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Leviticus 26:37

in Leviticus 26

They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

KJV

And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

This verse in Leviticus 26

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And they shall fall one upon another,.... In their hurry and confusion, everyone making all the haste he can to escape the imaginary danger; or "a man upon his brother" (z); his friend, as Aben Ezra interprets it, having no regard to relation and friendship, every one endeavouring to save himself.

This site's exposition

And upon them that are left alive of you

on Leviticus 26:36-39

The last of it is done to the mind. A shaken leaf chases them, they fall over each other with no sword behind them, and the fear promised back at verse 17 has become the whole of their condition. Pine away falls twice in verse 39, once for their own iniquity and once for the iniquities of their fathers, so the survivors carry two accounts at the same time.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And those that had increased one another's guilt would now increase one another's fears. [3.] That they should have no hope of the forgiveness of their sins (

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The words behind it

13 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.

  • וְכָשְׁל֧וּand they will stumble

    vekhasheluH3782

  • אִישׁ־each

    ʾish-H3761663 times

  • בְּאָחִ֛יוover brother his

    beachivH251630 times

  • כְּמִפְּנֵי־as from before

    kemipenei-H64402123 times

  • חֶ֖רֶבa sword

    cherevH2719413 times

  • וְרֹדֵ֣ףand [is one who] pursues

    verodefH7291143 times

  • אָ֑יִןthere not

    ʾayinH369789 times

  • וְלֹא־and not

    velo'-H38085168 times

  • תִֽהְיֶ֤הit will belong

    tihyehH19613559 times

  • לָכֶם֙to <the> you

    lakhem

  • תְּקוּמָ֔הpower to stand

    tekumahH8617

  • לִפְנֵ֖י<to> before

    lifneiH64402123 times

  • אֹֽיְבֵיכֶֽם׃enemies your

    ʾoyeveikhemH341282 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

    Judges 2:14

    Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 17:20

      So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.

    • Psalms 106:40–42

      So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

    • Deuteronomy 32:30

      How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

    • Deuteronomy 31:17–18

      On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them.…

    • Joshua 7:12–13

      This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be…

  • Through

    Numbers 14:42

    Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 1:42

      But the LORD said to me, “Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies.”

  • Through

    Jeremiah 37:10

    Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this…

    it leads to

    • Joel 2:11

      The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and…

    • Isaiah 30:17

      A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a…

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 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.