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Understanding Series
Craig A. Evans
... found in Matt. 25:14–30 (cf. also Matt. 25:14 and Mark 13:34 with Luke 19:12–13). In the Matthean version a man gives his slaves (25:14) five, two, and one “talents” (of either silver or gold; 25:15). The slaves entrusted with ... dropped it (why should Matthew omit this component?), Fitzmyer’s reconstruction is to be preferred. The distinctive features found in the Lucan version fit the evangelist’s theology. The part about the man of noble birth who is to have himself appointed king but has ...
27. David's Officials
1 Chronicles 18:14-17
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... see Dirksen, 1 Chronicles, p. 243). The NIV therefore followed the alternative reading in its translation of 2 Sam. 8:4. 18:8 In this verse the Chronicler made use of 2 Sam. 8:8. However, the following words are added in the Chronicler’s version: which Solomon used to make the bronze Sea, the pillars and various bronze articles. This information reflects a later era when the temple had already been built and furnished with all kinds of cultic-symbolic objects. Since these words do not occur in the Hebrew ...
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... see Dirksen, 1 Chronicles, p. 243). The NIV therefore followed the alternative reading in its translation of 2 Sam. 8:4. 18:8 In this verse the Chronicler made use of 2 Sam. 8:8. However, the following words are added in the Chronicler’s version: which Solomon used to make the bronze Sea, the pillars and various bronze articles. This information reflects a later era when the temple had already been built and furnished with all kinds of cultic-symbolic objects. Since these words do not occur in the Hebrew ...
29. The Capture of Rabbah
1 Chronicles 20:1-3
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... see Dirksen, 1 Chronicles, p. 243). The NIV therefore followed the alternative reading in its translation of 2 Sam. 8:4. 18:8 In this verse the Chronicler made use of 2 Sam. 8:8. However, the following words are added in the Chronicler’s version: which Solomon used to make the bronze Sea, the pillars and various bronze articles. This information reflects a later era when the temple had already been built and furnished with all kinds of cultic-symbolic objects. Since these words do not occur in the Hebrew ...
30. War with the Philistines
1 Chronicles 20:4-8
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... see Dirksen, 1 Chronicles, p. 243). The NIV therefore followed the alternative reading in its translation of 2 Sam. 8:4. 18:8 In this verse the Chronicler made use of 2 Sam. 8:8. However, the following words are added in the Chronicler’s version: which Solomon used to make the bronze Sea, the pillars and various bronze articles. This information reflects a later era when the temple had already been built and furnished with all kinds of cultic-symbolic objects. Since these words do not occur in the Hebrew ...
31. Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam
2 Chronicles 10:1--11:4
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... men” (so McKenzie, 1–2 Chronicles, p. 263). Whether brash, foolish, or crude, the young men come off looking very bad. 10:15 This verse mentions the word the LORD had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite. In the Deuteronomistic version this is a back reference to 1 Kgs. 11, where the prophecy of Ahijah is mentioned. However, that text was not adopted by the Chronicler. This was probably just an oversight in the Chronicler’s editing of the older material, but it emphasizes at ...
32. Manasseh King of Judah
2 Chronicles 33:1-20
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... up on the Chronicler’s own material, whose center is Manasseh’s prayer to his God and how God was moved by his entreaty. In this way the Chronicler manages to merge his own material successfully with the source material. The burial notices in the two versions are the same, except that the Chronicler omits that the king was buried in his palace garden (which is mentioned in Kings). Additional Note 33:11–13 and 33:18–19 A number of other texts relate to the Chronicler’s portrayal of Manasseh. Jer ...
33. Lessons on Devotion and Prayer
Luke 11:1-13, Luke 10:38-42
Teach the Text
R.T. France
... be superficially mistaken for a fish and an egg (the scorpion can roll itself into a protective ball), are symbols of evil (10:19). give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him. Whereas Luke speaks of the Father giving the “Holy Spirit,” Matthew’s version uses the more obvious term “good gifts” (Matt. 7:11). Luke perhaps thinks of the Holy Spirit as the source of all that is good rather than envisaging a specific petition to be “given” the Holy Spirit (an idea that has no parallel in Luke’s ...
