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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676. Jonah Proof
Jonah 1:17
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Michael P. Green
... and he felt he was slipping along a smooth passage of some sort that seemed to move and carry him forward. The sensation lasted but a short time and then he realized he had more room. He felt about him and his hands came in contact with a yielding, slimy substance that seemed to shrink from his touch. It finally dawned upon him that he had been swallowed by the whale.… He could easily breathe, but the heat was terrible. It was not a scorching, stifling nature, but it seemed to open the pores of his skin ...
677. Self-pity: The Devil's Comfort
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Michael P. Green
... my altar you may feel free to fail and fall, and there to sigh and fret. There I will feed your soul on fears, and indulge your ego with envy and jealousy, bitterness and spite. There I will excuse you from every cross, duty, and hardship, and permit you to yield unto temptation.”
678. Ahaz King of Judah
2 Chronicles 28:1-27
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Louis C. Jonker
... presents silver and gold from the temple and palace as a gift to the Assyrian king. Tiglath-Pileser then responds by attacking Damascus and killing the Syrian king. According to Chronicles, however, Ahaz’s request for help without the gift (2 Chron. 28:16) yields the opposite response: Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came to him (i.e., against Ahaz!)—but with trouble instead of help (28:20). To end the attack, Ahaz presented the Assyrian king with things from the temple of the LORD and from the royal ...
679. Accusations
2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4, 2 Corinthians 2:5-11
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James M. Scott
... the desert when they rebelled against Moses and Aaron after Korah’s rebellion (Num. 16:41–50). During that judgment, Aaron is said to have intervened on behalf of the people by an intercessory prayer (Wis. 18:22, 23), so that the destroyer yielded: “for merely the trial [or, experience] of the wrath was enough (hikanos)” (v. 25). In other words, it was deemed sufficient that the community suffered the plague without being completely consumed (see also Isa. 40:2). Likewise in 2 Corinthians 2:6, the ...
680. Boasting
2 Corinthians 11:1-15, 2 Corinthians 11:16-33, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10
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James M. Scott
... NIV has seen fit to connect the clause in question to verse 7, to ignore the inferential conjunction, and to translate the sentence as if it began with the immediately following subordinate conjunction hina (“in order that”). This maneuver yields a tolerably coherent translation that may approximate what was originally meant. Unfortunately, the NIV fails to represent the fact that the Greek text twice repeats the purpose clause (“in order that I might not become conceited”), once at the beginning ...
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Arthur G. Patzia
... , however, lets it stand with the previous section. In either case, the position of the verse is not as important as its teaching—a teaching in which believers are exhorted to submit themselves to one another out of reverence for Christ. “We are not asked to yield to the wishes of others, no matter what they wish, but only when what they ask of us is in line with reverence for Christ” (Mitton, p. 196). Additional Notes 5:4 P. W. van der Horst goes through a lengthy examination of the word eutrapelia ...
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Donald A. Hagner
... who, because of his likeness to us, has been tested every way.” The full humanity of Jesus means that he experienced the full range (rather than every specific manifestation) of human temptation, although to a much higher degree of intensity since, unlike all others, he never yielded to sin. Our author thus shares the NT view of the sinlessness of Jesus (e.g., 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Pet. 2:22; 1 John 3:5). Whereas Jesus can sympathize with our weaknesses, he is not, like other high priests, himself subject to sin ...
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Donald A. Hagner
... , vol. 7, pp. 375ff. 9:9–10 The antecedent of the relative clause “which is a parable” (this is an illustration) is not totally clear. The most natural reading understands the antecedent to be “the first tabernacle.” This is a suitable antecedent and yields good sense. It is, however, also possible to understand the totality of vv. 6–8 as the antecedent (and to explain the feminine gender of the relative pronoun by attraction to parabolē). The present time is clearly to be understood as the day ...
684. A Call to Persevere
Hebrews 10:19-39
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Donald A. Hagner
... to abandon their Christian faith (cf. 2:1–3; 3:12–14; 4:1, 11; 6:4–6; 12:3–11; 13:13). In his exhortation the author reminds the readers of their faithfulness in the past. They should not throw away that former success by yielding to the present pressures. If they endured in the past, they can endure both in the present and in the future, whatever it may hold. Past experience should be motivation for faithfulness in the present. The same faithful God will supply the needed resources—now, as ...
