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Malachi 4:1
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Malachi 4:1
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4 (3:19)[a] “For indeed the day[b] is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “It[c] will not leave them even a root or branch.
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- Malachi 4:1 sn Beginning with 4:1, the verse numbers through 4:6 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:1 ET = 3:19 HT, 4:2 ET = 3:20 HT, etc., through 4:6 ET = 3:24 HT. Thus the book of Malachi in the Hebrew Bible has only three chapters, with 24 verses in ch. 3.
- Malachi 4:1 sn This day is the well-known “day of the Lord” so pervasive in OT eschatological texts (see Joel 2:30-31; Amos 5:18; Obad 15). For the believer it is a day of grace and salvation; for the sinner, a day of judgment and destruction.
- Malachi 4:1 tn Heb “so that it” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons a new sentence was begun here in the translation.
Matthew 13:42
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Matthew 13:42
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42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace,[a] where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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- Matthew 13:42 sn A quotation from Dan 3:6.
Matthew 13:50
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Matthew 13:50
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50 and throw them into the fiery furnace,[a] where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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- Matthew 13:50 sn An allusion to Dan 3:6.
Revelation 9:2
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Revelation 9:2
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2 He[a] opened the shaft of the abyss and smoke rose out of it[b] like smoke from a giant furnace. The[c] sun and the air were darkened with smoke from the shaft.
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- Revelation 9:2 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
- Revelation 9:2 tn Grk “the shaft,” but since this would be somewhat redundant in English, the pronoun “it” is used here.
- Revelation 9:2 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
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