“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 I will bring the sword on you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. The fourth curse level adds the military sword and the plague: the community besieged in its cities faces both the sword of the enemy and the plague within. The avenge the breaking of the covenant communicates the covenantal character of the military curse: the sword is not random geopolitical violence but the covenant's judicial consequence for the covenant's violation.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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