ tn Grk “So experiencing…I stand.” The participle τυχών (tucwn) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[26:22]  ²⁵ tn BDAG 311 s.v. ἐκτός 3.b, “functions as prep. w. gen. οὐδὲν ἐ. ὧν nothing except what (cf. 1 Ch 29:3; 2 Ch 17:19; TestNapht. 6:2) Ac 26:22.”

[26:22]  ²⁶ sn What the prophets and Moses said. Paul argued that his message reflected the hope of the Jewish scriptures.

[26:2]  ²⁷ sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.

[1:16]  ²⁸ tn BDAG 579 s.v. κυριότης 3 suggests “bearers of the ruling powers, dominions” here.