Bilangan 17:12-13

17:12 The Israelites said to Moses, “We are bound to die! ¹  We perish, we all perish! 17:13 (17:28) ²  Anyone who even comes close to the tabernacle of the Lord will die! Are we all to die?” ³ 

Bilangan 17:1

The Budding of Aaron’s Staff

17:1 ⁴ The Lord spoke to Moses:

1 Samuel 5:10-11

5:10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.

But when the ark of God arrived at Ekron, the residents of Ekron cried out saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here ⁵  to kill our ⁶  people!” 5:11 So they assembled ⁷  all the leaders of the Philistines and said, “Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us ⁸  and our ⁹  people!” The terror ¹⁰  of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there. ¹¹ 

1 Samuel 6:20

6:20 The residents of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom will the ark ¹²  go up from here?”

Mazmur 119:120

119:120 My body ¹³  trembles ¹⁴  because I fear you; ¹⁵ 

I am afraid of your judgments.

Yesaya 6:5

6:5 I said, “Too bad for me! I am destroyed, ¹⁶  for my lips are contaminated by sin, ¹⁷  and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. ¹⁸  My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies.” ¹⁹ 

Lukas 5:8-9

5:8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, ²⁰  for I am a sinful man!” ²¹  5:9 For ²²  Peter ²³  and all who were with him were astonished ²⁴  at the catch of fish that they had taken,

[17:12]  ¹ tn The use of הֵן (hen) and the perfect tense in the nuance of a prophetic perfect expresses their conviction that they were bound to die – it was certain (see GKC 312-13 §106.n).

[17:13]  ² sn Num 17:13 in the English Bible is 17:28 in the Hebrew text (BHS). See also the note on 16:36.

[17:13]  ³ tn The verse stresses the completeness of their death: “will we be consumed by dying” (הַאִם תַּמְנוּ לִגְוֹעַ, ha’im tamnu ligvoa’).

[17:1]  ⁴ sn Num 17:1 in the English Bible is 17:16 in the Hebrew text (BHS). See also the note on 16:36.

[5:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “to me.”

[5:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “my.”

[5:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they sent and gathered.”

[5:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “me.”

[5:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “my.”

[5:11]  ¹⁰ tn Or “panic.”

[5:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”

[6:20]  ¹² tn Heb “he” or “it”; the referent here (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. also NIV, CEV, NLT). Others, however, take the referent to be the Lord himself.

[119:120]  ¹³ tn Heb “my flesh.”

[119:120]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew verb סָמַר (samar, “to tremble”) occurs only here and in Job 4:15.

[119:120]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “from fear of you.” The pronominal suffix on the noun is an objective genitive.

[6:5]  ¹⁶ tn Isaiah uses the suffixed (perfect) form of the verb for rhetorical purposes. In this way his destruction is described as occurring or as already completed. Rather than understanding the verb as derived from דָּמַה (damah, “be destroyed”), some take it from a proposed homonymic root דמה, which would mean “be silent.” In this case, one might translate, “I must be silent.”

[6:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “a man unclean of lips am I.” Isaiah is not qualified to praise the king. His lips (the instruments of praise) are “unclean” because he has been contaminated by sin.

[6:5]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and among a nation unclean of lips I live.”

[6:5]  ¹⁹ tn Perhaps in this context, the title has a less militaristic connotation and pictures the Lord as the ruler of the heavenly assembly. See the note at 1:9.

[5:8]  ²⁰ sn Lord is a term of high respect in this context. God’s presence in the work of Jesus makes Peter recognize his authority. This vocative is common in Luke (20 times), but does not yet have its full confessional force.

[5:8]  ²¹ sn Peter was intimidated that someone who was obviously working with divine backing was in his presence (“Go away from me”). He feared his sinfulness might lead to judgment, but Jesus would show him otherwise.

[5:9]  ²² sn An explanatory conjunction (For) makes it clear that Peter’s exclamation is the result of a surprising set of events. He speaks, but the others feel similarly.

[5:9]  ²³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Peter) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:9]  ²⁴ sn In the Greek text, this term is in an emphatic position.