King James Version
Deuteronomy 29:24 in the King James Version says “Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 29 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?”
Deuteronomy 29:24 · KJV
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; which: Heb. wherewith the LORD hath made it sick
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: whom he: or, who had not given to them any portion given: Heb. divided
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properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“Even all nations”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“Wherefore hath the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“anger”
H639properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
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