Deuteronomy 28:21

Yahweh will make the plague cling to you until he destroys you from off the land that you are going in to possess.

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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

20Yahweh will send on you curses, confusion, and rebukes in all that you put your hand to, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly because of your wicked actions by which you will have forsaken me.

22Yahweh will attack you with infectious diseases, with fever, with inflammation, and with drought and blistering heat, and with scorching winds and mildew. These will pursue you until you perish.

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Cross References

Exodus 5:3They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Yahweh our God so that he does not attack us with plague or with the sword.”

Numbers 14:12I will attack them with plague, disinherit them, and make from your own clan a nation that will be greater and mightier than they are.”

Numbers 25:9Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand in number.

Jeremiah 15:2It will happen that they will say to you, 'Where should we go?' Then you must say to them, 'Yahweh says this: 1 Those who are for death should go to death; those who are for the sword should go to the sword. 1 Those who are for famine should go to famine; and those who are for captivity should go to captivity.'

Jeremiah 21:6For I will attack the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a severe plague.

Amos 4:10I sent a plague on you as on Egypt. 1 I killed your young men with the sword, 1 carried away your horses, 1 and made the stench of your camp come up 1 to your nostrils. 1 Yet you have not returned to me 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 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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