685. Trials and Temptations
James 1:1-18, James 1:19-27
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Peter H. Davids
... pure gold” in them. They should not look fearfully at testing, but look through it, for the result will be perseverance. This ability is hardly a virtue to be winked at. First, it is a virtue that only suffering and trials will produce. Second, it yields to a stable character, a firm, settled disposition of faith: It is a heroic virtue. A person possessing such a virtue could be trusted to hold out, whatever the circumstances. Such people were surely in demand as leaders in the church. Third, it relates ...
686. Taming the Tongue
James 3:1-12, James 3:13-18
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Peter H. Davids
... seen in the distance were sweet and travel miles accordingly. See further E. F. F. Bishop, Apostles of Palestine, p. 187; or D. Y. Hadidian, “Palestinian Pictures in the Epistle of James,” p. 228. The King James Version reads, “So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh”; this reading follows an inferior Greek text that harmonized 3:12 with 3:11. The NIV follows a better text and thus shows James’ shifting thought, making a good transition to the next section. 3:13 The word-pair wise ...
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Peter H. Davids
... person intends to continue. But grace is available, if they submit. As a first step they must halt their pleasing the devil: Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. James shows that though the impulse to sin may be internal; to give in to that impulse is to yield to the devil. The Gospels are clear on this point (e.g., Matt. 4:1–11; Mark 8:28–34; Luke 22:31; John 13:2, 27). But the devil has no power over the Christian except the power of seduction. When resisted he must behave as he did with ...
688. Praying for Endurance and Healing
James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:7-12, James 5:13-20
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Peter H. Davids
... . Their crucial virtue was the ability to endure, whatever the trials. Whether an Amos commanded not to speak (Amos 7) or an Elijah pursued by Jezebel (1 Kings 19:1ff.) or a Jeremiah imprisoned by King Zedekiah (Jer. 38), these people endured. Reflection on them yields two facts: (1) the lot of a servant of God often involves suffering, and (2) a person can endure the suffering and remain faithful. 5:11 In their own day prophets were regarded as reactionary fossils who did not like the modern trends in ...
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Norman Hillyer
... Christians to heed Peter’s warning is that evil desires war against the soul, and consequently against a believer’s best interests, which concern eternity, rather than time, and the spiritual, rather than the natural life. 2:12 To heed the warning not to yield an inch to impulses to engage in self-indulgence is necessary not only for the Christian’s own well-being, but as a positive witness to unbelievers. Peter’s readers are instructed to live such good lives that opponents can never have any well ...
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Norman Hillyer
... up to the pursuit of materialistic and fleshly pleasures will ultimately so corrupt their own body, mind, and spirit that they lose even the ability to enjoy such pleasures. Sensuality is self-destructive (Gal. 6:8). The self-indulgent striving after pleasure yields diminishing returns, and so ever more extreme efforts have to be made to obtain satisfaction. These men no longer confine their ill-doing under the cover of darkness, but are now prepared to carouse in broad daylight, a practice that has long ...
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Norman Hillyer
... himself in Luke 22:32, “When you have turned back, strengthen (stērixon) your brothers.” 3:18 Grow (auxanete, present imperative: “keep on growing”): “Not only do not fall from your own steadfastness, but be so firmly rooted as to throw out branches and yield increase” (Alford); cf. Ps. 1:2–3. To him be glory is the only NT doxology (other than 2 Tim. 4:18; Rev. 1:6) indubitably ascribed to Jesus Christ alone. If the letter had been written later than Peter’s lifetime, a more stereotyped ...
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J. Gordon Harris
... says that the people are witnesses to this commitment by what they have said. The people gladly accept that they are witnesses of their oath of service. Joshua then challenges them to demonstrate that they mean what they say by throwing away their idols and yielding their hearts [wills] to the LORD. Their testimony demands negative and positive acts of devotion to the God of Israel. So the people say again to Joshua, We will serve the LORD our God and obey him (24:24). Challenging the ability of the people ...
