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Elijah’s Letter to Jehoram

2 Chronicles 21:14

In 11 translations

BSB
So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.
KJV
Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:a great…: Heb. a great stroke
WEB
behold, Yahweh will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your possessions;
ASV
behold, Jehovah will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance;
LSV
behold, YHWH is striking [with] a great striking among your people, and among your sons, and among your wives, and among all your goods—
YLT
lo, Jehovah is smiting — a great smiting — among thy people, and among thy sons, and among thy wives, and among all thy goods —
DBY
behold, Jehovah will smite with a great stroke thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance,
DRC
Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.
GNV
Beholde, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wiues, and all thy substance,
JPS
behold, the LORD will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance;
LXXE
behold, the Lord shall smite thee with a great plague among thy people, and thy sons, and thy wives, and all thy store:

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הִנֵּ֣ה יְהוָ֗ה נֹגֵ֛ף מַגֵּפָ֥ה גְדוֹלָ֖ה בְּעַמֶּ֑ךָ וּבְבָנֶ֥יךָ וּבְנָשֶׁ֖יךָ וּבְכָל־רְכוּשֶֽׁךָ׃
LXX-Br
ἰδοὺ Κύριος πατάξει σε πληγὴν μεγάλην ἐν τῷ λαῷ σου, καὶ ἐν τοῖς υἱοῖς σου, καὶ ἐν γυναιξί σου, καὶ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ ἀποσκευῇ σου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Leviticus 26:21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.
  • Micah 6:16You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of…
  • Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
  • Hosea 5:11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

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