The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.
- KJV The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
- NKJV The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.
- NASB The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has eliminated you from the land where you are entering to take possession of it.
- NLT The Lord will afflict you with diseases until none of you are left in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
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Quick answer
God will send relentless pestilence that consumes Israel from the very land they sought to possess.
Overview
Disease becomes an instrument of divine judgment, clinging until the people are removed. The land meant for blessing becomes the place of their consuming. This warns that God's gifts, despised, can become the setting of his discipline.
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Cross-references · 11
- Lev 26:25And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Jer 24:10And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”
- Num 14:12I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”
- Jer 16:4“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
- Jer 15:2If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’
- Num 25:9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
- 2 Sam 24:15So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
- Jer 21:6–7I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’
- Num 16:46–49Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
- Exod 5:3“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”
- Matt 26:7a woman came to Him with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, which she poured on His head as He reclined at the table.
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