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Cheryl A. Brown
... rush from the vineyards and each man grab (NIV: seize; cf. 19:25, 29) a wife from the girls who were dancing in celebration and thanksgiving to the Lord. Then they were to take them off to the land of Benjamin (vv. 20–21). This solution yielded them two hundred wives, just what was needed. The assembly knew that this solution was not kosher, so they also informed the Benjamites what the assembly would say when the girls’ fathers or brothers disputed their right to do this. They suggested they look the ...
694. The Genealogy of Saul
1 Chronicles 9:35-44
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Louis C. Jonker
... , 1 Chronicles, p. 262; Knoppers, 1 Chronicles 10–29, p. 516. Summary of 1 Chron. 1:1—9:41 Read from the point of view of social-identity theory, the Chronicler’s grand construction, the genealogical introduction (1 Chron. 1–9), yields the following observations: a. The Chronicler situates his description of the history of Israel within the context of humanity in general, starting his genealogical description with Adam in 1:1. This emphasizes that, although the focus is very much on the identity ...
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Timothy S. Laniak
... humiliates enemy leaders (Josh. 8:29; 10:26; 1 Sam. 31:10; Herodotus, Hist. 3.125; 6.30). Esther is relentless in her efforts to root out every enemy of the Jews and ensure that opposition will become unthinkable. Another day of fighting yielded three hundred more executions in Susa (v. 15). The Jews in the provinces acted in self-defense to protect themselves and get relief from their enemies (v. 16). The casualties throughout the empire numbered seventy-five thousand. Whether in city or countryside, the ...
696. Wisdom's Call
Proverbs 8:1-36
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Roland E. Murphy
... the strange woman in chapter 7, who was covered by nightfall. 8:4–11 The appeal is to all, but especially to the simple and foolish who most need understanding. Wisdom is prepared for this because truth and justice are the hallmarks of her speech, yielding an instruction more precious than silver or gold. On v. 11 see Additional Notes. 8:12–21 A strong I (repeated in v. 14) initiates this part of the discourse and imparts to Woman Wisdom an authority greater than that of a sage who merely communicates ...
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Roland E. Murphy
... nuance given to the book of Proverbs by these introductory chapters. Moreover, the recognition of various levels of meaning (e.g., God-talk as opposed to shared experience), while possible and interesting, remains speculative. The exegesis in this style does not yield the biblical sense, as shaped by the sages who handed down the tradition. In an epilogue to his treatment of these chapters, Plöger (Sprüche, p. 110) points to three important aspects: the first two are the warning against the wicked ...
698. Proverbs of Solomon
Proverbs 15:1-33
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Roland E. Murphy
... fits. It maybe a deliberate insertion here in order to emphasize the prerequisites: fear of the LORD and humility, which are united in 22:4a. Additional Notes 15:2 The Hb. for commends is, lit., “does well.” A slight change of one Hb. letter yields taṭṭîp (“drips”) for têṭîb (“commends”). This change preserves the parallelism. 15:4 Some (Plöger, Sprüche) would derive Hb. marpēʾ from rph, and then the meaning would be “calm” instead of healing. 15:6 Contains is not in the MT, but ...
699. Proverbs of Solomon
Proverbs 21:1-31
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Roland E. Murphy
... . Although the saying is antithetic, the Hebrew construction of the two lines is similar: an emphatic “only” (not clear in the NIV) occurs in both lines. 21:6 Synthetic. As the margin indicates, the NIV corrects verse 6b. Ill-gotten goods will not only yield no profit (cf. 10:2; Sir. 40:13–14)—they are a snare. See Additional Notes. 21:7 Synonymous. The violence perpetrated by the wicked is portrayed as a power that overcomes them because of their stubbornness in clinging to evil. 21:8 Antithetic ...
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Roland E. Murphy
... It seems that snow and ice were gotten from the mountains, packed and transported—a luxury perhaps, but a vivid comparison. The emptiness of the words of one who merely promises gifts is neatly brought out by the comparison to clouds that fail to yield rain (v. 14 is juxtapositional). 25:15 This saying underlines the success of patience in dealing with authorities by means of a paradoxical observation in verse 15b. 25:16–17 Moderation in eating and socializing is counseled by warning to what excess will ...
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