Deuteronomy 28:21

Deuteronomy 28:21 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
• New International Version (NIV)The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The Lord will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.

Context of Deuteronomy 28:21

19You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. 20The Lord will send against you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish, because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning me. The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess. 22The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought, blight, and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish. 23The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

Deuteronomy 28:21 word by word

יַדְבֵּ֧ק יְהוָ֛ה בְּךָ֖ אֶת־הַדָּ֑בֶר עַ֚ד כַּלֹּת֣וֹ אֹֽתְךָ֔ מֵעַל֙ הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֥ה בָא־שָׁ֖מָּה לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• shall make the pestilenceדֶּ֫בֶרdeber · pestilenceH1698
• cleaveדָּבַקdâbaq · to cleaveH1692
• unto thee, until he have consumedכָּלָהkâlâh · to end: destroyH3615
• thee from off the landאֲדָמָה'ădâmâh · land: soilH127
• whither thou goestבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• to possessיָרַשׁyârash yârêsh · to possess: takeH3423

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 28:21

• Exodus 5:3They answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, or else he may strike us with plague or sword.”
• Leviticus 26:5Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land.
• Numbers 14:12I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.”
• Numbers 16:46Then Moses told Aaron, “Take your firepan, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the community and make atonement for them, because wrath has come from the Lord; the plague has begun.”
• Numbers 25:9but those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.
• 2 Samuel 24:15So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men died.
• Jeremiah 15:2If they ask you, ‘Where will we go? ’ tell them: This is what the Lord says: Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword. Those destined for famine, to famine; those destined for captivity, to captivity.
• Jeremiah 16:4They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like manure on the soil’s surface. They will be finished off by sword and famine. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.
• Jeremiah 21:6I will strike the residents of this city, both people and animals. They will die in a severe plague.
• Jeremiah 24:10I will send the sword, famine, and plague against them until they have perished from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.”
• Matthew 26:7a woman approached him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume. She poured it on his head as he was reclining at the table.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 28:21

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21The pestilence cleave unto thee - הדבר אה בך יהוה ידבק yadbek Yehovah becha eth haddaber, the Lord shall cement the pestilence or plague to thee. Sept., , The Lord will glue - inseparably attach, the death unto thee. How dreadful a plague it must be that ravages without intermission, any person may conceive who has ever heard the name.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15-68Verses 15-68 The curses correspond in form and number Deuteronomy 28:15-19 to the blessings Deuteronomy 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deuteronomy 28:20-26 First series of judgments. The curse of God should rest on all they did, and should issue in manifold forms of disease, in famine, and in defeat in war. Deuteronomy 28:20 Vexation - Rather, confusion: the word in the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-44Verses 15-44 If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under a curse. All his…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 21the plague cling to you: This means the sickness would continue for a long time. It would not leave them until the nation was destroyed.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2121. pestilence--some fatal epidemic. There is no reason, however, to think that the plague, which is the great modern scourge of the East, is referred to.Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 28:21

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Backsliders
• Disobedience to God
• Fear of God
• Holy Spirit
• Idolatry
• Judgments
• Obedience
• Reprobacy
• Sanitation
• Wicked (People)

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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 28

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings