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Leviticus 26:22

in Leviticus 26

I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And I will send the beast of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate.

KJV

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

This verse in Leviticus 26

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

I will also send wild beasts among you--This was one of the four judgments threatened (Eze 14:21; see also 2Ki 2:4). your highways shall be desolate--Trade and commerce will be destroyed--freedom and safety will be gone--neither stranger nor native will be found on the roads (Isa 33:8).

This site's exposition

And if ye walk contrary unto me

on Leviticus 26:21-22

Walk contrary is the chapter's own phrase for the breach, and it runs both directions. It is used of Israel at verses 21, 23, 27 and 40, and of God at verses 24, 28 and 41, so the answer is described in the same words as the offence. The beasts that were driven out at verse 6 come back, and the high ways lie desolate because nobody will travel them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

All sinners walk contrary to God, to his truths, laws, and counsels; but those especially that are incorrigible under his judgments. The design of the rod is to humble them, and soften them, and bring them to repentance; but, instead of this, their hearts are more hardened and exasperated against God, and in their distress they trespass yet more against him, 2 Chron. xxviii.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), as we read of two bears that in an instant killed forty-two children, 2 Kings ii. This is one of the four sore judgments threatened Ezek. xiv. 21 , which plainly refers to this chapter.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

I will also send wild beasts among you - God fulfilled these threatenings at different times.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וְהִשְׁלַחְתִּ֨יand I will send

    vehishlachtiH7971845 times

  • בָכֶ֜םamong <the> you

    vakhem

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • חַיַּ֤ת[the] animal[s] of

    chaiyatH2416498 times

  • הַשָּׂדֶה֙the field

    hasadehH7704334 times

  • וְשִׁכְּלָ֣הand it will make childless

    veshikelahH7921

  • אֶתְכֶ֔ם<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH85310935 times

  • וְהִכְרִ֙יתָה֙and it will cut off

    vehikhritahH3772288 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • בְּהֶמְתְּכֶ֔םlivestock your

    behemtekhemH929190 times

  • וְהִמְעִ֖יטָהand it will diminish

    vehimitahH459122 times

  • אֶתְכֶ֑ם<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH85310935 times

  • וְנָשַׁ֖מּוּand they will be desolate

    venashamuH807486 times

  • דַּרְכֵיכֶֽם׃roads your

    darkheikhemH1870

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

    Ezekiel 14:15

    Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 5:17

      I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 5:17

    I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 38:22

      I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.

  • Through

    Zechariah 7:14

    But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 23:19

      Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.

    • 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…

    • Deuteronomy 28:33

      A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

    • Jeremiah 5:15

      Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose…

  • Through

    Judges 5:6

    In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.

    it leads to

    • Judges 3:31

      After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath. And he too saved Israel, striking down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.

    • Isaiah 33:8

      The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Andrew Bonar, A Commentary on Leviticus; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; 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.