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DeYoung shares seven reasons why he encouraged his church to switch Bible translations to the ESV. A few years into his current pastoral role, Kevin DeYoung was faced with a church that needed to replace its well-worn pew Bibles. DeYoung wrote to his congregation, outlining seven reasons why he preferred the English Standard Version (ESV) and was proposing its adoption. Among his top reasons for...

It may be the case that “Lord of hosts” is not in many people’s vocabularies, but shouldn’t it be—at least for Christians? We lose something in translation when we no longer read “Lord of hosts.” Yes, “Lord of hosts” implies that the Lord is Almighty, but YHWH tsavaoth also implies that our God is the Lord of heavenly hosts and military armies. The imagery of YHWH leading his people in battle or summoning legions of angels to deliver his people is lost when tsavaoth is not translated as “hosts” or
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