Leviticus 26:18
“‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
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In Context
19I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.
Cross References
Exodus 9:14For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
Leviticus 26:24then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
1 Samuel 2:5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.
Proverbs 24:16for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
Jeremiah 14:4Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the ploughmen are disappointed. They cover their heads.
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 →