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Deuteronomy 28:60

He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Backsliders;   Disobedience to God;   Fear of God;   Holy Spirit;   Idolatry;   Judgments;   Obedience;   Reprobacy;   Sanitation;   War;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Plague;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Diseases;   Egypt;   Obedience to God;   Sickness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gerizim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Blessing;   Command, Commandment;   Curse, Accursed;   Disease;   Israel;   Jeremiah, Theology of;   Obedience;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Faithfulness of God;   Jews;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sadducees;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Plagues of egypt;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Disease;   Heredity;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tokaḥah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, which you dreaded, and they will cling to you.
Hebrew Names Version
He will bring on you again all the diseases of Mitzrayim, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you.
King James Version
Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
Lexham English Bible
And he shall bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt concerning which you were in dread because of them.
English Standard Version
And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.
New Century Version
He will give you all the diseases of Egypt that you dread, and the diseases will stay with you.
Amplified Bible
"Moreover, He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.
New American Standard Bible
"And He will bring back on you every disease of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Moreouer, he will bring vpon thee all the diseases of Egypt, whereof thou wast afraide, and they shall cleaue vnto thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
And He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.
Contemporary English Version
like those you were so afraid of in Egypt.
Complete Jewish Bible
He will bring back upon you all the diseases the Egyptians had, which you were in dread of; and they will cling to you.
Darby Translation
and he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou art afraid of, and they shall cleave unto thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
He will bring on you all the diseases you saw in Egypt that filled you with fear, and you will not be able to avoid them.
George Lamsa Translation
Moreover he will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid; and they shall cleave to you.
Good News Translation
He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover.
Literal Translation
He shall also bring on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid; and they shall cling to you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
with euell and contynuall sicknesses, and shal brynge vpo ye all ye sicknesses of Egipte (wherof thou wast afrayed) and they shal cleue vnto the.
American Standard Version
And he will bring upon thee again all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
Bible in Basic English
He will send on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which were a cause of fear to you, and they will take you in their grip.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moreouer, he will bryng vpon thee all the diseases of Egypt, and those whiche thou wast afrayde of shall cleaue vnto thee.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And He will bring back upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast in dread of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
King James Version (1611)
Moreouer, hee will bring vpon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of, and they shal cleaue vnto thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he shall bring upon thee all the evil pain of Egypt, of which thou wast afraid, and they shall cleave to thee.
English Revised Version
And he will bring upon thee again all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
Berean Standard Bible
He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he schal turne in to thee alle the turmentyngis of Egipt, whiche thou dreddist, and tho schulen cleue to thee.
Young's Literal Translation
`And He hath brought back on thee all the diseases of Egypt, of the presence of which thou hast been afraid, and they have cleaved to thee;
Update Bible Version
And he will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you.
Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, of which thou wast afraid; and they shall cleave to thee.
World English Bible
He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you.
New King James Version
Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.
New Living Translation
He will afflict you with all the diseases of Egypt that you feared so much, and you will have no relief.
New Life Bible
He will bring all the diseases upon you that you were afraid of in Egypt. And they will stay with you.
New Revised Standard
He will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were in dread, and they shall cling to you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and he will bring back on thee all the sickness of Egypt, because of which thou wast afraid, - and they shall cleave unto thee;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he shall bring back on thee all the afflictions of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of, and they shall stick fast to thee.
Revised Standard Version
And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave to you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.

Contextual Overview

45 All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given you. 46 These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants. 47 "Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have, 48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you. 49 The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you. 52 They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse—those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you. 53 You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you. 54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 7:15, Exodus 15:26

Reciprocal: Amos 4:10 - pestilence

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt,.... All that in a way of judgment were brought upon the Egyptians for refusing to let Israel go; or all such diseases as were peculiar to them, and common among them, as the leprosy, the itch, ulcers, c.

which thou wast afraid of when living among them, lest they should catch them of them, or they should be inflicted on them by the hand of God:

and they shall cleave unto thee; not only should come upon them, but continue with them; they should not easily get rid of them, or be cured of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The curses correspond in form and number Deuteronomy 28:15-19 to the blessings Deuteronomy 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deuteronomy 28:20-68.

Deuteronomy 28:20-26

First series of judgments. The curse of God should rest on all they did, and should issue in manifold forms of disease, in famine, and in defeat in war.

Deuteronomy 28:20

Vexation - Rather, confusion: the word in the original is used Deuteronomy 7:23; 1 Samuel 14:20 for the panic and disorder with which the curse of God smites His foes.

