Ezekiel 5:12

5:12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. ¹  A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, ²  and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 38:22

38:22 I will judge him with plague and bloodshed. I will rain down on him, his troops and the many peoples who are with him a torrential downpour, hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

Numbers 14:12

14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, ³  and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”

Numbers 16:46-50

16:46 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord – the plague has begun!” 16:47 So Aaron did ⁴  as Moses commanded ⁵  and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people. 16:48 He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped. 16:49 Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah. 16:50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stopped.

Deuteronomy 28:21-22

28:21 The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases ⁶  until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess. 28:22 He ⁷  will afflict you with weakness, ⁸  fever, inflammation, infection, ⁹  sword, ¹⁰  blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:59-61

28:59 then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses. 28:60 He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt ¹¹  that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you. ¹²  28:61 Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, ¹³  until you have perished.

Deuteronomy 28:2

28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance ¹⁴  if you obey the Lord your God:

Deuteronomy 24:13

24:13 You must by all means ¹⁵  return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just ¹⁶  deed by the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 24:15

24:15 You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Deuteronomy 24:1

24:1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive ¹⁷  in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

Deuteronomy 8:1-2

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ¹⁸  I am giving ¹⁹  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ²⁰  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ²¹  8:2 Remember the whole way by which he ²²  has brought you these forty years through the desert ²³  so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 6:1

Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles

6:1 Now these are the commandments, ²⁴  statutes, and ordinances that the Lord your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed ²⁵ 

Deuteronomy 7:13

7:13 He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, ²⁶  with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

Deuteronomy 20:9

20:9 Then, when the officers have finished speaking, ²⁷  they must appoint unit commanders ²⁸  to lead the troops.

Psalms 91:3

91:3 he will certainly rescue you from the snare of the hunter ²⁹ 

and from the destructive plague.

Psalms 91:6

91:6 the plague that comes in the darkness,

or the disease that comes at noon. ³⁰ 

Isaiah 37:36

37:36 The Lord’s messenger ³¹  went out and killed 185,000 troops ³²  in the Assyrian camp. When they ³³  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses! ³⁴ 

Jeremiah 14:12

14:12 Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. ³⁵  Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues.” ³⁶ 

Jeremiah 21:6

21:6 I will kill everything living in Jerusalem, ³⁷  people and animals alike! They will die from terrible diseases.

Jeremiah 21:9

21:9 Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease. Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians who are besieging it will live. They will escape with their lives. ³⁸ 

Jeremiah 24:10

24:10 I will bring war, starvation, and disease ³⁹  on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors.’” ⁴⁰ 

Amos 4:10

4:10 “I sent against you a plague like one of the Egyptian plagues. ⁴¹ 

I killed your young men with the sword,

along with the horses you had captured.

I made the stench from the corpses ⁴²  rise up into your nostrils.

Still you did not come back to me.”

The Lord is speaking!

Matthew 24:7

24:7 For nation will rise up in arms ⁴³  against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines ⁴⁴  and earthquakes ⁴⁵  in various places.

[5:12]  ¹ sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.

[5:12]  ² sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.

[14:12]  ³ tc The Greek version has “death.”

[16:47]  ⁴ tn Heb “took.”

[16:47]  ⁵ tn Or “had spoken” (NASB); NRSV “had ordered.”

[28:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “will cause pestilence to cling to you.”

[28:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “The Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:22]  ⁸ tn Or perhaps “consumption” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV). The term is from a verbal root that indicates a weakening of one’s physical strength (cf. NAB “wasting”; NIV, NLT “wasting disease”).

[28:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “hot fever”; NIV “scorching heat.”

[28:22]  ¹⁰ tn Or “drought” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[28:60]  ¹¹ sn These are the plagues the Lord inflicted on the Egyptians prior to the exodus which, though they did not fall upon the Israelites, must have caused great terror (cf. Exod 15:26).

[28:60]  ¹² tn Heb “will cling to you” (so NIV); NLT “will claim you.”

[28:61]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew term תּוֹרָה (torah) can refer either (1) to the whole Pentateuch or, more likely, (2) to the book of Deuteronomy or even (3) only to this curse section of the covenant text. “Scroll” better reflects the actual document, since “book” conveys the notion of a bound book with pages to the modern English reader. Cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “the book of this law”; NIV, NLT “this Book of the Law”; TEV “this book of God’s laws and teachings.”

[28:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”

[24:13]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “by all means.”

[24:13]  ¹⁶ tn Or “righteous” (so NIV, NLT).

[24:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “nakedness of a thing.” The Hebrew phrase עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers here to some gross sexual impropriety (see note on “indecent” in Deut 23:14). Though the term usually has to do only with indecent exposure of the genitals, it can also include such behavior as adultery (cf. Lev 18:6-18; 20:11, 17, 20-21; Ezek 22:10; 23:29; Hos 2:10).

[8:1]  ¹⁸ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

[8:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

[8:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

[8:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

[8:2]  ²² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:2]  ²³ tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.

[6:1]  ²⁴ tn Heb “commandment.” The word מִצְוָה (mitsvah) again is in the singular, serving as a comprehensive term for the whole stipulation section of the book. See note on the word “commandments” in 5:31.

[6:1]  ²⁵ tn Heb “where you are going over to possess it” (so NASB); NRSV “that you are about to cross into and occupy.”

[7:13]  ²⁶ tn Heb “will bless the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[20:9]  ²⁷ tn The Hebrew text includes “to the people,” but this phrase has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[20:9]  ²⁸ tn Heb “princes of hosts.”

[91:3]  ²⁹ tn The word refers specifically to a fowler (or hunter of birds).

[91:6]  ³⁰ sn As in Deut 32:23-24, vv. 5-6 closely associate military attack and deadly disease. Perhaps the latter alludes to one of the effects of siege warfare on the population of an entrapped city, which was especially vulnerable to the outbreak of epidemics.

[37:36]  ³¹ tn Traditionally, “the angel of the Lord” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[37:36]  ³² tn The word “troops” is supplied in the translation for smoothness and clarity.

[37:36]  ³³ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

[37:36]  ³⁴ tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies”; NLT “they found corpses everywhere.”

[14:12]  ³⁵ sn See 6:16-20 for parallels.

[14:12]  ³⁶ tn Heb “through sword, starvation, and plague.”

[21:6]  ³⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[21:9]  ³⁸ tn Heb “his life will be to him for spoil.”

[24:10]  ³⁹ sn See Jer 14:12 and the study note there.

[24:10]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “fathers.”

[4:10]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “in the manner [or “way”] of Egypt.”

[4:10]  ⁴² tn Heb “of your camps [or “armies”].”

[24:7]  ⁴³ tn For the translation “rise up in arms” see L&N 55.2.

[24:7]  ⁴⁴ sn See Isa 5:13-14; 13:6-16; Hag 2:6-7; Zech 14:4.

[24:7]  ⁴⁵ tc Most witnesses (C Θ 0102 Ë^1,13 Ï) have “and plagues” (καὶ λοιμοί, kai loimoi) between “famines” (λιμοί, limoi) and “earthquakes” (σεισμοί, seismoi), while others have “plagues and famines and earthquakes” (L W 33 pc lat). The similarities between λιμοί and λοιμοί could explain how καὶ λοιμοί might have accidentally dropped out, but since the Lukan parallel has both terms (and W lat have the order λοιμοὶ καὶ λιμοί there too, as they do in Matthew), it seems more likely that scribes added the phrase here. The shorter reading does not enjoy overwhelming support ([א] B D 892 pc, as well as versional witnesses), but it is nevertheless significant; coupled with the internal evidence it should be given preference.