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Deuteronomy 28

Deut. 28:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
shall make
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
the rain
matar (Hebrew #4306)
rain
KJV usage: rain.
Pronounce: maw-tawr'
Origin: from 4305
of thy land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
powder
'abaq (Hebrew #80)
light particles (as volatile)
KJV usage: (small) dust, powder.
Pronounce: aw-bawk'
Origin: from root of 79
and dust
`aphar (Hebrew #6083)
dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud
KJV usage: ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
Pronounce: aw-fawr'
Origin: from 6080
: from heaven
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
shall it come down
yarad (Hebrew #3381)
a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications): --X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
Pronounce: yaw-rad'
upon theeo, until thou be destroyed
shamad (Hebrew #8045)
to desolate
KJV usage: destory(- uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, X utterly.
Pronounce: shaw-mad'
Origin: a primitive root
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Deut. 28:12• 12Jehovah will open to thee his good treasure, the heavens, to give rain unto thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow. (Deut. 28:12)
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Job 18:15‑21• 15They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:
 16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
 17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
 18He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
 19He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
 20They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before them were affrighted.
 21Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not *God. (Job 18:15‑21)

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Dust,
Heaven,
Rain

Cross References

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make the rain.This was a natural consequence of their heaven's being brass, or yielding no rain; for the surface of the earth being reduced to powder, and frequently taken up by strong winds, would fall down in showers instead of rain.
These showers of sand frequently, in the East, bury whole caravans.
Deut. 28:12• 12Jehovah will open to thee his good treasure, the heavens, to give rain unto thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow. (Deut. 28:12)
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Gen. 19:24• 24And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven, (Gen. 19:24)
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Job 18:15‑21• 15They who are none of his shall dwell in his tent; brimstone shall be showered upon his habitation:
 16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
 17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
 18He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
 19He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.
 20They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before them were affrighted.
 21Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not *God. (Job 18:15‑21)
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Isa. 5:24• 24Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 5:24)
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Amos 4:11• 11I have overthrown among you, like God's overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah. (Amos 4:11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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.