Curses for Disobedience

Deuteronomy 28:15-68

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Genesis

The Creation of the World 1:1-2:3 The Creation of Man and Woman 2:4-25 The Fall of Man 3:1-24 Cain and Abel 4:1-26 From Adam to Noah 5:1-32 The Flood 6:1-8:22 God’s Covenant with Noah 9:1-17 Noah’s Drunkenness and Curse 9:18-29 Nations Descended from Noah 10:1-32 The Tower of Babel 11:1-9 From Shem to Abram 11:10-32 The Call of Abram 12:1-9 Abram in Egypt 12:10-20 Abram and Lot Separate 13:1-18 Abram Rescues Lot 14:1-24 God’s Covenant with Abram 15:1-21 Hagar and Ishmael 16:1-16 The Covenant of Circumcision 17:1-27 A Son Promised to Sarah 18:1-15 Abraham Intercedes for Sodom 18:16-33 The Destruction of Sodom 19:1-29 The Origin of Moab and Ammon 19:30-38 Abraham and Abimelech 20:1-18 The Birth of Isaac 21:1-7 Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away 21:8-21 A Treaty with Abimelech 21:22-34 The Sacrifice of Isaac 22:1-19 Nahor’s Children 22:20-24 The Death and Burial of Sarah 23:1-20 A Wife for Isaac 24:1-67 The Death of Abraham 25:1-11 Ishmael’s Descendants 25:12-18 Esau and Jacob 25:19-34 Isaac and Abimelech 26:1-35 Jacob Takes Esau’s Blessing 27:1-40 Jacob Sent to Paddan-aram 27:41-28:9 Jacob’s Dream at Bethel 28:10-22 Jacob Meets Rachel 29:1-14 Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel 29:15-30 The Children of Jacob 29:31-30:24 Jacob’s Prosperity 30:25-43 Jacob Flees from Laban 31:1-21 Jacob and Laban Make a Covenant 31:22-55 Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau 32:1-21 Jacob Wrestles with God 32:22-32 Jacob Meets Esau 33:1-20 Dinah and the Shechemites 34:1-31 God Blesses Jacob at Bethel 35:1-15 Deaths of Rachel and Isaac 35:16-29 Esau’s Descendants 36:1-30 The Kings of Edom 36:31-43 Joseph’s Dreams 37:1-11 Joseph Sold by His Brothers 37:12-36 Judah and Tamar 38:1-30 Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife 39:1-23 Joseph Interprets Dreams in Prison 40:1-23 Pharaoh’s Dreams 41:1-40 Joseph Rises to Power 41:41-57 Joseph’s Brothers Go to Egypt 42:1-38 Joseph’s Brothers Return with Benjamin 43:1-34 The Silver Cup 44:1-34 Joseph Reveals Himself 45:1-28 Jacob Goes to Egypt 46:1-47:12 Joseph and the Famine 47:13-31 Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh 48:1-22 Jacob Blesses His Sons 49:1-28 The Death and Burial of Jacob 49:29-50:14 Joseph Reassures His Brothers 50:15-21 The Death of Joseph 50:22-26

Exodus

Israel Increases in Egypt 1:1-22 The Birth of Moses 2:1-10 Moses Flees to Midian 2:11-25 The Burning Bush 3:1-22 Signs for Moses 4:1-17 Moses Returns to Egypt 4:18-31 Moses and Aaron Before Pharaoh 5:1-21 God Promises Deliverance 5:22-6:12 The Genealogy of Moses and Aaron 6:13-27 Moses and Aaron Sent to Pharaoh 6:28-7:7 Aaron’s Staff Becomes a Serpent 7:8-13 The First Plague: Water to Blood 7:14-24 The Second Plague: Frogs 7:25-8:15 The Third Plague: Gnats 8:16-19 The Fourth Plague: Flies 8:20-32 The Fifth Plague: Livestock Die 9:1-7 The Sixth Plague: Boils 9:8-12 The Seventh Plague: Hail 9:13-35 The Eighth Plague: Locusts 10:1-20 The Ninth Plague: Darkness 10:21-29 A Final Plague Threatened 11:1-10 The Passover 12:1-30 The Exodus 12:31-42 Passover Regulations 12:43-51 Consecration of the Firstborn 13:1-16 Crossing the Red Sea 13:17-14:31 The Song of Moses 15:1-21 Bitter Water Made Sweet 15:22-27 Manna from Heaven 16:1-36 Water from the Rock 17:1-7 Amalek Defeated 17:8-16 Jethro’s Advice 18:1-27 Israel at Mount Sinai 19:1-25 The Ten Commandments 20:1-21 Laws About Altars 20:22-21:1 Laws About Slaves 21:2-11 Laws About Personal Injuries 21:12-36 Laws About Restitution 22:1-15 Laws About Holiness 22:16-31 Laws About Justice 23:1-9 Sabbath Years and Weeks 23:10-13 The Three Feasts 23:14-19 The Angel and the Promises 23:20-33 The Covenant Confirmed 24:1-18 Contributions for the Sanctuary 25:1-9 The Ark of the Testimony 25:10-22 The Table for Bread 25:23-30 The Golden Lampstand 25:31-40 The Tabernacle 26:1-37 The Bronze Altar 27:1-8 The Court of the Tabernacle 27:9-19 Oil for the Lamp 27:20-21 The Priests’ Garments 28:1-5 The Ephod 28:6-14 The Breastpiece of Judgment 28:15-30 Other Priestly Garments 28:31-43 Consecration of the Priests 29:1-46 The Altar of Incense 30:1-10 The Census Tax 30:11-16 The Bronze Basin 30:17-21 The Anointing Oil 30:22-33 The Incense 30:34-38 Oholiab and Bezalel 31:1-11 The Sabbath Sign 31:12-18 The Golden Calf 32:1-33:6 The Tent of Meeting 33:7-11 Moses’ Intercession and God’s Glory 33:12-23 New Tablets and Covenant 34:1-28 The Shining Face of Moses 34:29-35 Sabbath Regulations 35:1-3 Freewill Offerings for the Tabernacle 35:4-29 Bezalel and Oholiab Set Apart 35:30-36:7 Making the Tabernacle 36:8-38 Making the Ark 37:1-9 Making the Table 37:10-16 Making the Lampstand 37:17-24 Making the Altar of Incense 37:25-29 Making the Bronze Altar 38:1-7 Making the Bronze Basin 38:8 Making the Court 38:9-20 Materials of the Tabernacle 38:21-31 Making the Priests’ Garments 39:1 The Ephod Made 39:2-7 The Breastpiece Made 39:8-21 Other Garments Made 39:22-31 The Work Completed 39:32-43 The Tabernacle Erected 40:1-33 The Glory Fills the Tabernacle 40:34-38

Numbers

The Census of Israel 1:1-54 Arrangement of the Camp 2:1-34 The Levites’ Duties 3:1-51 Kohathites’ Service 4:1-20 Gershonites’ Service 4:21-28 Merarites’ Service 4:29-33 Census of the Levites 4:34-49 Unclean Removed from Camp 5:1-4 Restitution for Wrongs 5:5-10 The Test for Adultery 5:11-31 The Nazirite Vow 6:1-21 The Priestly Blessing 6:22-27 Offerings of the Leaders 7:1-89 The Lamps 8:1-4 The Levites Consecrated 8:5-26 The Passover Celebrated 9:1-14 The Cloud Over the Tabernacle 9:15-23 The Silver Trumpets 10:1-10 Departure from Sinai 10:11-36 Complaint and Quail; Seventy Elders 11:1-35 Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses 12:1-16 Spies Sent into Canaan 13:1-25 Report of the Spies 13:26-33 The People Rebel 14:1-45 Offerings and Firstfruits 15:1-21 Unintentional Sin and Presumptuous Sin 15:22-31 The Sabbath-Breaker 15:32-36 Tassels on Garments 15:37-41 Korah’s Rebellion 16:1-50 Aaron’s Staff Buds 17:1-13 Priests’ and Levites’ Duties 18:1-7 Portions for Priests and Levites 18:8-32 The Red Heifer 19:1-22 Water from the Rock at Meribah 20:1-13 Edom Refuses Passage 20:14-21 Aaron’s Death 20:22-29 Arad Defeated 21:1-3 The Bronze Serpent 21:4-9 Journeys in the Wilderness 21:10-20 Victories over Sihon and Og 21:21-35 Balaam Summoned 22:1-20 Balaam’s Donkey and the Angel 22:21-41 Balaam’s First Oracle 23:1-12 Balaam’s Second Oracle 23:13-26 Balaam’s Third Oracle 23:27-24:14 The Star out of Jacob 24:15-19 Balaam’s Final Sayings 24:20-25 Baal of Peor and Phinehas 25:1-18 The Second Census 26:1-65 Daughters of Zelophehad 27:1-11 Joshua Appointed 27:12-23 Daily Offerings 28:1-8 Sabbath Offerings 28:9-10 Monthly Offerings 28:11-15 Passover Offerings 28:16-25 Weeks (Firstfruits) Offerings 28:26-31 Trumpets Offerings 29:1-6 Day of Atonement Offerings 29:7-11 Booths Offerings 29:12-40 Vows 30:1-16 War with Midian—Spoils 31:1-24 Division of the Spoils 31:25-54 Reuben, Gad, and Half-Manasseh 32:1-42 Stages of Israel’s Journey 33:1-56 Boundaries of the Land 34:1-29 Levitical Cities 35:1-5 Cities of Refuge 35:6-34 Marriage of Zelophehad’s Daughters 36:1-13

Deuteronomy

Preamble and Setting 1:1-8 Leaders Appointed 1:9-18 Spies Sent 1:19-25 Rebellion and Judgment 1:26-46 Journey Through Edom, Moab, Ammon 2:1-23 Victory over Sihon 2:24-37 Victory over Og 3:1-11 Allotment East of Jordan 3:12-20 Moses Forbidden to Enter 3:21-29 Call to Obey 4:1-14 No Idols 4:15-31 The LORD Alone Is God 4:32-40 Cities of Refuge East 4:41-43 Introduction to the Law 4:44-49 The Ten Commandments Rehearsed 5:1-33 The Shema and Instruction 6:1-25 Warning Against the Nations 7:1-26 Do Not Forget the LORD 8:1-20 Not for Your Righteousness 9:1-6 Israel’s Rebellions Recounted 9:7-29 New Tablets; Ark 10:1-11 Fear the LORD 10:12-22 Love, Obey, Choose 11:1-32 The Place of Worship 12:1-32 False Prophets and Idolatry 13:1-18 Clean and Unclean Foods 14:1-21 Tithes 14:22-29 Sabbatical Year 15:1-11 Hebrew Slaves 15:12-18 Firstborn Animals 15:19-23 Passover 16:1-8 Weeks 16:9-12 Booths 16:13-17 Justice 16:18-20 Forbidden Worship 16:21-17:7 Difficult Cases 17:8-13 Laws for the King 17:14-20 Provision for Levites 18:1-8 Abominable Practices 18:9-13 A Prophet Like Moses 18:14-22 Cities of Refuge 19:1-14 Witnesses and Penalties 19:15-21 Rules for War 20:1-20 Unsolved Murder 21:1-9 Wives from War 21:10-14 Rights of the Firstborn 21:15-17 Rebellious Son 21:18-21 Various Laws 21:22-22:12 Laws of Chastity 22:13-30 Assembly Exclusions 23:1-8 Camp Purity 23:9-14 Various Laws Continued 23:15-25:19 Firstfruits and Tithes Confession 26:1-15 You Are the LORD’s People 26:16-19 Law on Stones and Altar 27:1-8 Curses Pronounced 27:9-26 Blessings for Obedience 28:1-14 Curses for Disobedience 28:15-68 Renewal in Moab 29:1-29 Choose Life 30:1-20 Joshua Commissioned 31:1-8 Public Reading of the Law 31:9-13 Moses’ Warning of Apostasy 31:14-29 The Song of Moses 31:30-32:47 Moses to Die on Nebo 32:48-52 Moses Blesses Israel 33:1-29 The Death of Moses 34:1-12

Joshua

Joshua Commissioned and Encouraged 1:1-18 Rahab Protects the Spies 2:1-24 Crossing the Jordan and Memorial Stones 3:1-4:24 Renewal at Gilgal: Circumcision and Passover 5:1-12 The Commander Appears and the Fall of Jericho 5:13-6:27 Defeat at Ai and Achan's Sin Revealed 7:1-26 The Capture and Destruction of Ai 8:1-29 Altar on Mount Ebal and the Law Proclaimed 8:30-35 The Gibeonite Deception and Treaty 9:1-27 Victory at Gibeon and the Long Day 10:1-15 Capture and Execution of the Five Kings 10:16-28 The Southern Campaign and Conquest of Cities 10:29-43 Defeat of the Northern Coalition and Hazor Destroyed 11:1-23 Lists of Kings Defeated East and West of the Jordan 12:1-24 Land Remaining to Be Possessed 13:1-7 Allotments East of the Jordan 13:8-33 Procedure for Distributing the Land and Levitical Cities 14:1-5 Caleb's Claim and Inheritance of Hebron 14:6-15 Boundaries and Towns of Judah 15:1-63 Ephraim and West Manasseh: Boundaries and Claims 16:1-17:18 Shiloh Established and the Land Surveyed 18:1-10 Territory and Towns of Benjamin 18:11-28 Territory of Simeon 19:1-9 Territory of Zebulun 19:10-16 Territory of Issachar 19:17-23 Territory of Asher 19:24-31 Territory of Naphtali 19:32-39 Territory of Dan 19:40-48 Completion of the Allotments and Joshua's Inheritance 19:49-51 Cities of Refuge Established 20:1-9 Levitical Cities and Their Holdings 21:1-45 The Eastern Tribes' Altar and the Reconciliation 22:1-34 Joshua's Farewell Exhortation and Warning 23:1-16 Renewal of the Covenant at Shechem 24:1-27 Death and Burial of Joshua and Eleazar 24:28-33

1 Samuel

Hannah's Prayer for a Son 1:1-20 Hannah Presents Samuel to the Lord 1:21-28 Hannah's Song of Praise 2:1-11 Eli's Corrupt Sons and Samuel's Childhood 2:12-26 Prophecy of Judgment on Eli's House 2:27-36 Samuel's Call and the Lord's Word to Eli 3:1-4:1 Israel Defeated and the Ark Captured 4:2-11 Eli's Death and the Birth of Ichabod 4:12-22 The Ark Brings Judgment in Philistine Cities 5:1-12 The Ark Returned to Israel 6:1-7:1 Samuel Judges Israel and Delivers Them at Mizpah 7:2-17 Israel Demands a King 8:1-22 Saul Chosen and Given Signs 9:1-10:8 Saul Proclaimed King by Lot 10:9-27 Saul's Victory at Jabesh-Gilead 11:1-11 Saul Confirmed as King at Gilgal 11:12-15 Samuel's Farewell and Exhortation to Israel 12:1-25 Saul's Unauthorized Sacrifice and Rebuke 13:1-15 Philistine Pressure and Israel's Lack of Arms 13:16-22 Jonathan's Bold Assault and Victory 13:23-14:14 Saul's Rash Oath and Its Consequences 14:15-23 Saul's Pursuit and Jonathan's Exploits 14:24-48 Saul's Family and Mighty Men 14:49-52 Saul's Disobedience and Rejection as King 15:1-35 David Anointed by Samuel 16:1-13 David Serves Saul and Eases His Torment 16:14-23 David and Goliath 17:1-58 David's Rise and Saul's Jealousy 18:1-30 Saul's Attempts on David's Life and Jonathan's Intervention 19:1-24 David and Jonathan's Covenant 20:1-42 David at Nob: Bread and Goliath's Sword 21:1-9 David Feigns Madness at Gath 21:10-15 David Gathers Followers and Seeks Priestly Aid 22:1-5 Massacre at Nob and Abiathar Joins David 22:6-23 David Delivers Keilah and Inquires of God 23:1-6 Saul's Pursuit, Ziphite Betrayal, and David's Escape 23:7-29 David Spares Saul in a Cave 24:1-22 Nabal's Folly and Abigail's Intervention 25:1-44 David Again Spares Saul in His Camp 26:1-25 David Seeks Refuge with Achish 27:1-12 Saul and the Witch of Endor 28:1-25 The Philistines Reject David 29:1-11 David Recovers His Family and Defeats the Amalekites 30:1-31 The Death of Saul and His Sons 31:1-13

2 Samuel

An Amalekite Reports Saul and Jonathan's Death 1:1-16 David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan 1:17-27 David Anointed King of Judah at Hebron 2:1-7 Ish‑Bosheth Made King; Civil War with David Begins 2:8-3:5 Abner Seeks Alliance with David 3:6-21 Joab Murders Abner; David's Protest and Mourning 3:22-39 Ish‑Bosheth Assassinated 4:1-12 David Anointed King over All Israel 5:1-5 David Captures Jerusalem and Establishes His House 5:6-16 David's Victories over the Philistines 5:17-25 Bringing the Ark to Jerusalem; Uzzah's Death and David's Joy 6:1-23 God's Covenant with David 7:1-17 David's Prayer of Thanksgiving for God's Promise 7:18-29 David's Military Victories 8:1-14 David's Officials and Mighty Men 8:15-18 David Shows Kindness to Mephibosheth 9:1-13 War with the Ammonites and Syrians 10:1-19 David and Bathsheba; the Death of Uriah 11:1-27 Nathan Rebukes David; Judgment and Aftermath 12:1-31 Amnon's Crime against Tamar 13:1-22 Absalom Kills Amnon and Flees 13:23-39 Joab Secures Absalom's Return and Reconciliation 14:1-33 Absalom's Conspiracy and Rise to Power 15:1-12 David Flees Jerusalem; Loyal Followers Accompany Him 15:13-37 Ziba Brings Provisions to David 16:1-4 Shimei Curses David as He Flees 16:5-14 Counsel in Absalom's Court; Ahithophel's Plan and Hushai's Counterplot 16:15-17:29 Battle in the Forest of Ephraim and Absalom's Death 18:1-18 Reports of Victory and David's Grief for Absalom 18:19-19:8 David's Return to Jerusalem; Reconciliation and Disputes 19:9-43 Sheba's Revolt and Its Suppression 20:1-26 Famine and the Gibeonites' Demand; Saul's Descendants Executed 21:1-14 David's Battles with the Philistines and the Valor of His Men 21:15-22 David's Song of Deliverance 22:1-51 David's Final Oracle 23:1-7 The Deeds of David's Mighty Warriors 23:8-39 David's Census and the Resulting Plague 24:1-17 David Purchases the Threshing Floor; Sacrifice and End of Plague 24:18-25

1 Kings

Adonijah Attempts to Seize the Throne 1:1-27 Solomon Anointed King 1:28-53 David's Charge to Solomon and Death 2:1-12 Solomon Consolidates His Power 2:13-46 Solomon's Request for Wisdom 3:1-15 Solomon's Wise Judgment 3:16-28 Solomon's Officials and Administrative Order 4:1-19 The Wealth and Prosperity of Israel 4:20-28 Solomon's Wisdom and Fame 4:29-34 Alliances and Preparations for the Temple 5:1-18 Solomon Builds the Temple 6:1-38 Solomon's Palace and Structural Works 7:1-12 Temple Furnishings and the Work of Hiram 7:13-51 The Ark Brought into the Temple 8:1-21 Solomon's Prayer of Dedication 8:22-61 The Dedication Celebrated with Sacrifice 8:62-66 God's Promise and Warning to Solomon 9:1-9 Solomon's Building Projects and Trade 9:10-28 The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon 10:1-13 The Wealth and Splendor of Solomon's Reign 10:14-29 Solomon's Foreign Wives and Apostasy 11:1-13 Adversaries Raised Against Solomon 11:14-25 Jeroboam's Call and the Promise of Division 11:26-40 Summary of Solomon's Reign and Death 11:41-43 Rehoboam's Folly and the Kingdom Divides 12:1-24 Jeroboam Establishes Golden Calves 12:25-33 Prophetic Rebuke at Bethel and Deception 13:1-34 Ahijah's Prophecy Against Jeroboam 14:1-20 Rehoboam's Unfaithfulness and Shishak's Invasion 14:21-31 Abijam's Short Reign in Judah 15:1-8 Asa's Reforms and Early Reign 15:9-24 Nadab's Reign and Baasha's Conspiracy 15:25-32 Baasha's Reign and Jehu's Prophecy 15:33-16:7 Elah Assassinated and Zimri's Usurpation 16:8-14 Zimri's Suicide and Omri's Rise to Power 16:15-20 Omri Establishes Samaria as Capital 16:21-28 Ahab and Jezebel Introduce Baal Worship 16:29-34 Elijah Announces the Drought and Is Fed by Ravens 17:1-6 Elijah in Zarephath: Provision and Resurrection 17:7-24 Elijah Confronts Ahab and Prepares for Confrontation 18:1-15 Elijah on Mount Carmel and the Fall of Baal's Prophets 18:16-46 Elijah Flees to Horeb and Is Renewed 19:1-9 God's Response to Elijah and New Commissions 19:10-18 The Call of Elisha 19:19-21 Ben‑hadad Besieges Samaria; Israel's Defiant Response 20:1-12 Israel's Victories Over Aram and Ahab's Mercy 20:13-34 A Prophet Enacts Judgment on the King 20:35-43 Naboth's Vineyard: Ahab and Jezebel's Crime and Punishment 21:1-29 Ahab and Jehoshaphat Seek Counsel; Micaiah's True Prophecy 22:1-28 Ahab Dies at Ramoth‑Gilead 22:29-40 Jehoshaphat's Reign in Judah 22:41-50 Ahaziah Succeeds Ahab and Does Evil 22:51-53

