Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
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Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
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The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
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The LORD will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the crown of thy head.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 28:35 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 28:27 Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
- Job 2:6-7 Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
- Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
- Isaiah 3:17 therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”
- Isaiah 3:24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 28:35 The LORD shall smite thee in the…
Deu 28:35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
Ver 35. {See Trapp on "Deu 28:34"}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou shall carry much seed into the field,.... And…
Thou shall carry much seed into the field,.... And sow it plentifully; this and what is said in some following verses plainly refer to them while in their own land, before carried captive, and not to their present case and circumstances:
and shall gather but little in at harvest; little springing up, or not coming to perfection, being blighted and blasted, and so yielded but a small crop; see Hag 1:9; and chiefly for the following reason:
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for the locust shall consume it; which is a great destroyer of the fruits of the earth; see Joe 1:4.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 35. With a sore botch] שחין shechin, an…
Verse 35. With a sore botch] שחין shechin, an inflammatory swelling, a burning boil. See De 28:27.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and…
the Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs--This is an exact description of elephantiasis, a horrible disease, something like leprosy, which attacks particularly the lower extremities.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 35. Smite thee in the knees — The threatened…
35. Smite thee in the knees — The threatened calamities are here presented in another view. The Lord will smite the people with leprosy. This disease excludes the one afflicted with it from the congregation of Israel. We are then to understand that the nation, for its sins, will be excluded from fellowship of Jehovah. Leprosy is used as a type of sin. The nation will become as a leper. Comp. Isa_1:5-6. In the days of the prophet the whole nation had become as a body with a mass of wounds and bruises and putrefying sores.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (35) A sore botch.—A boil, as in Deu_28:27.
(35) A sore botch.—A boil, as in Deu_28:27.
In the knees.—Comp. Eze_7:17; Eze_21:7, “All knees shall be weak as water.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 35-46. Third group. Moses reverts to the calamities…
Vers. 35-46. Third group. Moses reverts to the calamities already threatened (ver. 27), for the purpose of leading on the thought that, as such diseases separated the sufferer from the society of his fellows, so Israel should be separated from God and brought under the dominion of strangers as a punishment for rebellion and apostasy.
A sore botch; an incurable leprosy, affecting not merely the joints and extremities, but the whole body. Such an affliction would exclude a man from all fellowship and from all covenant privileges of the nation. So Israel, rendered unclean by their sin, should be cut off from covenant union with God.
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