Deuteronomy 28:22

“Blasting” denotes (compare Genesis 41:23) the result of the scorching east wind; “mildew” that of an untimely blight falling on the green ear, withering it and marring its produce.

Deuteronomy 28:24

When the heat is very great the atmosphere in Palestine is often filled with dust and sand; the wind is a burning sirocco, and the air comparable to the glowing heat at the mouth of a furnace.

Deuteronomy 28:25

Shalt be removed - See the margin. The threat differs from that in Leviticus 26:33, which refers to a dispersion of the people among the pagan. Here it is meant that they should be tossed to and fro at the will of others, driven from one country to another without any certain settlement.

Deuteronomy 28:27-37

Second series of judgments on the body, mind, and outward circumstances of the sinners.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The “botch” (rather “boil;” see Exodus 9:9), the “emerods” or tumors 1Sa 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:9, the “scab” and “itch” represent the various forms of the loathsome skin diseases which are common in Syria and Egypt.

Deuteronomy 28:28

Mental maladies shah be added to those sore bodily plagues, and should Deuteronomy 28:29-34 reduce the sufferers to powerlessness before their enemies and oppressors.

Blindness - Most probably mental blindness; compare Lamentations 4:14; Zep 1:17; 2 Corinthians 3:14 ff.

Deuteronomy 28:30-33

See the marginal references for the fulfillment of these judgments.

Deuteronomy 28:38-48

Third series of judgments, affecting every kind of labor and enterprise until it had accomplished the total ruin of the nation, and its subjection to its enemies.

Deuteronomy 28:39

Worms - i. e. the vine-weevil. Naturalists prescribed elaborate precautions against its ravages.

Deuteronomy 28:40

Cast ... - Some prefer “shall be spoiled” or “plundered.”

Deuteronomy 28:43, Deuteronomy 28:44

Contrast Deuteronomy 28:12 and Deuteronomy 28:13.

Deuteronomy 28:46

Forever - Yet “the remnant” Romans 9:27; Romans 11:5 would by faith and obedience become a holy seed.

Deuteronomy 28:49-58

Fourth series of judgments, descriptive of the calamities and horrors which should ensue when Israel should be subjugated by its foreign foes.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The description (compare the marginal references) applies undoubtedly to the Chaldeans, and in a degree to other nations also whom God raised up as ministers of vengeance upon apostate Israel (e. g. the Medes). But it only needs to read this part of the denunciation, and to compare it with the narrative of Josephus, to see that its full and exact accomplishment took place in the wars of Vespasian and Titus against the Jews, as indeed the Jews themselves generally admit.

The eagle - The Roman ensign; compare Matthew 24:28; and consult throughout this passage the marginal references.

Deuteronomy 28:54

Evil - i. e. grudging; compare Deuteronomy 15:9.

Deuteronomy 28:57

Young one - The “afterbirth” (see the margin). The Hebrew text in fact suggests an extremity of horror which the King James Version fails to exhibit. Compare 2 Kings 6:29.

Deuteronomy 28:58-68

Fifth series of judgments. The uprooting of Israel from the promised land, and its dispersion among other nations. Examine the marginal references.

Deuteronomy 28:58

In this book - i. e. in the book of the Law, or the Pentateuch in so far as it contains commands of God to Israel. Deuteronomy is included, but not exclusively intended. So Deuteronomy 28:61; compare Deuteronomy 27:3 and note, Deuteronomy 31:9.

Deuteronomy 28:66

Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee - i. e. shall be hanging as it were on a thread, and that before thine own eyes. The fathers regard this passage as suggesting in a secondary or mystical sense Christ hanging on the cross, as the life of the Jews who would not believe in Him.

Deuteronomy 28:68

This is the climax. As the Exodus from Egypt was as it were the birth of the nation into its covenant relationship with God, so the return to the house of bondage is in like manner the death of it. The mode of conveyance, “in ships,” is added to heighten the contrast. They crossed the sea from Egypt with a high hand. the waves being parted before them. They should go back again cooped up in slaveships.

There ye shall be sold - Rather, “there shall ye offer yourselves, or be offered for sale.” This denunciation was literally fulfilled on more than one occasion: most signally when many thousand Jews were sold into slavery and sent into Egypt by Titus; but also under Hadrian, when numbers were sold at Rachel’s grave Genesis 35:19.

No man shall buy you - i. e. no one shall venture even to employ you as slaves, regarding you as accursed of God, and to be shunned in everything.


 
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