Verse Lens · Context pointer
Leviticus 26:22 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 22. 22I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
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Role in This Section
This verse adds wild-animal loss of children, livestock, population, and travel security.
Read It With
- Leviticus 26:14-26
Read through 26:14-26 and watch how each actor, material, status, or command relates. Leviticus 26:22 adds wild-animal loss of children, livestock, population, and travel security; the whole unit establishes this: The warning moves from disease and failed sowing through defeat, wild animals, sword, pestilence, and bread scarcity in repeated sevenfold escalations.
Why It Needs Context
Leviticus 26:22 adds wild-animal loss of children, livestock, population, and travel security; reading it alone would sever that detail from the actors, category, and outcome in Leviticus 26:14-26.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 26:14-26 — Refusal brings escalating terror, crop loss, defeat, and hungerSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 26:14-26, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 26:14-26
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