Deuteronomy 28:21

28:21 The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases ¹  until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

Deuteronomy 28:2

28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance ²  if you obey the Lord your God:

Deuteronomy 17:1-2

17:1 You must not sacrifice to him ³  a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive ⁴  to the Lord your God. 17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ⁵  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ⁶  and breaks his covenant

Deuteronomy 30:8

30:8 You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving ⁷  you today.

Ezra 7:23

7:23 Everything that the God of heaven has required should be precisely done for the temple of the God of heaven. Why should there be wrath ⁸  against the empire of the king and his sons?

Ezekiel 6:11

6:11 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say, “Ah!” because of all the evil, abominable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and pestilence. ⁹ 

Zechariah 14:16-19

14:16 Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, and to observe the Feast of Tabernacles. ¹⁰  14:17 But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem ¹¹  to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, they will get no rain. 14:18 If the Egyptians will not do so, they will get no rain – instead there will be the kind of plague which the Lord inflicts on any nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. 14:19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

¹ tn Heb “will cause pestilence to cling to you.”

² tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”

³ tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

⁴ tn The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “an abomination”; cf. NAB) describes persons, things, or practices offensive to ritual or moral order. See M. Grisanti, NIDOTTE 4:314-18; see also the note on the word “abhorrent” in Deut 7:25.

⁵ tn Heb “gates.”

⁶ tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”

⁷ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I now enjoin on you.”

⁸ tn The Aramaic word used here for “wrath” (קְצַף, qÿtsaf; cf. Heb קָצַף, qatsaf) is usually used in the Hebrew Bible for God’s anger as opposed to human anger (but contra Eccl 5:17 [MT 5:16]; Esth 1:18; 2 Kgs 3:27). The fact that this word is used in v. 23 may have theological significance, pointing to the possibility of divine judgment if the responsible parties should fail to make available these provisions for the temple.

⁹ sn By the sword and by famine and by pestilence. A similar trilogy of punishments is mentioned in Lev 26:25-26. See also Jer 14:12; 21:9; 27:8, 13; 29:18).

¹⁰ sn Having imposed his sovereignty over the earth following the Battle of Armageddon, the Lord will receive homage and tribute from all who survive from all the nations. The Feast of Tabernacles was especially associated with covenant institution and renewal so it will be appropriate for all people to acknowledge that they are vassals to the Lord at that time (cf. Deut 31:9-13; Neh 8:12-18; 9:1-38).

¹¹ sn The reference to any…who refuse to go up to Jerusalem makes clear the fact that the nations are by no means “converted” to the Lord but are under his compulsory domination.