Deuteronomy 28:21

Yahweh will cause you to experience terrible diseases, until not one of you remains alive in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.

Translation for Translators

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

20If you do evil things and reject Yahweh, he will curse you by causing you to ◄be confused/not know what to do►, and to be frustrated in everything that you do, until your enemies quickly and completely destroy you {you will be quickly and completely destroyed}.

22Yahweh will strike/afflict you with diseases that shrivel your bodies, with fever, with inflammation/swelling. It will be extremely hot, and it will not rain. There will be scorching winds, and Yahweh will cause your crops to rot. All these things will strike you until you die.

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Cross References

Exodus 5:3They/we replied, “Yahweh God, the one we Hebrews worship, has ◄revealed himself/appeared► to us and told us what to tell you. So we ask you to please let us go on a three day journey into the desert. We must offer sacrifices to Yahweh God there. If we do not do that, he will cause us to die [IDM] from diseases or from attacks by our enemies [MTY].”

Numbers 14:12So I will cause a ◄plague/widespread sickness► to strike them and get rid of them. But I will cause your descendants to become a great nation. They will be a nation that is much greater and stronger than these people are.”

Numbers 25:9But 24,000 people had already died from that plague.

Jeremiah 15:2And if they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’, tell them, ‘This is what Yahweh says: The ones that I say must die, will die: The ones that I say must die in wars [MTY], will die in wars. The ones that I say must die from hunger, will die from hunger. The ones that I say must be captured and taken to other countries, will be captured and taken to other countries.

Jeremiah 21:6I will send a very ◄terrible plague/big sickness► on the people of this city, and on their domestic animals, and many of them will die.”

Amos 4:10I caused you to experience ◄plagues/severe sicknesses► like the plagues that I sent to the people of Egypt. I caused many of your young men to die in battles. I allowed your enemies to capture your horses. Many of your soldiers were killed, and I caused your camps to be filled with the smell/stink of their decaying corpses. But in spite of that, you rejected me. That is certainly true, because I, Yahweh, have said it!

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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