Leviticus 26:24

I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike you seven times for your sins.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

In Context

23And if even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me:

25And I will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies,

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Cross References

Job 9:4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace ?

Isaiah 63:10But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

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 →

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