2 Kings

Ahaziah Seeks Counsel and Elijah’s Judgment 1:1-18 Elijah Taken Up; Elisha Succeeds 2:1-18 Elisha Purifies Jericho’s Water 2:19-22 Mockers of Elisha Mauled by Bears 2:23-25 Alliance Against Moab and Elisha’s Miracle 3:1-27 The Widow’s Oil Multiplied 4:1-7 Elisha Restores the Shunammite’s Son 4:8-37 Poisoned Stew Made Safe 4:38-41 Elisha Feeds a Hundred Men 4:42-44 Naaman Healed of Leprosy and Gehazi’s Greed 5:1-27 The Floating Axe Head 6:1-7 Elisha Foils the Aramean Raid 6:8-23 Famine Besieges Samaria 6:24-7:2 Arameans Flee; Samaria’s Deliverance 7:3-20 The Shunammite Restored to Her Land 8:1-6 Elisha Foretells Hazael’s Rise 8:7-15 Jehoram’s Reign in Israel 8:16-24 Ahaziah of Judah Ascends the Throne 8:25-29 Anointing of Jehu as King 9:1-13 Jehu Slays Joram and the House of Ahab 9:14-29 The Death of Jezebel 9:30-37 Jehu Executes Ahab’s Kin at Jezreel 10:1-17 Jehu Destroys Baal Worship 10:18-36 Joash Crowned; Athaliah Overthrown 11:1-21 Joash Repairs the Temple 12:1-21 Jehoahaz of Israel and Aramean Oppression 13:1-9 Jehoash of Israel and Elisha’s Final Acts 13:10-25 Amaziah of Judah: Victory and Pride 14:1-22 Jeroboam II Restores Israel’s Borders 14:23-29 Azariah (Uzziah) King of Judah 15:1-7 Zechariah’s Short Reign and Assassination 15:8-12 Shallum’s Brief Usurpation and Murder 15:13-16 Menahem’s Reign and Tribute to Assyria 15:17-22 Pekahiah Murdered; Pekah’s Conspiracy 15:23-26 Pekah Rules and Wars with Judah 15:27-31 Jotham King of Judah 15:32-38 Ahaz’s Reign and Submission to Assyria 16:1-20 Fall of Samaria and Israel’s Exile 17:1-6 Reasons for Israel’s Exile 17:7-23 Resettling Samaria and Syncretistic Worship 17:24-41 Hezekiah’s Reforms and Fortifications 18:1-16 Rabshakeh’s Taunts before Jerusalem 18:17-37 Hezekiah’s Plea and Isaiah’s Prophecy 19:1-13 Hezekiah’s Prayer of Surrender 19:14-19 The LORD Delivers Jerusalem from Sennacherib 19:20-37 Hezekiah’s Illness, Recovery, and the Sign 20:1-11 Hezekiah’s Pride and a Warning about Babylon 20:12-21 Manasseh’s Long, Wicked Reign 21:1-18 Amon’s Short Reign and Assassination 21:19-26 Josiah Finds the Book of the Law and Reforms 22:1-20 Josiah’s Covenant Renewal and Passover 23:1-30 Jehoahaz Deposed; Jehoiakim Installed by Egypt 23:31-35 Jehoiakim’s Reign and Babylonian Pressure 23:36-24:7 Jehoiachin’s Brief Reign and First Exile 24:8-17 Zedekiah Appointed as Babylon’s Vassal 24:18-19 Siege and Fall of Jerusalem; Destruction and Exile 24:20-25:26 Jehoiachin Released from Babylonian Prison 25:27-30

1 Chronicles

Genealogies from Adam to Abraham 1:1-27 The Descendants of Abraham 1:28-34 The Edomite Genealogies (Esau and Seir) 1:35-54 The Sons of Israel 2:1-2 The Genealogy and Families of Judah 2:3-55 David’s Descendants and the Royal Line 3:1-24 Judahite Families and Notable Descendants 4:1-23 The Families and Settlements of Simeon 4:24-43 Transjordanian Tribes and Their Chiefs 5:1-10 Wars and Settlements East of the Jordan 5:11-22 Loss of Territory and Exile East of the Jordan 5:23-26 The Levites: Genealogy and Temple Service 6:1-81 The Tribe of Issachar 7:1-5 A Register of Benjamin’s Households 7:6-12 A Brief Genealogical Note 7:13 The Tribe of Naphtali 7:14-19 The Tribe of Manasseh 7:20-29 The Tribe of Ephraim 7:30-40 The Genealogy of Benjamin (including Saul’s Line) 8:1-9:1 Resettlement of Jerusalem: Residents and Officials 9:2-34 Gatekeepers and Temple Servants in Jerusalem 9:35-44 The Death of Saul and the End of His House 10:1-14 David Anointed King over Israel 11:1-3 David Captures Jerusalem (Zion) 11:4-9 David’s Mighty Men and Warriors 11:10-47 Those Who Came to David at Hebron (Judah’s Support) 12:1-22 Israel’s Warriors Join David at Hebron 12:23-40 Bringing the Ark: Preparations and Uzzah’s Death 13:1-14 David’s Household and Philistine Submission 14:1-7 David’s Victories over the Philistines 14:8-17 Preparations for Bringing the Ark to Jerusalem 15:1-16:6 David Institutes Worship and a Song of Praise 16:7-43 God’s Covenant with David (Nathan’s Oracle) 17:1-15 David’s Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Covenant 17:16-27 David’s Military Victories and Tribute 18:1-13 David’s Officials and the Spoils of War 18:14-17 War with the Ammonites and Their Allies 19:1-19 The Campaign against Rabbah (Ammon) 20:1-3 Defeat of the Philistines and Their Champions 20:4-8 David’s Census, Plague, and Purchase of the Temple Site 21:1-22:1 David’s Preparations and Instructions for Solomon 22:2-19 David Organizes the Levites 23:1-6 Levitical Families and Their Heads 23:7-11 Age Regulations and Duties of the Levites 23:12-20 Assignments of Levites: Singers, Gatekeepers, Treasurers 23:21-32 Divisions of the Priests into Twenty‑Four Courses 24:1-19 Priestly Families and Their Cities 24:20-31 The Levitical Musicians and Their Organization 25:1-31 Gatekeepers and Their Lineages 26:1-19 Officials Responsible for Treasuries and Records 26:20-32 Military Divisions and Their Commanders 27:1-15 David’s Civil Officials and Overseers 27:16-24 Heads of the King’s Household and Provisions 27:25-34 David’s Charge to Solomon and the Temple Plan 28:1-21 The Nation’s Offerings for the Temple 29:1-9 David’s Prayer of Praise and Blessing for Solomon 29:10-20 David’s Final Acts and Organization of the Kingdom 29:21-25 The Death of David and Solomon’s Accession 29:26-30

2 Chronicles

Solomon's Sacrifice at Gibeon and Prayer for Wisdom 1:1-17 Solomon Secures Materials and Craftsmen for the Temple 2:1-18 The Temple: Foundation and Structure 3:1-17 Temple Furnishings and Completion of the Work 4:1-5:1 The Ark Installed and Solomon's Dedication Prayer 5:2-6:11 Solomon's Prayer of Dedication and God's Assurance 6:12-42 The Lord Fills the Temple and the Dedication Festival 7:1-10 God Appears to Solomon and Gives a Conditional Promise 7:11-22 Solomon's Other Buildings and Relations with Hiram 8:1-18 The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon 9:1-12 Solomon's Wealth, Trade, and Administration 9:13-28 Summary of Solomon's Reign and Death 9:29-31 Rehoboam's Folly and the Division of the Kingdom 10:1-11:4 Rehoboam Fortifies Judah and Consolidates Support 11:5-17 Rehoboam's Descendants and Death 11:18-23 Shishak's Invasion and Judah's Loss 12:1-16 Abijah's Victory over Israel and His Death 13:1-14:1 Asa's Reforms and Victory over Ethiopia 14:2-15 Asa Strengthened by Prophecy and Covenant Renewal 15:1-19 Asa's Alliance with Aram and Reproof by Hanani 16:1-14 Jehoshaphat Strengthens Judah and Reforms Justice 17:1-19 Jehoshaphat's Alliance with Ahab and the Battle at Ramoth-gilead 18:1-27 Jehu Rebukes Jehoshaphat for the Alliance with Ahab 18:28-19:3 Judicial Reforms: Judges Appointed to Administer Justice 19:4-11 Jehoshaphat's Deliverance through Prayer and Praise 20:1-30 End of Jehoshaphat's Reign and Jehoram's Accession 20:31-21:3 Jehoram's Wicked Reign, Revolts, and Judgment 21:4-20 Ahaziah Succeeds His Father and Is Wounded 22:1-9 Athaliah's Usurpation Overthrown and Joash Crowned 22:10-23:21 Joash's Temple Restoration under Jehoiada 24:1-16 Joash's Apostasy, Punishment, and Assassination 24:17-27 Amaziah's Reign: Victory, Pride, and Defeat by Israel 25:1-28 Uzziah's Prosperity and Pride; Leprosy for Presumption 26:1-23 Jotham's Reign: Fortifications and Prosperity 27:1-9 Ahaz's Idolatry, Defeats, and Assyrian Subjugation 28:1-27 Hezekiah's Temple Restoration and Religious Reforms 29:1-36 Hezekiah's Passover and National Repentance 30:1-31:1 Hezekiah's Religious Administration and Temple Support 31:2-21 Hezekiah's Defense Against Sennacherib and Divine Deliverance 32:1-23 Hezekiah's Illness, Pride, and the Babylonian Envoys 32:24-33 Manasseh's Idolatry, Captivity, Repentance, and Restoration 33:1-20 Amon's Wicked Reign and Assassination 33:21-25 Josiah's Early Reforms and Temple Repair 34:1-13 The Book of the Law Found, Huldah's Prophecy, and Josiah's Covenant 34:14-33 Josiah's Observance of the Passover 35:1-19 Josiah Killed at Megiddo and National Mourning 35:20-36:1 Jehoahaz Reigns Briefly and Is Deposed by Pharaoh 36:2-4 Jehoiakim's Reign and Disobedience 36:5-8 Jehoiachin's Short Reign and Exile to Babylon 36:9-10 Zedekiah's Reign and Rejection of Prophetic Warnings 36:11-14 Judgment, Exile, and the Decree of Cyrus 36:15-23

Psalm

Psalms 1–2 1:1-2:12 Psalms 3–8 3:1-8 Psalms 4–8 4:1-8 Psalms 5–12 5:1-12 Psalms 6–10 6:1-10 Psalms 7–17 7:1-17 Psalms 8–9 8:1-9 Psalms 9–10 9:1-10:18 Psalms 11–7 11:1-7 Psalms 12–8 12:1-8 Psalms 13–6 13:1-6 Psalms 14–7 14:1-7 Psalms 15–5 15:1-5 Psalms 16–11 16:1-11 Psalms 17–15 17:1-15 Psalms 18–50 18:1-50 Psalms 19–14 19:1-14 Psalms 20–9 20:1-9 Psalms 21–13 21:1-13 Psalms 22–31 22:1-31 Psalms 23–6 23:1-6 Psalms 24–10 24:1-10 Psalms 25–22 25:1-22 Psalms 26–12 26:1-12 Psalms 27–14 27:1-14 Psalms 28–9 28:1-9 Psalms 29–11 29:1-11 Psalms 30–12 30:1-12 Psalms 31–24 31:1-24 Psalms 32–33 32:1-33:22 Psalms 34–22 34:1-22 Psalms 35–28 35:1-28 Psalms 36–12 36:1-12 Psalms 37–40 37:1-40 Psalms 38–22 38:1-22 Psalms 39–13 39:1-13 Psalms 40–17 40:1-17 Psalms 41–13 41:1-13 Psalms 42–43 42:1-43:5 Psalms 44–26 44:1-26 Psalms 45–17 45:1-17 Psalms 46–11 46:1-11 Psalms 47–9 47:1-9 Psalms 48–14 48:1-14 Psalms 49–20 49:1-20 Psalms 50–23 50:1-23 Psalms 51–19 51:1-19 Psalms 52–9 52:1-9 Psalms 53–6 53:1-6 Psalms 54–7 54:1-7 Psalms 55–23 55:1-23 Psalms 56–13 56:1-13 Psalms 57–11 57:1-11 Psalms 58–11 58:1-11 Psalms 59–17 59:1-17 Psalms 60–12 60:1-12 Psalms 61–8 61:1-8 Psalms 62–12 62:1-12 Psalms 63–11 63:1-11 Psalms 64–10 64:1-10 Psalms 65–13 65:1-13 Psalms 66–20 66:1-20 Psalms 67–7 67:1-7 Psalms 68–35 68:1-35 Psalms 69–36 69:1-36 Psalms 70–71 70:1-71:24 Psalms 72–20 72:1-20 Psalms 73–28 73:1-28 Psalms 74–23 74:1-23 Psalms 75–10 75:1-10 Psalms 76–12 76:1-12 Psalms 77–20 77:1-20 Psalms 78–72 78:1-72 Psalms 79–13 79:1-13 Psalms 80–19 80:1-19 Psalms 81–16 81:1-16 Psalms 82–8 82:1-8 Psalms 83–18 83:1-18 Psalms 84–12 84:1-12 Psalms 85–13 85:1-13 Psalms 86–17 86:1-17 Psalms 87–7 87:1-7 Psalms 88–18 88:1-18 Psalms 89–52 89:1-52 Psalms 90–91 90:1-91:16 Psalms 92–97 92:1-97:12 Psalms 98–99 98:1-99:9 Psalms 100–5 100:1-5 Psalms 101–8 101:1-8 Psalms 102–28 102:1-28 Psalms 103–106 103:1-106:48 Psalms 107–43 107:1-43 Psalms 108–13 108:1-13 Psalms 109–31 109:1-31 Psalms 110–118 110:1-118:29 Psalms 119–8 119:1-8 Psalms 119–16 119:9-16 Psalms 119–24 119:17-24 Psalms 119–32 119:25-32 Psalms 119–40 119:33-40 Psalms 119–48 119:41-48 Psalms 119–56 119:49-56 Psalms 119–64 119:57-64 Psalms 119–72 119:65-72 Psalms 119–80 119:73-80 Psalms 119–88 119:81-88 Psalms 119–176 119:89-176 Psalms 119–104 119:96-104 Psalms 119–112 119:105-112 Psalms 119–120 119:113-120 Psalms 119–128 119:121-128 Psalms 119–136 119:129-136 Psalms 119–144 119:137-144 Psalms 119–152 119:145-152 Psalms 119–160 119:153-160 Psalms 119–168 119:161-168 Psalms 119–176 119:169-176 Psalms 120–7 120:1-7 Psalms 121–8 121:1-8 Psalms 122–9 122:1-9 Psalms 123–4 123:1-4 Psalms 124–8 124:1-8 Psalms 125–5 125:1-5 Psalms 126–6 126:1-6 Psalms 127–5 127:1-5 Psalms 128–6 128:1-6 Psalms 129–8 129:1-8 Psalms 130–8 130:1-8 Psalms 131–3 131:1-3 Psalms 132–18 132:1-18 Psalms 133–3 133:1-3 Psalms 134–137 134:1-137:9 Psalms 138–8 138:1-8 Psalms 139–24 139:1-24 Psalms 140–13 140:1-13 Psalms 141–10 141:1-10 Psalms 142–7 142:1-7 Psalms 143–12 143:1-12 Psalms 144–15 144:1-15 Psalms 145–150 145:1-150:6

Proverbs

Introduction: The Purpose of Proverbs and the Fear of the Lord 1:1-7 Warning Against Enticement by Sinners 1:8-19 Wisdom's Public Call and the Folly of Rejection 1:20-33 The Value of Wisdom and Its Protection 2:1-22 Trusting God and Walking in Wisdom 3:1-35 A Father's Exhortation to Hold Fast to Wisdom 4:1-27 Warning Against Adultery and a Call to Fidelity 5:1-23 Warnings: Surety, Laziness, and Wickedness 6:1-19 Obey Parental Commands and the Dangers of Adultery 6:20-35 The Example of a Young Man Seduced 7:1-27 Wisdom's Proclamation and Blessings 8:1-36 Contrasting Invitations of Wisdom and Folly 9:1-18 Solomon's Proverbs: Contrasts of Righteousness and Folly 10:1-32 Proverbs on Justice, Integrity, and Righteous Living 11:1-31 Wise Conduct, Diligence, and Righteous Speech 12:1-28 Discipline, Wealth, and the Wise Child 13:1-25 Sayings on Wisdom, Folly, and the Fear of the Lord 14:1-35 The Power of Speech and the Benefits of Wisdom 15:1-33 God's Sovereignty Over Human Plans 16:1-33 Relations and Righteousness: Peace, Speech, and Integrity 17:1-28 The Power of Words and the Nature of Companionship 18:1-24 Advice on Wealth, Conduct, and Discipline 19:1-29 Counsel, Justice, and Warnings Against Excess 20:1-30 Divine Sovereignty, Justice, and the King's Role 21:1-31 Reputation, Generosity, and Child Discipline 22:1-16 Sayings of the Wise: Practical Moral Instruction 22:17-24:34 Solomon's Proverbs on Restraint and Leadership 25:1-28 Folly and Foolish Behavior in Speech and Deeds 26:1-28 Friendship, Counsel, and Practical Wisdom for Life 27:1-27 Justice, Righteousness, and the Results of Rebellion 28:1-28 Discipline, Leadership, and Social Order 29:1-27 The Sayings of Agur: Humility and Observations 30:1-33 Advice to King Lemuel and the Virtuous Woman 31:1-31

Isaiah

Judah's Rebellion and Call to Repentance 1:1-31 The Mountain of the Lord and the Nations' Hope 2:1-6 Judgment on Arrogance and Idolatry 2:7-22 Judgment on Jerusalem's Leaders and Social Order 3:1-4:1 The Branch and the Renewal of Zion 4:2-6 The Song of the Vineyard: Israel's Failure 5:1-7 Woes to Israel and Coming Judgment 5:8-30 Isaiah's Vision and Commission 6:1-13 Ahaz, the Immanuel Sign, and Invasion 7:1-25 The Sign of Plunder and a Call to Courage 8:1-10 Trust the Lord, Not Alliances or Diviners 8:11-22 A Child Is Born: Promise of Peace 9:1-7 Israel's Arrogance and Coming Punishment 9:8-10:4 Assyria: Instrument of Judgment and Its Doom 10:5-19 The Remnant and the Fall of Assyria 10:20-34 The Righteous Branch and the Peaceable Kingdom 11:1-16 A Song of Praise for God's Salvation 12:1-6 Babylon's Doom and the Day of the Lord 13:1-14:23 God's Decree: Assyria Overthrown 14:24-27 Oracle Concerning Philistia and Promise to Zion 14:28-32 Lament for Moab 15:1-16:14 Judgment on Damascus and Northern Israel 17:1-14 A Message to Cush (Ethiopia) 18:1-7 Judgment on Egypt and Future Salvation 19:1-25 Isaiah's Sign against Egypt and Cush 20:1-6 Prophecy of Babylon's Fall (The Watchman's Report) 21:1-10 Oracle concerning Dumah: The Night Watchman's Lament 21:11-12 Oracle Against Arabia (Dedan and Kedar) 21:13-17 The Valley of Vision: Jerusalem's Fall and Leadership Change 22:1-25 Tyre's Fall and Future Restoration 23:1-18 The Lord's Universal Judgment and Final Reign 24:1-23 Praise for God's Triumph and Deliverance 25:1-12 Trust in God and Hope for Deliverance 26:1-21 The Slaying of Leviathan and Israel's Restoration 27:1-13 Woe to Ephraim and Judah: Drunkenness and Judgment 28:1-29 Woe to Ariel (Jerusalem) and Promise of Enlightenment 29:1-24 Rebuke for Seeking Egypt's Help; Call to Trust the Lord 30:1-33 Egypt Is No Help; The Lord Will Save Jerusalem 31:1-9 A Righteous King and Just Leadership 32:1-8 Call to Repentance and Promise of Renewal 32:9-20 A Plea for Deliverance and the Lord's Judgment 33:1-24 The Lord's Vengeance on the Nations (Edom) 34:1-17 The Glorious Restoration of the Redeemed 35:1-10 Sennacherib's Siege and Rabshakeh's Taunt 36:1-22 Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah; Rabshakeh's Threat 37:1-13 Hezekiah's Prayer and Isaiah's Assurance 37:14-20 God Delivers Jerusalem and Sennacherib's Defeat 37:21-38 Hezekiah's Illness, Prayer, and Recovery 38:1-22 Babylonian Envoys and the Announcement of Exile 39:1-8 Comfort for Zion and the Majesty of God 40:1-31 God Defends Israel Against the Nations and Idols 41:1-29 The Servant of the Lord: Covenant and Mission 42:1-9 A Call to Praise and God's Guidance for the Blind 42:10-17 Israel's Unfaithfulness and Resulting Judgment 42:18-25 Israel Redeemed: God's Sovereign Deliverer 43:1-13 The Lord Proclaims Redemption and Rebukes Israel 43:14-28 Israel Chosen and Blessed by the Spirit 44:1-5 The Folly of Idols and God's Uniqueness 44:6-23 God the Creator and the Call of Cyrus for Israel's Restoration 44:24-45:25 The God Who Carries and Redeems: Yahweh's Sovereignty over Idols 46:1-13 The Humbling of Babylon the Mistress 47:1-15 Israel's Stubbornness and God's Resolute Purpose 48:1-11 God's Sovereign 'I Am' and Call to Return 48:12-22 The Servant's Commission to Restore Israel and the Nations 49:1-8 Restoration and Promise to Gather Israel 49:9-26 The Servant's Suffering and Israel's Rejection 50:1-11 Comfort for Zion: Remember Abraham; God's Salvation 51:1-16 Awakening of Zion and Proclamation of Salvation 51:17-52:12 The Suffering Servant and Atonement 52:13-53:12 The Exalted Zion: Promise of Restoration and Protection 54:1-17 Invitation to Life and the Power of God's Word 55:1-13 Justice, Inclusion, and Sabbath Observance 56:1-8 Condemnation of Idolatry and Complacency 56:9-57:13 Restoration for the Humble and Promise of Peace 57:14-21 True Fasting: Justice, Mercy, and Sabbath Blessing 58:1-14 Sin's Consequences and God's Redeeming Intervention 59:1-21 The Glory and Gathering of Zion 60:1-22 The Year of the Lord's Favor and Joyful Restoration 61:1-11 Zion's Vindication and New Name 62:1-12 The Lord's Vengeance: Treading the Winepress 63:1-6 Remembering God's Mercy and Plea for Restoration 63:7-64:12 God's Grace to the Faithful and Judgment on the Rebellious 65:1-16 A New Creation: Joy and Peace 65:17-25 The Lord's Final Judgment and the New Creation 66:1-24

