Ulangan 33:29
Konteks33:29 You have joy, Israel! Who is like you?
You are a people delivered by the Lord,
your protective shield
and your exalted sword.
May your enemies cringe before you;
may you trample on their backs.
Ulangan 33:2
Konteks33:2 He said:
The Lord came from Sinai
and revealed himself 1 to Israel 2 from Seir.
He appeared in splendor 3 from Mount Paran,
and came forth with ten thousand holy ones. 4
With his right hand he gave a fiery law 5 to them.
1 Samuel 22:3
Konteks22:3 Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay 6 with you until I know what God is going to do for me.”
1 Samuel 22:1
Konteks22:1 So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family 7 learned about it, they went down there to him.
Mazmur 3:4
Konteks3:4 To the Lord I cried out, 8
and he answered me from his holy hill. 9 (Selah)
[33:2] 1 tn Or “rose like the sun” (NCV, TEV).
[33:2] 2 tc Heb “to him.” The LXX reads “to us” (לָנוּ [lanu] for לָמוֹ [lamo]), the reading of the MT is acceptable since it no doubt has in mind Israel as a collective singular.
[33:2] tn Heb “him”; the referent (Israel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[33:2] 3 tn Or “he shone forth” (NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
[33:2] 4 tc With slight alteration (מִמְרִבַת קָדֵשׁ [mimrivat qadesh] for the MT’s מֵרִבְבֹת קֹדֶשׁ [merivvot qodesh]) the translation would be “from Meribah Kadesh” (cf. NAB, NLT; see Deut 32:51). However, the language of holy war in the immediate context favors the reading of the MT, which views the Lord as accompanied by angelic hosts.
[33:2] 5 tc The mispointed Hebrew term אֵשְׁדָּת (’eshdat) should perhaps be construed as אֵשְׁהַת (’eshhat) with Smr.
[3:4] 8 tn The prefixed verbal form could be an imperfect, yielding the translation “I cry out,” but the verb form in the next line (a vav [ו] consecutive with the preterite) suggests this is a brief narrative of what has already happened. Consequently the verb form in v. 4a is better understood as a preterite, “I cried out.” (For another example of the preterite of this same verb form, see Ps 30:8.) Sometime after the crisis arose, the psalmist prayed to the Lord and received an assuring answer. Now he confidently awaits the fulfillment of the divine promise.
[3:4] 9 sn His holy hill. That is, Zion (see Pss 2:6; 48:1-2). The psalmist recognizes that the