Deuteronomy 4:27

Easy To Read Version

The Lord will scatter you among the nations. And only a few of you will be left alive to go to the countries where the Lord will send you.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then the people said, “We should build a city for ourselves. And we should build a tower that will reach to the sky. We will be famous. {And this will keep us together.} We will not be scattered all over the earth.”

Genesis 34:30

But Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have given me much trouble. All the people in this place will hate me. All the Canaanite people and the Perizzite people will turn against me. There are only a few of us. If the people in this place gather together to fight against us, then I will be destroyed. And all our people will be destroyed with me.”

Nehemiah 1:3

Hanani and the men with him said, “Nehemiah, those Jews that escaped captivity and are in the land of Judah are in much trouble. Those people are having many problems and are full of shame. Why? Because the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

Psalm 106:27

God promised that he would let\par other people defeat their descendants. {\cf2\super [560]} \par God promised he would scatter our ancestors among the nations.\par

Psalm 44:11

You gave us away like sheep\par to be eaten as food.\par You scattered us among the foreigners.\par

Psalm 44:12

God, you sold your people for nothing.\par You didn’t even argue over the price.\par

Isaiah 17:6

That time will also be like the time people harvest olives. People knock olives from olive trees. But a few olives are usually left at the top of the tree. Four or five olives are left on some of the top branches. It will be the same for those cities. The Lord All-Powerful said those things.

Jeremiah 16:13

So I will throw you out of this country. I will force you to go to a foreign country. You will go to a land that you and your ancestors never knew. In that land you can serve false gods all you want to. I will not help you or show you any favors.’

Ezekiel 11:16

“So tell those people these things: The Lord our Master says, ‘It is true, I forced my people to go far away to other nations. I did scatter them among many countries. But I will be their temple for a short time while they are in those other countries.

Ezekiel 12:15

Then those people will know that I am the Lord. They will know that I scattered them among the nations. They will know that I forced them to go to other countries.

Ezekiel 20:23

So I made another promise to those people in the desert. I promised to scatter them among the nations, to send them to many different countries.

Ezekiel 22:15

I will scatter you among the nations. I will force you to go to many countries. I will completely destroy the filthy things in this city.

Ezekiel 32:26

“Meshech, Tubal, and all their armies are there. Their graves are around it. All of those foreigners were killed in battle. When they were alive, they made people afraid.

Daniel 9:7

“Lord, you are good, and goodness belongs to you! But shame belongs to us today. Shame belongs to the people from Judah and Jerusalem. Shame belongs to all the people of Israel—to the people that are near, and to the people that are far away. Lord, you scattered those people among many nations. And the people of Israel in all those nations should be ashamed. They should be ashamed of all the bad things they did against you, Lord.

Hosea 9:17

Those people will not listen to my God.\par So he will refuse to listen to them.\par And they will wander among the nations\par without a home.\par

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations. I will pull out my sword and destroy you. Your land will become empty and your cities will be destroyed.

Zechariah 7:14

I will bring the other nations against them\par like a storm.\par They didn’t know those nations,\par but the country will be destroyed\par after those nations pass through.\par This pleasant country will be destroyed.”\par

Deuteronomy 28:36

“The Lord will send you and your king away to a nation you don’t know. You and your ancestors [183] have never seen that nation. There you will serve false gods made of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 29:28

The Lord became very angry and upset at them. So he took them out of their land. He put them in another land, where they are today.’

Deuteronomy 30:3

Then the Lord your God will be kind to you. The Lord will make you free again! He will bring you back from those nations where he sent you.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I thought about destroying the Israelites so people would forget them completely!