Jeremiah

The Call and Commission of Jeremiah 1:1-19 Israel's Unfaithfulness and Call to Repentance 2:1-3:5 Judah's Spiritual Adultery and Call to Return 3:6-4:4 The Coming Calamity on the Land 4:5-31 An Accusation against Jerusalem's Corruption 5:1-31 The Siege and Devastation of Jerusalem 6:1-30 The Temple Sermon: False Security Condemned 7:1-29 Violence and Corruption in the Land 7:30-8:3 Persistent Idolatry and Coming Punishment 8:4-9:26 The Folly of Idols 10:1-16 Judah's Flight and Jeremiah's Lament 10:17-22 A Prayer for Direction and Deliverance 10:23-25 The Broken Covenant and a Public Warning 11:1-17 Conspiracy against Jeremiah and God's Vindication 11:18-23 Jeremiah's Complaint to God 12:1-4 A Call to Endure and Judgment on Nations 12:5-17 The Linen Belt: Symbol of Judah's Humiliation 13:1-11 A Sign of Shame and Pronounced Judgment 13:12-14 A Lament of Shame and Imminent Disaster 13:15-27 Famine, False Prophets, and Divine Judgment 14:1-15:21 Symbolic Acts and the People's Sinfulness 16:1-17:18 Warning about Sabbath Violations 17:19-27 The Potter and the Broken Jar: Judgment on Jerusalem 18:1-19:15 Persecution by Pashhur the Priest 20:1-6 Jeremiah's Lament and Resolve 20:7-18 A Message to the Royal House: Doom for Jerusalem 21:1-14 Judgment on the Kings and Royal House 22:1-30 False Shepherds Condemned and a Righteous Branch Promised 23:1-8 Condemnation of False Prophets 23:9-32 The Lord Rebukes False Oracles 23:33-40 The Two Figs: Exile and Remnant 24:1-10 Seventy Years of Babylonian Dominion 25:1-14 The Cup of God's Wrath on the Nations 25:15-38 Jeremiah's Temple Address, Arrest, and Vindication 26:1-24 The Yoke of Babylon and Call to Submit 27:1-22 Hananiah's False Prophecy and Its Rebuke 28:1-17 Letter to the Exiles: Seek the Welfare of Babylon 29:1-23 Shemaiah's Letter and Its Condemnation 29:24-32 The Book of Comfort: Restoration and the New Covenant 30:1-31:40 Jeremiah Buys a Field: Faith and Hope in Captivity 32:1-44 Promise of Restoration and the Davidic Covenant 33:1-26 Zedekiah's Appeal and Jeremiah's Warning 34:1-7 Breach of Covenant and Punishment for Oppression 34:8-22 The Rechabites' Fidelity as a Rebuke to Judah 35:1-19 Baruch Writes Jeremiah's Words and the Scroll Is Burned 36:1-32 Jeremiah Imprisoned during the Siege of Jerusalem 37:1-21 Jeremiah Cast into a Cistern 38:1-13 Ebed‑Melech Rescues Jeremiah; Zedekiah's Failure 38:14-28 The Fall of Jerusalem and Jeremiah's Release 39:1-18 Gedaliah Appointed Governor and Jeremiah's Choice 40:1-6 Assassination of Gedaliah and the Terror in Judah 40:7-41:15 Rejection of Jeremiah's Counsel and Flight to Egypt 41:16-43:13 The Jews in Egypt: Idolatry and Condemnation 44:1-30 A Word to Baruch: Encouragement and Warning 45:1-5 Oracles against Egypt 46:1-28 Judgment on the Philistines 47:1-7 Judgment on Moab 48:1-47 Judgment on Ammon 49:1-6 Judgment on Edom 49:7-22 Judgment on Damascus and Aram 49:23-27 Destruction of Kedar and the Nomads 49:28-33 Judgment on Elam and Future Restoration 49:34-39 Judgment on Babylon and Its Final Fall 50:1-51:64 The Fall of Jerusalem and Zedekiah's Fate 52:1-30 Jehoiachin's Release from Babylonian Captivity 52:31-34

Ezekiel

The Vision of God's Glory and the Living Creatures 1:1-28 Ezekiel's Commission and the Eating of the Scroll 2:1-3:15 Ezekiel Appointed as Watchman and Made Speechless 3:16-27 Symbolic Acts of Siege and Judgment on Jerusalem 4:1-5:17 Judgment on Israel for Idolatry 6:1-14 The Day of the Lord: Impending Disaster 7:1-27 Visions of Temple Abominations 8:1-18 The Execution of Jerusalem's Wicked and the Marked Few 9:1-11 The Departure of God's Glory from the Temple 10:1-22 Condemnation of Jerusalem's Leaders 11:1-15 The Departure of God's Glory and Promise of Restoration 11:16-25 Signs of Exile and the Futility of False Hopes 12:1-28 Condemnation of False Prophets and Diviners 13:1-23 Elders' Idolatry and Its Consequences 14:1-11 Judgment on Nations and the Limits of Intercession 14:12-23 Jerusalem Portrayed as a Useless Vine 15:1-8 Jerusalem's Infidelity: Shame, Judgment, and Vindication 16:1-63 The Parable of the Two Eagles: Zedekiah's Folly 17:1-24 Individual Responsibility and the Call to Repentance 18:1-32 A Lament for Israel's Princes 19:1-14 Israel's History of Rebellion and Divine Judgment 20:1-29 Punishment for Profane Worship and Promise of Restoration 20:30-44 A Prophecy Against the Mountains of Israel 20:45-49 The Sword of the Lord: Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations 21:1-32 Jerusalem's Corruption and the Search for a Righteous Remnant 22:1-31 The Sisters' Harlotry: Samaria and Jerusalem Condemned 23:1-49 The Boiling Pot: Prophecy of Jerusalem's Siege 24:1-14 The Sign of Ezekiel's Wife's Death: Judgment and Changed Lament 24:15-27 Oracle Against Ammon 25:1-7 Oracles Against Moab and Seir 25:8-11 Judgment on the Philistines 25:12-14 Oracle Against Tyre 25:15-17 The Fall of Tyre Foretold 26:1-21 Lamentation for Tyre, the Merchant City 27:1-36 The Pride and Fall of Tyre's Ruler 28:1-19 Judgment on Sidon and Promise of Israel's Security 28:20-26 Egypt's Humiliation and Years of Desolation 29:1-21 The Day of the Lord Against Egypt and Its Allies 30:1-26 Egypt Compared to the Fallen Cedar: Pride and Doom 31:1-18 Lament for Egypt's Collapse and Descent into Sheol 32:1-32 The Watchman's Duty and Personal Responsibility 33:1-20 Report of Jerusalem's Fall and the People's Alarm 33:21-33 Condemnation of Bad Shepherds and Promise of a Good Shepherd 34:1-31 Judgment on Edom for Rejoicing over Israel 35:1-15 Promise of Israel's Restoration and Spiritual Renewal 36:1-38 The Valley of Dry Bones: National Revival 37:1-14 The Two Sticks: Unity of Israel and the Davidic Covenant 37:15-28 The Invasion of Gog and Its Defeat 38:1-39:29 Vision of the Future Temple: Introduction and Commission 40:1-4 Measurements of the Outer Court and Gateways 40:5-16 Courtyard Entrances and Portico Dimensions 40:17-19 Inner Court Entrances and Chambers 40:20-23 Vestibules and Side Entrance Specifications 40:24-27 Details of Inner Chambers and Gate Structure 40:28-37 Porches, Chambers, and Steps of the Temple Court 40:38-43 Priests' Chambers and the Prince's Quarters 40:44-47 The Inner Sanctuary and Holy Place Measurements 40:48-41:26 Priestly Chambers and the Inner Court Layout 42:1-20 The Return of God's Glory to the Temple 43:1-12 Altar Design and Sacrificial Regulations 43:13-27 Temple Gates, Priestly Roles, and Exclusions 44:1-31 Land Allotments and the Prince's Portion 45:1-12 Worship Regulations: Offerings, Festivals, and the Prince 45:13-46:24 The Life-Giving River Flowing from the Temple 47:1-12 Division of the Land and Inheritance Boundaries 47:13-23 Tribal Allotments in the Restored Land 48:1-29 The City Gates and the Name: 'The Lord Is There' 48:30-35

Matthew

The Genealogy of Jesus 1:1-17 The Birth of Jesus Foretold to Joseph 1:18-25 The Visit of the Magi 2:1-12 Flight into Egypt and the Slaughter of the Innocents 2:13-18 Return to Nazareth 2:19-23 John the Baptist Prepares the Way 3:1-12 The Baptism of Jesus 3:13-17 The Temptation of Jesus 4:1-11 Jesus Begins His Galilean Ministry 4:12-17 Jesus Calls the First Disciples 4:18-22 Jesus Ministers Throughout Galilee 4:23-25 The Beatitudes 5:1-12 Salt and Light 5:13-16 Jesus and the Law 5:17-20 Teaching on Anger and Reconciliation 5:21-26 Teaching on Adultery and Lust 5:27-30 Teaching on Divorce 5:31-32 Teaching on Oaths and Honesty 5:33-37 Teaching on Retaliation and Generosity 5:38-42 Love Your Enemies 5:43-48 Giving to the Needy in Secret 6:1-4 Prayer and the Lord's Prayer 6:5-15 Teaching on Fasting 6:16-18 Treasures and Serving God 6:19-24 Do Not Worry 6:25-34 Do Not Judge 7:1-6 Ask, Seek, Knock and the Golden Rule 7:7-12 The Narrow and Wide Gates 7:13-14 Recognizing False Prophets 7:15-23 Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders 7:24-29 Jesus Cleanses a Leper 8:1-4 The Faith of the Centurion 8:5-13 Jesus Heals Many and Fulfills Prophecy 8:14-17 The Cost of Discipleship 8:18-22 Jesus Calms the Storm 8:23-27 Healing of Two Demon-Possessed Men 8:28-34 Jesus Heals a Paralytic 9:1-8 Jesus Calls Matthew and Eats with Sinners 9:9-13 Fasting and the New Cloth and Wineskins 9:14-17 A Daughter Restored and a Woman Healed 9:18-26 Two Blind Men Healed and a Mute Man Restored 9:27-34 Jesus' Compassion and the Call for Workers 9:35-38 The Mission of the Twelve 10:1-42 John's Inquiry and Jesus' Testimony about John 11:1-19 Woe to Unrepentant Cities 11:20-24 The Father's Revelation and Rest for the Weary 11:25-30 Sabbath Controversies: Grain and Healing 12:1-14 Jesus Heals and Fulfills Isaiah's Prophecy 12:15-21 Accusation, Blasphemy Against the Spirit, and the Heart's Fruit 12:22-37 The Sign of Jonah and the Unclean Spirit 12:38-45 Jesus Redefines Family 12:46-50 The Parable of the Sower and Its Interpretation 13:1-23 The Parable of the Weeds 13:24-30 The Mustard Seed and the Yeast 13:31-35 Explanation of the Weeds and End-Time Judgment 13:36-43 Treasure and Pearl: The Kingdom's Value 13:44-46 The Net and New and Old Treasures 13:47-52 Jesus Rejected at Nazareth 13:53-58 The Execution of John the Baptist 14:1-12 Feeding the Five Thousand 14:13-21 Jesus Walks on Water and Heals Many 14:22-36 Tradition, Purity, and the Canaanite Woman's Faith 15:1-28 Jesus Heals Many and Feeds the Four Thousand 15:29-39 Pharisees Demand a Sign 16:1-4 Warning About the Teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees 16:5-12 Peter's Confession: You Are the Christ 16:13-20 Jesus Foretells His Death and Discipleship 16:21-28 The Transfiguration 17:1-13 Healing a Demon-Possessed Boy and a Second Prediction of Death 17:14-23 Payment of the Temple Tax 17:24-27 Humility and Care for Little Ones 18:1-9 The Parable of the Lost Sheep 18:10-14 Church Discipline and Prayer 18:15-20 Forgiveness and the Unforgiving Servant 18:21-35 Marriage, Divorce, and Children 19:1-15 The Rich Young Ruler and the Cost of Discipleship 19:16-30 The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard 20:1-16 Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection 20:17-19 Request for Honor and Teaching on Servanthood 20:20-28 Two Blind Men Healed Near Jericho 20:29-34 The Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem 21:1-11 Jesus Cleanses the Temple and Heals 21:12-17 The Withered Fig Tree and Teaching on Faith 21:18-22 Jesus' Authority Challenged 21:23-27 The Parable of the Two Sons 21:28-32 The Parable of the Wicked Tenants 21:33-46 The Parable of the Wedding Banquet 22:1-14 Question about Paying Taxes to Caesar 22:15-22 The Sadducees and the Resurrection 22:23-33 The Greatest Commandment 22:34-40 Jesus Questions the Pharisees about the Messiah 22:41-46 Seven Woes on the Scribes and Pharisees 23:1-39 The Olivet Discourse: Signs of the End and the Temple's Destruction 24:1-35 The Olivet Discourse: Watchfulness and Judgment 24:36-51 The Parable of the Ten Virgins 25:1-13 The Parable of the Talents 25:14-30 The Final Judgment: Sheep and Goats 25:31-46 The Plot to Arrest Jesus 26:1-5 The Anointing at Bethany 26:6-13 Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus 26:14-16 The Last Supper 26:17-30 Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial 26:31-35 Prayer in Gethsemane 26:36-46 The Arrest of Jesus 26:47-56 Jesus Before the Sanhedrin 26:57-68 Peter's Denial and Repentance 26:69-75 Judas' Remorse and Suicide 27:1-10 Jesus Sentenced by Pilate 27:11-26 Jesus Mocked and Scourged 27:27-31 The Crucifixion and Mockery 27:32-44 The Death of Jesus 27:45-56 Jesus Is Buried 27:57-61 The Tomb Secured by the Authorities 27:62-66 The Resurrection: Women at the Tomb 28:1-10 The Guards' Report and the Chief Priests' Lie 28:11-15 The Great Commission 28:16-20

Mark

John the Baptist Prepares the Way 1:1-8 The Baptism and Temptation of Jesus 1:9-13 Jesus Begins His Ministry and Calls the First Disciples 1:14-20 Jesus Teaches with Authority and Casts Out an Unclean Spirit 1:21-28 Healings and Demons Cleansed at Simon's Home 1:29-34 Jesus Prays and Proclaims the Kingdom in Galilee 1:35-39 Healing of a Man with Leprosy 1:40-45 Forgiveness and Healing of a Paralytic 2:1-12 Calling of Levi and Eating with Sinners 2:13-17 Questions about Fasting; New Cloth and Wineskins 2:18-22 Sabbath Controversies: Grain, Healing, and Plot Against Jesus 2:23-3:6 Great Crowds Follow; Unclean Spirits Acknowledge Jesus 3:7-12 Jesus Appoints the Twelve Apostles 3:13-19 Accusations of Beelzebul and the Parable of the Strong Man 3:20-30 Jesus Redefines True Family 3:31-35 Parable of the Sower and Its Interpretation 4:1-20 A Lamp, Measure, and the Principle of Growth 4:21-25 Parable of the Growing Seed 4:26-29 The Mustard Seed and the Kingdom's Growth 4:30-34 Jesus Calms the Storm 4:35-41 The Gerasene Demoniac Restored 5:1-20 A Woman Healed and Jairus' Daughter Raised 5:21-43 Jesus Rejected in His Hometown 6:1-6 Jesus Sends Out the Twelve 6:7-13 Herod, Herodias, and the Death of John the Baptist 6:14-29 Feeding of the Five Thousand 6:30-44 Jesus Walks on Water and Heals at Gennesaret 6:45-56 Tradition, Inner Purity, and What Truly Defiles 7:1-23 A Gentile Woman's Faith and the Healing at Tyre 7:24-30 Jesus Heals a Deaf Man Who Could Not Speak Clearly 7:31-37 Feeding the Four Thousand and the Pharisees' Demand for a Sign 8:1-13 Beware the Yeast of the Pharisees and Herod 8:14-21 Healing of a Blind Man at Bethsaida 8:22-26 Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ 8:27-30 Jesus Predicts His Death and Calls Disciples to Take Up the Cross 8:31-9:1 The Transfiguration and the Return of Elijah 9:2-13 Healing of a Boy with an Unclean Spirit; Jesus Predicts His Passion Again 9:14-32 Who Is the Greatest? A Child as the Model of Service 9:33-37 Tolerance for Those Who Serve in Jesus' Name 9:38-41 Warnings about Causing Sin; Exhortations on Salt and Holiness 9:42-50 Jesus' Teaching on Divorce 10:1-12 Jesus Blesses Little Children 10:13-16 The Rich Young Man and the Cost of Discipleship 10:17-31 Jesus Again Predicts His Suffering, Death, and Resurrection 10:32-34 Ambition and Servanthood: The Way of True Greatness 10:35-45 Jesus Heals Blind Bartimaeus 10:46-52 The Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem 11:1-11 Withered Fig Tree and the Cleansing of the Temple 11:12-19 Faith, Prayer, and the Call to Forgiveness 11:20-26 Religious Leaders Question Jesus' Authority 11:27-33 The Parable of the Wicked Tenants 12:1-12 Render to Caesar: Taxes and Allegiance 12:13-17 Sadducees Challenge Resurrection; Jesus Teaches Eternal Life 12:18-27 The Greatest Commandment: Love God and Neighbor 12:28-34 Jesus Questions the Messiah and Warns Against Scribes 12:35-40 The Widow's Offering: True Generosity 12:41-44 The Olivet Discourse: Signs of Destruction and the End 13:1-31 No One Knows the Day: Be Watchful 13:32-37 Plot to Kill Jesus and the Anointing at Bethany 14:1-11 The Passover Meal and Institution of the Lord's Supper 14:12-26 Jesus Predicts the Disciples' Flight and Peter's Denial 14:27-31 Gethsemane: Jesus' Agony and Prayer 14:32-42 The Arrest of Jesus in Gethsemane 14:43-52 Jesus Before the Council 14:53-65 Peter's Denial and His Remorse 14:66-72 Jesus Before Pilate; Barabbas Released 15:1-15 The Soldiers Mock and Scourge Jesus 15:16-20 The Way of the Cross and the Crucifixion 15:21-32 Jesus' Death and the Centurion's Confession 15:33-41 The Burial of Jesus 15:42-47 The Resurrection: Women Find the Empty Tomb 16:1-8 Appearances of the Risen Lord and the Commission 16:9-20

Luke

Purpose and Order of the Gospel 1:1-4 Announcement of John the Baptist's Birth 1:5-25 The Annunciation to Mary 1:26-38 Mary Visits Elizabeth 1:39-45 Mary's Song (The Magnificat) 1:46-56 The Birth and Naming of John 1:57-66 Zechariah's Prophecy and John's Mission 1:67-80 The Birth of Jesus in Bethlehem 2:1-7 Angels Announce the Shepherds' Good News 2:8-20 Presentation in the Temple; Simeon and Anna 2:21-40 The Boy Jesus in the Temple 2:41-52 John the Baptist's Call to Repentance 3:1-20 The Baptism and Genealogy of Jesus 3:21-38 Jesus Tested in the Wilderness 4:1-13 Rejection at Nazareth 4:14-30 Authority over Unclean Spirits in Capernaum 4:31-37 Healings and Preaching in Galilee 4:38-44 The Call of the First Disciples 5:1-11 Healing a Man with Leprosy 5:12-16 A Paralytic Forgiven and Healed 5:17-26 The Calling of Levi and Eating with Sinners 5:27-32 Questions about Fasting; New Wine and Old Wineskins 5:33-39 Lord of the Sabbath and a Sabbath Healing 6:1-11 The Appointment of the Twelve Apostles 6:12-16 The Sermon on the Plain: Blessings and Woes 6:17-26 Love Your Enemies and Be Merciful 6:27-36 Judging Others and the Speck and Log 6:37-42 A Tree and Its Fruit: True Character Revealed 6:43-45 The Wise and Foolish Builders 6:46-49 The Faith of the Centurion 7:1-10 Raising the Widow's Son at Nain 7:11-17 John the Baptist's Inquiry and Jesus' Testimony 7:18-35 A Sinful Woman Forgiven 7:36-50 Parable of the Sower and Its Interpretation 8:1-15 Lighted Lamp and Hearing the Word 8:16-18 Jesus Redefines His Family 8:19-21 Jesus Calms the Storm 8:22-25 Healing the Gerasene Demoniac 8:26-39 Jairus' Daughter Raised and a Woman Healed 8:40-56 The Twelve Sent Out 9:1-9 Feeding the Five Thousand 9:10-17 Peter's Confession and the Way of the Cross 9:18-27 The Transfiguration 9:28-36 Healing a Demon-Possessed Boy; A Second Passion Prediction 9:37-45 Who Is Greatest and a Servant's Ministry 9:46-50 Jesus Resolves for Jerusalem; Samaritan Rejection 9:51-56 The Cost of Discipleship 9:57-62 The Seventy Sent Out and Their Return 10:1-24 The Good Samaritan 10:25-37 Mary and Martha: Choosing the Better Part 10:38-42 The Lord's Prayer and Persistent Prayer 11:1-13 Jesus, Beelzebul, and True Blessedness 11:14-28 Demand for a Sign; Jonah and the Queen of the South 11:29-32 The Light of the Body and Inner Purity 11:33-36 Woes to the Pharisees and Lawyers 11:37-54 Warnings against Hypocrisy and Confession before Men 12:1-12 The Parable of the Rich Fool 12:13-21 Do Not Worry; Seek God's Kingdom 12:22-34 Watchfulness and Faithful Stewardship 12:35-48 Division Caused by Christ 12:49-53 Interpreting the Times and Settling with Adversaries 12:54-59 Call to Repentance and the Barren Fig Tree 13:1-9 Healing on the Sabbath and Jesus' Rebuke 13:10-17 Parables of the Mustard Seed and Yeast 13:18-21 The Narrow Door and the Cost of Entry 13:22-30 Jesus Laments over Jerusalem 13:31-35 Healing at a Pharisee's House and Humility at the Table 14:1-14 Parable of the Great Banquet 14:15-24 The Cost of Following Jesus; Salt and Saltiness 14:25-35 The Parable of the Lost Sheep 15:1-7 The Parable of the Lost Coin 15:8-10 The Parable of the Prodigal Son 15:11-32 The Shrewd Manager and Teaching on Wealth 16:1-15 Law, the Kingdom, and Divorce 16:16-18 The Rich Man and Lazarus 16:19-31 Teachings on Temptation, Forgiveness, and Duty 17:1-10 Healing of the Ten Lepers 17:11-19 The Coming of the Kingdom and End-Time Sayings 17:20-37 Parable of the Persistent Widow 18:1-8 Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector 18:9-14 Jesus Blesses Little Children 18:15-17 The Rich Ruler and the Cost of Discipleship 18:18-30 Jesus Predicts His Death Again 18:31-34 Healing of Blind Bartimaeus 18:35-43 Zacchaeus: Salvation Comes to His House 19:1-10 Parable of the Ten Minas 19:11-27 Triumphal Entry and Lament over Jerusalem 19:28-44 Cleansing the Temple and Teaching 19:45-48 Jesus' Authority Challenged 20:1-8 Parable of the Wicked Tenants 20:9-19 Paying Taxes to Caesar 20:20-26 Question about the Resurrection 20:27-40 Jesus Questions the Pharisees; Warnings against Hypocrisy 20:41-47 The Widow's Offering 21:1-4 The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End 21:5-38 The Plot to Kill Jesus and Judas' Agreement 22:1-6 The Last Supper and Predictions of Denial 22:7-38 Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane 22:39-46 Jesus Arrested 22:47-53 Peter's Denial Fulfilled 22:54-62 Jesus Mocked and Beaten 22:63-65 Jesus before the Council and Pilate; Sentencing 22:66-23:25 The Way of the Cross and the Penitent Thief 23:26-43 The Death of Jesus and the Centurion's Confession 23:44-49 The Burial of Jesus 23:50-56 The Empty Tomb and the Women's Report 24:1-12 The Road to Emmaus and Recognition of the Risen Lord 24:13-35 Jesus Appears to the Disciples and Explains Scripture 24:36-49 The Ascension and the Disciples' Worship 24:50-53

