Deuteronomy 28:62

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.

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  • Deut 4:27 : 27 And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.
  • Deut 10:22 : 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.
  • Neh 9:23 : 23 And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.
  • 2 Kgs 24:14 : 14 And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.
  • Neh 7:4 : 4 Now the town was wide and great: but the people in it were only a small number, and the houses had not been put up.
  • Jer 42:2 : 2 And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:
  • Jer 52:28-30 : 28 These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took away prisoner: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews: 29 And in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he took away as prisoners from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons: 30 In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners seven hundred and forty-five of the Jews: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
  • Mark 13:20 : 20 And if the Lord had not made the time short, no flesh would have been kept from destruction; but because of the saints he has made the time short.
  • Rom 9:27-29 : 27 And Isaiah says about Israel, Even if the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a small part will get salvation: 28 For the Lord will give effect to his word on the earth, putting an end to it and cutting it short. 29 And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • 2 Kgs 13:7 : 7 For out of all his army, Jehoahaz had only fifty horsemen and ten carriages and ten thousand footmen; the king of Aram had given them up to destruction, crushing them like dust.
  • Isa 1:9 : 9 If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.
  • Isa 24:6 : 6 For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.
  • Lev 26:22 : 22 I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.

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    26 May heaven and earth be my witnesses against you today, that destruction will quickly overtake you, cutting you off from that land which you are going over Jordan to take; your days will not be long in that land, but you will come to a complete end.

    27 And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.

  • Deut 28:63-65
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    63 And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

    64 And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge.

    65 And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:

  • Deut 1:10
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    10 The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

  • Deut 8:20
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    20 Like the nations which the Lord is cutting off before you, so you will be cut off; because you would not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.

  • Deut 10:22
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    22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.

  • Deut 28:45
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    45 And all these curses will come after you and overtake you, till your destruction is complete; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, or keep his laws and his orders which he gave you:

  • Deut 28:13-15
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    13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you will ever have the highest place, if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God which I give you today, to keep and to do them;

    14 Not turning away from any of the orders which I give you today, to the right hand or to the left, or going after any other gods to give them worship.

    15 But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

  • Deut 28:47
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    47 Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things;

  • Deut 28:24-25
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    24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

    25 The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Deut 28:36-38
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    36 And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.

    37 And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

    38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

  • Deut 7:7
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    7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:

  • Deut 28:61
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    61 And all the diseases and the pains not recorded in the book of this law will the Lord send on you till your destruction is complete.

  • Deut 11:17
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    17 For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

  • Deut 11:28
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    28 And the curse if you do not give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, but let yourselves be turned from the way which I have put before you this day, and go after other gods which are not yours.

  • Num 32:15
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    15 For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

  • Deut 28:20-21
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    20 The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me.

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    19 And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.

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    15 But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord, but go against his orders, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and against your king for your destruction, as it was against your fathers.

  • Deut 30:1-2
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    1 Now when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have put before you, if the thought of them comes back to your minds, when you are living among the nations where the Lord your God has sent you,

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  • Deut 4:19
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    19 And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.

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    8 And you will again give ear to the voice of the Lord, and do all his orders which I have given you today.

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    1 Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth:

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  • Deut 1:45
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  • 1 Chr 16:19
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    19 When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;

  • Lev 26:38
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    38 And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

  • Judg 2:2
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    2 And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

  • Neh 9:23
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    23 And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

  • Josh 23:15-16
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    15 And you will see that, as all the good things which the Lord your God undertook to do for you, have come to you, so the Lord will send down on you all the evil things till he has made your destruction complete, and you are cut off from the good land which the Lord your God has given you.

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  • Deut 4:30
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    30 When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:

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    5 If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.

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    17 Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as he said in his oath to your fathers:

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    32 But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,

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    8 Keep in mind, O Lord, the order you gave your servant Moses, saying, If you do wrong I will send you wandering among the peoples:

  • 1 Kgs 9:6
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    6 But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship: