Deuteronomy 28:22

Deuteronomy 28:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
• New International Version (NIV)The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with scorching, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.

Context of Deuteronomy 28:22

20“The Lord will send against you curses, panic, and rebuke, in everything you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have abandoned Me. 21The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has eliminated you from the land where you are entering to take possession of it. The Lord will strike you with consumption, inflammation, fever, feverish heat, and with the sword, with blight, and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish. 23The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron. 24The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:22 word by word

יַכְּכָ֣ה יְ֠הוָה בַּשַּׁחֶ֨פֶת וּבַקַּדַּ֜חַת וּבַדַּלֶּ֗קֶת וּבַֽחַרְחֻר֙ וּבַחֶ֔רֶב וּבַשִּׁדָּפ֖וֹן וּבַיֵּרָק֑וֹן וּרְדָפ֖וּךָ עַ֥ד אָבְדֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear

• The Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• will strikeנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
• you with consumptionשַׁחֶ֫פֶתshachepheth · wasting diseaseH7829
• inflammationקַדַּ֫חַתqaddachath · feverH6920
• feverדַּלֶּ֫קֶתdalleqeth · inflammationH1816
• feverishחַרְחֻרcharchûr · heatH2746
• the swordחֶ֫רֶבchereb · swordH2719
• with blightשִׁדָּפוֹןshedêphâh shiddâphôn · blightH7711
• and with mildewיֵרָקוֹןyêrâqôn · mildewH3420
• and they will pursueרָדַףrâdaph · to pursueH7291
• you untilעַד‛ad · tillH5704
• you perishאָבַד'âbad · to perishH6

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 28:22

• Leviticus 26:16I, in turn, will do this to you: I will summon a sudden terror against you, consumption and fever that will make the eyes fail and the soul languish; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it.
• 2 Chronicles 6:28“If there is a famine in the land, if there is a plague, if there is blight or mildew, if there is locust or grasshopper, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness there is,
• Jeremiah 14:12When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather, I am going to put an end to them by the sword, famine, and plague.”
• 1 Kings 8:37“If there is a famine in the land, if there is a plague, if there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, if their enemy harasses them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
• Amos 4:9“I struck you with scorching wind and mildew; The caterpillar was devouring Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees; Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.
• Haggai 2:17I struck you and every work of your hands with scorching wind, mildew, and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,’ declares the Lord.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 28:22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22Consumption - שחפת shachepheth, atrophy through lack of food; from שחף shacaph, to be in want. Fever - קדחת kaddachath, from קדח kadach, to be kindled, burn, sparkle; a burning inflammatory fever. Inflammation - דלקת dalleketh, from דלק dalak, to pursue eagerly, to burn after; probably a rapidly consuming cancer. Extreme burning - חרחר charchur, burning upon burning, scald upon scald; from חר char, to be heated, enraged, etc. This probably refers, not…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. 22Some scholars think these symptoms may describe tuberculosis, a serious infectious disease that usually affects the lungs.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. a consumption--a wasting disorder; but the modern tuberculosis is almost unknown in Asia. fever ... inflammation ... extreme burning--Fever is rendered "burning ague" (Le 26:16), and the others mentioned along with it evidently point to those febrile affections which are of malignant character and great frequency in the East. the sword--rather, "dryness"--the effect on the human body of such violent disorders. blasting, and with mildew--two…Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 28:22

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Backsliders
• Blasting
• Congestion
• Consumption
• Disease
• Disobedience to God
• Fear of God
• Fever
• Holy Spirit
• Idolatry
• Judgments
• Mildew
• Obedience
• Reprobacy
• Sanitation
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Above
• Ague
• Command
• Crush
• Delicateness
• Doubt
• Dress
• Emerods
• Enjoy
• Famine

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