Parallel Verses English Standard Version Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God. King James Bible And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God. American Standard Version And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God. Douay-Rheims Bible And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God. English Revised Version And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. Webster's Bible Translation And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldst not obey the voice of the LORD thy God. Deuteronomy 28:62 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentThe delicate and luxurious woman, who had not attempted to put her feet to the ground (had always been carried therefore either upon a litter or an ass: cf. Judges 5:10, and Arvieux, Sitten der Beduinen Ar. p. 143), from tenderness and delicacy - her eye would look with envy upon the husband of her bosom and her children, and that (vav expl.) because of (for) her after-birth, which cometh out from between her feet, and because of her children which she bears (sc., during the siege); "for she will eat them secretly in the want of everything," that is to say, first of all attempt to appease her hunger with the after-birth, and then, when there was no more left, with her own children. To such an awful height would the famine rise! Treasury of Scripture Knowledge few in number In the seige of Jerusalem there died 1,100,000 persons, and more than 90,000 were carried captive; and, having afterwards provoked the Romans by their crimes and rebellions, they persecuted them nearly to extirpation; to which, if the tens of thousands which were slaughtered year after year in every country be added, it appears wonderful that there were any remains left. as the stars Deuteronomy 10:22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with three score and ten persons... Cross References Deuteronomy 1:10 The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven. Nehemiah 9:23 You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess. Jeremiah 42:2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Let our plea for mercy come before you, and pray to the LORD your God for us, for all this remnant--because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us-- Jump to Previous Band Company Hearken Hearkened Heaven Instead Multitude Numbers Numerous Obey Sky Small Stars Voice Whereas WouldestJump to Next Band Company Hearken Hearkened Heaven Instead Multitude Numbers Numerous Obey Sky Small Stars Voice Whereas WouldestLinks Deuteronomy 28:62 NIVDeuteronomy 28:62 NLT Deuteronomy 28:62 ESV Deuteronomy 28:62 NASB Deuteronomy 28:62 KJV Deuteronomy 28:62 Bible Apps Deuteronomy 28:62 Biblia Paralela Deuteronomy 28:62 Chinese Bible Deuteronomy 28:62 French Bible Deuteronomy 28:62 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |