Exodus 22:24 “My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then you…”

Exodus 22:24

My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

World English Bible

and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

American Standard Version

and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then shall my wrath be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wiues shall be widowes, and your children fatherlesse.

Darby Translation

and my anger shall burn, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Young's Literal Translation

and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

Bible in Basic English

And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

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Cross references

“my wrath”

Psalm 69:24 Psalm 76:7 Psalm 90:11 Job 31:23 Nahum 1:6 Romans 2:5–9

Psalm 69:24 · BSB

Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.

Psalm 76:7 · BSB

You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?

Psalm 90:11 · BSB

Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.

Job 31:23 · BSB

For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.

Nahum 1:6 · BSB

Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.

Romans 2:5–9 · BSB

But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

“your wives”

Psalm 109:9 Jeremiah 15:8 Lamentations 5:3 Job 27:13–15 Jeremiah 18:21 Luke 6:38

Psalm 109:9 · BSB

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Jeremiah 15:8 · BSB

I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.

Lamentations 5:3 · BSB

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

Job 27:13–15 · BSB

This is the wicked man’s portion from God— the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

Jeremiah 18:21 · BSB

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in…

Luke 6:38 · BSB

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.

25If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

Read Exodus 22