Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
- BSB Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.
- NKJV Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that is written in this book.
- NASB Therefore, the anger of the Lord burned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;
- NLT That is why the Lord’s anger has burned against this land, bringing down on it every curse recorded in this book.
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Quick answer
Because of this idolatry, God's anger brought all the covenant curses upon the land. Sin truly provokes the judgment Scripture warns of.
Overview
Israel's apostasy is shown to be the direct cause of God's burning anger and the outpouring of every written curse. The covenant's warnings are not idle threats but realities God enacts in justice. This sobering truth magnifies the wonder of the cross, where the curse we deserve was borne by Christ so that the believing might receive blessing instead.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Dan 9:11–14Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.
- Deut 28:15–68But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you, and overtake you.
- Deut 27:15–26‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
- Lev 26:14–46“‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;
- Deut 29:20–21Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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