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.
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.
- 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.
- 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 26:25I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Jer 24:10I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’”
- Num 14:12I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
- Jer 16:4“They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.”
- Jer 15:2It shall happen, when they tell you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “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 captivity, to captivity.”’
- Num 25:9Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
- 2 Sam 24:15So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.
- Jer 21:6–7I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal. They will die of a great pestilence.
- Num 16:46–49Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”
- Exod 5:3They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”
- Matt 26:7a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.
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