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Leviticus 26:25

in Leviticus 26

And 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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

KJV

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

This verse in Leviticus 26

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The quarrel of my covenant - That is, my quarrel with you for your breach of your covenant made with me.

This site's exposition

And I will bring a sword upon you

on Leviticus 26:25-26

The sword avenges the quarrel of the covenant, so the war is legal action taken on a broken agreement. The cities that gather people behind walls for safety become the place the pestilence finds them. Ten women baking in one oven is scarcity described from the kitchen, fuel enough for a single fire and bread handed back by weight.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

"I will walk at all adventures with you," so some read; "all covenant loving-kindness shall be forgotten, and I will leave you to common providence." Note, Those that cast off God deserve that he should cast them off. (3.) As they continued obstinate, the judgments should increase yet more upon them.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

) to meet them, when they are gathered together in their cities for fear of the sword. The greater the concourse of people is, the greater desolation does the pestilence make; and, when it gets among the soldiers that should defend a place, it is of most fatal consequence. [2.] Famine and scarcity of bread, which should be brought upon them several ways; as, First, By plunder (

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, God has a just quarrel with those that break covenant with him, for he will not be mocked by the treachery of perfidious men; and one way or other he will avenge this quarrel upon those that play at fast and loose with him. [4.] Wild beasts, lions, bears, and wolves, which should increase upon them, and tear in pieces all that come in their way (

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And I will bring a sword upon you,....

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וְהֵבֵאתִ֨יand I will bring

    vehevetiH9352568 times

  • עֲלֵיכֶ֜םon you

    ʾaleikhemH59215755 times

  • חֶ֗רֶבa sword

    cherevH2719413 times

  • נֹקֶ֙מֶת֙[which will] avenge

    nokemetH5358

  • נְקַם־vengeance of

    nekam-H5359

  • בְּרִ֔יתa covenant

    beritH1285284 times

  • וְנֶאֱסַפְתֶּ֖םand you will gather

    veneesaftemH622200 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • עָרֵיכֶ֑םcities your

    ʾareikhemH58921090 times

  • וְשִׁלַּ֤חְתִּיand I will send

    veshilachtiH7971845 times

  • דֶ֙בֶר֙a pestilence

    deverH1698

  • בְּת֣וֹכְכֶ֔םin midst of you

    betokhemH8432418 times

  • וְנִתַּתֶּ֖םand you will be given

    venittatemH54142011 times

  • בְּיַד־in [the] hand of

    beyad-H30271618 times

  • אוֹיֵֽב׃an enemy

    ʾoyevH341282 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

    Numbers 14:12

    I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”

    it leads to

    • Exodus 32:10

      Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

  • Through

    Ezekiel 20:37

    I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 33:13

      In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under…

    • Leviticus 27:32

      Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the LORD.

    • Matthew 25:32–33

      All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

    • Ezekiel 16:59–60

      For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

  • 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

    Deuteronomy 28:21

    The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 24:10

      And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”

  • Through

    Ezekiel 29:8

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 14:17

      Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,

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 Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.