2 Chron. 20:5‑13• 5{i}And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of Jehovah, before the new court;{/i}
6{i}and he said, Jehovah, God of our fathers, art not thou God in the heavens, and rulest thou not over all the kingdoms of the nations? And in thy hand there is power and might, and none can withstand thee.{/i}
7{i}Hast not thou, our God, dispossessed the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and given it forever to the seed of Abraham, thy friend?{/i}
8{i}And they have dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,{/i}
9{i}If evil come upon us, sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, and we stand before this house and before thee—for thy name is in this house—and cry unto thee in our distress, then thou wilt hear and save.{/i}
10{i}And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab, and those of mount Seir, amongst whom thou wouldest not let Israel go when they came out of the land of Egypt, (for they turned from them, and destroyed them not,){/i}
11{i}behold, they reward us, in coming to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to possess.{/i}
12{i}Our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might in presence of this great company which cometh against us, neither know we what to do; but our eyes are upon thee.{/i}
13{i}And all Judah stood before Jehovah, with their little ones, their wives, and their sons.{/i} (2 Chron. 20:5‑13)
Deut. 28:21‑61• 21{i}Jehovah will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.{/i}
22{i}Jehovah will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with burning ague, and with drought, and with blight, and with mildew, and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.{/i}
23{i}And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.{/i}
24{i}Jehovah will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust; from the heavens shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed.{/i}
25Jehovah shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; {i}thou shalt go out against them one way, and by seven ways shalt thou flee before them; and thou shalt be driven hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth.{/i}
26{i}And thy carcass shall be meat unto all the fowl of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no man to scare them away{/i}.
27Jehovah will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
28Jehovah shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart;
29{i}and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled continually, and there shall be none to save.{/i}
30{i}Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not eat of it.{/i}
31{i}Thine ox shall be slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thine ass shall be snatched away from before thy face, and shall not return to thee; thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to recover them.{/i}
32{i}Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and languish for them all the day long; and there shall be no power in thy hand to help it.{/i}
33{i}The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour, shall a people that thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually.{/i}
34{i}And thou shalt be mad through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.{/i}
35{i}Jehovah will smite thee in the knees and in the legs with evil ulcers, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.{/i}
36{i}Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.{/i}
37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither Jehovah shall lead thee.
38{i}Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall devour it.{/i}
39{i}Thou shalt plant and till vineyards, but shalt drink no wine, nor gather the fruit; for the worms shall eat it.{/i}
40{i}Olive-trees shalt thou have throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; for thine olive-tree shall cast its fruit.{/i}
41{i}Sons and daughters shalt thou beget, but thou shalt not have them to be with thee; for they shall go into captivity.{/i}
42{i}All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.{/i}
43{i}The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher, and thou shalt sink down lower and lower.{/i}
44{i}He shall lend to thee, but thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.{/i}
45{i}And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, until thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee.{/i}
46{i}And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.{/i}
47{i}Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything,{/i}
48{i}thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.{/i}
49{i}Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, like as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou understandest not;{/i}
50{i}a nation of fierce countenance, which regardeth not the person of the old, nor is kind to the young;{/i}
51{i}and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; for he shall not leave thee corn, new wine, or oil, offspring of thy kine, or increase of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.{/i}
52{i}And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.{/i}
53{i}And in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee, thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee.{/i}
54{i}The eye of the man in thy midst that is tender and very luxurious shall be evil towards his brother, and the wife of his bosom, and the residue of his children which he hath left;{/i}
55{i}so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children that he eateth, because he hath nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.{/i}
56{i}The eye of the tender and luxurious woman in thy midst who would not attempt to set the sole of her foot upon the ground from luxuriousness and from tenderness, shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and her son, and her daughter,{/i}
57{i}because of her afterbirth which hath come out between her feet, and her children whom she shall bear; for she shall secretly eat them for want of everything in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.{/i}
58{i}If thou wilt not take heed to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD;{/i}
59{i}then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, great and persistent plagues and evil and persistent sicknesses;{/i}
60{i}and he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou art afraid of, and they shall cleave unto thee.{/i}
61{i}Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.{/i} (Deut. 28:21‑61)
1 Kings 8:37‑40• 37{i}If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight, mildew, locust, caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be:{/i}
38{i}what prayer, what supplication soever be made by any man, of all thy people Israel, when they shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house;{/i}
39{i}then hear thou in the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men),{/i}
40{i}that they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.{/i} (1 Kings 8:37‑40)
2 Kings 6:25‑29• 25{i}And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was worth eighty silver-pieces, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung five silver-pieces.{/i}
26And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him saying, Help, my lord, O king.
27And he said, If Jehovah do not help thee whence shall I help thee? {i}Out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?{/i}
28{i}And the king said to her, What aileth thee?{/i} And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
29So we boiled my son and did eat him; and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son that we may eat him, and she hath hid her son. (2 Kings 6:25‑29)