Synonyms: renounce, relinquish, dispense with, forswear, disclaim, disown, disavow, discard, wash one's hands of, give up, stop, cease, drop, forgo, desist from, have done with, abjure, abstain from, discontinue, break off, refrain from, set/lay aside, desert, leave, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break (up) with, vacate, quit, evacuate, withdraw from, surrender, cede, yield, indulge in, give way to, give oneself up to, yield to, lose oneself to/in, uninhibitedness, recklessness, lack of restraint, lack of inhibition, unruliness, wildness, impulsiveness, impetuosity, immoderation, wantonness
Antonyms: keep, claim, continue, stick by, self-control, power through, achieve, defend, bear, hope, acquire, quick visit, adopt, continue along, adhere, remain, pursue, support, take up, keep up, reuse, advocate, stay, persevere, cherish, keep going, carry on
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Larry W. Hurtado
... be taken along for food on a trip. There was a large fishing industry on the shores of the Sea of Galilee (see e.g., “Fish,” IDB, vol. 2, pp. 272–73). 6:39 The green grass: In biblical language, a “wilderness” is not necessarily an arid desert but only an uninhabited area. 6:40 Groups of hundreds and fifties: In the OT, groups of these sizes were standard organizations of people, especially for military purposes (e.g., Exod. 18:21; Deut. 1:15; 1 Sam. 8:12). This may suggest that Mark is trying to ...
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Marion L. Soards
... of the discussion. 10:5 The NIV translation abbreviates Paul’s actual words in this verse and so obscures his explicitly stated purpose. The line literally reads, “Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; for they were scattered about in the desert.” The NIV accurately explains the sense of the verb katastrōnnymi, “scatter about” or “spread around,” since in the story in Exodus and Numbers (cf. Ps. 78:30–31) the bodies of the dead Israelites are strewn around in the wilderness ...
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Robert W. Wall
... . The reader already knows from the flashback (12:6; and repeated in 12:13–14) that the church’s desert home symbolizes its tribulation, made even more difficult by the hostilities of the dragon. Yet, the reader also realizes that God provides resources of ... spiritual nurture to the embattled church to transform a desert into an oasis. Revelation 12:13–13:1a echoes the Exodus tradition to make John’s point: the wilderness region is ...
654. The New Jerusalem
Revelation 21:1-27
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Robert W. Wall
... is now an insider to these eschatological mysteries of God and is able to be a faithful witness to “the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.” Moreover, this text recalls the “desert” region where John is earlier led “in the Spirit” to witness the judgment of the “great prostitute” (cf. 17:3a). The desert, an isolated and forboding place, is apropos to the prostitute’s evil and eventual execution. By contrast, the angel now leads John to a mountain where he sees a vision of shalom and ...
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W.H. Bellinger, Jr.
... was a sustained trumpet sound, while the signal to break camp was a series of quick blasts (Numbers, pp. 87–88). 10:12 The verb set out has to do with breaking camp, originally with pulling up and driving in tent pegs. The exact location of the Desert of Paran is uncertain, but it is often thought to be in the northern Sinai peninsula, and south of the Negeb and Kadesh Barnea, with an eastern border probably running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. 10:21 Miqdash usually means “sanctuary,” but ...
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W.H. Bellinger, Jr.
... and describes Egypt as a land flowing with milk and honey. Israelites have not entered such a land nor received an inheritance of fields and vineyards. The Reubenites turn Moses’ words from verse 9 against him: Isn’t it enough that you have brought us to the desert to die? Moses responds angrily that he has not wronged any of them and asks God not to accept their offering, that is, to withhold divine favor from them. Moses asserts his honesty and integrity by saying he has not taken so much as a donkey ...
657. Arad Destroyed
Numbers 21:1-3
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W.H. Bellinger, Jr.
... it is a severe one. In the delay caused by the necessity of going around Edom (20:14–21), the people become impatient on the way. They murmur against both God and Moses, and mouth the traditional complaint: Why have you brought us here to the desert to die? There is neither bread nor water. And they describe the manna as miserable. In response God sends venomous snakes among them. . . . and many Israelites died from the bites. The people then confess their sin and ask Moses to pray for them. In response ...
