In Genesis chapter 15 we heard of God's covenant with Abram and Abram's fully believing God's promises. Then in chapter 16 we read of Abram and Sarah trying to help God fulfill his promises.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/gen.17.nlt
We turn to Job 9. In chapter 8, Bildad defended God as always acting
with justice and insisted that this meant that there had to be
some sin on Job's part or his children's.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/job.9
We turn to Mark 6. In the second half of Mark5, Jesus did two amazing miracles, the second one causing a dead girl to live again.
Translation notes:
17 For Herod had sent soldiers to arrest and imprison
John as a favor to [Herodiana/Herodias]. She had been his
brother Philip’s wife, but Herod had married her. 18John had
been telling Herod, “It is against God’s law for you to marry
your brother’s wife.” 19 So [Herodiana/Herodias] bore a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But without Herod’s approval she was powerless,
In our translations in Indonesia, it was found to help
understanding to give Herodias a more feminine sounding name. In Indonesian Herod is Herodes, and Herodias was too close in sound and becomes confusing. Even though English does not have that problem, I think it will help some to give her name
that people will recognize as a girl-name.
21 [Herodianas’s] chance finally came on Herod’s birthday.
He gave a party for his high government officials, army
officers, and the leading citizens of Galilee. 22 Then
[Herodiana's/his] daughter, also named Herodia came in
and performed a dance that greatly pleased Herod and his
guests. “Ask me for anything you like,” the king said to the
girl, “and I will give it to you.”
As NLT's footnote shows, there is a textual problem in this verse. I have changed this to be like NIV, CEV, ESV and many others.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/mrk.6
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