Deuteronomy 28:36

YHWH causes you and your king whom you raise up over you to go to a nation which you have not known, you and your fathers, and you have served other gods there—wood and stone;

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In The King James Version

The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

In Context

35YHWH strikes you with a severe ulcer on the knees and on the legs (of which you are not able to be healed), from the sole of your foot even to your crown.

37and you have been for an astonishment, for an allegory, and for a byword among all the peoples to where YHWH leads you.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:28and you have served gods there, work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

1 Samuel 12:25and if you really do evil, both you and your king are consumed.”

2 Kings 17:6in the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Asshur has captured Samaria, and removes Israel to Asshur, and causes them to dwell in Halah, and in Habor, [by] the river Gozan, and [in] the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 25:6and they seize the king, and bring him up to the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak judgment with him.

2 Kings 25:21and the king of Babylon strikes them, and puts them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he removes Judah from off its land.

2 Chronicles 36:6Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has come up against him, and binds him in bronze chains to take him away to Babylon.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:16-45

Threatenings. ( b. c. 1451.) 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19… Read the whole commentary →

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