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Mary J. Evans
... himself and his forces but also the town that was ready to betray him. He wanted to make sure that the devastation he had caused at Nob was not repeated. David and his men left quickly and commenced a nomadic existence mostly around the protected desert towns and isolated mountain hiding places of rural Judah. Saul’s attention was focused on finding them. Even in such territory, news of the movements of more than six hundred men could not have been hard to obtain. David had good intelligence sources, and ...
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Mary J. Evans
... not appropriate. We can only speculate whether either David or Saul or both were present at the national assembly called to mourn Samuel’s death. 25:1b–3 David continued to move around the territory and returned to his old haunts in the Desert of Maon (23:24–25). The term desert can give a false impression. Parts of the land were able to provide grazing for animals, even if arable crops needed to be grown elsewhere. Carmel was the place where Saul had set up a monument in his own honor (15:12). Near ...
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Mary J. Evans
... and maybe felt that personal wishes had to be subordinated to the national good. Ish-Bosheth, as head of Saul’s family, gave orders that Michal should be returned to David. Ish-Bosheth’s role in this indicates that Abner was not simply deserting Ish-Bosheth but rather advocating that the nation, including Ish-Bosheth, become reunited. In this scenario Ish-Bosheth would become a tribal leader under David’s kingship. Although Ish-Bosheth may have had no choice, he did not oppose the course of action ...
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Gerald H. Wilson
... “chance” rather than exploitive persons and societal systems that allow such exploitation. Similarly, the term “marginalized” reflects how the poor are pushed to the periphery where they are less visible and can be more easily ignored. 24:5–8 Like wild donkeys in the desert. The wild donkey, or onager, was known for its untamable character and occupation of remote, uninhabited wilderness areas (Job 11:12; 39:5–8; Hos. 8:19; Jer. 2:24). In Job 39:5–8, God will describe the onager as one of his ...
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Craig C. Broyles
... (the Hb. word hêkāl, translated “temple” in v. 9 and elsewhere in the Psalms, also means “palace”). Psalm 29 names geographical locations, all of which lie outside the borders of Israel. Lebanon is to the north, as is Sirion or Mount Hermon. The Desert of Kadesh is not to be confused with Kadesh-barnea in the Negev to the south, known from the Hebrews’ wilderness wanderings (Num. 13:26; 20:1). It is located in Syria, to the east of the Lebanon Mountains. These locations may seem strange until ...
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Craig C. Broyles
... case, human frailty. 78:40–43 Verse 40 begins the second review of Israel’s history. It returns us to the desert period and even earlier with a retrospective look at the Egyptian period. The wilderness generations rebelled and put God to the ... , and of the giving of the law from the narrative sequence. Once he brought his people out of Egypt, led them . . . through the desert, and the sea engulfed their enemies, then he brought them to the border of his holy land. This omission is all the more surprising ...
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Robert H. Mounce
... image and mean that, when they are together again in Galilee, he will take his place at the head of the flock (Palestinian shepherds lead their sheep) and guide them (see the promise in 28:20). Peter vehemently declares that he will never desert Jesus. Even though the others are “scandalized,” he will remain true (v. 33). Not so, responds Jesus. This very night, before cockcrow (no article before “cock”), you will deny me three times. In New Testament times the night was divided into four watches ...
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William Nelson
... However, he badly damaged and profaned it. He plundered the temple, stripping it of its sacred furnishings (altar, lampstand, table for the bread of Presence), stealing the silver and gold vessels and utensils (1 Macc. 1:20–24), so that it became “desolate like a desert” (1 Macc. 1:39 NRSV). “The sanctuary was trampled down” (1 Macc. 3:45 NRSV). The gates had been burned, the priests’ quarters were in ruins, and wild bushes were growing in the courts (1 Macc. 4:38). We do not know how extensive ...
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Craig A. Evans
... embodies Israel’s nationalistic hopes and aspirations. Tiede (p. 60) is correct when he says that “according to Luke, Zechariah’s words are the Holy Spirit’s testimony to God’s saving purpose and plan. None of it will fail to be fulfilled.” 1:80 desert: Not long after the discovery of the scrolls and ruins in the Dead Sea area some scholars began to wonder if the reference to John’s upbringing in the wilderness might suggest that he had actually been a former member of the Qumran (or Essene ...
