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1 Kings 8:37

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When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

KJV

If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

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This verse in 1 Kings 8

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Ishodad of Merv

BOOKS OF SESSIONS 1 KINGS 8:37 · Written before 850.

[The Scripture] defines them as diseases deriving from changes in the weather. Blight [occurs when] wheat does not grow. Therefore [we read] these words: "Pharaoh saw ears blighted by a burning wind." Mildew derives from excessive heat and constant bad weather and descends on wheat …

This site's exposition

famine, if there be pestilence

on 1 Kings 8:37-40

The fourth petition gathers famine, pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust and siege into one list, the same catalogue of curses Lev 26 and Deut 28 had already attached to covenant unfaithfulness. Solomon widens the request from the nation as a whole to any man who knows the plague of his own heart, Wesley reading plague there as the sin itself rather than only its penalty, the true sickness beneath every visible one. The petition ends on the Lord's unique knowledge of every heart, thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men, a claim no priest at the altar could make on his own authority.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice
In the land of their cities - literally, “in the land of their gates.” Hence, the marginal translation “jurisdiction,” because judgments were pronounced in the town gates Deu 16:18. Another reading gives “in one of their cities.”

The words behind it

23 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 91:3Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.8 worksDeuteronomy 28:21–22The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.5 worksDeuteronomy 28:22The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.5 worksHaggai 2:17I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.5 worksLeviticus 26:16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.4 worksJoel 1:4What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.4 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Mark 5:29Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she sensed in her body that she was healed of her affliction.4 worksDeuteronomy 28:38–42You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.3 works2 Chronicles 20:9‘If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us.’3 worksDeuteronomy 28:52–61They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.2 worksJoel 2:25–26I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.2 worksJeremiah 39:1–3In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city.2 worksPsalms 105:34–35He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.2 worksLeviticus 26:25–46And 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.2 worksEzekiel 14:21For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?2 worksJeremiah 32:2At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.2 works1 Chronicles 21:12between three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies and overtaken by their swords, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague upon the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”2 worksDeuteronomy 28:25The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 20:9

    ‘If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 6:28–30

      When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

    • 1 Kings 8:33

      When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,

    • 2 Chronicles 6:20

      May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward…

    • Exodus 20:24

      You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name…

  • Through

    Leviticus 26:16

    then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed…

    it leads to

    • Job 31:8

      then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

    • Micah 6:15

      You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

    • Jeremiah 5:17

      They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword…

    • 1 Samuel 2:33

      And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, your eyes will fail and your heart will grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Judgment of Solomon — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ishodad of Merv, BOOKS OF SESSIONS 1 KINGS 8:37 and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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