The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
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.
- BSB The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
- 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 upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Jer 24:10And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
- Num 14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
- Jer 16:4They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
- Jer 15:2And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.
- Num 25:9And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
- 2 Sam 24:15So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
- Jer 21:6–7And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
- Num 16:46–49And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
- Exod 5:3And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
- Matt 26:7There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
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