34. Plain Talk
Luke 6:17-26
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... , one in Matthew and one in Luke, and that they are very different. Matthew is really quite lovely, and Luke is quite hard. Dan said, "Well I've got an idea. I will write an anthem on Matthew's version, and you preach a sermon on Luke's version." So that is what we have done. Let me create the setting for Luke's version of the Beatitudes. It is here in the sixth chapter that Jesus begins to teach. He outlines what it means to be a Christian, what it means to live as a Christian in this kind of a world ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... of the story titled Shadrack. I really was amazed at how many times this story has been put to music. I found 2 Bluegrass versions, this and another Jazz version, a blues version, about 5 Gospel music and Contemporary Christian music version, two different reggae versions, a version done by the Beastie Boys, and Johnny Cash's Fourth Man In The Fire. "They didn't bow, they didn't bend, they didn't burn." I. They Didn't Bow This is a very popular story. Some basic background will help you see what's going ...
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... :2–14 to Solomon’s speech (6:3–11) and prayer (6:12–42). These verses could therefore be considered part of either of the two sections. 6:5a and 6:11 I have already referred to the Chronicler’s apparent omission of the exodus tradition from his version of history (see commentary on 3:2). The present section, however, offers ambiguous evidence. In 6:5a the reference to the exodus was retained from the source text in 1 Kgs. 8:16, although it was omitted in 2 Chron. 6:11 (compared to 1 Kgs. 8:21). At ...
37. The Fall of Jerusalem
2 Chronicles 36:15-23
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... the people who remained in the city” in 2 Kings 25:11 and Jeremiah 39:9; 52:15. The Chronicler, however, omits any mention that some vinedressers and tillers of the soil were left in the land (according to the other three versions). On account of this omission, the Chronicler’s version is often indicated as supporting the so-called myth of the empty land (see Additional Note on 36:20). The last few words of 36:20, until the kingdom of Persia came to power, introduce a new element (which is probably from ...
38. Bringing Back the Ark
1 Chronicles 13:1-14
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... in the source text. However, the Chronicler’s small change identifies the death of Uzzah as an exemplar of what might happen if the symbolic significance of the ark is not acknowledged and when humans trespass into divine territory. According to both the Chronicler’s version and the source text’s (1 Chron. 13:13–14 || 2 Sam. 6:10–11), the ark was then taken to the house of Obed-Edom, where it remained for three months. During this time his household and everything he had experienced the Lord’s ...
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... somehow relate to Gibeon—and probably Jerusalem—being in Benjaminite tribal territory. 21:8–14 This subsection was taken over with minor changes from 2 Samuel 24:10–15. In some cases the information of the source text was summarized in a shorter version. First Chronicles 21:8 contains David’s remarkable confession of guilt: I have sinned greatly by doing this. . . . I have done a very foolish thing. Within the context of the previous chapters (1 Chron. 13–20) this sinful act of David’s census ...
Understanding Series
William Nelson
... not a member of the wise men and there is no mention of his three companions. He is just one of the exiles of Judah who has been discovered (2:25). He cannot approach the king directly but must go through Arioch (2:24). In the later, alternate version (especially vv. 13–23), Daniel and his friends are among the wise men slated for execution (2:13). When he discovers this, Daniel asks Arioch why (2:15). After Arioch explains the situation, Daniel goes directly to the king to ask for time to come up with an ...
41. The Bible Study
Matthew 10:1-42
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... a little different ... MARK: Different? How is it different? He either loves us or He doesn't. REGGIE: Of course Jesus loves us. But we have to respond to that love. Now, let's get back to our study. "Whosoever therefore ..." WENDY: I liked the other version better. It didn't say "whosoever" or whatever. REGGIE: Yes, who read that? BILL: I did. REGGIE: Could I use your Bible then, Bill? BILL: Sure. Here. REGGIE: "So, everyone who declare faith in Me ..." MARK: I think we changed that to "trusts or believes ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... of the Bible was first published in 1952, a pastor in North Carolina was so disturbed by the new translation that he gathered up all the copies he could find and had a public Bible-burning. What upset the pastor so much was that while the King James Version of John 14:2 says, “In my father’s house there are many mansions,” the RSV translates it “In my Father’s house are many rooms.” The North Carolina pastor was infuriated at the “cheapskates” who translated the RSV. He said that he had been ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... of The Lord''s Prayer found in the Holy Scriptures. The account found in Luke is the leaner version and the account found in Matthew the longer and expanded version. Some Biblical scholars express the idea that Luke''s version was primarily used in the Greek church and culture, and Matthew''s version was used in the Jerusalem church and culture. I have always preferred the version in Matthew''s Gospel, but both express the same great truths about Our God and the Gospel. Jesus was a Jew. Jesus faithfully ...