667. The Woman on the Beast
Revelation 17:1-18
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Robert W. Wall
... the visionary world of Babylon by the Spirit (cf. 1:10; 4:2; 21:10). Rather than viewing the prostitute from close by “on many waters,” John is carried … into a desert, where he is better able to scrutinize her from a distance and where he lives in solidarity with the messianic community (cf. 12:6, 14). Unlike the desert region where the faithful were protected by God (12:6, 14), however, this stark and isolated place is “an appropriate setting for a vision of judgment” (Mounce, Revelation, p. 308 ...
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W.H. Bellinger, Jr.
... the next major section of the book. The future is never certain, as we will see in Numbers 11. Additional Notes 10:12 The verb set out has to do with breaking camp, originally with pulling up and driving in tent pegs. The exact location of the Desert of Paran is uncertain, but it is often thought to be in the northern Sinai peninsula, and south of the Negeb and Kadesh Barnea, with an eastern border probably running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. 10:21 Miqdash usually means “sanctuary,” but here ...
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W.H. Bellinger, Jr.
... way. Since the census in Numbers 1, readers have been prepared for some military encounter. As chapter 13 begins, the people in the Desert of Paran appear on the verge of the land they have been promised and are preparing to take possession of it. 13:26–33 ... The spies complete their exploration and return to the camp at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. They give their report and display the fruit of the land. The report contains both good news and bad. The land ...
670. Saul Pursues David
1 Samuel 23:7-29
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Mary J. Evans
... himself and his forces but also the town that was ready to betray him. He wanted to make sure that the devastation he had caused at Nob was not repeated. David and his men left quickly and commenced a nomadic existence mostly around the protected desert towns and isolated mountain hiding places of rural Judah. Saul’s attention was focused on finding them. Even in such territory, news of the movements of more than six hundred men could not have been hard to obtain. David had good intelligence sources, and ...
671. Joab Murders Abner
2 Samuel 3:22-39
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Mary J. Evans
... and maybe felt that personal wishes had to be subordinated to the national good. Ish-Bosheth, as head of Saul’s family, gave orders that Michal should be returned to David. Ish-Bosheth’s role in this indicates that Abner was not simply deserting Ish-Bosheth but rather advocating that the nation, including Ish-Bosheth, become reunited. In this scenario Ish-Bosheth would become a tribal leader under David’s kingship. Although Ish-Bosheth may have had no choice, he did not oppose the course of action ...
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Mary J. Evans
... and maybe felt that personal wishes had to be subordinated to the national good. Ish-Bosheth, as head of Saul’s family, gave orders that Michal should be returned to David. Ish-Bosheth’s role in this indicates that Abner was not simply deserting Ish-Bosheth but rather advocating that the nation, including Ish-Bosheth, become reunited. In this scenario Ish-Bosheth would become a tribal leader under David’s kingship. Although Ish-Bosheth may have had no choice, he did not oppose the course of action ...
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J. Ramsey Michaels
... that his work is finished (17:4). The group of followers that his Father has given him is now ready to continue his mission in the world. Negatively, the setting of the prayer is the ominous prediction that the disciples will be scattered (v. 32) and will desert Jesus in his time of need (cf. Mark 14:27/Matt. 26:31). Where the first discourse had glanced momentarily at Peter’s individual “scandal” of denying his Lord (13:38), the second (as always) deals with the disciples as a group, focusing on the ...
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James K. Bruckner
... and returned to the former request: We must take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices. If “sacrifices” were Pharaoh’s focus, Moses would negotiate for “time.” A full week would be necessary for the round-trip (“three days into the desert”). Pharaoh agreed because of the swarms of flies and asked for prayer again. He was not, however, ready to let them go to perform the fuller worship and service to Yahweh. He insisted you must not go very far. The pharaoh’s controlling ...
675. David's Psalm of Thanks
1 Chronicles 16:7-43
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Louis C. Jonker
... is his quotation from Psalm 105. The first fifteen verses of this psalm are used in the Chronicler’s construction, but the rest of the psalm is simply omitted. With this omission the themes of Israel in Egypt, the exodus event, and the desert wanderings (which form the content of the remainder of Ps. 105) are excluded. This fits in, however, with the macrostructure of Chronicles. The Chronicler starts his historical construction with Adam (in 1:1), but then uses the patriarchal line of Jacob to structure ...
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