Leviticus 26:18
But if you will not be obedient to me in this way, then I will add sevenfold to your chastisement, because of your sins.
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Exodus 9:14For at this turn, I will send all my plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants, and upon your people. So may you know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
Leviticus 26:24likewise, I will advance against you as an adversary, and I will strike you seven times, because of your sins.
1 Samuel 2:5Those who before were filled, have hired themselves out for bread. And the starving have been filled, so that the barren have given birth to many. But she who had borne many sons has become unable.
Proverbs 24:16For the just one will fall seven times, and he shall rise again. But the impious will fall into evil.
Jeremiah 14:4Because of the devastation of the earth, because rain did not fall upon the earth, the farmers were confounded; they covered their heads.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 26:15-40
Threatenings. ( b. c. 1490.) 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face… Read the whole commentary →