behold, Yahweh will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your posessions;
Parallel translations
- KJV Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
- BSB So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.
- NKJV behold, the Lord will strike your people with a serious affliction—your children, your wives, and all your possessions;
- NASB behold, the Lord is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a great plague;
- NLT So now the Lord is about to strike you, your people, your children, your wives, and all that is yours with a heavy blow.
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- Lev 26:21“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
- Hos 5:11Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
- Exod 20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Mic 6:16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”
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