Leviticus - 26:38



38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you up.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 26:38.

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And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
You shall perish among the Gentiles, and an enemy's land shall consume you.
and ye have perished among the nations, and the land of your enemies hath consumed you.
And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.
You will perish among the Gentiles, and the land of the enemy will consume you.
Et peribitis inter Gentes, et absumet vos terra inimicorum vestrorum.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The land of your enemies shall eat you up - Compare Numbers 13:32; Ezekiel 36:13.

The land of your enemies shall eat you up - Does this refer to the total loss of the ten tribes? These are so completely swallowed up in some enemies' land, that nothing concerning their existence or place of residence remains but mere conjecture.

And ye shall perish among the Heathen,.... Not utterly, but great numbers of them, through change of air, and different diet, as Aben Ezra, and through the cruel usage of their enemies; for there is a body of them which continues unto this day; unless this is to be understood of the ten tribes, as R. Akiba (b) interprets it, who are supposed to be entirely lost and swallowed up among the nations where they were carried captive:
and the land of your enemies shall eat you up; they should die in it through one disease or another; by the pestilence, as the Targum of Jonathan, and so be buried in it; in which sense it may be said to eat them up, or consume them, for the grave swallows up and consumes all that are put into it; Jarchi says, this is to be understood of those that die in captivity.
(b) In Torat Cohanim, ut supra. (par. 1. fol. 197. 2.)

the land of your enemies shall eat you up, &c.--On the removal of the ten tribes into captivity, they never returned, and all traces of them were lost.

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