Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
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The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
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The LORD will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them; and thou shalt be a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 28:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 30:17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
- Ezekiel 23:46 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
- Deuteronomy 28:7 Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.
- Jeremiah 24:9 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I will drive them.
- Leviticus 26:17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
- Deuteronomy 32:30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
- Leviticus 26:36-37 “ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues. They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.
- Jeremiah 15:2-9 It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’ “I will appoint over them four kinds,” says Yahweh: “the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy. I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn you? Who will come to ask of your welfare? You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion. I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land. I have bereaved them of children. I have destroyed my people. They didn’t return from their ways. Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas. I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly. She who has borne seven languishes. She has given up the spirit. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day. She has been disappointed and confounded. I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies,” says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 29:18 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
- Jeremiah 34:17 Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Luke 21:24 They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Some read, thou shalt be a terror and fear,…
Some read, thou shalt be a terror and fear, when they shall hear how God hath plagued thee.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 28:25 The LORD shall cause thee to be…
Deu 28:25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Ver. 25. The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten.] David well understood the heaviness of this stroke, and therefore chose rather to fall into God’s hands another way, {2Sa 24:14} since "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruelties": -
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“ Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem. ”
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Removed. Heb. for a removing; to be tossed like…
Removed. Heb. for a removing; to be tossed like a football from place to place, and from people to people.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The Lord shall smite thee with madness,.... At the…
The Lord shall smite thee with madness,.... At the calamities befallen them, and through the force of diseases on them:
and blindness; not of body, but of mind; with judicial blindness and hardness of heart:
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and astonishment of heart; at the miserable condition they and their families should be in.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Scattered, as they are at present. The real import…
Scattered, as they are at present. The real import of the Hebrew is doubtful. Some agree with the Vulgate and Septuagint; (Haydock) others translate, Thou shalt be trembling, an object of astonishment and horror. Others, All who see thee shall quake; they shall insult over thee, wagging their head. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 25. To be smitten before thine enemies — In…
25. To be smitten before thine enemies — In contrast with the blessing in the seventh verse.
Thou shalt go out one way… and flee seven — How graphic the description of an army marching to battle in confident expectation of victory, and then beaten disastrously, fleeing in every direction!
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Shalt be removed — “Tossed about like a ball from one nation to another.” — Wordsworth.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25. See on Deu_28:7; Deu_28:20 a.
25. See on Deu_28:7; Deu_28:20 a.
tossed to and fro] Rather, for a trembling or a horror (Heb. leza‘avah). So the v. does not necessarily imply exile. Cp. Jer_15:4; Jer_24:9; Jer_29:18; Jer_34:17.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (25) The contrary to Deu_28:7.
(25) The contrary to Deu_28:7.
Removed.—Literally, a removing. The LXX. in this place has διασπορά, or dispersion, the word used for the dispersed Israelites in the New Testament. (See Revised Version, Joh_7:35; 1Pe_1:1.) The threat is repeated in Jer_15:4 for the sins of king Manaseeh.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 25, 26. Utter defeat in battle (the opposite…
Vers. 25, 26. Utter defeat in battle (the opposite of the blessing promised, ver. 7) and dispersion among the nations are threatened, with the utmost indignity to those who were slain, in their bodies being left unburied to be devoured by birds of prey and wild beasts (cf. 1Ki_14:11; Psa_79:2; Jer_7:33 Jer_16:4, etc.) Shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth; literally, shalt be a tossing to and fro to all the kingdoms , etc.; "a ball for all the kingdoms to play with". (Schultz; cf. 2Ch_29:8; Jer_15:4 Jer_24:9 Jer_29:18, etc.)
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Moses speaks to the Israelites as if they were one man, so the words "you" and "your" here are singular. (See: Forms of You)
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Yahweh will cause you to be struck down before your enemies
This can be stated in active form. AT: "Yahweh will cause your enemies to strike you down" (See: Active or Passive)
to be struck down before
See how you translated this in Deuteronomy 28:7.
will flee before them seven ways
This means the Israelites will be afraid and panic and run away from their enemies. See similar wording in Deuteronomy 28:7. AT: "you will flee in seven directions" (See: Numbers)
seven ways
This is an idiom. AT: "in many different directions" (See: Idiom)
You will be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms
This can be stated in active form. AT: "The peoples of the other nations will drive you from one nation to another" (See: Active or Passive)
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kingdom
earth
die
body
heaven
beast
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 28:25 This verse reverses the blessing of 28:7; Israel…
28:25 This verse reverses the blessing of 28:7; Israel would be forced to scatter from their enemies in seven directions—i.e., completely and totally.
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