Leviticus 26:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Will bring

Avenge

I will send

General references

Deuteronomy 28:21

Psalm 89:42

Bible References

Will bring

‘Outside the sword will bereave,
And inside terror—

Both young man and virgin,

The nursling with the man of gray hair.

The anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

He also delivered His people to the sword,
And was filled with wrath at His inheritance.

For My sword is satiated in heaven,
Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom
And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.

I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have annihilated them.”

When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to make an end of them by the sword, famine and pestilence.”

And it shall be that when they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you are to tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord:
“Those destined for death, to death;
And those destined for the sword, to the sword;
And those destined for famine, to famine;
And those destined for captivity, to captivity.”’

On the ground in the streets
Lie young and old;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword.
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered, not sparing.

Moreover, I will send on you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you of children; plague and bloodshed also will pass through you, and I will bring the sword on you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, the hills, the ravines and the valleys: “Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

Or if I should bring a sword on that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass through the country and cut off man and beast from it,’

Because I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword will go forth from its sheath against all flesh from south to north.

‘Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast.

“Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them, ‘If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman,

Avenge

‘Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,

In due time their foot will slip;

For the day of their calamity is near,

And the impending things are hastening upon them.’

O Lord, God of

vengeance,

God of vengeance,

shine forth!

“I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;

Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

I will send

I will smite them with

pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”

But those who died by the plague were 14,700, besides those who died on account of Korah.

The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it.

So the Lord

sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”

thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Behold, I am sending upon them the sword, famine and pestilence, and I will make them like split-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness.

“I sent a plague among you after the manner of Egypt;
I slew your young men by the sword along with your captured horses,
And I made the stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils;
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

General references

The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it.

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
You have made all his enemies rejoice.