Leviticus 26:25
Context26:25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. 1 Although 2 you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands. 3
Deuteronomy 28:52
Context28:52 They will besiege all of your villages 4 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.
Deuteronomy 28:2
Context28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance 5 if you obey the Lord your God:
Deuteronomy 6:24
Context6:24 The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him 6 so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.
Deuteronomy 17:5-6
Context17:5 you must bring to your city gates 7 that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death. 8 17:6 At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.
[26:25] 1 tn Heb “vengeance of covenant”; cf. NAB “the avenger of my covenant.”
[26:25] 2 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has a concessive force in this context.
[26:25] 3 tn Heb “in hand of enemy,” but Tg. Ps.-J. and Tg. Neof. have “in the hands of your enemies” (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 454).
[28:52] 4 tn Heb “gates,” also in vv. 55, 57.
[28:2] 5 tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”
[6:24] 6 tn Heb “the
[17:5] 8 tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”