John

The Word Became Flesh 1:1-18 John the Baptist's Witness 1:19-28 Behold the Lamb of God 1:29-34 The First Disciples and Simon Peter 1:35-42 Calling of Philip and Nathanael 1:43-51 The Wedding at Cana: Water Made Wine 2:1-11 Jesus Cleanses the Temple and Speaks of His Body 2:12-25 Nicodemus and the New Birth 3:1-21 John the Baptist Exalts Jesus 3:22-36 Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well 4:1-26 The Harvest Is Ready 4:27-38 Samaritans Believe in Jesus 4:39-42 Healing of the Royal Official's Son 4:43-54 Jesus Heals at Bethesda 5:1-15 Jesus Claims Authority Over Life and Judgment 5:16-30 Witnesses to Jesus and Israel's Unbelief 5:31-47 Feeding the Five Thousand 6:1-15 Jesus Walks on the Sea 6:16-24 Jesus the Bread of Life 6:25-59 Many Turn Away; Peter's Confession 6:60-71 Jesus Stays Away from Judea 7:1-13 Jesus Teaches at the Festival 7:14-24 Growing Division Over Jesus 7:25-44 Temple Officers and the Adulterous Woman 7:45-8:11 Jesus the Light and His Claim 8:12-30 True Discipleship and Freedom 8:31-41 Jesus' Divine Origin and Opposition 8:42-47 Jesus' 'I Am' and Preexistence 8:48-59 Healing of a Man Born Blind 9:1-12 Controversy with the Pharisees over the Healing 9:13-34 Spiritual Sight and Blindness 9:35-41 The Good Shepherd and His Sheep 10:1-21 Feast of Dedication and Controversy over Jesus 10:22-42 Lazarus' Sickness and Jesus' Intention 11:1-16 Jesus Weeps at Lazarus' Tomb 11:17-37 Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead 11:38-44 Plot to Kill Jesus and Caiaphas' Counsel 11:45-57 Mary Anoints Jesus; Plot to Kill Lazarus 12:1-11 The Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem 12:12-19 Greeks Seek Jesus; He Predicts His Death 12:20-36 Unbelief and Jesus' Final Appeal 12:37-50 Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet 13:1-17 The Prediction of Judas' Betrayal 13:18-30 The New Commandment and Peter's Denial 13:31-38 Jesus Promises a Place in the Father's House 14:1-4 Jesus the Way to the Father 14:5-14 Promise of the Holy Spirit and Peace 14:15-31 The Vine and the Command to Love 15:1-17 The World's Hatred and the Cost of Discipleship 15:18-16:4 The Holy Spirit's Work 16:5-16 Sorrow Turned to Joy; Peace in Christ 16:17-33 The Son's Prayer for Glory 17:1-5 Prayer for the Disciples' Protection and Sanctification 17:6-19 Prayer for Unity Among Believers 17:20-26 Jesus Arrested in Gethsemane 18:1-11 Jesus Brought to Annas 18:12-14 Peter's First Denial 18:15-18 Jesus Questioned and Struck Before the High Priest 18:19-24 Peter Denies Jesus Three Times 18:25-27 Jesus Before Pilate 18:28-40 Jesus Scourged, Mocked, and Sentenced to Crucifixion 19:1-16 The Crucifixion and Jesus' Care for His Mother 19:17-27 Jesus' Death and the Fulfillment of Scripture 19:28-37 Jesus' Burial 19:38-42 The Empty Tomb Discovered 20:1-9 Mary Magdalene Meets the Risen Lord 20:10-18 Jesus Appears to His Disciples and Breathes the Spirit 20:19-23 Thomas Believes; Purpose of John's Gospel 20:24-31 The Miraculous Catch and Breakfast by the Sea 21:1-14 Peter Reinstated and the Beloved Disciple 21:15-25

Acts

The Ascension of Jesus 1:1-11 Prayer in the Upper Room and the Choosing of Matthias 1:12-26 Pentecost: The Coming of the Spirit 2:1-13 Peter's Sermon and Three Thousand Converted 2:14-41 The Early Christian Community 2:42-47 Healing at the Beautiful Gate 3:1-10 Peter's Address at Solomon's Colonnade 3:11-26 The Apostles Before the Sanhedrin 4:1-22 Believers Pray for Boldness 4:23-31 The Believers Share Possessions 4:32-37 Ananias and Sapphira 5:1-11 Signs Performed by the Apostles 5:12-16 Persecution of the Apostles and Their Witness 5:17-42 The Appointment of the Seven Deacons 6:1-7 Stephen's Wisdom and Opposition 6:8-15 Stephen's Speech before the Sanhedrin 7:1-53 The Stoning of Stephen and the Persecution of the Church 7:54-8:1 Saul's Persecution Scatters the Church 8:2-3 Philip Proclaims Christ in Samaria 8:4-8 Simon Magus and Peter's Rebuke 8:9-25 Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch 8:26-40 The Conversion of Saul 9:1-19 Saul's Early Ministry and Acceptance by the Church 9:20-31 Peter Heals Aeneas and Raises Tabitha 9:32-43 Cornelius' Vision and the Call for Peter 10:1-8 Peter's Vision and the Messengers from Cornelius 10:9-23 Peter at Cornelius' House: Gentiles Receive the Spirit 10:24-48 Peter Defends the Conversion of Gentiles 11:1-18 The Church in Antioch and Famine Relief 11:19-30 Herod Executes James; Peter Miraculously Freed 12:1-19 Herod's Death and the Church's Continued Growth 12:20-25 The First Missionary Sending 13:1-3 Ministry in Cyprus and Elymas's Blinding 13:4-12 Paul's Mission in Pisidian Antioch 13:13-52 Paul and Barnabas in Iconium 14:1-7 Healing in Lystra and Paul's Stoning 14:8-20 Paul and Barnabas Strengthen the Churches 14:21-28 The Jerusalem Council on Gentile Circumcision 15:1-21 The Council's Letter and Peace with Antioch 15:22-35 Paul and Barnabas Separate 15:36-41 Timothy Joins Paul and Churches Are Strengthened 16:1-5 The Call to Macedonia 16:6-10 Lydia's Conversion at Philippi 16:11-15 Paul and Silas Imprisoned and Released in Philippi 16:16-40 Preaching in Thessalonica and Opposition 17:1-9 Berea's Noble Reception and Paul's Departure 17:10-15 Paul's Address at the Areopagus 17:16-34 Paul's Ministry in Corinth and Conflict 18:1-17 Paul Departs; Apollos Instructed by Priscilla and Aquila 18:18-28 Paul's Ministry and the Ephesian Disciples 19:1-22 The Ephesian Riot over Artemis 19:23-41 Paul's Journeys Through Macedonia and Greece 20:1-6 Eutychus Raised in Troas 20:7-12 Paul's Farewell to the Ephesian Elders 20:13-38 Paul's Voyage to Jerusalem 21:1-16 Paul's Arrival in Jerusalem and the Temple Ritual 21:17-26 Paul Seized in the Temple 21:27-36 Paul's Defense: His Conversion and Mission 21:37-22:21 Paul's Arrest and the Council's Division 22:22-23:11 The Plot to Kill Paul and the Soldier's Intervention 23:12-22 Paul Escorted to Caesarea under Guard 23:23-35 Paul's Defense before Governor Felix 24:1-27 Paul Brought before Festus and the Jewish Charges 25:1-12 King Agrippa Learns of Paul's Case 25:13-22 Paul's Defense Before Agrippa 25:23-26:32 Paul's Voyage to Rome Begins 27:1-12 The Storm at Sea and God's Promise of Safety 27:13-26 Shipwreck and Deliverance on Malta 27:27-44 Paul on Malta: Healing and Hospitality 28:1-10 Voyage to Rome and Arrival 28:11-16 Paul in Rome: Preaching under House Arrest 28:17-31

Romans

Paul's Greeting and the Gospel's Power 1:1-17 God's Wrath Against Ungodliness 1:18-32 God's Impartial Judgment and Conscience 2:1-16 The Law, True Circumcision, and Jewish Identity 2:17-29 Israel's Advantage and God's Faithfulness 3:1-8 Universal Sinfulness and the Law's Condemnation 3:9-20 Righteousness Through Faith and Justification 3:21-31 Abraham: Justification by Faith 4:1-25 Peace with God and Reconciliation 5:1-11 Adam and Christ: Death, Grace, and Righteousness 5:12-21 Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ 6:1-14 Slavery to Sin or to Righteousness 6:15-23 Released from the Law to Serve in the Spirit 7:1-6 The Inner Conflict: Law, Sin, and the Flesh 7:7-25 Life in the Spirit: Freedom and Adoption 8:1-17 Future Glory and the Spirit's Intercession 8:18-27 Assurance of God's Love: Nothing Can Separate Us 8:28-39 Paul's Sorrow and God's Sovereign Election 9:1-29 Righteousness by Faith and Israel's Unbelief 9:30-10:21 A Remnant Preserved and Israel's Hardening 11:1-10 Gentiles Grafted In and a Warning Against Boasting 11:11-24 The Mystery of Israel's Salvation and God's Mercy 11:25-32 Doxology: Praise for God's Wisdom and Sovereignty 11:33-36 A Living Sacrifice and the Diversity of Gifts 12:1-8 Christian Conduct: Love, Humility, and Ethical Duties 12:9-21 Submission to Authorities and Civic Duty 13:1-7 Love Fulfills the Law; Walk in the Light 13:8-14 Christian Liberty, Conscience, and Mutual Acceptance 14:1-15:13 Paul's Service to the Gentiles and Missionary Ambition 15:14-22 Paul's Travel Plans and Prayer Requests 15:23-33 Personal Greetings, Final Warnings, and Doxology 16:1-27

Revelation

The Revelation Announced and the Blessing 1:1-3 Greeting and the Lord's Self‑Declaration 1:4-8 John's Vision of the Glorified Son of Man 1:9-20 Letter to Ephesus: Faithfulness and the Call to Repent 2:1-7 Letter to Smyrna: Persecution and the Crown of Life 2:8-11 Letter to Pergamum: Fidelity and False Teaching 2:12-17 Letter to Thyatira: Tolerance of Immorality and Promise to Overcomers 2:18-29 Letter to Sardis: Wakefulness and Repentance 3:1-6 Letter to Philadelphia: An Open Door and a Promise of Protection 3:7-13 Letter to Laodicea: Lukewarmness and the Call to Repent 3:14-22 The Throne in Heaven and Heavenly Worship 4:1-11 The Sealed Scroll and the Worthy Lamb 5:1-14 The Six Seals: Tribulation and Cosmic Disturbance 6:1-17 The Sealing of the 144,000 7:1-8 The Multitude Before the Throne: Salvation and Comfort 7:9-17 The Seventh Seal and the Prayers of the Saints 8:1-5 The Trumpet Judgments: Plagues and Woes 8:6-9:21 The Mighty Angel and the Little Scroll 10:1-11 The Two Witnesses: Prophecy, Death, and Resurrection 11:1-14 The Seventh Trumpet: God's Kingdom Proclaimed and the Temple Opened 11:15-19 The Cosmic Conflict: The Woman, the Dragon, and the Male Child 12:1-13:1 The Sea Beast: Blasphemy and Persecution 13:2-10 The Earth Beast and the Mark of the Beast 13:11-18 The Lamb on Mount Zion and the 144,000 14:1-5 The Three Angels' Messages and the Call to Endure 14:6-13 The Harvest of the Earth: Reaping God's Judgment 14:14-20 The Seven Last Plagues and the Victors' Song 15:1-8 The Bowl Judgments: The Seven Bowls of God's Wrath 16:1-21 The Fall of Babylon the Great and the Beast's Doom 17:1-18:24 Heavenly Praise and the Marriage of the Lamb 19:1-10 Christ's Triumphant Return and the Defeat of the Beast 19:11-21 Satan Bound and the Reign of the Saints 20:1-6 Satan's Final Rebellion and Defeat 20:7-10 The Great White Throne and the Final Judgment 20:11-15 The New Heaven and New Earth and the New Jerusalem 21:1-27 The River of Life and the Throne of God 22:1-6
15 And it shall be, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.

Deu.28.15 - Details

Original Text

והיה אם־ לא תשמע בקול יהוה אלהיך לשמר לעשות את־ כל־ מצותיו וחקתיו אשר אנכי מצוך היום ובאו עליך כל־ הקללות האלה והשיגוך׃

Morphology

  • והיה: VERB,qal,imperfect,3,m,sg
  • אם: CONJ
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • תשמע: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • בקול: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • אלהיך: NOUN,m,sg,prsuf-2ms
  • לשמר: VERB,qal,inf
  • לעשות: VERB,qal,inf
  • את: PRT,acc
  • כל: DET
  • מצותיו: NOUN,f,pl,abs,poss:3,m,sg
  • וחקתיו: CONJ+NOUN,f,pl,abs,3,m,sg
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • אנכי: PRON,1,sg
  • מצוך: VERB,piel,part,1,sg,obj:2,m,sg
  • היום: NOUN,m,sg,def
  • ובאו: VERB,qal,imp,2,mp
  • עליך: PREP+2ms
  • כל: DET
  • הקללות: NOUN,f,pl,def
  • האלה: DEM,pl
  • והשיגוך: CONJ+VERB,qal,impf,3,m,pl+OBJ,2,m,sg

Parallels

  • Leviticus 26:14 (verbal): Uses the same conditional formula—'if ye will not hearken unto me'—and announces covenant curses for disobedience, closely mirroring Deut 28:15's language and theme.
  • Deuteronomy 28:1-14 (structural): The immediate literary counterpart: blessings promised for obedience (vv.1–14) set up a chiastic structure with v.15 initiating the catalogue of curses for failing to keep the covenant.
  • Deuteronomy 30:15-18 (thematic): Presents the choice between life/blessing and death/cursing; like Deut 28:15 it frames obedience as the condition for blessing and disobedience as the cause of curse and exile.
  • Jeremiah 11:3-5 (allusion): Echoes the covenant summons and warning—'hear ye the words of this covenant…if ye will not hearken'—applying the Deuteronomic conditional to Judah and warning of judgment for covenant breach.

Alternative generated candidates

  • And it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God to keep and to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
  • But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God to observe and to do all his commandments and statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

Deu.28.16 - Details

Original Text

ארור אתה בעיר וארור אתה בשדה׃

Morphology

  • ארור: ADJ,m,sg,abs
  • אתה: PRON,2,m,sg
  • בעיר: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • וארור: CONJ+ADJ,m,sg,abs
  • אתה: PRON,2,m,sg
  • בשדה: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs

Parallels

  • Deut.28.19 (structural): Part of the same curse-speech in chapter 28; both verses belong to the catalogue of comprehensive household and social curses that befall Israel for disobedience.
  • Deut.28.20 (thematic): Continues and explains the origin and scope of the curses pronounced in v.16—God will send curses, sickness and confusion upon the people, linking divine judgment to the city/field curse motif.
  • Deut.27.26 (verbal): Uses the same curse-formula (Heb. 'arur' ארור) and the legal-ritual pattern of pronouncing curses on covenant transgressors; v.16 is one instance of that broader juridical rhetoric.
  • Leviticus 26:31–33 (thematic): Leviticus lists parallel covenantal punishments (desolation of cities, scattering among the nations) that mirror Deut.28’s threat of ruin in both urban and rural settings.
  • Micah 3:12 (allusion): Uses the image of Zion/ Jerusalem overturned and plowed like a field—similar catastrophic transformation of city and land invoked by Deut.28:16’s city/field curse.

Alternative generated candidates

  • Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
  • Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
17 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading‑trough.

Deu.28.17 - Details

Original Text

ארור טנאך ומשארתך׃

Morphology

  • ארור: ADJ,m,sg,abs
  • טנאך: NOUN,f,sg,suff-2ms
  • ומשארתך: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,f,sg,suff-2ms

Parallels

  • Leviticus 26:26 (verbal): Both passages depict Yahweh's judgment as an attack on food provisions; Leviticus explicitly speaks of breaking the staff of bread and women baking and returning bread in a basket—language close to Deut 28:17's curse on the basket and kneading trough.
  • Deuteronomy 28:20 (structural): Nearby verse in the same covenant-suitcase of curses: it frames the specific domestic curses (like the basket and kneading-trough) within the broader promise that the LORD will send curses on the obedient nation's disobedience.
  • Deuteronomy 27:15 (verbal): Uses the same covenantal curse formula ('ארור' / 'Cursed be…'), showing the recurring liturgical/legal pattern of pronouncing curses for covenant breach that Deut 28:17 exemplifies.
  • Amos 8:1–2 (allusion): Uses a basket of summer fruit as a prophetic sign announcing imminent judgment on Israel; the shared 'basket' imagery links private household containers to national judgment themes.

Alternative generated candidates

  • Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
  • Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading‑trough.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock.

Deu.28.18 - Details

Original Text

ארור פרי־ בטנך ופרי אדמתך שגר אלפיך ועשתרות צאנך׃

Morphology

  • ארור: ADJ,m,sg,abs
  • פרי: NOUN,m,sg,cs
  • בטנך: NOUN,m,sg,sfx
  • ופרי: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • אדמתך: NOUN,f,sg,sfx
  • שגר: NOUN,m,sg,const
  • אלפיך: NOUN,m,pl,sfx
  • ועשתרות: CONJ+NOUN,f,pl,abs
  • צאנך: NOUN,m,pl,abs+PRON,2,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deuteronomy 28:16 (structural): Verse 18 is part of the longer covenant-curses section that begins in 28:16; the list structure places the curse on offspring and produce within the same catalogue of penalties.
  • Deuteronomy 28:20-24 (thematic): These verses continue the covenant curses affecting sky, land and crops (drought, blight, failure of produce), echoing the threat against the fruit of the ground and increase of livestock.
  • Leviticus 26:16-20 (thematic): Leviticus sets out covenantal penalties for disobedience that include land failure and sowing in vain—parallel themes of agricultural failure and divine judgment on offspring/produce.
  • Exodus 23:25-26 (thematic): A complementary/contrasting passage: as Deut. 28:18 pronounces curses on fertility and produce for disobedience, Exodus promises blessing—no barrenness and sustained offspring and crops—for faithful service to Yahweh.

Alternative generated candidates

  • Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock.
  • Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land, the increase of your herds and the young of your flocks.
19 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

Deu.28.19 - Details

Original Text

ארור אתה בבאך וארור אתה בצאתך׃

Morphology

  • ארור: ADJ,m,sg,abs
  • אתה: PRON,2,m,sg
  • בבאך: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs+PRON,2,m,sg
  • וארור: CONJ+ADJ,m,sg
  • אתה: PRON,2,m,sg
  • בצאתך: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs+PRON,2,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deut.28.3 (verbal): Direct verbal/structural antithesis — the blessing formula uses the identical city/field pair ('blessed... in the city and... in the field'), which Deut 28:19 inverts into a curse.
  • Lev.26:14-39 (structural): Parallel covenant curse section: a systematic sequence of punishments for disobedience that functions like Deut 28’s catalogue of curses (including exile, calamity and failure whether in town or country).
  • Deut.27:15-26 (thematic): Earlier Deuteronomic list of communal curses pronounced on Mount Ebal — shares the same covenantal framework of conditional blessings/curses and public pronouncement of punishments for transgression.
  • 1 Kings 8:35 (allusion): Solomon’s temple-prayer echoes the Deuteronomic pattern of consequences (famine, plague, defeat) that befall the people when they disobey, reflecting the same covenant curse logic as Deut 28:19.
  • Gal.3:10 (allusion): Paul cites the Deuteronomic curse tradition ('cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law'), invoking the same covenantal-threat motif behind Deut 28’s curses.

Alternative generated candidates

  • Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
  • Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
20 The LORD will send on you panic, consumption, fever, inflammation, burning, the sword, desolation, and pestilence, in all the work of your hands which you do, until he has destroyed you and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, in that you have forsaken me.

