Zakharia 10:5

10:5 And they will be like warriors trampling the mud of the streets in battle. They will fight, for the Lord will be with them, and will defeat the enemy cavalry. ¹ 

Zakharia 14:15

14:15 This is the kind of plague that will devastate horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other animals in those camps.

Ulangan 28:28

28:28 The Lord will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind. ² 

Ulangan 28:2

28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance ³  if you obey the Lord your God:

Kisah Para Rasul 6:14

6:14 For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs ⁴  that Moses handed down to us.”

Kisah Para Rasul 6:1

The Appointment of the First Seven Deacons

6:1 Now in those ⁵  days, when the disciples were growing in number, ⁶  a complaint arose on the part of the Greek-speaking Jews ⁷  against the native Hebraic Jews, ⁸  because their widows ⁹  were being overlooked ¹⁰  in the daily distribution of food. ¹¹ 

Mazmur 76:5-7

76:5 The bravehearted ¹²  were plundered; ¹³ 

they “fell asleep.” ¹⁴ 

All the warriors were helpless. ¹⁵ 

76:6 At the sound of your battle cry, ¹⁶  O God of Jacob,

both rider ¹⁷  and horse “fell asleep.” ¹⁸ 

76:7 You are awesome! Yes, you!

Who can withstand your intense anger? ¹⁹ 

Yehezkiel 38:4

38:4 I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them fully armed, a great company with shields of different types, ²⁰  all of them armed with swords.

Yehezkiel 39:20

39:20 You will fill up at my table with horses and charioteers, ²¹  with warriors and all the soldiers,’ declares the sovereign Lord.

[10:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and the riders on horses will be put to shame,” figurative for the defeat of mounted troops. The word “enemy” in the translation is supplied from context.

[28:28]  ² tn Heb “heart” (so KJV, NASB).

[28:2]  ³ tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”

[6:14]  ⁴ tn Or “practices.”

[6:14]  sn Will destroy this place and change the customs. Stephen appears to view the temple as a less central place in light of Christ’s work, an important challenge to Jewish religion, since it was at this time a temple-centered state and religion. Unlike Acts 3-4, the issue here is more than Jesus and his resurrection. Now the impact of his resurrection and the temple’s centrality has also become an issue. The “falseness” of the charge may not be that the witnesses were lying, but that they falsely read the truth of Stephen’s remarks.

[6:1]  ⁵ tn Grk “these.” The translation uses “those” for stylistic reasons.

[6:1]  ⁶ tn Grk “were multiplying.”

[6:1]  ⁷ tn Grk “the Hellenists,” but this descriptive term is largely unknown to the modern English reader. The translation “Greek-speaking Jews” attempts to convey something of who these were, but it was more than a matter of language spoken; it involved a degree of adoption of Greek culture as well.

[6:1]  sn The Greek-speaking Jews were the Hellenists, Jews who to a greater or lesser extent had adopted Greek thought, customs, and lifestyle, as well as the Greek language. The city of Alexandria in Egypt was a focal point for them, but they were scattered throughout the Roman Empire.

[6:1]  ⁸ tn Grk “against the Hebrews,” but as with “Hellenists” this needs further explanation for the modern reader.

[6:1]  ⁹ sn The care of widows is a major biblical theme: Deut 10:18; 16:11, 14; 24:17, 19-21; 26:12-13; 27:19; Isa 1:17-23; Jer 7:6; Mal 3:5.

[6:1]  ¹⁰ tn Or “neglected.”

[6:1]  ¹¹ tn Grk “in the daily serving.”

[6:1]  sn The daily distribution of food. The early church saw it as a responsibility to meet the basic needs of people in their group.

[76:5]  ¹² tn Heb “strong of heart.” In Isa 46:12, the only other text where this phrase appears, it refers to those who are stubborn, but here it seems to describe brave warriors (see the next line).

[76:5]  ¹³ tn The verb is a rare Aramaized form of the Hitpolel (see GKC 149 §54.a, n. 2); the root is שָׁלַל (shalal, “to plunder”).

[76:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “they slept [in] their sleep.” “Sleep” here refers to the “sleep” of death. A number of modern translations take the phrase to refer to something less than death, however: NASB “cast into a deep sleep”; NEB “fall senseless”; NIV “lie still”; NRSV “lay stunned.”

[76:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and all the men of strength did not find their hands.”

[76:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “from your shout.” The noun is derived from the Hebrew verb גָּעַר (ga’ar), which is often understood to mean “rebuke.” In some cases it is apparent that scolding or threatening is in view (see Gen 37:10; Ruth 2:16; Zech 3:2). However, in militaristic contexts this translation is inadequate, for the verb refers in this setting to the warrior’s battle cry, which terrifies and paralyzes the enemy. See A. Caquot, TDOT 3:53, and note the use of the verb in Pss 68:30; 106:9; Nah 1:4, as well as the related noun in Job 26:11; Pss 9:5; 18:15; 104:7; Isa 50:2; 51:20; 66:15.

[76:6]  ¹⁷ tn Or “chariot,” but even so the term is metonymic for the charioteer.

[76:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “he fell asleep, and [the] chariot and [the] horse.” Once again (see v. 5) “sleep” refers here to the “sleep” of death.

[76:7]  ¹⁹ tc Heb “and who can stand before you from the time of your anger?” The Hebrew expression מֵאָז (me’az, “from the time of”) is better emended to מֵאֹז (me’oz, “from [i.e., “because of”] the strength of your anger”; see Ps 90:11).

[38:4]  ²⁰ sn The Hebrew text mentions two different types of shields here.

[39:20]  ²¹ tn Heb “chariots.”