Deuteronomy 4:27

New International Reader's Version

The Lord will drive you out of your land. He will scatter you among the nations. Only a few of you will remain alive there.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come on! Let’s build a city for ourselves. Let’s build a tower that reaches to the sky. We’ll make a name for ourselves. Then we won’t be scattered over the whole earth.”

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me. Now I’m like a very bad smell to the Canaanites and Perizzites who live in this land. There aren’t many of us. They may join together against me and attack me. Then I and my family will be destroyed.”

Nehemiah 1:3

He and the men with him said to me, “Some of the people who returned are still alive. They are back in the land of Judah. But they are having a hard time. They are ashamed. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down. Its gates have been burned with fire.”

Psalm 106:27

He promised he would scatter their children’s children among the nations. He would make them die in other lands.

Psalm 44:11

You handed us over to be eaten up like sheep. You have scattered us among the nations.

Psalm 44:12

You sold your people for very little. You didn’t gain anything when you sold them.

Isaiah 17:6

In the same way, only a few people will be left alive. It will be as when workers knock olives off the trees. Only two or three olives are left on the highest branches. Four or five at most are left on the limbs that produce fruit,” announces the Lord, the God of Israel.

Jeremiah 16:13

So I will throw you out of this land. I will send you away to another land. Neither you nor your people of long ago have known about it. There you will serve other gods day and night. And I will not give you any help.’

Ezekiel 11:16

“So tell them, ‘The Lord and King says, “I sent some of my people far away among the nations. I scattered them among the countries. But for a little while I have been their temple in the countries where they have gone.” ’

Ezekiel 12:15

“They will know that I am the Lord when I scatter them among the nations. I will send them to other countries.

Ezekiel 20:23

I also raised my hand and made a promise in the desert. I told my people I would scatter them among the nations. I would send them to other countries.

Ezekiel 22:15

I will scatter you among the nations. I will send you to other countries. I will put an end to your ‘uncleanness.’

Ezekiel 32:26

“Meshek and Tubal are also there. Their huge armies lie around the graves of their kings. None of them had been circumcised. They had spread their terror while they were alive. So they were killed by swords.

Daniel 9:7

“Lord, you always do what is right. But we are covered with shame today. We are the people of Judah and Jerusalem. All of us are Israelites, no matter where we live. We are now living in many countries. You scattered us among the nations because we weren’t faithful to you.

Hosea 9:17

My God will turn his back on his people. They have not obeyed him. So they will wander among other nations.

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations. I will pull out my sword and hunt you down. Your land and your cities will be completely destroyed.

Zechariah 7:14

I used a windstorm to scatter them among all the nations. They were strangers there. The land they left behind became dry and empty. No one could even travel through it. This is how they turned the pleasant land into a dry and empty desert.”

Deuteronomy 28:36

The Lord will drive you out of the land. And he will drive out the king you place over yourselves. All of you will go to another nation. You and your people of long ago didn’t know anything about them. There you will worship other gods. They will be made out of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 29:28

The Lord’s anger blazed out against his people. So he pulled them up out of their land. He threw them into another land. And that’s where they are now.”

Deuteronomy 30:3

When all that happens, the Lord your God will bless you with great success again. He will be very kind to you. He’ll bring you back from all the nations where he scattered you.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I said I would scatter them. I said I would erase their name from human memory.