Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
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Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
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And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
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And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness; and He will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 7:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 15:26 He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
- Psalms 105:36-37 He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood. He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
- Leviticus 26:3-4 “ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- Deuteronomy 28:60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.
- Exodus 9:11 The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
- 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.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 7:15 And the LORD will take away from…
Deu 7:15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all [them] that hate thee.
Ver. 15. And the Lord.] Health is a sweet mercy; Non est vivere, sed valere vita, {a} A sickly life is a lifeless life. A healthy body is the reward of piety. {Pro 3:8}
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{a} Martial.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The evil diseases of Egypt; such as the Egyptians…
The evil diseases of Egypt; such as the Egyptians were infested with, either commonly, as that botch, Deu 28:27; or miraculously and extraordinarily, from the hand of the Lord, as Exo 9:10,15. Compare Exo 23:25; Psa 105:37.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And will take away from thee all sickness,.... Bodily…
And will take away from thee all sickness,.... Bodily sickness and diseases, prevent the coming of them, or remove them when come:
and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt which thou knowest upon thee; meaning either the plagues that were inflicted upon them to oblige them to let the Israelites go, of which they had perfect knowledge; or else some noxious and nauseous diseases, which were common among, and peculiar to, the Egyptians, particularly what is called the botch of Egypt; see Exo 15:26, likewise the leprosy; See Gill on Lev 13:2; see Gill on Deu 28:27.
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but will lay them upon all them that hate thee; with which God sometimes punishes his and his people's enemies; see Jdg 5:9.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The diseases of Egypt - Such as the Egyptians…
The diseases of Egypt - Such as the Egyptians were infected with, either commonly, or miraculously. It seems to refer not only to the plagues of Egypt, but to some other epidemic disease, which they remembered to have prevailed among the Egyptians, and by which God had chastised them for their national sins. Diseases are God's servants, which go where he sends them, and do what he bids them.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 7:15. The diseases of Egypt — Such as…
Deu 7:15. The diseases of Egypt — Such as the Egyptians were infected with, either commonly, or miraculously. It seems to refer not only to the plagues of Egypt, but to some other epidemic diseases, which they remembered to have prevailed among the Egyptians, and by which God had chastised them for their national sins. The leprosy, and other cutaneous distempers, were frequent in Egypt. The Scriptures also mention the botch of Egypt, as a disease common in that country, Deu 28:27. Diseases are God’s servants, which go where he sends them, and do what he bids them.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain There seems to be here not so much as…
There seems to be here not so much as a reference to the plagues inflicted miraculously by God on Egypt (compare Exo 15:26), as to the terrible diseases with which, above other countries, Egypt was infested. Compare Deu 28:27, Deu 28:35. It is not without significance that Egypt, which represents in Scripture the world as contrasted with the Church, should thus above other lands lie under the power of disease and death.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Sickness, sent in punishment of sin, (Haydock) like the…
Sickness, sent in punishment of sin, (Haydock) like the plagues of Egypt, Exodus ix. (Menochius) --- Egypt was afflicted with some peculiar disorders, such as the leprosy, called Elephantiasis. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xxvi. 1.) The people were also much troubled with sore eyes, or blindness, and with ulcers upon their legs. (Juvenal, Sat. xiii. 91.) One-fourth of the inhabitants of Grand Cairo have sore eyes, or are blind. (Brun.) --- Joinville speaks of the diseases which attacked the army of St. Louis in Egypt, preying chiefly upon the legs and gums, and causing them to putrify. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the evil diseases of Egypt--(See Exo 15:26). Besides those…
the evil diseases of Egypt--(See Exo 15:26). Besides those with which Pharaoh and his subjects were visited, Egypt has always been dreadfully scourged with diseases. The testimony of Moses is confirmed by the reports of many modern writers, who tell us that, notwithstanding its equal temperature and sereneness, that country has some indigenous maladies which are very malignant, such as ophthalmia, dysentery, smallpox, and the plague.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. take away … all sickness] Exo_23:25 (edit.).
15. take away … all sickness] Exo_23:25 (edit.).
evil diseases of Egypt] In Exo_15:26 (edit.) the sicknesses (another word) refers to the special plagues brought on the Egyptians by Jehovah for Israel’s sake. Here the reference is rather to the natural ailments of men of which in antiquity Egypt was notoriously the source: elephantiasis, ‘Aegypti peculiare malum’ (Pliny, H.N. xxvi. 1, 5), ophthalmia, dysentery, but especially the bubonic plague (Hecataeus of Abdera in Diod. Sic. xl. 3). See the present writer’s Hist. Geog. of the Holy Land, 157 f., 670; and cp. below note on Deu_28:27.
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which thou knowest] hast had experience of, see on Deu_7:9.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) Evil diseases.—The word for diseases here used is…
(15) Evil diseases.—The word for diseases here used is found only in Deuteronomy (see Deu_28:60). It must not be forgotten that the law of Moses was in many of its details a sanitary quite as much as a moral code. Some of the associations of this word and the root from which it is derived would seem to point to those “languors” and “infirmities” which arise from neglect and violation of the laws of God, both moral and physical.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The mercy of God should be showed to them…
The mercy of God should be showed to them also in preserving them from sickness, especially of a virulent and dangerous kind, such as they had seen in Egypt, where disease has in all ages readily assumed a malignant character ("Encyc. Brit.," art. "Egypt"), and where especially cutaneous diseases of the worst kind prevail. (comp. Deu_33:27) Such diseases the Lord would rather cause to fall on their enemies.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 7:15 The terrible diseases . . . in Egypt…
7:15 The terrible diseases . . . in Egypt were perhaps illnesses related to the plagues (e.g., Exod 9:9) or other serious diseases that regularly afflicted the Egyptians.
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