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Leviticus 26:25

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

KJV

inducamque super vos gladium ultorem fœderis mei. Cumque confugeritis in urbes, mittam pestilentiam in medio vestri, et trademini in manibus hostium,

Vulgate

καὶ ἐπάξω ἐφ’ ὑμᾶς μάχαιραν ἐκδικοῦσαν δίκην διαθήκης, καὶ καταφεύξεσθε εἰς τὰς πόλεις ὑμῶν· καὶ ἐξαποστελῶ θάνατον εἰς ὑμᾶς, καὶ παραδοθήσεσθε εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθρῶν.

LXX

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

ASV

וְ/הֵבֵאתִ֨י עֲלֵי/כֶ֜ם חֶ֗רֶב נֹקֶ֨מֶת֙ נְקַם בְּרִ֔ית וְ/נֶאֱסַפְתֶּ֖ם אֶל עָרֵי/כֶ֑ם וְ/שִׁלַּ֤חְתִּי דֶ֨בֶר֙ בְּ/ת֣וֹכְ/כֶ֔ם וְ/נִתַּתֶּ֖ם בְּ/יַד אוֹיֵֽב

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
דָּ֑בֶר
dbr
noun · 49×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
חֶ֖רֶב
chrb
noun · 409×
י
y
verb · 282×
י
y
noun · 280×
יֶּאֱסֹ֥ף
y'sp
verb · 200×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
נִי
ny
verb · 838×
נָקָם֙
nqm
noun · 17×
עִ֣יר
'yr
noun · 1093×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
ת֣וֹךְ
tvk
noun · 416×
תִתְנַקֵּ֖ם
ttnqm
verb · 35×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 8:33 — When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this ho
  • 2Chr 6:28 — If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoe
  • 2Chr 24:24 — For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgme
  • 2Sam 24:13 — So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that ther
  • Amos 4:10 — I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto you
  • Deut 28:21 — The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
  • Deut 28:21 — The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
  • Deut 32:25 — The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
  • Ezek 5:17 — So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
  • Ezek 6:3 — And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upo
  • Ezek 14:17 — Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
  • Ezek 14:17 — Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
  • Ezek 20:37 — And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
  • Ezek 20:37 — And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
  • Ezek 21:3 — And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
  • Ezek 29:8 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
  • Ezek 33:2 — Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
  • Ezek 39:23 — And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their
  • Jer 15:3 — And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
  • Jer 24:10 — And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
  • Jer 25:9 — Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants there
  • Jer 29:17 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
  • Num 14:12 — I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
  • Num 31:3 — And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.