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Deuteronomy 28:36

in Deuteronomy 28

The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

KJV

The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

This verse in Deuteronomy 28

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs

on Deuteronomy 28:35-37

Verse 36 brings the king into the curse, his one appearance here, with the king law of 17:14-20 behind it. 2 Kings 24:15 and 25:7 record two kings of Judah carried off.

This site's exposition

gods of wood and stone

Henry and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read the service of gods of wood and stone as the sin turned into the sentence. Henry cites Daniel 3:6, the furnace of Babylon. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown cite Jeremiah 44:17-19, where exiles in Egypt burned incense to the Queen of Heaven.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Thy king - The calamity shall be both universal, which even thy king shall not be able to avoid, much less the subjects, who have far less advantage and opportunity for escape; and irrecoverable, because he who should protect or rescue them is lost with them, Lam. iv, 10. Wood and stone - So what formerly was their choice and delight now becomes their plague and misery.
And the Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shall set over thee,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, God often makes men's sin their punishment, and chooses their delusions. You shall serve other gods, that is, "You shall serve those that do serve them;" a nation is often in scripture called by the name of its gods, as Jer. xlviii.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Can any thing be conceived more dreadful than the calamities threatened in these verses?

The words behind it

21 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.

  • יוֹלֵ֨ךְhe will lead

    yolekhH1980 →1546 times

  • יְהוָ֜הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֹֽתְךָ֗<obj.> you

    ʾotekhaH853 →10935 times

  • וְאֶֽת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • מַלְכְּךָ֙king your

    malkekhaH4428 →2525 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhom

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • תָּקִ֣יםyou will raise up

    takimH6965 →628 times

  • עָלֶ֔יךָover you

    ʾaleikhaH5921 →5755 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • גּ֕וֹיa nation

    goyH1471 →561 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יָדַ֖עְתָּyou have known

    yada'taH3045 →945 times

  • אַתָּ֣הyou

    ʾatahH859 →1094 times

  • וַאֲבֹתֶ֑יךָand ancestors your

    vaavoteikhaH1 →1212 times

  • וְעָבַ֥דְתָּand you will serve

    veavadtaH5647 →288 times

  • שָּׁ֛םthere

    shamH8033 →834 times

  • אֱלֹהִ֥יםgods

    ʾelohimH430 →2601 times

  • אֲחֵרִ֖יםother

    ʾacherimH312 →166 times

  • עֵ֥ץwood

    ʾetzH6086 →328 times

  • וָאָֽבֶן׃and stone

    vaavenH68 →273 times

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

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

    Deuteronomy 4:28

    And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 28:64

      Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you…

    • Jeremiah 16:13

      So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you…

    • Isaiah 46:7

      They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 16:13

    So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:26–28

      I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it,…

    • Jeremiah 15:14

      Then I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for My anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”

    • Jeremiah 17:4

      And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will…

    • 2 Chronicles 7:20

      then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of…

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 36:20

    Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 27:7

      All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Where this verse is studied

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About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.