Deu.28.20 - Details

Original Text

ישלח יהוה ׀ בך את־ המארה את־ המהומה ואת־ המגערת בכל־ משלח ידך אשר תעשה עד השמדך ועד־ אבדך מהר מפני רע מעלליך אשר עזבתני׃

Morphology

  • ישלח: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • בך: PREP+PRON,2,m,sg
  • את: PRT,acc
  • המארה: NOUN,f,sg,def
  • את: PRT,acc
  • המהומה: NOUN,f,sg,def
  • ואת: CONJ
  • המגערת: NOUN,f,sg,def
  • בכל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • משלח: VERB,piel,part,3,m,sg
  • ידך: NOUN,f,sg,abs,poss:2,f,sg
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • תעשה: VERB,qal,imf,2,m,sg
  • עד: PREP
  • השמדך: VERB,hiphil,perf,2,m,sg
  • ועד: CONJ+PREP
  • אבדך: NOUN,m,sg,abs+prn:2,m,sg
  • מהר: VERB,qal,imp,2,m,sg
  • מפני: PREP
  • רע: ADJ,m,sg,abs
  • מעלליך: PREP,2,m,sg
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • עזבתני: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg+obj:1,sg

Parallels

  • Leviticus 26:16-17 (thematic): Part of the covenant curses: God warns that disobedience will bring his hostility and death before enemies—paralleling the threat of destruction and perishing in Deut 28:20.
  • Leviticus 26:25 (verbal): Lists specific punishments (sword, pestilence, hunger) that God will send for covenant breach, echoing Deut 28:20's language of sending calamity and annihilation.
  • Deuteronomy 28:21-22 (structural): Immediate continuation of the same curse-unit: enumerates illnesses and disasters God will send, closely linked in form and function to v.20.
  • 2 Chronicles 7:19-20 (thematic): Solomonic warning: if the king/people turn away God will cut them off and reject the temple—a royal/temple parallel of covenantal removal and destruction.
  • Psalm 78:49 (thematic): Describes God unleashing his fierce anger and plague on Israel for their sins—thematising divine sent calamity as punishment like Deut 28:20.

Alternative generated candidates

  • The LORD will send on you curses, panic, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until he has destroyed you and brought you to ruin because of the evil of your deeds in forsaking me.
  • The LORD will send on you curse, confusion and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, for you have forsaken me.
21 The LORD will make the plague cling to you until he has consumed you from off the land which you are entering to possess.

Deu.28.21 - Details

Original Text

ידבק יהוה בך את־ הדבר עד כלתו אתך מעל האדמה אשר־ אתה בא־ שמה לרשתה׃

Morphology

  • ידבק: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • בך: PREP+PRON,2,m,sg
  • את: PRT,acc
  • הדבר: NOUN,m,sg,def
  • עד: PREP
  • כלתו: NOUN,f,sg,abs+PRON,3,m,sg
  • אתך: PREP+PRON,2,m,sg
  • מעל: PREP
  • האדמה: NOUN,f,sg,def
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • אתה: PRON,2,m,sg
  • בא: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,sg
  • שמה: ADV
  • לרשתה: INF,qal,3,f,sg

Parallels

  • Deut.28.22 (verbal): Immediate continuation in the same curse-section; specifies the kinds of afflictions (fever, inflammation, drought, blight) that follow the plague that 'clings' until destruction.
  • Deut.28.27 (verbal): Another verse within the Deuteronomic curse formula listing bodily plagues (boils, tumors, scab, itch) sent by YHWH — a close verbal and thematic parallel emphasizing disease as divine punishment.
  • Deut.28.60–61 (structural): Returns to the broad covenant curse motif: God will bring 'all the diseases' and persistent plagues upon the people until they perish from the land, echoing the idea of a plague that clings until destruction.
  • Lev.26.16–21 (thematic): In the Levitical covenant curses God warns of escalating punishments (terror, pestilence, famine, defeat) for disobedience — a parallel covenantal framework where disease and ruin are instruments of divine judgment.
  • Ezek.14.21 (thematic): Prophetic summary of God sending 'four sore judgments' including pestilence to cut off man and beast — echoes the theme of God sending plague/pestilence as a means to consume a people from the land.

Alternative generated candidates

  • The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you until he has consumed you off the land which you are entering to possess.
  • The LORD will make the pestilence cleave to you until he has consumed you off the land which you are entering to possess.
22 The LORD will strike you with boils, with fever, with inflammation, with scorching, with the sword, with blasting, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.

Deu.28.22 - Details

Original Text

יככה יהוה בשחפת ובקדחת ובדלקת ובחרחר ובחרב ובשדפון ובירקון ורדפוך עד אבדך׃

Morphology

  • יככה: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • בשחפת: PREP,NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • ובקדחת: CONJ+PREP,NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • ובדלקת: CONJ+PREP,NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • ובחרחר: CONJ+PREP,NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • ובחרב: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • ובשדפון: CONJ+PREP,NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ובירקון: CONJ+PREP,NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ורדפוך: CONJ+VERB,qal,perf,3,pl,suff:2,m,sg
  • עד: PREP
  • אבדך: NOUN,f,sg,abs,suff:2,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deuteronomy 28:27 (verbal): Same chapter's curse list: specific bodily ailments (boils, tumors, scab, itch) parallel the catalogue of diseases and divine afflictions in 28:22.
  • Deuteronomy 28:60 (thematic): Summarizes the disease theme: God will bring 'all the diseases of Egypt' upon the disobedient—echoes the punitive illnesses named in 28:22.
  • Leviticus 26:25-26 (structural): Part of the covenant curse tradition: God promises sword, famine and pestilence against disobedience, structurally parallel to Deut 28's list of divine punishments including sickness and the sword.
  • Ezekiel 14:21 (thematic): Prophetic summary of divine judgments—'the sword, the famine, and the noisome pestilence'—closely mirrors Deut 28:22's coupling of disease and violent calamity as instruments of judgment.
  • Psalm 91:3 (thematic): Speaks of rescue 'from the noisome pestilence'—a thematic contrast to Deut 28:22's pronouncement of pestilence as punishment, highlighting the motif of pestilence in biblical theology.

Alternative generated candidates

  • He will strike you with consumption, with fever, inflammation, burning, the sword, wasting, and with pestilence; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
  • The LORD will strike you with consumption, fever, inflammation, severe burning, sword, blasting and mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.
23 Your heavens over your head shall be brass, and the earth under you shall be iron.

Deu.28.23 - Details

Original Text

והיו שמיך אשר על־ ראשך נחשת והארץ אשר־ תחתיך ברזל׃

Morphology

  • והיו: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,pl
  • שמיך: NOUN,m,pl,abs+suff-2ms
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • על: PREP
  • ראשך: NOUN,m,sg,abs,2,m
  • נחשת: NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • והארץ: CONJ+NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • תחתיך: PREP,suff-2ms
  • ברזל: NOUN,m,sg,abs

Parallels

  • Leviticus 26:19–20 (verbal): Uses essentially the same curse-imagery—God makes the heavens like brass and the earth like iron as part of the penalty for disobedience (close verbal parallel in the covenant curse formula).
  • Deuteronomy 11:16–17 (structural): An earlier Deuteronomic warning that if Israel turns to other gods the Lord will 'shut up the heavens' and withhold rain; part of the same covenantal structure of blessings and curses that culminates in Deut 28.23.
  • 2 Chronicles 7:13–14 (thematic): Describes God shutting up the heavens and bringing famine/pestilence as a response to sin—a later historical/theological echo of the motif of withheld rain and cosmic disorder as punishment.
  • Amos 4:7–8 (thematic): A prophetic example of God withholding or giving rain selectively as discipline for Israel's sins, illustrating the same consequence (drought/withheld rain) implied by the 'heavens like brass' imagery.

Alternative generated candidates

  • Your heavens above your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.
  • Your heavens above your head shall be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
24 The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

Deu.28.24 - Details

Original Text

יתן יהוה את־ מטר ארצך אבק ועפר מן־ השמים ירד עליך עד השמדך׃

Morphology

  • יתן: VERB,qal,imperf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • את: PRT,acc
  • מטר: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ארצך: NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • אבק: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ועפר: CONJ+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • מן: PREP
  • השמים: NOUN,m,pl,def
  • ירד: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • עליך: PREP+2ms
  • עד: PREP
  • השמדך: VERB,hiphil,perf,2,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deut.11:17 (verbal): Promises that if Israel provokes the LORD he will 'shut up the heavens, that there be no rain,' closely paralleling Deut 28:24's motif of withheld or perverted rain as judgment.
  • Lev.26:19-20 (thematic): Part of the covenant curses: God will 'make your heaven like iron and your earth like brass,' a related image of cessation/impairment of rain and agricultural ruin as punishment.
  • 1 Kings 8:35-36 (verbal): Solomon's temple-prayer envisions the same scenario—'when heaven is shut up and there is no rain'—linking drought with divine anger and communal sin.
  • Amos 4:7 (thematic): Amos explicitly portrays withholding or distorting rain as an act of divine judgment ('I withheld rain from you...'), echoing Deut 28:24's theme of punishment through ruined precipitation.
  • Jer.14:1-6 (thematic): Jeremiah's lament about drought, failing wells, and parched land presents the prophetic outworking of covenant curses—divine-induced desolation of the land like that described in Deut 28:24.

Alternative generated candidates

  • The LORD will turn the rain of your land to dust and powder; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
  • The LORD will make the rain of your land dust and powder; from heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.
25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deu.28.25 - Details

Original Text

יתנך יהוה ׀ נגף לפני איביך בדרך אחד תצא אליו ובשבעה דרכים תנוס לפניו והיית לזעוה לכל ממלכות הארץ׃

Morphology

  • יתנך: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • נגף: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • לפני: PREP
  • איביך: NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • בדרך: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • אחד: NUM,card,m,sg
  • תצא: VERB,qal,impf,2,ms
  • אליו: PREP+PRON,3,m,sg
  • ובשבעה: CONJ+PREP+NUM,card,m,pl
  • דרכים: NOUN,f,pl,abs
  • תנוס: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • לפניו: PREP+PRON,3,m,sg
  • והיית: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • לזעוה: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • לכל: PREP
  • ממלכות: NOUN,f,pl,cs
  • הארץ: NOUN,f,sg,def

Parallels

  • Leviticus 26:17 (verbal): Both verses warn that Yahweh will oppose Israel so that they "flee when none pursues"—a direct verbal and thematic parallel about divinely-caused panic and rout.
  • Deuteronomy 28:37 (structural): Close parallel within the Deuteronomic curse-speech: both predict Israel will become a horror/reproach and byword among all peoples as a consequence of covenant disobedience.
  • Psalm 44:13-14 (thematic): A communal lament describing military defeat and becoming a reproach among nations—echoes the image of being disgraced and mocked before surrounding peoples.
  • Ezekiel 36:19-20 (allusion): Ezekiel depicts Israel scattered among the nations and God’s name profaned—resonates with Deut.28’s themes of defeat, dispersion, and Israel’s dishonor before foreign kingdoms.
  • Jeremiah 9:16 (thematic): Jeremiah foretells terror, scattering, and death among the nations as divine punishment—parallels Deut.28:25’s depiction of routed flight and disgrace under Yahweh’s judgment.

Alternative generated candidates

  • The LORD will make you be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them, and you will be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 Your carcass shall be for food to all the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth; there shall be no one to frighten them away.

Deu.28.26 - Details

Original Text

והיתה נבלתך למאכל לכל־ עוף השמים ולבהמת הארץ ואין מחריד׃

Morphology

  • והיתה: VERB,qal,perf,3,f,sg
  • נבלתך: NOUN,f,sg,abs,2,ms
  • למאכל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg
  • לכל: PREP
  • עוף: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • השמים: NOUN,m,pl,def
  • ולבהמת: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,f,sg,def
  • הארץ: NOUN,f,sg,def
  • ואין: CONJ+PART,exist
  • מחריד: VERB,piel,ptc,0,m,sg

Parallels

  • Psalm 79:2-3 (verbal): Speaks of the bodies of God's servants given as food to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth—near verbal and thematic echo of carcasses being eaten by birds and beasts.
  • Isaiah 66:24 (verbal): Images of corpses left to be devoured by birds (and unending shame) parallel Deut. 28's picture of desecrated bodies as food for birds and beasts.
  • Ezekiel 39:17-20 (thematic): God summons birds and beasts to feed on the flesh of the defeated—a prophetic, apocalyptic development of the motif of corpses as food for animals.
  • 1 Kings 14:11 (verbal): A prophetic curse concerning Jeroboam's house: 'dogs shall eat' and 'birds shall eat'—a parallel formulation of dishonorable treatment of the dead.
  • Leviticus 26:22 (thematic): Within the covenant curses God sends wild beasts and other judgments on the people; thematically related as part of the Mosaic curse tradition that Deut. 28 continues.

Alternative generated candidates

  • Your dead bodies shall be food for every bird of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; there shall be no one to frighten them away.
  • Your carcasses shall be food for every bird of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth; there shall be no one to frighten them away.
27 The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with itch, of which you cannot be healed.

Deu.28.27 - Details

Original Text

יככה יהוה בשחין מצרים ובטחרים ובגרב ובחרס אשר לא־ תוכל להרפא׃

Morphology

  • יככה: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • בשחין: PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • מצרים: NOUN,f,pl,abs
  • ובטחרים: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • ובגרב: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • ובחרס: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • תוכל: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • להרפא: VERB,qal,inf

Parallels

  • Exodus 9:9-11 (verbal): Describes the same plague of boils inflicted on the Egyptians; similar wording and catalogue of skin afflictions (boils/scabs) as a divine judgment.
  • 1 Samuel 5:6 (verbal): Reports that the hand of the LORD struck the Philistines with tumours (boils), using the same imagery/terminology of painful skin afflictions as divine punishment.
  • Job 2:7 (thematic): Job is afflicted with painful boils from head to foot; thematically parallels human suffering expressed as widespread, incurable skin disease, though caused by Satan rather than directly by God in this context.
  • 2 Chronicles 21:18 (allusion): Describes the LORD striking King Jehoram with an incurable disease in his bowels—an instance of divine affliction described as incurable, echoing Deuteronomy’s motif of God-sent, untreatable ailments as judgment.

Alternative generated candidates

  • The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors, and with the scab, and with the itch from which you cannot be healed.
  • The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
28 The LORD will strike you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart.

Deu.28.28 - Details

Original Text

יככה יהוה בשגעון ובעורון ובתמהון לבב׃

Morphology

  • יככה: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • בשגעון: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ובעורון: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ובתמהון: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • לבב: NOUN,m,sg,abs

Parallels

  • Deuteronomy 28:29 (structural): Immediate parallel within the same curse section: repeats the motifs of blindness and bewilderment—'thou shalt grope at noonday... as the blind gropeth'—as part of the judicial afflictions promised for disobedience.
  • Isaiah 29:9-10 (verbal): Uses very similar language of astonishment and divine-induced stupor: 'be amazed and be ye astonished... the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes,' echoing judicial blindness and bewilderment.
  • Ezekiel 12:2 (thematic): Condemns a people who 'have eyes to see but see not; they have ears to hear but hear not'—the prophetic theme of spiritual/psychological incapacity and divine hardening resonates with Deut. 28:28's madness, blindness, and astonishment of heart.
  • 2 Thessalonians 2:11 (thematic): New Testament parallel describing divine judicial action: 'God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie'—a comparable idea of God inflicting delusion/madness as punishment.
  • Romans 1:28 (thematic): Paul's formulation 'God gave them over to a reprobate mind' reflects the same theological motif of God judicially abandoning people to folly or madness as a consequence of sin.

Alternative generated candidates

  • The LORD will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with bewilderment of heart.
  • The LORD will strike you with madness, blindness and bewilderment of heart.
29 You shall grope at noonday as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and spoiled all your days, and there shall be none to save.

Deu.28.29 - Details

Original Text

והיית ממשש בצהרים כאשר ימשש העור באפלה ולא תצליח את־ דרכיך והיית אך עשוק וגזול כל־ הימים ואין מושיע׃

Morphology

  • והיית: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • ממשש: VERB,qal,ptc,.,m,sg
  • בצהרים: PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • כאשר: CONJ
  • ימשש: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • העור: NOUN,m,sg,def
  • באפלה: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • ולא: CONJ
  • תצליח: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • את: PRT,acc
  • דרכיך: NOUN,f,pl,abs+PRON,2,m,sg
  • והיית: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • אך: PART
  • עשוק: ADJ,m,sg
  • וגזול: ADJ,m,sg
  • כל: DET
  • הימים: NOUN,m,pl,def
  • ואין: CONJ+PART,exist
  • מושיע: NOUN,m,sg,abs

Parallels

  • Job 5:14 (verbal): Virtually the same image: 'they meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night' — uses the same metaphor of groping/blindness to describe calamity and disorientation.
  • Isaiah 59:10 (verbal): Similar language and theme: 'we grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes at midday' — the nation’s helplessness and lack of guidance echoes Deut 28:29.
  • Deuteronomy 28:28 (structural): Immediate context within the covenant curses: v.28 speaks of 'madness, blindness and confusion of heart,' which sets up the 'groping at noonday' image in v.29 — part of the single literary unit of punitive consequences.
  • Leviticus 26:16–17 (thematic): Part of another covenantal curse tradition: God warns of terror, oppression and defeat as punishment. The theme of national calamity, vulnerability and lack of deliverance parallels Deut 28:29’s depiction of continual oppression and no savior.

Alternative generated candidates

  • You shall grope at noonday as a blind man gropes in the dark; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and robbed all your days, and no one will rescue you.
  • You shall grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and robbed all the days, and there shall be no one to help.
30 You shall betroth a wife but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard but shall not gather its grapes.

Deu.28.30 - Details

Original Text

אשה תארש ואיש אחר ישכבנה בית תבנה ולא־ תשב בו כרם תטע ולא תחללנו׃

Morphology

  • אשה: NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • תארש: VERB,qal,impf,3,f,sg
  • ואיש: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • אחר: PREP
  • ישכבנה: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • בית: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • תבנה: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • ולא: CONJ
  • תשב: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • בו: PREP+PRON,3,m,sg
  • כרם: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • תטע: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • ולא: CONJ
  • תחללנו: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg

Parallels

  • 2 Samuel 12:11-12 (verbal): Nathan's oracle against David: as punishment someone close will lie with your wives and your house will suffer—language and theme echo Deut.28:30's image of a wife given to another and loss of one's household.
  • Ezekiel 16:37-39 (thematic): Ezekiel portrays Israel as a wife whom God hands over to lovers and shames as judgment; parallels the motif of sexual humiliation and being given to another as punitive imagery.
  • Deuteronomy 28:54-57 (verbal): Later verses in the same curse-song expand the same theme: wives defiled before their husbands and the profound humiliation under siege—an immediate verbal and topical echo of v.30.
  • Leviticus 26:30-33 (structural): Leviticus' covenant curses likewise predict desolated cities, exile, and loss of the land/property—structurally parallel to Deut.28's sequence (houses built but not inhabited, vineyards planted but not enjoyed).

Alternative generated candidates

  • You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and you shall not enjoy its fruit.
  • You shall betroth a wife, and another shall lie with her; you shall build a house and shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard and shall not gather its grapes.
31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, yet you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken from before you and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and there shall be none to help you.

Deu.28.31 - Details

Original Text

שורך טבוח לעיניך ולא תאכל ממנו חמרך גזול מלפניך ולא ישוב לך צאנך נתנות לאיביך ואין לך מושיע׃

Morphology

  • שורך: NOUN,m,sg,abs,2ms_suff
  • טבוח: ADJ,m,sg
  • לעיניך: PREP
  • ולא: CONJ
  • תאכל: VERB,qal,impf,3,f,sg
  • ממנו: PREP+PRON,3,m,sg
  • חמרך: NOUN,m,sg,abs,2ms
  • גזול: ADJ,m,sg
  • מלפניך: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs,2,m
  • ולא: CONJ
  • ישוב: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • צאנך: NOUN,m,pl,abs+PRON,2,m,sg
  • נתנות: ADJ,f,pl
  • לאיביך: PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs,2ms
  • ואין: CONJ+PART,exist
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • מושיע: NOUN,m,sg,abs

Parallels

  • Leviticus 26:20-22 (thematic): Part of the covenantal curse tradition: threats of military defeat, devastation of land and loss of protection—same pattern of divine judgment leading to helplessness and loss of property/livestock.
  • Deuteronomy 28:32-33 (structural): Immediate continuation of the Deuteronomic curse-list; verses nearby repeat the theme of family and property being given to others and the people suffering helplessly before enemies.
  • Jeremiah 12:7 (thematic): Jeremiah laments that the beloved (people/land) has been given into the hand of enemies—echoes the image of possessions and people handed over with no deliverer.
  • Psalm 44:11-12 (thematic): Speaks of being given up to enemies and treated as sheep for food, with enemies taking spoil—parallels the humiliation and loss of flocks/property in Deut 28:31.

Alternative generated candidates

  • The ox of your herd shall be slaughtered before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be taken away before your face, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and there shall be none to deliver them.
  • Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken from you and shall not be restored; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and there shall be no one to help you.
32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in your hand.

Deu.28.32 - Details

Original Text

בניך ובנתיך נתנים לעם אחר ועיניך ראות וכלות אליהם כל־ היום ואין לאל ידך׃

Morphology

  • בניך: NOUN,m,pl,abs+POSS,2,m,sg
  • ובנתיך: CONJ+NOUN,f,pl,abs,suff:2,ms
  • נתנים: ADJ,m,pl,abs
  • לעם: PREP
  • אחר: PREP
  • ועיניך: CONJ+NOUN,f,pl,abs+suff(2ms)
  • ראות: VERB,qal,ptc,3,f,pl
  • וכלות: CONJ+VERB,qal,inf
  • אליהם: PREP,3,m,pl
  • כל: DET
  • היום: NOUN,m,sg,def
  • ואין: CONJ+PART,exist
  • לאל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ידך: NOUN,f,sg,abs,poss:2,f,sg

Parallels

  • Leviticus 26:37 (verbal): Leviticus 26 contains a parallel list of covenant curses; verse 37 (in many translations) closely echoes the language of children being given to another people and the distress of the parents, reflecting the same covenantal threat repeated in Deut 28.
  • Deuteronomy 28:30 (thematic): Earlier in the same curse-section Deut 28:30 speaks of personal and family dishonor (e.g., a wife given to another), part of the broader theme of loss of family and control that culminates in verse 32’s giving of sons and daughters to other peoples.
  • 2 Chronicles 36:20–21 (thematic): This passage narrates the Babylonian exile—Israel’s people (including children) taken into foreign lands—and explicitly frames that removal as fulfillment of prophetic/covenantal judgment, serving as the historical realization of the curse described in Deut 28:32.

Alternative generated candidates

  • Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail for them all day long; there shall be nothing in your hand.
  • Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall long and fail for them all day long; there will be no strength in your hand.
33 The fruit of your land and all your labors shall be eaten up by a people which you do not know; and you shall be continually oppressed and crushed all the days.

