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

19Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be cursed. 20“The Lord himself will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in everything you do, until at last you are completely destroyed for doing evil and abandoning me. The Lord will afflict you with diseases until none of you are left in the land you are about to enter and occupy. 22The Lord will strike you with wasting diseases, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew. These disasters will pursue you until you die. 23The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as 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 5:3But Aaron and Moses persisted. “The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they declared. “So let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness so we can offer sacrifices to the Lord our God. If we don’t, he will kill us with a plague or with the sword.”
• Leviticus 26:5Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain. You will eat your fill and live securely in your own land.
• Numbers 14:12I will disown them and destroy them with a plague. Then I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are!”
• Numbers 16:46And Moses said to Aaron, “Quick, take an incense burner and place burning coals on it from the altar. Lay incense on it, and carry it out among the people to purify them and make them right with the Lord. The Lord’s anger is blazing against them—the plague has already begun.”
• Numbers 25:9but not before 24,000 people had died.
• 2 Samuel 24:15So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel that morning, and it lasted for three days. A total of 70,000 people died throughout the nation, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south.
• Jeremiah 15:2And if they say to you, ‘But where can we go?’ tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says: “‘Those who are destined for death, to death; those who are destined for war, to war; those who are destined for famine, to famine; those who are destined for captivity, to captivity.’
• Jeremiah 16:4They will die from terrible diseases. No one will mourn for them or bury them, and they will lie scattered on the ground like manure. They will die from war and famine, and their bodies will be food for the vultures and wild animals.”
• Jeremiah 21:6I will send a terrible plague upon this city, and both people and animals will die.
• Jeremiah 24:10And I will send war, famine, and disease until they have vanished from the land of Israel, which I gave to them and their ancestors.”
• Matthew 26:7While he was eating, a woman came in with a beautiful alabaster jar of expensive perfume and poured it over his head.

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