King James Version
Leviticus 26:24 in the King James Version says “Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.” — study this verse from Leviticus chapter 26 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.”
Leviticus 26:24 · KJV
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Then will I also walk”
H1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjunction); also or yea; adversatively though
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
“unto you and will punish”
H5221to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“you yet”
H1571properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“seven times”
H7651seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“for your sins”
H2403an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
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