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Deuteronomy 28:31

in Deuteronomy 28

Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to save thee.

KJV

Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 28

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man

on Deuteronomy 28:30-31

Deuteronomy 20:5-7 excused three men from the army, one who had built a house and not dedicated it, one who had planted a vineyard and not eaten of it, and one who had betrothed a wife and not taken her. Verse 30 names those same three cases and takes all three away. The law that guarded a man's unfinished life is the frame this curse is written in, and verse 31 carries it into his livestock, ox, ass and sheep taken while he watches.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And all the fruit of their land and labours should be devoured and eaten up by the enemy; so that they and theirs would want necessaries, while their enemies were revelling with that which they had laboured for. (6.) That they should be carried captives into a far country; nay, into all the kingdoms of the earth,

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Their dearest comforts, which they took most pleasure in, and promised themselves most from, should be the entertainment and triumph of their enemies.

The words behind it

18 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.

  • שׁוֹרְךָ֞ox your

    shorkhaH7794 →79 times

  • טָב֣וּחַ[will be] slaughtered

    tavuachH2873 →

  • לְעֵינֶ֗יךָto eyes your

    leeineikhaH5869 →887 times

  • וְלֹ֣אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • תֹאכַל֮you will eat

    tokhalH398 →810 times

  • מִמֶּנּוּ֒any of it

    mimenuH4480 →1188 times

  • חֲמֹֽרְךָ֙donkey your

    chamorekhaH2543 →96 times

  • גָּז֣וּל[will be] seized

    gazulH1497 →

  • מִלְּפָנֶ֔יךָfrom to before you

    milefaneikhaH6440 →2123 times

  • וְלֹ֥אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יָשׁ֖וּבanyone will return [it]

    yashuvH7725 →1056 times

  • לָ֑ךְto <the> you

    lakh

  • צֹֽאנְךָ֙flock your

    tzonekhaH6629 →274 times

  • נְתֻנ֣וֹת[will be] given

    netunotH5414 →2011 times

  • לְאֹיְבֶ֔יךָto enemies your

    leoyeveikhaH341 →282 times

  • וְאֵ֥יןand not

    veeinH369 →789 times

  • לְךָ֖[will belong] to <the> you

    lekha

  • מוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃a deliverer

    moshia'H3467 →206 times

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

Related verses

7 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.

Isaiah 62:8The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.7 worksIsaiah 43:13Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”4 worksJob 1:14–15a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,2 worksJudges 6:1Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,2 worksGenesis 14:11The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.2 worksJob 20:28The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Hosea 5:14For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.1 works

The walk

5 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

    Judges 6:1

    Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 9:26–29

      But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

    • Judges 2:19–20

      But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices…

    • Deuteronomy 28:15–68

      If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

    • Judges 2:13–14

      for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

    • Numbers 31:1–3

      And the LORD said to Moses,

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About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 28 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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