I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
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I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
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And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
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And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 26:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 4:27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.
- Deuteronomy 28:64-66 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone. Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul. Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be afraid night and day, and will have no assurance of your life.
- Ezekiel 20:23 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;
- Zechariah 7:14 “but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
- Psalms 44:11 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
- Ezekiel 22:15 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will consume your filthiness out of you.
- Jeremiah 9:16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
- Lamentations 4:15 “Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”
- 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.
- Lamentations 1:3 Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude. She dwells among the nations. She finds no rest. All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
- Ezekiel 12:14-16 I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands. I will draw out the sword after them. “ ‘They will know that I am Yahweh when I disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries. But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”
- James 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Signifying that no enemy can come without God’s sending.
Signifying that no enemy can come without God’s sending.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 26:33 And I will scatter you among the…
Lev 26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
Ver. 33. And I will scatter you.] As chaff. Compare Psa 44:11 Zec 7:14. Therefore "fan you, fan you, O nation, not to be desired before the day pass as the chaff," &c. {Zep 2:1-2} {See Trapp on "Zep 2:1"} {See Trapp on "Zep 2:2"}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The sword shall follow you into strange lands, and…
The sword shall follow you into strange lands, and you shall have no rest there.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths,.... The sabbatical…
Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths,.... The sabbatical years, or seventh year sabbaths, when, according to the law in the preceding chapter, it was to rest from tillage, Lev 25:2,
as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; so long it should lie uncultivated, at least in part, there not being a sufficient number left to till it in general, or as it should be; this was the case during the seventy years' captivity in Babylon:
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even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths; or complete them, as Aben Ezra, which is a bitter sarcasm upon them for their neglect of observance of the law concerning the sabbatical years; but now the land should have its sabbaths of rest whether they would or not; and it seems as if it was on account of this sin, as well as others, that they were carried captive; and it is remarkable, if what Maimonides (x) says is right, that it was at the going out or end of a sabbatical year, that the first temple was destroyed, and the Jews carried captive, and endured a seventy years' captivity; which some say was because they had neglected seventy sabbatical years; see Ch2 36:21.
(x) Hilchot Shemitah Vejobel, c. 10. sect. 3.
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After you - The sword shall follow you into strange lands, and you shall have no rest there.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain I will scatter you among the heathen, &c.--as was…
I will scatter you among the heathen, &c.--as was done when the elite of the nation were removed into Assyria and placed in various parts of the kingdom.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 33. I will scatter you — This admonitory prophecy…
33. I will scatter you — This admonitory prophecy looks beyond the captivity of Israel in Babylon, its first fulfilment, to that world-wide dispersion which began at the destruction of Jerusalem and continues to this day, a miracle of national life perpetuated in spite of all opposing forces and destructive agencies, a people “scattered and peeled,” dwelling in every nation, yet resisting absorption and assimilation. “THE DISPERSION” was the general title applied to those Jews who remained in foreign countries after the return from Babylon, during the period of the second temple. Most of them were in bondage, and shut out from the full privileges of the chosen race. Joh_7:35; Jas_1:1, notes. There are legends pointing to settlements of Jews in Arabia, Ethiopia and Abyssinia. At the beginning of the Christian era the “dispersion” was divided into three great sections — the Babylonian, the Syrian, and the Egyptian. For the breadth of the dispersion, see Act_2:9-11, note. Its influence on the rapid promulgation of Christianity can scarcely be overrated. The course of apostolic preaching follows, in a regular progress, the line of Jewish settlements. Thus the wickedness of Israel was overruled for the furtherance of the Gospel.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 33. will draw out the sword] For this expression,…
33. will draw out the sword] For this expression, as implying the hot pursuit of fugitives, see Eze_5:2; Eze_5:12; Eze_12:14.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (33) And I will scatter you among the heathen.—They…
(33) And I will scatter you among the heathen.—They will not even be permitted to tarry among the ruins of their favoured places, but God Himself, who brings about the desolation, will disperse the surviving inhabitants far and wide.
And will draw out a sword after you.—To show how complete this dispersion is to be, God is represented with a drawn sword in His hand pursuing them and scattering them, so that both their land and every city in it should be denuded of them, and that there should be no possibility of any of them turning back. Thus the sword which God promised should not go through their land (see Lev_26:6) if they walk according to the Divine commandments, will now be wielded by Himself to bring about their utter dispersion from the land. A similar appalling scene is described by Jeremiah: “I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers hare known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them” (Jer_9:16, with Jer_42:16-18; Eze_12:14).
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