Ulangan 1:24

1:24 They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, ¹  which they scouted out.

Ulangan 2:20

2:20 (That also is considered to be a land of the Rephaites. ²  The Rephaites lived there originally; the Ammonites call them Zamzummites. ³ 

Ulangan 2:34

2:34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them ⁴  under divine judgment, ⁵  including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

Ulangan 7:3

7:3 You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Ulangan 7:23

7:23 The Lord your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic ⁶  until they are destroyed.

Ulangan 8:6

8:6 So you must keep his ⁷  commandments, live according to his standards, ⁸  and revere him.

Ulangan 23:18

23:18 You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute ⁹  or the wage of a male prostitute ¹⁰  into the temple of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.

Ulangan 29:8

29:8 Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

Ulangan 32:32

32:32 For their vine is from the stock ¹¹  of Sodom,

and from the fields of Gomorrah. ¹² 

Their grapes contain venom,

their clusters of grapes are bitter.

Ulangan 33:18

Blessing on Zebulun and Issachar

33:18 Of Zebulun he said:

Rejoice, Zebulun, when you go outside,

and Issachar, when you are in your tents.

Ulangan 33:23

Blessing on Naphtali

33:23 Of Naphtali he said:

O Naphtali, overflowing with favor,

and full of the Lord’s blessing,

possess the west and south.

[1:24]  ¹ tn Or “the Wadi Eshcol” (so NAB).

[1:24]  sn The Eshcol Valley is a verdant valley near Hebron, still famous for its viticulture (cf. Num 13:22-23). The Hebrew name “Eshcol” means “trestle,” that is, the frame on which grape vines grow.

[2:20]  ² sn Rephaites. See note on this word in Deut 2:11.

[2:20]  ³ sn Zamzummites. Just as the Moabites called Rephaites by the name Emites, the Ammonites called them Zamzummites (or Zazites; Gen 14:5).

[2:34]  ⁴ tn Heb “every city of men.” This apparently identifies the cities as inhabited.

[2:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). The verb employed is חָרַם (kharam, usually in the Hiphil) and the associated noun is חֵרֶם (kherem). See J. Naudé, NIDOTTE, 2:276-77, and, for a more thorough discussion, Susan Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible, 28-77.

[2:34]  sn Divine judgment refers to God’s designation of certain persons, places, and things as objects of his special wrath and judgment because, in his omniscience, he knows them to be impure and hopelessly unrepentant.

[7:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “he will confuse them (with) great confusion.” The verb used here means “shake, stir up” (see Ruth 1:19; 1 Sam 4:5; 1 Kgs 1:45; Ps 55:2); the accompanying cognate noun refers to confusion, unrest, havoc, or panic (1 Sam 5:9, 11; 14:20; 2 Chr 15:5; Prov 15:16; Isa 22:5; Ezek 7:7; 22:5; Amos 3:9; Zech 14:13).

[8:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[8:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “by walking in his ways.” The “ways” of the Lord refer here to his moral standards as reflected in his commandments. The verb “walk” is used frequently in the Bible (both OT and NT) for one’s moral and ethical behavior.

[23:18]  ⁹ tn Here the Hebrew term זוֹנָה (zonah) refers to a noncultic (i.e., “secular”) female prostitute; see note on the phrase “sacred prostitute” in v. 17.

[23:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “of a dog.” This is the common Hebrew term for a noncultic (i.e., “secular”) male prostitute. See note on the phrase “sacred male prostitute” in v. 17.

[32:32]  ¹¹ tn Heb “vine.”

[32:32]  ¹² sn Sodom…Gomorrah. The term “vine” is a reference to the pagan deities which, the passage says, find their ultimate source in Sodom and Gomorrah, that is, in the soil of perversion exemplified by these places (cf. Gen 18:20; 19:4-28; Isa 1:10; 3:9; Jer 23:14; Lam 4:6; Ezek 16:44-52; Matt 10:15; 11:23-24).