Deuteronomy 28:62

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You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

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  • Deut 4:27 : 27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you.
  • Deut 10:22 : 22 Your ancestors went down to Egypt with seventy people, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the heavens.
  • Neh 9:23 : 23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had promised their ancestors they would enter and take possession of.
  • 2 Kgs 24:14 : 14 He deported all of Jerusalem—all the officials, the mighty warriors, ten thousand captives, as well as all the craftsmen and metalworkers. No one remained except for the poorest people of the land.
  • Neh 7:4 : 4 The city was spacious and large, but its people were few, and there were no houses built yet.
  • Jer 42:2 : 2 They said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Please let our petition fall before you and pray to the LORD your God for us, for all this remnant. For we are few left from many, as your own eyes can see us.
  • Jer 52:28-30 : 28 This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar exiled: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; 29 in Nebuchadnezzar's eighteenth year, 832 people were exiled from Jerusalem; 30 and in his twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, exiled 745 Jews. In total, 4,600 people were taken away.
  • Mark 13:20 : 20 If the Lord had not shortened those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom He has chosen, He has shortened them.
  • Rom 9:27-29 : 27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: 'Though the number of the children of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.' 28 For the Lord will carry out his sentence on the earth fully and decisively. 29 And just as Isaiah said previously: 'Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been made like Gomorrah.'
  • 2 Kgs 13:7 : 7 Nothing was left for Jehoahaz's army except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed them, making them like dust to be trampled.
  • Isa 1:9 : 9 Unless the LORD of hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
  • Isa 24:6 : 6 Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants bear the guilt. Therefore, the earth’s inhabitants are burned, and few people are left.
  • Lev 26:22 : 22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 4:26-27
    2 verses
    81%

    26I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely be quickly destroyed from the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not extend your days there but will be utterly destroyed.

    27The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you.

  • Deut 28:63-65
    3 verses
    80%

    63Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so it will please Him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

    64Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

    65Among those nations, you will find no peace, and no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

  • Deut 1:10
    77%

    10The LORD your God has multiplied you, and now you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

  • Deut 8:20
    77%

    20Like the nations that the Lord is destroying before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

  • Deut 10:22
    75%

    22Your ancestors went down to Egypt with seventy people, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the heavens.

  • Deut 28:45
    75%

    45All these curses will come upon you, pursue you, and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that He commanded you.

  • Deut 28:13-15
    3 verses
    75%

    13The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will only go upwards and not downwards, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you today, to observe and to do them.

    14You must not turn aside from any of the words I am commanding you today, neither to the right nor to the left, to follow other gods and serve them.

    15But if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God and carefully follow all His commandments and statutes I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.

  • Deut 28:47
    74%

    47Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and wholeheartedly in the time of abundance.

  • Deut 28:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.

    25The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Deut 28:36-38
    3 verses
    73%

    36The LORD will drive you and the king you set over yourself to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods made of wood and stone.

    37You will become an object of horror, a byword, and a taunt among all the peoples to which the LORD will drive you.

    38You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it.

  • Deut 7:7
    73%

    7The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

  • Deut 28:61
    73%

    61The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not written in this Book of the Law, until you are completely destroyed.

  • Deut 11:17
    72%

    17Then the LORD’s anger will burn against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no produce. Then you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you.

  • Deut 11:28
    72%

    28and the curse if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God but turn aside from the way I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

  • Num 32:15
    72%

    15If you turn away from following Him, He will abandon them again in the wilderness, and you will bring destruction on all these people."

  • Deut 28:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20The LORD will send curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil of your deeds, by which you have forsaken Me.

    21The LORD will cause pestilence to cling to you until He has consumed you from the land that you are entering to possess.

  • Jer 5:19
    72%

    19And when you ask, 'Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?' you are to tell them, 'As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.'

  • Deut 28:58
    72%

    58If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law that are written in this book, and do not fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—

  • 1 Sam 12:15
    71%

    15But if you do not obey the LORD and rebel against His command, then the hand of the LORD will be against you, as it was against your ancestors.

  • Deut 30:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1When all these things come upon you—the blessing and the curse that I have set before you—and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,

    2and you return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and soul, you and your children, according to all that I command you today,

  • Deut 4:19
    71%

    19And be careful not to lift your eyes toward the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars—all the host of heaven—and be led astray to bow down to them and worship them, things the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

  • Deut 30:8
    71%

    8And you will again obey the LORD and follow all His commandments that I am giving you today.

  • Deut 28:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1If you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God by carefully keeping all His commandments that I am commanding you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

    2All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you listen to the voice of the LORD your God.

  • Deut 1:45
    71%

    45Then you returned and wept before the LORD, but He did not listen to your cries or pay attention to you.

  • 1 Chr 16:19
    71%

    19When you were few in number, a small group of strangers in the land,

  • Lev 26:38
    70%

    38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

  • Judg 2:2
    70%

    2But you must not make a covenant with the people who live in this land. Instead, you are to break down their altars. Yet you have not obeyed me. What is this that you have done?'

  • Neh 9:23
    70%

    23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had promised their ancestors they would enter and take possession of.

  • Josh 23:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15But just as all the good things the LORD your God promised you have come to pass, so too the LORD will bring upon you the bad things He threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

    16If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land He has given you.

  • Deut 4:30
    70%

    30When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.

  • Deut 15:5
    70%

    5If only you carefully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being diligent to observe all these commandments that I am commanding you today.

  • Deut 13:17
    70%

    17Gather all the spoil of that city into its public square and burn the city and all its plunder as a complete offering to the LORD your God. It must remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt.

  • Deut 1:32
    70%

    32But in this matter, you did not trust in the LORD your God,

  • Jer 42:13
    70%

    13But if you say, 'We will not stay in this land,' and do not listen to the voice of the LORD your God,

  • Num 14:43
    70%

    43For the Amalekites and Canaanites are there to confront you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.

  • Neh 1:8
    69%

    8Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,

  • 1 Kgs 9:6
    69%

    6'But if you or your descendants turn away from Me and do not keep My commands and statutes that I have given you, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them,