You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
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You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
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Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
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Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 28:41 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 28:32 Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.
- Lamentations 1:5 Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
- 2 Kings 24:14 He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. No one remained, except the poorest people of the land.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but…
Deu 28:41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
Ver. 41. Thou shalt not enjoy them.] Heb., They shall not be thine; thou shalt be least master of them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Moreover, all these curses shall come upon thee,.... Before…
Moreover, all these curses shall come upon thee,.... Before related, as well as what follow:
and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee till thou be destroyed; which though they would endeavour to flee from and escape, should not be able, since they would follow them so closely and swiftly, and overtake them, and seize upon them; see Deu 28:15,
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because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee; to which disobedience all the curses are to be imputed that go before or follow after.
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