Deu.28.33 - Details

Original Text

פרי אדמתך וכל־ יגיעך יאכל עם אשר לא־ ידעת והיית רק עשוק ורצוץ כל־ הימים׃

Morphology

  • פרי: NOUN,m,sg,cs
  • אדמתך: NOUN,f,sg,sfx
  • וכל: CONJ+PRON,indef
  • יגיעך: NOUN,m,sg,suff
  • יאכל: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • עם: PREP
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • ידעת: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • והיית: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • רק: PRT
  • עשוק: ADJ,m,sg,abs
  • ורצוץ: CONJ+ADJ,m,sg,abs
  • כל: DET
  • הימים: NOUN,m,pl,def

Parallels

  • Deut.28.32 (structural): Immediate parallel within the same curse sequence: both describe loss to foreign peoples (children given over, produce/labor taken) and the theme of exile and subjugation.
  • Leviticus 26:32-33 (thematic): Part of the Deuteronomic/Levitical covenant curses: God will make the land a desolation and 'scatter you among the nations,' with enemies occupying the land—echoes the loss of produce and livelihood to outsiders.
  • Ezekiel 36:19-20 (allusion): Ezekiel recounts God scattering Israel among the nations because of their defilement and the land becoming desolate to others—resonant theme of exile and loss of homeland resources to foreign peoples.
  • Psalm 106:40-43 (thematic): A historical/theological reflection on Israel's punishment: God gives them into the hands of nations and their enemies rule over them—parallels the motif of being oppressed and seeing one's produce and labor taken by strangers.

Alternative generated candidates

  • The fruit of your land and all your toil shall be eaten by a nation that you do not know; you shall be only oppressed and crushed all the days.
  • A nation which you do not know shall eat up the fruit of your land and all your labors; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed all the days.
34 You shall be mad because of the sight which your eyes shall see.

Deu.28.34 - Details

Original Text

והיית משגע ממראה עיניך אשר תראה׃

Morphology

  • והיית: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • משגע: VERB,piel,ptc,3,m,sg
  • ממראה: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • עיניך: NOUN,f,pl,abs+2ms
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • תראה: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deut.28:28 (verbal): Same covenant‑curse context — God brings 'madness' (insanity/confusion of heart) as a direct punishment, closely mirroring v.34's language of becoming insane from what one sees.
  • Deut.28:66–67 (thematic): Later verses in the same curse section describe continual fear, anxiety and loss of assurance ('fear day and night', wishing for evening or morning), echoing the psychological breakdown expressed in v.34.
  • Isaiah 29:9–10 (thematic): Speaks of astonishment, drunkenness not from wine and a spirit of deep sleep that God sends, portraying divinely‑caused confusion and inability to perceive — a prophetic parallel to the theme of mental disorientation in Deut.28:34.
  • Luke 21:26 (thematic): In Jesus' eschatological warning people 'fainting from fear and foreboding of what is coming on the world... men fainting at the sight of what is coming,' paralleling the image of people driven to madness by terrifying sights in Deut.28:34.

Alternative generated candidates

  • You shall become mad from the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
  • You shall be distraught at the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
35 The LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

Deu.28.35 - Details

Original Text

יככה יהוה בשחין רע על־ הברכים ועל־ השקים אשר לא־ תוכל להרפא מכף רגלך ועד קדקדך׃

Morphology

  • יככה: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • בשחין: PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • רע: ADJ,m,sg,abs
  • על: PREP
  • הברכים: NOUN,m,pl,def
  • ועל: CONJ+PREP
  • השקים: NOUN,m,pl,def
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • תוכל: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • להרפא: INF,niphal
  • מכף: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • רגלך: NOUN,f,sg,abs+SUFF,2,m,sg
  • ועד: CONJ+PREP
  • קדקדך: NOUN,m,sg,abs+SUFF,2,m,sg

Parallels

  • Exodus 9:9-11 (verbal): Describes God-caused boils and sores breaking out on humans and animals—language and affliction closely parallel Deut. 28:35's plague of painful skin disease.
  • 1 Samuel 5:6 (verbal): Reports the LORD afflicting the Philistines with 'tumors' (or emerods) after they captured the Ark—similar vocabulary and the motif of divine physical affliction as punishment.
  • Job 2:7 (thematic): Satan smites Job with painful boils from head to foot—shares the image of pervasive, debilitating skin disease affecting the whole body.
  • Leviticus 26:16-17 (structural): Part of the covenantal curse sequence promising disease and punishment for disobedience; parallels Deut. 28's structural presentation of calamities (including sickness) as consequences of covenant breach.
  • Psalm 38:5-7 (thematic): The psalmist speaks of wounds, sores, and a bowed-down, afflicted body—echoing the personal misery and bodily suffering depicted in Deut. 28:35.

Alternative generated candidates

  • The LORD will strike you with severe boils on your knees and on your thighs, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head, from which you cannot be healed.
  • The LORD will strike you with severe boils on your knees and on your thighs, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36 The LORD will bring you and the king whom you shall set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve gods of wood and stone.

Deu.28.36 - Details

Original Text

יולך יהוה אתך ואת־ מלכך אשר תקים עליך אל־ גוי אשר לא־ ידעת אתה ואבתיך ועבדת שם אלהים אחרים עץ ואבן׃

Morphology

  • יולך: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • אתך: PREP+PRON,2,m,sg
  • ואת: CONJ
  • מלכך: NOUN,m,sg,abs+PRON,2,m,sg
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • תקים: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • עליך: PREP+2ms
  • אל: NEG
  • גוי: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • ידעת: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • אתה: PRON,2,m,sg
  • ואבתיך: CONJ+NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • ועבדת: CONJ+VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • שם: ADV
  • אלהים: NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • אחרים: ADJ,m,pl,abs
  • עץ: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ואבן: NOUN,f,sg,abs

Parallels

  • Deut 4:28 (verbal): Uses nearly identical language warning that Israel will be scattered into foreign lands and there serve other gods “wood and stone” — a close verbal parallel within Deuteronomy’s covenant curses.
  • Deut 31:16-18 (thematic): God tells Moses that the people and their future king will turn to foreign gods in the land of their enemies and God will hide his face — the same theme of exile and idolatry applied to leadership.
  • Lev 26:33-34 (thematic): Leviticus’ covenant sanctions likewise predict scattering Israel among the nations and desolation of the land as punishment for disobedience — a parallel statement of exile as consequence for breaking the covenant.
  • 2 Kings 17:6,23,29-34 (structural): Describes the historical fulfillment: Israel carried into Assyria (exiled) and the population’s subsequent mixture of worship (serving foreign/handmade gods), illustrating the outcome Deut 28:36 warns about.

Alternative generated candidates

  • The LORD will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.
  • The LORD will lead you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone.
37 You shall become a proverb and a byword among all peoples where the LORD will lead you.

Deu.28.37 - Details

Original Text

והיית לשמה למשל ולשנינה בכל העמים אשר־ ינהגך יהוה שמה׃

Morphology

  • והיית: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • לשמה: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • למשל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ולשנינה: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • בכל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • העמים: NOUN,m,pl,def
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • ינהגך: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • שמה: ADV

Parallels

  • Leviticus 26:37 (verbal): Almost identical covenant-curse language — Israel will become an astonishment/proverb and a byword among the nations (same motif and phrasing in the covenant curse tradition).
  • Psalm 44:13-14 (verbal): Speaks of being made a byword among the nations and the peoples shaking their heads — echoes the experience of reproach and scorn foretold in Deut 28:37.
  • Ezekiel 36:19-21 (thematic): Describes Israel’s exile leading to profaning God’s name among the nations and Israel’s shame before the peoples — thematically parallels the exile-as-proverb/byword consequence in Deut 28:37.
  • Jeremiah 24:9 (verbal): God warns that disobedient Judah will be given over to be a horror, proverb, and byword among the nations — reuses the same covenant-curse imagery of disgrace before the nations.

Alternative generated candidates

  • You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you.
  • You shall become an object of horror, a proverb and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will drive you.
38 You shall carry much seed out to the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.

Deu.28.38 - Details

Original Text

זרע רב תוציא השדה ומעט תאסף כי יחסלנו הארבה׃

Morphology

  • זרע: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • רב: ADJ,m,sg
  • תוציא: VERB,hiph,impf,2,m,sg
  • השדה: NOUN,m,sg,def
  • ומעט: CONJ+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • תאסף: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • כי: CONJ
  • יחסלנו: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • הארבה: NOUN,m,sg,def

Parallels

  • Leviticus 26:20 (thematic): Part of the covenant curses promising the land will not yield its increase for disobedience—parallels Deut 28:38’s outcome of sowing much and gathering little.
  • Joel 1:4 (verbal): Uses locust imagery (‘what the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten’) to describe harvest devastation—directly parallels Deut 28:38’s statement that the locust will consume the crop.
  • Joel 2:25 (thematic): God promises to restore ‘the years that the locust hath eaten,’ thematically responding to the same locust-caused loss described in Deut 28:38.
  • Amos 4:9 (verbal): Describes God sending pests (palmerworm, locust) that devour gardens and vineyards—verbal and thematic parallel to crops consumed by locusts in Deut 28:38.
  • Psalm 78:46 (thematic): Recounts God’s judgment by sending ‘destroying locusts’ that consume produce—parallels the motif of locusts causing agricultural failure in Deut 28:38.

Alternative generated candidates

  • You shall sow much seed in the field and shall gather little, for the locust shall consume it.
  • You shall sow much seed in the field and gather little; for the locust shall consume it.
39 You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.

Deu.28.39 - Details

Original Text

כרמים תטע ועבדת ויין לא־ תשתה ולא תאגר כי תאכלנו התלעת׃

Morphology

  • כרמים: NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • תטע: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • ועבדת: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • ויין: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • תשתה: VERB,qal,impf,3,f,sg
  • ולא: CONJ
  • תאגר: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • כי: CONJ
  • תאכלנו: VERB,qal,impf,3,f,sg,suff:1,pl
  • התלעת: NOUN,f,sg,def

Parallels

  • Deut.28:42 (structural): Immediate parallel within the same curse section: reiterates loss of fruit—'your vine and your fig tree shall not yield fruit' (same prophetic judgment motif).
  • Isaiah 5:2-6 (thematic): The Lord's vineyard imagery: planted and expected to produce good fruit but yields 'wild grapes,' prompting divine judgment—theme of a tended vineyard that fails to deliver and is punished.
  • Psalm 80:8-12 (thematic): God brought a vine out of Egypt and planted it, but it is later ravaged—'the boar out of the forest ravaged it; the wild beasts of the field devoured it'—parallel of a planted vine that is destroyed and unusable.
  • Joel 1:4 (verbal): Graphic image of insects consuming crops: 'what the palmerworm left hath the locust eaten,' echoing Deut.28:39's motif of worms/locusts devouring vineyards so the owners cannot enjoy the produce.
  • Jeremiah 12:10 (allusion): Speaks of shepherds destroying God's vineyard and making it a desolation—uses vineyard-as-people imagery to express leadership failure and resulting devastation akin to Deut.'s curse on produce.

Alternative generated candidates

  • You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.
  • You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.
40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, yet you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for the olives shall drop off.

Deu.28.40 - Details

Original Text

זיתים יהיו לך בכל־ גבולך ושמן לא תסוך כי ישל זיתך׃

Morphology

  • זיתים: NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • יהיו: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,pl
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • בכל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • גבולך: NOUN,m,sg,abs+2ms
  • ושמן: CONJ+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • תסוך: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • כי: CONJ
  • ישל: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg+PRON,2,m,sg
  • זיתך: NOUN,m,sg,cstr,2,m

Parallels

  • Deut.28:38 (verbal): Same chapter and parallel curse-formula: planting productive trees/vineyards but being unable to enjoy their produce (plant/tend but not drink/eat), closely mirroring the olive/oil contrast.
  • Micah 6:15 (verbal): Uses nearly identical language and theme—'you will tread the olives, but not anoint with oil'—a direct verbal parallel about failing to benefit from olive harvests.
  • 1 Samuel 8:11–17 (thematic): The prophet's warning that a king will take fields, vineyards, and olive groves (and their produce) echoes the theme of dispossession of olives/olive oil as part of social and economic loss.
  • Zechariah 4:11–14 (thematic): Image of olive trees supplying oil for the lampstand highlights the cultic/economic importance of olives and oil, clarifying why loss of olive oil (no anointing) is significant.

Alternative generated candidates

  • You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil, for your olives shall drop off.
  • Olives shall be grown throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; for your olive shall fail you.
41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.

Deu.28.41 - Details

Original Text

בנים ובנות תוליד ולא־ יהיו לך כי ילכו בשבי׃

Morphology

  • בנים: NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • ובנות: CONJ+NOUN,f,pl,cons
  • תוליד: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • ולא: CONJ
  • יהיו: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,pl
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • כי: CONJ
  • ילכו: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,pl
  • בשבי: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs

Parallels

  • Deuteronomy 28:32 (verbal): Uses closely similar language: "your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people," echoing the threat that children born will be taken from the parents.
  • Deuteronomy 28:64 (thematic): Continues the curse-theme of exile and dispersal: Yahweh will scatter the people among the nations, so that families and descendants are separated and subject to foreign rule.
  • Leviticus 26:33 (thematic): Part of an earlier covenant‑curse tradition: God threatens to scatter Israel among the nations—an overarching motif explaining loss of family and homeland.
  • Isaiah 39:6–7 (allusion): Prophetic prediction that Hezekiah’s descendants will be taken away and some made eunuchs in Babylon, reflecting the concrete fulfillment of the threatened loss of children to foreign captivity.
  • 2 Kings 24:14 (structural): A historical instance of the threatened captivity—Nebuchadnezzar’s deportations (e.g., Jehoiachin and others) demonstrate the realization of the Deuteronomic curse that families would be carried off.

Alternative generated candidates

  • You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.
  • You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
42 All your trees and the fruit of your land shall the locust consume.

Deu.28.42 - Details

Original Text

כל־ עצך ופרי אדמתך יירש הצלצל׃

Morphology

  • כל: DET
  • עצך: NOUN,m,sg,abs+2ms
  • ופרי: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • אדמתך: NOUN,f,sg,sfx
  • יירש: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • הצלצל: NOUN,m,sg,def

Parallels

  • Deut.28:39 (structural): Immediate parallel within the same curse list: nearby verse describes vineyards and grapes ruined by worms—both verses portray agricultural devastation as a consequence of disobedience.
  • Exod.10:12-15 (verbal): The Egyptian plague of locusts that 'ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees' closely echoes the image of pests/devourers consuming trees and produce.
  • Joel 1:4 (thematic): Joel laments a devastating locust swarm that devours what the palmerworm left—a prophetic lament that thematically parallels Deuteronomy's picture of crops and trees consumed.
  • Joel 2:25 (thematic): Offers the theological counterpoint to the devastation motif by promising restoration of 'the years that the locust hath eaten,' directly engaging the same imagery of locusts/consumption used in Deut. 28.

Alternative generated candidates

  • Every tree of your field and the produce of your land shall the locust possess.
  • All your trees and the fruit of your land shall the locust consume.
43 The stranger who is among you shall rise higher and higher, while you shall come down lower and lower.

Deu.28.43 - Details

Original Text

הגר אשר בקרבך יעלה עליך מעלה מעלה ואתה תרד מטה מטה׃

Morphology

  • הגר: NOUN,f,sg,def,prop
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • בקרבך: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs,prs:2ms
  • יעלה: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • עליך: PREP+2ms
  • מעלה: VERB,qal,ptcp,m,sg
  • מעלה: VERB,qal,ptcp,m,sg
  • ואתה: CONJ+PRON,2,m,sg
  • תרד: VERB,qal,juss,2,m,sg
  • מטה: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • מטה: NOUN,m,sg,abs

Parallels

  • Leviticus 26:17 (verbal): Part of the covenant curses: God warns that Israel will be struck down and their foes will rule over them—language parallel to foreigners rising above Israel in Deut 28:43.
  • Deuteronomy 28:44 (verbal): Immediate parallel within the same chapter: continues the theme of subordination to foreigners—'he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail' echoes the downward/upward movement of 28:43.
  • Judges 3:8 (thematic): Illustrates the recurring pattern in Israel's history: because of covenant unfaithfulness the LORD gives Israel into the power of foreign rulers—concrete case of strangers/external powers prevailing over Israel.
  • 2 Kings 17:7-23 (structural): Narrative fulfillment of Deuteronomic warnings: describes Israel's exile and the resettlement by foreign peoples after persistent disobedience—historical realization of the curses including loss of status to outsiders.
  • Psalm 106:41-43 (thematic): A liturgical reflection linking Israel's sin to being handed over to enemies and scattered—echoes the causal and moral framework of Deut 28:43 (sin → subjugation by foreigners).

Alternative generated candidates

  • The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher, while you shall go down lower and lower.
  • The stranger who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, while you shall come down lower and lower.
44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

Deu.28.44 - Details

Original Text

הוא ילוך ואתה לא תלונו הוא יהיה לראש ואתה תהיה לזנב׃

Morphology

  • הוא: PRON,3,m,sg
  • ילוך: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • ואתה: CONJ+PRON,2,m,sg
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • תלונו: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • הוא: PRON,3,m,sg
  • יהיה: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • לראש: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ואתה: CONJ+PRON,2,m,sg
  • תהיה: VERB,qal,imperfect,3,f,sg
  • לזנב: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs

Parallels

  • Deut.28.13 (verbal): Direct antithesis within the same covenant tradition: here the LORD will make Israel 'the head, and not the tail' — the same head/tail imagery reversed to show the promised blessing instead of the curse.
  • Deut.28.43 (verbal): Immediate parallel in the curse section: a 'stranger' will rise above you and you will come down — closely related verbal imagery of reversal of status and humiliation.
  • Deut.28.45 (structural): Continuation and explanation of the curse pericope: states that 'all these curses' come upon Israel because they did not serve YHWH, providing the covenantal context and motive for the subjection described in v.44.
  • Lev.26:17-20 (thematic): Leviticus presents a parallel catalog of covenant curses: disobedience brings defeat, subjugation and humiliation (loss of status and protection), echoing Deut.'s theme of national reversal and enforced lowliness.

Alternative generated candidates

  • He shall be the one to lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
  • He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be to you a head, and you shall be a tail.
45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God to keep his commandments and statutes which he commanded you.

Deu.28.45 - Details

Original Text

ובאו עליך כל־ הקללות האלה ורדפוך והשיגוך עד השמדך כי־ לא שמעת בקול יהוה אלהיך לשמר מצותיו וחקתיו אשר צוך׃

Morphology

  • ובאו: VERB,qal,imp,2,mp
  • עליך: PREP+2ms
  • כל: DET
  • הקללות: NOUN,f,pl,def
  • האלה: DEM,pl
  • ורדפוך: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,pl,obj:2,m,sg
  • והשיגוך: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,pl,obj:2,m,sg
  • עד: PREP
  • השמדך: VERB,hiphil,perf,2,m,sg
  • כי: CONJ
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • שמעת: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • בקול: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • אלהיך: NOUN,m,sg,prsuf-2ms
  • לשמר: VERB,qal,inf
  • מצותיו: NOUN,f,pl,abs,poss:3,m,sg
  • וחקתיו: CONJ+NOUN,f,pl,abs,3,m,sg
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • צוך: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deut.28.15 (verbal): Introductory covenant formula: 'If you will not obey the voice of the LORD... all these curses shall come upon you' — same cause/effect wording and legal framework as v.45.
  • Leviticus 26:33 (verbal): God promises to 'scatter you among the nations' as punishment for disobedience — parallels the pursuit/overtaking and ultimate destruction in Deut 28:45.
  • Leviticus 26:39 (thematic): Describes survivors perishing among enemies and the land becoming desolate because of failure to keep statutes — echoes Deut 28:45's threatened destruction for not hearkening to God's commandments.
  • Jeremiah 11:11 (allusion): Prophetic reiteration of the covenant curse: 'I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant' because they did not obey — mirrors Deut 28:45’s linkage of disobedience with coming curses.
  • Ezekiel 5:11 (thematic): God declares dispersion, sword, famine and pestilence for defilement/disobedience — parallels Deut 28:45’s motif of divine pursuit and devastation as punishment for not keeping God's statutes.

Alternative generated candidates

  • All these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
  • Then all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God to keep his commandments and statutes which he commanded you.
46 And they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and among your offspring forever.

Deu.28.46 - Details

Original Text

והיו בך לאות ולמופת ובזרעך עד־ עולם׃

Morphology

  • והיו: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,pl
  • בך: PREP+PRON,2,m,sg
  • לאות: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • ולמופת: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ובזרעך: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs+2,m,sg
  • עד: PREP
  • עולם: NOUN,m,sg,abs

Parallels

  • Deut.28.37 (thematic): Nearby verse on the same theme: Israel becomes an object of astonishment/proverb among the nations—public testimony to Israel’s fate before other peoples.
  • Exodus 7:3 (verbal): God says he will multiply his ‘signs and wonders’ in Egypt—uses the same technical phrase (oth u-mofet) describing miraculous acts that testify to divine purpose.
  • Isaiah 8:18 (verbal): Isaiah declares himself and his children to be ‘for signs and for wonders’ (le-oth u-le-mofet), a near-verbatim use of the idiom to denote prophetic signs manifesting God’s message.
  • Isaiah 20:3 (verbal): Isaiah’s symbolic action is described as a ‘sign and a wonder’ upon Egypt and Ethiopia—again employing the exact phrase to mark a prophetic, public testimony.
  • Acts 2:22 (thematic): Peter speaks of Jesus as attested to by ‘miracles, wonders and signs’—the New Testament use of the signs-and-wonders motif as public evidence/testimony mirrors Deuteronomy’s idea of visible testimony before the nations.

Alternative generated candidates

  • They shall be a sign and a wonder on you and on your offspring forever.
  • They shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and upon your offspring forever.
47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things.

