Deuteronomy 28:21

Hashem shall make the dever (plague, pestilence) have deveykus with thee, until He have consumed thee from off ha'adamah, whither thou goest to possess it.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

In Context

20Hashem shall send upon thee me'erah (curse), mehumah (confusion), and migeret (rebuke), in all that thou settest thine hand unto to do, until thou be shmad, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken Me.

22Hashem shall strike thee with a shachefet (consumption), and with a kaddachat + 28:22 Mk 1:31 (fever), and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the cherev, and with scorching, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

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Cross References

Exodus 5:3And they said, Elohei HaIvrim hath met with us; let us go, now, derech shloshet yamim into the midbar, and sacrifice unto Hashem Eloheinu; lest He fall upon us with dever (cattle disease), or with the cherev.

Numbers 14:12I will strike them down with dever (pestilence), and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

Numbers 25:9And those that were the mesim (dead ones) in the maggefah (plague) were twenty and four thousand. 1 [PINCHAS]

Jeremiah 15:2And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Where shall we go forth? Then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith Hashem: 1 Such as are for mavet, to mavet; 1 and such as are for the cherev, to the cherev; 1 and such as are for the ra'av (famine), to the ra'av (famine); 1 and such as are for shevi (captivity, Golus), to the shevi.

Jeremiah 21:6And I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, both ha'adam and habehemah; they shall die of dever gadol (great plague).

Amos 4:10I have sent among you the dever after the manner of Mitzrayim; 1 your bocherim have I slain with the cherev, 1 and have taken away your susim; 1 and I have made the stench 1 of your machanot to come up unto your nostrils; 1 yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith Hashem. 1

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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