44. Acts 8:26-40
Acts 8:26-40
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... baptismal dunking the eunuch so promptly received at Philip's hands was a bit too swift. Although the eunuch's own question in verse 37 echoes later ritual, liturgical questions about any possible impediments to baptism (cf. Acts 10:47 for Peter's version of this question), apparently this was not enough for some. The Western Addition authors found it propitious to add a prim question and answer moment between Philip and the Ethiopian before the actual baptism took place. (Philip asks: "You may be baptized ...
45. Mark 10:17-31
Mark 10:17-31
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... Daniel 12:2). Instead of directly answering this man's question, Jesus first hones in on that reference to "goodness." Since Mark has changed the man's initial inquiry, this response no longer seems to fit the situation as logically as it does in Matthew's version. However, Mark may have left the response as it was, believing that the explicit reference to "God alone" as good forges a link between verse 18 and verse 19. The shema, (the great confession of Judaism, "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord ...
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... Chronicler foresaw a future that was rooted in the ancestral promise rather than in the obedience associated with the exodus and desert wanderings. The concurrence of the start of the temple building and the commencement of Solomon’s reign is the same in the two versions, namely, the second month of the fourth year of his reign. The Chronicler adds that it was on the second day of that month. 3:3 The measurements of the basic ground plan, consisting of the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place, but excluding ...
47. Abijah King of Judah
2 Chron 13:1–14:1
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... changes were made. The other information about Abijah is described in 2 Chronicles 13:22 as what he did and what he said, an expression that differs from the Deuteronomistic “all he did.” This change was probably made on account of the Chronicler’s version of Abijah’s history consisting mainly of the speech the king made. Furthermore, the sources cited by the Chronicler are the annotations of the prophet Iddo. We have seen before (with reference to Solomon’s reign in 9:29 and Rehoboam’s reign in ...
48. Jehoahaz King of Judah
2 Chronicles 36:2-4
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... by a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold that was imposed on Judah, and thereby Judah became a vassal state of Egypt. We also hear in 36:4 that Neco took . . . Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt. The Kings version adds “and there he died,” information that is not provided in Chronicles. There is no real royal succession here, but rather a replacement of King Jehoahaz. Second Chronicles 36:4 also states: The king of Egypt made Eliakim, a brother of Jehoahaz, king over Judah and ...
49. Where Has Your Lover Gone
Song of Songs 6:1-13
Understanding Series
Elizabeth Huwiler
... the central woman to respond that she knows quite well where her lover has gone (6:2). The implication of to his garden, which resumes the image last used in 5:1, implies that in some sense the lovers are still together. In 6:3, we find the second version of the mutual possession formula (2:16; 7:10). Browses among the lilies is a sexual allusion. The same expression occurred in 2:16 after the mutual possession formula and in a wa?f describing the woman’s breasts in 4:5. Both principal words are also used ...
50. Egypt
Ezekiel 29:1-21, Ezekiel 30:1-26, Ezekiel 31:1-18, Ezekiel 32:1-32
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... their backs were wrenched” (v. 7) is a rather free paraphrase based, as the textual footnote observes, on the Syr., LXX, and Vulg. rather than the MT. The Heb. wehaʿamadta lahem kol-motnayim means instead “you caused their hips to stand”! The versions either read, or emend to, wehamaʿadta: “cause to shake” or “totter” (Zimmerli, Ezekiel 2, p. 107). Presumably, tottering hips would indeed lead to a wrenched back. 29:10 Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush. Although the exact location ...
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