Deuteronomy 4:27

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Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

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  • Lev 26:33 : 33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
  • Deut 28:62-64 : 62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the LORD your God. 63 This is what will happen: Just as the LORD delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess. 64 The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.
  • Neh 1:3 : 3 They said to me,“The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!”
  • Neh 1:8-9 : 8 Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses:‘If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations. 9 But if you repent and obey my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’
  • Ezek 12:15 : 15 “Then they will know that I am the LORD when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.
  • Ezek 32:26 : 26 “Meshech-Tubal is there, along with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living.

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  • Deut 28:62-65
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    85%

    62There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the LORD your God.

    63This is what will happen: Just as the LORD delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.

    64The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.

    65Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.

  • Lev 26:33
    81%

    33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

  • Deut 28:36-38
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    36The LORD will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

    37You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the LORD will drive you.

    38The Curse of Reversed Status“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

  • Deut 28:25
    79%

    25Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Ezek 22:15-16
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    15I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.

    16You will be profaned within yourself in the sight of the nations; then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Neh 1:8
    77%

    8Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses:‘If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations.

  • Jer 5:19
    77%

    19“So then, Jeremiah, when your people ask,‘Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?’ tell them,‘It is because you rejected me and served foreign gods in your own land. So you must serve foreigners in a land that does not belong to you.’

  • Lev 26:36-39
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    76%

    36“‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

    37They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand for you before your enemies.

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

    39Restoration through Confession and Repentance“‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ iniquities which are with them.

  • Deut 30:1
    76%

    1The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation“When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses I have set before you, you will reflect upon them in all the nations where the LORD your God has banished you.

  • Ezek 6:8
    76%

    8“‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands.

  • Deut 4:26
    75%

    26I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.

  • Ezek 12:15
    75%

    15“Then they will know that I am the LORD when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.

  • Jer 9:16
    75%

    16I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords until I have destroyed them.’”

  • Zech 7:14
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    14‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”

  • Deut 4:28
    75%

    28There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

  • 1 Chr 16:19
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    19When they were few in number, just a very few, and foreign residents within it,

  • Ezek 36:19
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    19I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.

  • Ps 106:27
    74%

    27make their descendants die among the nations, and scatter them among foreign lands.

  • Deut 30:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3the LORD your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he has scattered you.

    4Even if your exiles are in the most distant land, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back.

  • Ps 44:11
    74%

    11You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.

  • Ezek 20:23
    74%

    23I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.

  • Deut 8:20
    74%

    20Just like the nations the LORD is about to destroy from your sight, so he will do to you because you would not obey him.

  • Deut 28:20-21
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    73%

    20Curses by Disease and Drought“The LORD will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

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

  • Deut 12:29
    73%

    29The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.

  • Jer 13:24
    73%

    24“The LORD says,‘That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind.

  • Josh 23:13
    73%

    13know for certain that the LORD our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the LORD your God gave you.

  • Num 32:15
    73%

    15For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”

  • Deut 11:23
    73%

    23then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

  • Isa 6:12
    73%

    12and the LORD has sent the people off to a distant place, and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned.

  • Jer 31:10
    73%

    10Listen to the LORD’s message, O nations. Proclaim it in the faraway lands along the sea. Say,“The one who scattered Israel will regather them. He will watch over his people like a shepherd watches over his flock.”

  • Jer 16:13
    73%

    13So I will throw you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have ever known. There you must worship other gods day and night, for I will show you no mercy.’”

  • Deut 4:20
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    20You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

  • Deut 11:17
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    17Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the LORD is about to give you.

  • Isa 13:14
    72%

    14Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.

  • Josh 23:15
    72%

    15But in the same way every faithful promise the LORD your God made to you has been realized, it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the LORD will bring on you every judgment until he destroys you from this good land which the LORD your God gave you.

  • Lev 26:17
    72%

    17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

  • Ezek 11:16
    72%

    16“Therefore say:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’

  • Jer 49:15
    72%

    15The LORD says to Edom,“I will certainly make you small among nations. I will make you despised by all humankind.

  • Josh 23:5
    72%

    5The LORD your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, so you can occupy their land as the LORD your God promised you.