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Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;
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A Pattern of Judgment
Commentators explain that pestilence is one of four severe judgments God uses, alongside famine, wild beasts, and the sword. These are not arbitrary but are directly linked to the covenant curses for national disobedience described in Leviticus 26, showing God's actions are consistent with His revealed word.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
(Jeremiah 14; Jeremiah 15) is a remarkable parallel to this prophecy. Here, as elsewhere, Ezekiel is commissioned to deliver…
19th Century
Anglican
In these verses the same declaration is repeated, for the sake of emphasis, with each one of three other instruments of punishment, with only such …
16th Century
Protestant
He now affirms of the fourth kind of punishment, what he has hitherto pronounced of the rest. He says, then, If I shall have sent a pestilence, an…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Or [if] I send a pestilence into that land Or the plague, which is the destruction that wastes at noon day; this is from the L…
National sins bring national judgments. Though sinners escape one judgment, another is waiting for them. When God's professing people rebel against…