Deu.28.47 - Details

Original Text

תחת אשר לא־ עבדת את־ יהוה אלהיך בשמחה ובטוב לבב מרב כל׃

Morphology

  • תחת: PREP
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • עבדת: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • את: PRT,acc
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • אלהיך: NOUN,m,sg,prsuf-2ms
  • בשמחה: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • ובטוב: CONJ+PREP+ADJ,m,sg,abs
  • לבב: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • מרב: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • כל: DET

Parallels

  • Psalm 100:2 (verbal): “Serve the LORD with gladness” — a direct verbal/ideological parallel exhorting service to Yahweh with gladness, matching Deut 28:47’s requirement to serve with joy and a good heart.
  • Deuteronomy 28:15 (structural): Opening of the covenant‑curses formula (“But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken…”) — provides the broader structural context and cause/result framework for the specific reason given in 28:47.
  • Leviticus 26:14–15 (thematic): Part of the covenantal warning that disobedience/not keeping God’s commands brings prescribed punishments — parallels Deut 28:47’s linking of failure to serve God with ensuing curse.
  • Joshua 24:14–15 (thematic): Joshua’s summons to ‘fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in truth’ (and to choose whom to serve) contrasts wholehearted service to God with the failure described in Deut 28:47 and underscores the obligation to serve God joyfully.
  • Psalm 106:6–8 (thematic): Recital of Israel’s forgetting and sinful behavior (failing to be faithful to God) and the resulting consequences — thematically parallels Deut 28:47’s attribution of calamity to failure to serve Yahweh wholeheartedly.

Alternative generated candidates

  • Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything.
  • Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things,
48 Therefore shall you serve your enemies whom the LORD shall send against you, in hunger and in thirst, in nakedness and in lack of everything; and he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until he has destroyed you.

Deu.28.48 - Details

Original Text

ועבדת את־ איביך אשר ישלחנו יהוה בך ברעב ובצמא ובעירם ובחסר כל ונתן על ברזל על־ צוארך עד השמידו אתך׃

Morphology

  • ועבדת: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • את: PRT,acc
  • איביך: NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • ישלחנו: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg,obj:3,m,pl
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • בך: PREP+PRON,2,m,sg
  • ברעב: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ובצמא: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ובעירם: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,f,pl,abs,pr:3,m,pl
  • ובחסר: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • כל: DET
  • ונתן: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • על: PREP
  • ברזל: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • על: PREP
  • צוארך: NOUN,m,sg,abs+2ms_suff
  • עד: PREP
  • השמידו: VERB,hiph,perf,3,m,pl
  • אתך: PREP+PRON,2,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deuteronomy 28:47 (structural): Immediate context in the same curse-speech: explains the cause (failure to serve Yahweh) and repeats the theme of being forced to serve your enemies as a result of disobedience.
  • Leviticus 26:17 (thematic): Part of an earlier covenantal curse: God will set his face against the people so that enemies will rule over them — same theme of divine punishment by sending foreign oppressors.
  • Isaiah 10:5-6 (allusion): God describes Assyria as 'the rod of my anger' sent to punish a people — parallels the idea that Yahweh sends a hostile nation to afflict and subdue Israel.
  • Psalm 107:10-14 (verbal): Speaks of those 'sitting in darkness... bound in affliction and iron' because of rebellion; echoes the image of being put under iron yokes and suffering want until deliverance.
  • Jeremiah 27:6-8 (thematic): Yahweh declares he will give nations into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar so they must serve him — parallels the motif of Israel being made to serve foreign powers as divine judgment.

Alternative generated candidates

  • Therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you; in hunger and in thirst, in nakedness and lacking all things, and he will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
  • you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lacking all things; and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand.

Deu.28.49 - Details

Original Text

ישא יהוה עליך גוי מרחוק מקצה הארץ כאשר ידאה הנשר גוי אשר לא־ תשמע לשנו׃

Morphology

  • ישא: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • עליך: PREP+2ms
  • גוי: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • מרחוק: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • מקצה: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • הארץ: NOUN,f,sg,def
  • כאשר: CONJ
  • ידאה: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • הנשר: NOUN,m,sg,def
  • גוי: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • תשמע: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • לשנו: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs+PRON,3,m,pl

Parallels

  • Deut.28.50 (structural): Immediate continuation of the curse sequence — further description of the foreign nation that comes against Israel (fierce countenance, no regard for age).
  • Deut.28.64-65 (thematic): Later verses in the same oracle describing exile and scattering among nations, including loss of language and being subject to foreign peoples — development/ consequence of the invasion pictured in v.49.
  • Jeremiah 5:15 (verbal): Very close language and idea: Yahweh brings a nation from afar whose language is not known to Israel; the verse echoes Deuternomic warning almost verbatim.
  • Habakkuk 1:6-8 (thematic): Description of an invading people (the Chaldeans) coming from afar, swift and devouring like an eagle — shares the predatory imagery and foreignness of language in Deut 28:49.
  • 2 Kings 17:6 (thematic): Historical fulfillment motif: the northern kingdom carried into Assyria by a foreign power from afar (Assyria), reflecting the Deuteronomic threat of conquest and exile by a distant nation.

Alternative generated candidates

  • The LORD will bring against you a nation from far off, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies—a nation whose language you will not understand.
  • The LORD will bring against you a nation from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand.
50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young.

Deu.28.50 - Details

Original Text

גוי עז פנים אשר לא־ ישא פנים לזקן ונער לא יחן׃

Morphology

  • גוי: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • עז: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • פנים: NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • ישא: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • פנים: NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • לזקן: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ונער: CONJ+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • יחן: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deut.28.49 (verbal): Immediate parallel in the same oracle: both verses describe 'a nation from far' of fierce countenance—closely repeated language and idea within the Deuteronomic curse.
  • 1 Sam.15.3 (thematic): God's command to Saul to destroy Amalek without sparing infants or young parallels the motif of invaders who show no regard for age or status (no favor to the young or old).
  • Isa.13.16 (thematic): Prophetic description of the Babylonian onslaught: infants dashed and people treated without mercy—a vivid parallel to invaders ‘not showing favor’ to young or old.
  • Lev.26.33-36 (structural): Levitical covenant curses foresee exile and subjugation by foreign nations; thematically consistent with Deut.28's portrayal of ruthless foreign oppressors who show no respect for persons.

Alternative generated candidates

  • A nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the old nor show favor to the young.
  • A fierce nation, which shall show no regard for the elder and have no pity for the child.
51 They shall eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed; and they shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have destroyed you.

Deu.28.51 - Details

Original Text

ואכל פרי בהמתך ופרי־ אדמתך עד השמדך אשר לא־ ישאיר לך דגן תירוש ויצהר שגר אלפיך ועשתרת צאנך עד האבידו אתך׃

Morphology

  • ואכל: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,sg
  • פרי: NOUN,m,sg,cs
  • בהמתך: NOUN,f,sg,abs-2ms
  • ופרי: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • אדמתך: NOUN,f,sg,sfx
  • עד: PREP
  • השמדך: VERB,hiphil,perf,2,m,sg
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • ישאיר: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • דגן: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • תירוש: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ויצהר: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • שגר: NOUN,m,sg,const
  • אלפיך: NOUN,m,pl,sfx
  • ועשתרת: NOUN,f,pl,abs
  • צאנך: NOUN,m,pl,abs+PRON,2,m,sg
  • עד: PREP
  • האבידו: VERB,hiph,perf,3,pl
  • אתך: PREP+PRON,2,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deut.28.18 (verbal): Earlier summary curse that explicitly curses “the fruit of your land” (and body), framing the same loss of agricultural prosperity found in 28:51.
  • Deut.28.38 (verbal): Parallel within the same section: planting and tending vineyards but being unable to enjoy their yield—echoes the statement that invaders will leave none of your grain, wine, or oil.
  • Leviticus 26:31–33 (structural): Part of the covenant‑curse sequence: God’s judgment results in cities laid waste, scattering among nations, and enemy possession/consumption of the land’s goods—structurally parallel to Deut.28’s threatened dispossession and loss of produce and livestock.
  • Isaiah 3:1 (thematic): Declares removal of the land’s basic supports (bread and water) as divine judgment—thematic parallel to deprivation of staples (grain, wine, oil) in Deut.28:51.
  • Ezekiel 5:12 (thematic): Describes judgment by famine, sword and scattering so that the land and people are reduced and deprived—thematically similar to the devastation of crops and livestock threatened in Deut.28:51.

Alternative generated candidates

  • They shall eat the fruit of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed; they shall leave you no grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock—until they have consumed you.
  • They shall eat the fruit of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain, wine or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have destroyed you.
52 They shall besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all the land which the LORD your God has given you.

Deu.28.52 - Details

Original Text

והצר לך בכל־ שעריך עד רדת חמתיך הגבהות והבצרות אשר אתה בטח בהן בכל־ ארצך והצר לך בכל־ שעריך בכל־ ארצך אשר נתן יהוה אלהיך לך׃

Morphology

  • והצר: VERB,hif,perf,3,m,pl
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • בכל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • שעריך: NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • עד: PREP
  • רדת: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,pl
  • חמתיך: NOUN,f,pl,abs
  • הגבהות: NOUN,f,pl,abs
  • והבצרות: NOUN,f,pl,abs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • אתה: PRON,2,m,sg
  • בטח: ADV
  • בהן: PREP+PRON,3,f,pl
  • בכל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ארצך: NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • והצר: VERB,hif,perf,3,m,pl
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • בכל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • שעריך: NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • בכל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ארצך: NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • נתן: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • אלהיך: NOUN,m,sg,prsuf-2ms
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deut 28:49 (verbal): Immediate parallel within the same oracle: a foreign nation comes from afar to besiege Israel—same siege motif and language introducing the punishment described in v.52.
  • 2 Kings 25:1-4 (allusion): Historical fulfillment narrative: Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem, encamps against it, and breaks down its walls—directly corresponds to the prophetic picture of besieged gates and broken high walls.
  • Jeremiah 52:4-7 (allusion): Parallel account of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem (Jeremiah's and the chronicler's version): describes surrounding the city, battering the walls, and the people's distress—mirrors Deut.28:52's depiction of siege and falling defenses.
  • Ezekiel 24:2-5 (thematic): Prophetic siege imagery: instructions to lay siege, build a fortification, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem—echoes the theme of sustained siege and the undermining of the city’s walls and strongholds.

Alternative generated candidates

  • They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land; they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout the land which the LORD your God has given you.
  • They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all the land which the LORD your God has given you.
53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress in which your enemies shall distress you.

Deu.28.53 - Details

Original Text

ואכלת פרי־ בטנך בשר בניך ובנתיך אשר נתן־ לך יהוה אלהיך במצור ובמצוק אשר־ יציק לך איבך׃

Morphology

  • ואכלת: CONJ+VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • פרי: NOUN,m,sg,cs
  • בטנך: NOUN,m,sg,sfx
  • בשר: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • בניך: NOUN,m,pl,abs+POSS,2,m,sg
  • ובנתיך: CONJ+NOUN,f,pl,abs,suff:2,ms
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • נתן: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,sg
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • אלהיך: NOUN,m,sg,prsuf-2ms
  • במצור: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ובמצוק: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • יציק: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • איבך: NOUN,m,sg,cs+2ms

Parallels

  • Deuteronomy 28:57 (structural): Immediate parallel within the same curse-section; repeats the distressing image of consuming one’s own children during siege and famine as part of the covenant curses.
  • Jeremiah 19:9 (verbal): Prophetic pronouncement uses nearly identical language (“eat the flesh of their sons and daughters”) to describe siege-induced cannibalism as divine judgment, echoing Deuteronomy’s curse.
  • Ezekiel 5:10 (allusion): Ezekiel declares that fathers will eat their sons and sons their fathers as part of God’s judgment—an explicit echo of the siege imagery and familial cannibalism found in Deut 28.
  • 2 Kings 6:25–29 (thematic): Narrative account of the siege of Samaria where a woman cooks and serves her son; a concrete, historical illustration of the horrific scenario depicted in Deut 28’s curse.
  • Lamentations 4:10 (thematic): Poetic lament describing mothers boiling or cooking their own children during Jerusalem’s destruction; parallels Deut 28’s image of extreme desperation and famine in siege.

Alternative generated candidates

  • You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will oppress you.
  • You shall eat the fruit of your own body—the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you—in the siege and in the distress by which your enemy shall distress you.
54 The tender and delicate among you—and the very refined—shall be sour-eyed toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he leaves.

Deu.28.54 - Details

Original Text

האיש הרך בך והענג מאד תרע עינו באחיו ובאשת חיקו וביתר בניו אשר יותיר׃

Morphology

  • האיש: NOUN,m,sg,def
  • הרך: ADJ,m,sg,def
  • בך: PREP+PRON,2,m,sg
  • והענג: CONJ+ADJ,m,sg,def
  • מאד: ADV
  • תרע: VERB,qal,impf,3,f,sg
  • עינו: NOUN,f,sg,abs+PRON,3,m,sg
  • באחיו: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,poss:3ms
  • ובאשת: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,f,sg,cs
  • חיקו: NOUN,m,sg,abs+PRON,3,m,sg
  • וביתר: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • בניו: NOUN,m,pl,cs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • יותיר: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deut.28:53 (structural): Immediate context in the same covenant curse sequence; continues the portrait of extreme hunger and familial breakdown that leads tender persons to turn against their own family.
  • Leviticus 26:29 (verbal): Part of the earlier covenant curses: uses the explicit language of eating one’s own children, a close verbal parallel to Deut 28’s imagery of family turned against family under famine/judgment.
  • Ezekiel 5:10 (thematic): Ezekiel frames Israel’s judgment in similar terms—familial cannibalism as the consequence of siege and divine wrath—echoing the theme of breakdown of social and family bonds found in Deut 28.
  • Jeremiah 19:9 (verbal): Jeremiah invokes the covenantal curse motif—‘they shall eat the flesh of their sons and daughters’—recycling the same horrific image of judgment first articulated in Deuteronomy.
  • Lamentations 4:10 (thematic): A poetic, eyewitness-style depiction of siege conditions in Jerusalem (mothers boiling/eating their children) that concretely reflects the horrific family scenes anticipated by Deut 28’s curse imagery.

Alternative generated candidates

  • The tender and delicate man among you—the one who would not set the sole of his foot on the ground because he is very delicate—will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children who remain.
  • The tender and delicate man among you—his eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his embrace and toward the rest of his children that remain; he will give none of them any of the flesh of his children which he eats, because he has nothing left.
55 He shall withhold nothing from them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat; there shall be no one to give to him, in the siege and in the distress, in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.

Deu.28.55 - Details

Original Text

מתת ׀ לאחד מהם מבשר בניו אשר יאכל מבלי השאיר־ לו כל במצור ובמצוק אשר יציק לך איבך בכל־ שעריך׃

Morphology

  • מתת: NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • לאחד: PREP
  • מהם: PREP+PRON,3,m,pl
  • מבשר: PREP
  • בניו: NOUN,m,pl,cs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • יאכל: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • מבלי: PREP
  • השאיר: VERB,hiphil,perf,3,m,sg
  • לו: PRON,3,m,sg
  • כל: DET
  • במצור: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ובמצוק: PREP
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • יציק: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • איבך: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • בכל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • שעריך: NOUN,m,pl,abs

Parallels

  • Leviticus 26:29 (verbal): Part of the Deuteronomic/Lvitical curse tradition; explicitly foretells eating the flesh of one's children in siege—very close verbal parallel to Deut 28:55.
  • Jeremiah 19:9 (verbal): Jeremiah repeats the image of people eating their sons and daughters as a judgment on Jerusalem—uses the same horrific motif as a prophetic announcement of siege and calamity.
  • Lamentations 4:10 (thematic): A lament describing mothers cooking and eating their children during Jerusalem's siege; supplies a post-event literary echo of the curse pictured in Deut 28:55.
  • 2 Kings 6:28-29 (thematic): Narrative account of a siege (Samaria) that includes a woman who cooks her son—an historical example that concretely exhibits the cannibalism motif anticipated in Deut 28:55.
  • Ezekiel 5:10 (verbal): Ezekiel uses the language of fathers and sons eating one another as part of prophetic judgment language—another prophetic allusion to the same punitive motif found in Deut 28:55.

Alternative generated candidates

  • He will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he is eating; for he will have nothing left in the siege and in the distress in which your enemy will oppress you at all your gates.
  • The one most tender and delicate among you—she who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicacy—shall begrudge the husband she embraces, and her son and her daughter,
56 The tender woman among you, who would not set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicacy and tenderness, shall begrudge every man among you; and she shall eat her husband and her son and her daughter.

Deu.28.56 - Details

Original Text

הרכה בך והענגה אשר לא־ נסתה כף־ רגלה הצג על־ הארץ מהתענג ומרך תרע עינה באיש חיקה ובבנה ובבתה׃

Morphology

  • הרכה: NOUN,f,sg,def
  • בך: PREP+PRON,2,m,sg
  • והענגה: VERB,qal,perf,3,f,sg
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • נסתה: VERB,nip,perf,3,f,sg
  • כף: NOUN,f,sg,construct
  • רגלה: NOUN,f,sg,abs+PRON,3,f,sg
  • הצג: VERB,hif,perf,3,m,sg
  • על: PREP
  • הארץ: NOUN,f,sg,def
  • מהתענג: PREP+VERB,hitp,ptc,ms,sg
  • ומרך: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • תרע: VERB,qal,impf,3,f,sg
  • עינה: NOUN,f,sg,abs+PRON,3,f,sg
  • באיש: PREP+NOUN,m,sg
  • חיקה: NOUN,f,sg,abs+PRON,3,f,sg
  • ובבנה: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs+PRON,3,f,sg
  • ובבתה: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs+PRON,3,f,sg

Parallels

  • Deut 28:53 (structural): Immediate context in the same curse sequence describing forced eating, loss of appetite and humiliation in the land — a parallel development of the same threats against women and families.
  • Deut 28:57 (structural): Continues the series of curses, depicting the horror and disgrace visited on survivors; reinforces the theme of public humiliation and lament tied to military defeat.
  • Judges 19:24–29 (thematic): Narrates brutal sexual violence and the public abuse of a woman by invading men; thematically parallels Deut 28's depiction of women exposed to assault and shame in wartime.
  • Isaiah 13:16 (verbal): Graphic oracle of conquest where children are dashed and pregnant women ripped open; shares violent wartime imagery of enemies’ treatment of civilians found in Deut 28:56.
  • Ezekiel 16:37–41 (allusion): God depicts Jerusalem’s punishment in terms of exposure, violation and rape by foreign nations — an expanded prophetic realization of the humiliation and sexual violation motifs present in Deut 28.

Alternative generated candidates

  • The tender and delicate woman, who was not accustomed to exertion and whose foot would not touch the ground, shall begrudge the husband of her bosom, her son, and her daughter.
  • and the rest of the children that she bears; for in her anguish and craving she will refuse to give them to one another, because there will be nothing left, in the siege and in the distress which your enemy brings upon you in all your gates.
57 Even the woman in labor and her newborn, whom she bears, shall eat them secretly because of the lack of all things, in the siege and in the distress in which your enemy shall distress you at your gates.

Deu.28.57 - Details

Original Text

ובשליתה היוצת ׀ מבין רגליה ובבניה אשר תלד כי־ תאכלם בחסר־ כל בסתר במצור ובמצוק אשר יציק לך איבך בשעריך׃

Morphology

  • ובשליתה: NOUN,f,sg,suff
  • היוצת: VERB,ptc,act,?,f,sg
  • מבין: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • רגליה: NOUN,f,pl,suff
  • ובבניה: NOUN,m,pl,suff
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • תלד: VERB,qal,impf,3,f,sg
  • כי: CONJ
  • תאכלם: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • בחסר: PREP
  • כל: DET
  • בסתר: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • במצור: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ובמצוק: PREP
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • יציק: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • איבך: NOUN,m,sg,suff
  • בשעריך: PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs-2ms

Parallels

  • Deut 28:53 (structural): Part of the same curse sequence; repeats and develops the motif of eating one’s own offspring “because of want of all things” in the siege—immediate literary parallel within Deuteronomy 28.
  • Jer 19:9 (verbal): Uses nearly identical language—God declares that people will “eat the flesh of their sons and daughters” as a consequence of judgment, echoing Deut.28’s cannibalism motif.
  • Ezek 5:10 (verbal): Prophetic pronouncement that fathers will eat their sons and sons their fathers and others will eat the flesh of their own children—verbal and thematic parallel to Deut.28’s horrific siege-scenario.
  • Lam 4:10 (thematic): Lament describes women boiling and eating their children in Jerusalem’s destruction—a poetic depiction of the same siege-induced cannibalism motif found in Deut.28:57.
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 (thematic): Narrative account of a besieged city (Samaria) in which women resort to eating a child; provides a historical/story example of the siege-cannibalism theme present in Deut.28:57.

Alternative generated candidates

  • Even the most prudent among you, the one who used to go in and out with her children, will be unable to restrain herself and will eat them in secret because of the want and dire necessity within the siege and the distress in which your enemy oppresses you in your gates.
  • The most tender and delicate woman among you who would not have stretched out the sole of her foot on the ground, from the delicacy and tenderness of her being—she will eat the flesh of her own sons and the flesh of her own daughters in the distress and in the siege which your enemy shall besiege you.
58 If you do not carefully observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God,

Deu.28.58 - Details

Original Text

אם־ לא תשמר לעשות את־ כל־ דברי התורה הזאת הכתובים בספר הזה ליראה את־ השם הנכבד והנורא הזה את יהוה אלהיך׃

Morphology

  • אם: CONJ
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • תשמר: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • לעשות: VERB,qal,inf
  • את: PRT,acc
  • כל: DET
  • דברי: NOUN,m,pl,abs+PRON,1,c,sg
  • התורה: NOUN,f,sg,def
  • הזאת: DEM,f,sg,def
  • הכתובים: ADJ,m,pl,def
  • בספר: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • הזה: DEM,m,sg
  • ליראה: VERB,qal,inf
  • את: PRT,acc
  • השם: NOUN,m,sg,def
  • הנכבד: ADJ,m,sg,def
  • והנורא: ADJ,m,sg,def
  • הזה: DEM,m,sg
  • את: PRT,acc
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • אלהיך: NOUN,m,sg,prsuf-2ms

Parallels

  • Deut.6:24-25 (verbal): Links obedience to the statutes in the law with fearing the LORD; explicitly states that careful observance of the commandments (the law) is for the people's good and righteousness, echoing the call to keep the words written in the book.
  • Joshua 1:8 (structural): Emphasizes the written 'book of the law' and continual meditation and obedience to it; parallels the insistence in Deut 28:58 on the law written in the book as the basis for fearing and honoring God.
  • Deut.4:10 (thematic): Speaks of remembering and teaching the words of the law so that later generations may 'fear the LORD your God'—a close thematic parallel linking the written law, remembrance, and the fear of God.
  • Isaiah 8:13 (allusion): Declares that one should 'sanctify the LORD' and regard him as one's fear and dread; resonates with Deut 28:58’s description of the LORD’s name as 'awesome and fearful' to be feared.
  • Proverbs 1:7 (thematic): States that 'the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,' connecting the theological motive (fear of God) that undergirds obedience to divine instruction, as in Deut 28:58.

