Yosua 7:9

7:9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us ¹  from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?” ² 

Yosua 7:2

7:2 Joshua sent men from Jericho ³  to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel ⁴ ) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.

1 Samuel 7:1

7:1 Then the people ⁵  of Kiriath Jearim came and took the ark of the Lord; they brought it to the house of Abinadab located on the hill. They consecrated Eleazar his son to guard the ark of the Lord.

Yohanes 17:12

17:12 When I was with them I kept them safe ⁶  and watched over them ⁷  in your name ⁸  that you have given me. Not one ⁹  of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, ¹⁰  so that the scripture could be fulfilled. ¹¹ 

[7:9]  ¹ tn Heb “and cut off our name.”

[7:9]  ² tn Heb “What will you do for your great name?”

[7:2]  ³ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[7:2]  ⁴ map For the location of Bethel see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[7:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “men.”

[17:12]  ⁶ tn Or “I protected them”; Grk “I kept them.”

[17:12]  ⁷ tn Grk “and guarded them.”

[17:12]  ⁸ tn Or “by your name.”

[17:12]  ⁹ tn Grk And not one.” The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

[17:12]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the son of destruction” (a Semitic idiom for one appointed for destruction; here it is a reference to Judas).

[17:12]  sn The one destined to destruction refers to Judas. Clearly in John’s Gospel Judas is portrayed as a tool of Satan. He is described as “the devil” in 6:70. In 13:2 Satan put into Judas’ heart the idea of betraying Jesus, and 13:27 Satan himself entered Judas. Immediately after this Judas left the company of Jesus and the other disciples and went out into the realm of darkness (13:30). Cf. 2 Thess 2:3, where this same Greek phrase (“the son of destruction”; see tn above) is used to describe the man through whom Satan acts to rebel against God in the last days.

[17:12]  ¹¹ sn A possible allusion to Ps 41:9 or Prov 24:22 LXX. The exact passage is not specified here, but in John 13:18, Ps 41:9 is explicitly quoted by Jesus with reference to the traitor, suggesting that this is the passage to which Jesus refers here. The previous mention of Ps 41:9 in John 13:18 probably explains why the author felt no need for an explanatory parenthetical note here. It is also possible that the passage referred to here is Prov 24:22 LXX, where in the Greek text the phrase “son of destruction” appears.