“Certainly the hills are a deception, Commotion on the mountains. Certainly in the Lord our God Is the salvation of Israel.
Parallel translations
- WEB Truly in vain is help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.
- KJV Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
- BSB Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.
- NKJV Truly, in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, And from the multitude of mountains; Truly, in the Lord our God Is the salvation of Israel.
- NLT Our worship of idols on the hills and our religious orgies on the mountains are a delusion. Only in the Lord our God will Israel ever find salvation.
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Joab is told that Abner came and was sent away unharmed. The news sets Joab's vengeful suspicion in motion.
Overview
Upon returning, Joab learns that his rival Abner had visited the king and departed peacefully. Joab's reaction will be driven by both personal vengeance for his brother Asahel and political jealousy over his position as commander. The repeated note that Abner left in peace heightens the contrast with Joab's coming treachery.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 121:1–2A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
- Ps 3:8Salvation belongs to Yahweh. Your blessing be on your people. Selah.
- Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
- Hos 1:7But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
- John 4:22You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
- Ezek 20:28For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their pleasant aroma, and they poured out there their drink offerings.
- Jer 10:14–16Every man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- Isa 43:11I myself am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.
- Isa 63:1Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
- Isa 45:15Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’”
- Isa 45:17Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
- Jer 14:8You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?
- Ps 37:39–40But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
- Isa 44:9Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
- Isa 63:16For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
- Jer 3:6Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute there.
- Isa 46:7–8They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble.
- Isa 45:20“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.
- Jer 17:14Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
- Jonah 2:8–9Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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