Alternative generated candidates

  • If you do not carefully observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God,
  • If you do not diligently observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God,
59 then the LORD will bring on you and on your offspring extraordinary plagues, great and lasting afflictions and severe and lasting sicknesses.

Deu.28.59 - Details

Original Text

והפלא יהוה את־ מכתך ואת מכות זרעך מכות גדלות ונאמנות וחלים רעים ונאמנים׃

Morphology

  • והפלא: CONJ+VERB,hiphil,perf,3,ms,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • את: PRT,acc
  • מכתך: NOUN,f,sg,suff-2ms
  • ואת: CONJ
  • מכות: NOUN,f,pl,abs
  • זרעך: NOUN,m,sg,abs+PRON,2,m,sg
  • מכות: NOUN,f,pl,abs
  • גדלות: ADJ,f,pl,abs
  • ונאמנות: CONJ+ADJ,f,pl,abs
  • וחלים: CONJ+NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • רעים: NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • ונאמנים: CONJ+ADJ,m,pl,abs

Parallels

  • Deut.28:21-22 (verbal): Immediate parallel within the same curse section: lists specific maladies (consumption, fever, inflammation/fiery heat) and frames them as divine punishment, echoing the language of grievous and long‑continued sicknesses.
  • Deut.28:60 (structural): Direct continuation of the same speech—extends verse 59 by declaring that the LORD will bring every sickness and plague not written in the law, reinforcing the theme of ongoing, divine afflictions.
  • Leviticus 26:16 (verbal): Part of the Mosaic covenant curses that names terror, consumption and burning fever as punishments; shares verbal and thematic vocabulary for disease as covenant retribution.
  • Leviticus 26:25 (thematic): Announces pestilence and military defeat as blows sent by God for disobedience; thematically parallels Deut.28.59 in portraying disease and calamity as instruments of divine judgment.
  • 2 Chronicles 21:18-19 (thematic): Narrative example where God strikes a king with an incurable disease as punishment—an illustrated fulfillment of the motif of 'sore and long‑continued' sicknesses used as divine retribution.

Alternative generated candidates

  • then the LORD will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring, great and lasting plagues and severe and abiding maladies.
  • then the LORD will bring upon you and upon your offspring extraordinary plagues—great and lasting scourges and grievous and abiding sicknesses.
60 And he will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.

Deu.28.60 - Details

Original Text

והשיב בך את כל־ מדוה מצרים אשר יגרת מפניהם ודבקו בך׃

Morphology

  • והשיב: VERB,hip,impf,3,m,sg
  • בך: PREP+PRON,2,m,sg
  • את: PRT,acc
  • כל: DET
  • מדוה: NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • מצרים: NOUN,f,pl,abs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • יגרת: VERB,qal,perf,3,f,sg
  • מפניהם: PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs+PRON,3,m,pl
  • ודבקו: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,pl
  • בך: PREP+PRON,2,m,sg

Parallels

  • Exodus 15:26 (verbal): God promises to spare Israel from the diseases he brought on Egypt—directly parallels the language of 'diseases of Egypt' and the consequence of disobedience (here reversed as a warning that those same diseases may be brought upon Israel).
  • Deuteronomy 28:27 (verbal): Earlier in the same curse-disclosure the text specifies that the LORD will strike Israel 'with the boils of Egypt,' a close verbal parallel to 'all the diseases of Egypt' that 'cling' to the people in 28:60.
  • Deuteronomy 28:59 (structural): This immediately surrounding verse frames the same theme: if Israel breaks the covenant the LORD will 'bring back' upon them 'every sickness and every plague'—establishing the broader structural context for the specific mention in 28:60.
  • Leviticus 26:16 (thematic): As part of covenant curses, God warns he will appoint diseases—consumption, fever, etc.—for disobedience. The theme of covenantal retribution by disease parallels Deut. 28:60's threat of Egyptian maladies returning upon Israel.

Alternative generated candidates

  • He will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you feared, and they shall cling to you.
  • He will bring back upon you every sickness of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.
61 Also every sickness and every plague, not written in the book of this law, the LORD shall bring upon you until you are destroyed.

Deu.28.61 - Details

Original Text

גם כל־ חלי וכל־ מכה אשר לא כתוב בספר התורה הזאת יעלם יהוה עליך עד השמדך׃

Morphology

  • גם: ADV
  • כל: DET
  • חלי: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • וכל: CONJ+PRON,indef
  • מכה: NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • כתוב: ADJ,ptcp,pass,m,sg
  • בספר: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • התורה: NOUN,f,sg,def
  • הזאת: DEM,f,sg,def
  • יעלם: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • עליך: PREP+2ms
  • עד: PREP
  • השמדך: VERB,hiphil,perf,2,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deuteronomy 28:60 (verbal): Near-identical wording/variant numbering in some traditions: speaks of the LORD bringing diseases and plagues not written in the book of the law.
  • Leviticus 26:16 (thematic): Part of the covenantal curses where God appoints ‘terror, consumption, and the burning ague’ and other maladies as punishment for disobedience.
  • Ezekiel 14:21 (thematic): Lists pestilence (along with sword, famine, and wild beasts) as one of the specific judgments God sends on a land—parallel to Deut. 28’s catalogue of afflictions.
  • 2 Chronicles 7:13-14 (thematic): God warns that he may shut up the heavens, send locusts, or send pestilence as signs/discipline—showing the same theological motif of divine-sent plagues for sin.
  • Exodus 9:3-6 (thematic): God declares he will bring a very grievous murrain (pestilence) upon the livestock of Egypt as a punitive plague—an earlier example of God-sent disease as judgment.

Alternative generated candidates

  • Moreover, every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you until you are destroyed.
  • Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you until you are destroyed.
62 And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

Deu.28.62 - Details

Original Text

ונשארתם במתי מעט תחת אשר הייתם ככוכבי השמים לרב כי־ לא שמעת בקול יהוה אלהיך׃

Morphology

  • ונשארתם: VERB,niphal,perf,2,m,pl
  • במתי: PREP
  • מעט: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • תחת: PREP
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • הייתם: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,pl
  • ככוכבי: PREP+NOUN,m,pl,cs
  • השמים: NOUN,m,pl,def
  • לרב: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • כי: CONJ
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • שמעת: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • בקול: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • אלהיך: NOUN,m,sg,prsuf-2ms

Parallels

  • Deut 1:10 (verbal): Uses the identical simile “you are as the stars of heaven” earlier in Deuteronomy as a statement of Israel’s great multitude—here the simile is recalled in contrast to being left few because of disobedience.
  • Gen 15:5 (verbal): God’s promise to Abram that his offspring will be as numerous as the stars of heaven; same star-of-heavens motif used elsewhere to signify blessing and multitudinous descendants.
  • Gen 22:17 (verbal): A renewed Abrahamic promise that descendants will be multiplied “as the stars of heaven” (and sand), echoing the numerical-blessing imagery that is negated by Israel’s disobedience in Deut 28:62.
  • Deut 4:27 (thematic): Part of Deuteronomy’s warning that the LORD will scatter Israel among the nations and leave only a few—directly parallels the threat of being ‘left few’ for failure to hear God’s voice.
  • Lev 26:38–39 (thematic): Within the covenant curses God warns that, for disobedience, the people will be diminished and perish one by one; thematically parallels the consequence of becoming few after formerly being numerous.

Alternative generated candidates

  • And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
  • You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
63 And it shall come to pass that just as the LORD rejoiced over doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will rejoice over bringing ruin upon you and destroying you; and you shall be plucked off from the land which you go to possess.

Deu.28.63 - Details

Original Text

והיה כאשר־ שש יהוה עליכם להיטיב אתכם ולהרבות אתכם כן ישיש יהוה עליכם להאביד אתכם ולהשמיד אתכם ונסחתם מעל האדמה אשר־ אתה בא־ שמה לרשתה׃

Morphology

  • והיה: VERB,qal,imperfect,3,m,sg
  • כאשר: CONJ
  • שש: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • עליכם: PREP+PRON,2mp
  • להיטיב: VERB,qal,inf
  • אתכם: PRT+PRON,2,m,pl
  • ולהרבות: VERB,hiph,infc
  • אתכם: PRT+PRON,2,m,pl
  • כן: ADV
  • ישיש: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • עליכם: PREP+PRON,2mp
  • להאביד: VERB,hiph,infc
  • אתכם: PRT+PRON,2,m,pl
  • ולהשמיד: VERB,hiph,infc
  • אתכם: PRT+PRON,2,m,pl
  • ונסחתם: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,pl
  • מעל: PREP
  • האדמה: NOUN,f,sg,def
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • אתה: PRON,2,m,sg
  • בא: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,sg
  • שמה: ADV
  • לרשתה: INF,qal,3,f,sg

Parallels

  • Leviticus 26:27–28 (verbal): Part of the covenant curses sequence: God reverses blessings and brings increased punishment when Israel disobeys—parallel language and function to Deut 28:63's shift from prospering to destroying.
  • Deuteronomy 28:64 (structural): Immediate continuation within the same chapter: describes scattering/uprooting from the land—a direct follow‑on and close parallel to the 'uprooted from off the land' imagery in v.63.
  • Jeremiah 18:7–10 (thematic): Gives the principle that God may declare good or evil for a nation and then change course according to their behavior—theological parallel to God reversing blessing into judgment in Deut 28:63.
  • Amos 3:2 (thematic): Affirms the idea that Israel's special relationship entails particular responsibility and thus particular punishment—explains why the LORD who once blessed might 'rejoice' to punish.
  • Proverbs 1:26 (thematic): Wisdom's voice declares 'I will laugh at your calamity,' using the motif of rejoicing at downfall; literary parallel to the striking language of God 'rejoicing' to bring destruction in Deut 28:63.

Alternative generated candidates

  • And it shall be, just as the LORD rejoiced to make you prosperous and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice to bring ruin upon you and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked off the land which you are entering to possess.
  • And it shall come to pass that as the LORD rejoiced over doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and in destroying you; and you shall be plucked off from the land which you are entering to possess.
64 And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth even to the other; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Deu.28.64 - Details

Original Text

והפיצך יהוה בכל־ העמים מקצה הארץ ועד־ קצה הארץ ועבדת שם אלהים אחרים אשר לא־ ידעת אתה ואבתיך עץ ואבן׃

Morphology

  • והפיצך: CONJ+VERB,hiphil,impf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • בכל: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • העמים: NOUN,m,pl,def
  • מקצה: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • הארץ: NOUN,f,sg,def
  • ועד: CONJ+PREP
  • קצה: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • הארץ: NOUN,f,sg,def
  • ועבדת: CONJ+VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • שם: ADV
  • אלהים: NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • אחרים: ADJ,m,pl,abs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • ידעת: VERB,qal,perf,2,m,sg
  • אתה: PRON,2,m,sg
  • ואבתיך: CONJ+NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • עץ: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ואבן: NOUN,f,sg,abs

Parallels

  • Leviticus 26:33 (verbal): Uses nearly identical language about God scattering Israel among the nations as judgment, parallel formulation within the covenant curses tradition.
  • Deuteronomy 4:27-28 (verbal): Predicts that Israel will be scattered among the peoples and will serve gods of wood and stone—same motif and similar wording within Deuteronomy's warnings.
  • Deuteronomy 29:25-28 (thematic): Links covenant breach with exile and idolatry: the people and land are defiled, and the people are scattered and serve other gods—develops the same covenantal consequence theme.
  • 2 Kings 17:6,23 (thematic): Narrates the historical fulfillment of the threat: Israel was taken into Assyrian exile and settled among nations, where idolatry persisted—an historical-theological parallel to the Deuteronomic curse.

Alternative generated candidates

  • And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
  • The LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone—which neither you nor your fathers have known.
65 And among those nations you shall find no rest, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest; but there the LORD will give you a panic of heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind.

Deu.28.65 - Details

Original Text

ובגוים ההם לא תרגיע ולא־ יהיה מנוח לכף־ רגלך ונתן יהוה לך שם לב רגז וכליון עינים ודאבון נפש׃

Morphology

  • ובגוים: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • ההם: PRON,dem,m,pl
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • תרגיע: VERB,qal,imprf,2,m,sg
  • ולא: CONJ
  • יהיה: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • מנוח: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • לכף: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,cs
  • רגלך: NOUN,f,sg,cs+PRON,2,m,sg
  • ונתן: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • שם: ADV
  • לב: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • רגז: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • וכליון: CONJ+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • עינים: NOUN,f,du,abs
  • ודאבון: CONJ+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • נפש: NOUN,f,sg,abs

Parallels

  • Deuteronomy 28:28 (verbal): Uses closely related language about God inflicting mental and sensory distress—'madness, blindness, and astonishment of heart'—paralleling 'a heart of trembling, failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind.'
  • Leviticus 26:16 (thematic): Speaks of God appointing 'terror' over the people as a consequence of disobedience, echoing the theme of unrest and continual dread in Deut 28:65.
  • Leviticus 26:36-37 (allusion): Predicts perishing among the nations and the survivors wasting away with failing eyes and sorrow of heart—language and imagery that closely parallel the physical and emotional afflictions in Deut 28:65.
  • Deuteronomy 32:25 (structural): Describes 'the sword without and terror within' in households—structurally similar depiction of external danger and internal panic that complements the 'no rest' and 'heart of trembling' motif in Deut 28:65.

Alternative generated candidates

  • And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent soul.
  • Among those nations you will find no ease, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot; the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, failing eyes and despair of soul.
66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.

Deu.28.66 - Details

Original Text

והיו חייך תלאים לך מנגד ופחדת לילה ויומם ולא תאמין בחייך׃

Morphology

  • והיו: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,pl
  • חייך: NOUN,m,pl,abs+2ms
  • תלאים: NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • מנגד: ADV
  • ופחדת: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • לילה: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ויומם: ADV
  • ולא: CONJ
  • תאמין: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • בחייך: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs+2ms

Parallels

  • Deut.28.65 (verbal): Immediate context in the same curse section; speaks of trembling, anxiety and unrest sent by YHWH — closely repeated language and idea of continual fear and lack of peace.
  • Deut.28.67 (structural): Continues the same covenant curse sequence, depicting relentless distress and regret (day/night anxiety and no assurance of life), forming a structural parallel within the Deuteronomic curse formula.
  • Leviticus 26:16, 26:36-37 (thematic): Earlier covenant curses that promise 'terror' and appointed calamities as punishment; thematically mirrors Deut.28:66’s depiction of God‑ordained fear and insecurity.
  • Ezekiel 7:25 (thematic): Prophetic announcement of sudden disaster producing melting hearts, trembling, and disappointed hope — thematically similar language of pervasive fear and loss of assurance.
  • Psalm 91:5 (thematic): Presents the inverse motif (‘You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day’), serving as a theological contrast to Deut.28:66’s threatened continual fear.

Alternative generated candidates

  • You shall live in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
  • Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear night and day and have no assurance of your life.
67 In the morning you shall say, 'Would God it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, 'Would God it were morning!' because of the fear of your heart and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

Deu.28.67 - Details

Original Text

בבקר תאמר מי־ יתן ערב ובערב תאמר מי־ יתן בקר מפחד לבבך אשר תפחד וממראה עיניך אשר תראה׃

Morphology

  • בבקר: PREP
  • תאמר: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • מי: PRON,interr,sg
  • יתן: VERB,qal,imperf,3,m,sg
  • ערב: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • ובערב: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • תאמר: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • מי: PRON,interr,sg
  • יתן: VERB,qal,imperf,3,m,sg
  • בקר: NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • מפחד: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • לבבך: NOUN,m,sg,abs+PRON,2,m,sg
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • תפחד: VERB,qal,impf,2,f,sg
  • וממראה: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs
  • עיניך: NOUN,f,pl,abs+2ms
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • תראה: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deuteronomy 28:66 (structural): Immediate context: the curse continues—life hangs in doubt and you shall fear day and night, providing the direct background for the morning/evening distress of 28:67.
  • Job 7:4 (thematic): Job depicts restless nights and an anguished longing for relief (the night drags on; tossing until dawn), paralleling the mood of wishing day were night and night were day because of distress.
  • Psalm 77:4 (verbal): Describes sleeplessness and terror—'You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak'—echoing the imagery of fear and disturbing visions that make day and night unbearable.
  • Lamentations 3:19-20 (thematic): The poet recalls persistent affliction and inner despair ('remember my affliction... my soul continually remembers it'), resonating with Deut.28:67's depiction of ongoing dread and inability to find relief in morning or evening.

Alternative generated candidates

  • In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the fear of your heart and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
  • In the morning you shall say, 'Would that it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, 'Would that it were morning!' because of the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
68 And the LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I spoke to you, 'You shall see it no more again'; and there you shall be sold to your enemies for bondmen and bondmaids, and there shall be no buyer.

Deu.28.68 - Details

Original Text

והשיבך יהוה ׀ מצרים באניות בדרך אשר אמרתי לך לא־ תסיף עוד לראתה והתמכרתם שם לאיביך לעבדים ולשפחות ואין קנה׃

Morphology

  • והשיבך: VERB,qal,impf,3,m,sg+2ms
  • יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
  • מצרים: NOUN,f,pl,abs
  • באניות: PREP+NOUN,f,pl,abs
  • בדרך: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
  • אשר: PRON,rel
  • אמרתי: VERB,qal,perf,1,com,sg
  • לך: PRON,2,m,sg
  • לא: PART_NEG
  • תסיף: VERB,qal,impf,2,m,sg
  • עוד: ADV
  • לראתה: VERB,qal,inf,_,_,_+PRON,3,f,sg
  • והתמכרתם: VERB,hitpael,perf,2,m,pl
  • שם: ADV
  • לאיביך: PREP+NOUN,m,pl,cstr+PRON,2,m,sg
  • לעבדים: PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs
  • ולשפחות: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,f,pl,abs
  • ואין: CONJ+PART,exist
  • קנה: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,sg

Parallels

  • Deuteronomy 28:64 (structural): Same unit of covenant curses: both predict the LORD will scatter Israel among nations and subject them to foreign servitude; 28:64 and 28:68 form part of the connected denunciation of exile and subjugation.
  • Leviticus 26:33-39 (thematic): Earlier covenant‑curse tradition promising scattering, few survivors and servitude for disobedience—Leviticus frames the same pattern of exile and humiliation found in Deut 28:68.
  • Genesis 15:13 (allusion): God's promise to Abraham that his offspring 'shall be strangers... and shall serve them' anticipates the motif of Israel's servitude in a foreign land echoed by Deut 28:68.
  • Hosea 9:3 (allusion): Hosea speaks of Ephraim returning to Egypt and suffering degradation—echoing Deut 28:68's image of a return to Egypt and subjection to enemies.
  • 2 Kings 17:6 (thematic): Historical fulfillment motif: the northern kingdom carried into exile by Assyria—parallels Deut 28:68's theme of the people being removed and placed under foreign dominion (sold/enslaved by enemies).

Alternative generated candidates

  • And the LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ‘You shall never see it again;’ and there you shall be sold to your enemies as male and female slaves, and no buyer will be found.
  • The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, 'You shall never see it again'; and there you shall be sold to your enemies as male and female servants, and there will be no buyer.

And it shall be, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.

Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading‑trough.

Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock.

Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

The LORD will send on you panic, consumption, fever, inflammation, burning, the sword, desolation, and pestilence, in all the work of your hands which you do, until he has destroyed you and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, in that you have forsaken me.

The LORD will make the plague cling to you until he has consumed you from off the land which you are entering to possess.

The LORD will strike you with boils, with fever, with inflammation, with scorching, with the sword, with blasting, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.

Your heavens over your head shall be brass, and the earth under you shall be iron.

The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Your carcass shall be for food to all the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth; there shall be no one to frighten them away.

The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with itch, of which you cannot be healed.

The LORD will strike you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart.

You shall grope at noonday as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and spoiled all your days, and there shall be none to save.

You shall betroth a wife but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard but shall not gather its grapes.

Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, yet you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken from before you and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and there shall be none to help you.

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in your hand.

The fruit of your land and all your labors shall be eaten up by a people which you do not know; and you shall be continually oppressed and crushed all the days.

You shall be mad because of the sight which your eyes shall see.

The LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

The LORD will bring you and the king whom you shall set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve gods of wood and stone.

You shall become a proverb and a byword among all peoples where the LORD will lead you.

You shall carry much seed out to the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.

You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.

You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, yet you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for the olives shall drop off.

You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.

All your trees and the fruit of your land shall the locust consume.

The stranger who is among you shall rise higher and higher, while you shall come down lower and lower.

He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God to keep his commandments and statutes which he commanded you. And they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and among your offspring forever.

Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things.

Therefore shall you serve your enemies whom the LORD shall send against you, in hunger and in thirst, in nakedness and in lack of everything; and he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until he has destroyed you.

The LORD will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand.

A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young.

They shall eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed; and they shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have destroyed you.

They shall besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all the land which the LORD your God has given you.

You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress in which your enemies shall distress you.

The tender and delicate among you—and the very refined—shall be sour-eyed toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he leaves.

He shall withhold nothing from them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat; there shall be no one to give to him, in the siege and in the distress, in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.

The tender woman among you, who would not set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicacy and tenderness, shall begrudge every man among you; and she shall eat her husband and her son and her daughter.

Even the woman in labor and her newborn, whom she bears, shall eat them secretly because of the lack of all things, in the siege and in the distress in which your enemy shall distress you at your gates.

If you do not carefully observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God,

then the LORD will bring on you and on your offspring extraordinary plagues, great and lasting afflictions and severe and lasting sicknesses. And he will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.

Also every sickness and every plague, not written in the book of this law, the LORD shall bring upon you until you are destroyed. And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God. And it shall come to pass that just as the LORD rejoiced over doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will rejoice over bringing ruin upon you and destroying you; and you shall be plucked off from the land which you go to possess. And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth even to the other; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. And among those nations you shall find no rest, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest; but there the LORD will give you a panic of heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind.

Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.

In the morning you shall say, 'Would God it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, 'Would God it were morning!' because of the fear of your heart and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. And the LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I spoke to you, 'You shall see it no more again'; and there you shall be sold to your enemies for bondmen and bondmaids, and there shall be no buyer.