Study it in the app“And it happen, when he hears the words of this oath of imprecation, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, “I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” so as to sweep away the watered with the thirsty.”
And it happen,וְהָיָהwhen he hearsבְּשָׁמְעוֹthe wordsדִּבְרֵיof thisהַזֹּאתoath of imprecation,הָאָלָהthat he blesses himselfוְהִתְבָּרֵךְin his heart,בִּלְבָבוֹsaying,לֵאמֹר“I will haveיִהְיֶה לִּיpeace,שָׁלוֹםthoughכִּיI walkאֵלֵךְin the stubbornnessבִּשְׁרִרוּתof my heart,”לִבִּיso as to sweep awayלְמַעַן סְפוֹתthe wateredהָרָוָהwithאֶתthe thirsty.הַצְּמֵאָה
happen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “haya” appearshear
To hear a sound, or learn of something.
Where else “sham” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “divre” appearsoath
An oath that brings a curse if broken.
Where else “ala” appearsbless
God gives good things: life, children, harvests.
Where else “hitbarech” appearsheart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.
Where else “levav” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearspeace
Living without war or quarrels, in harmony.
Where else “shalom” appearswalk
To conduct oneself day by day in a certain way, as one walks along a road.
Where else “elech” appearsstubbornness
Stubbornness: the hardness of one who follows only his own opinion.
Where else “sherirut” appearsheart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “libi” appearssweep away
To perish together with others, wiped out.
Where else “sefot” appearswatered, saturated
Watered, well soaked with water; also filled with drink.
Where else “rava” appearsthirsty
Thirsty; said of land, dry.
Where else “tsemea” appearsThe final phrase is difficult; it seems to be a saying: the evil of one drags everyone down, like a flood that carries off the watered land together with the dry.
18Beware lest there be among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe whose heart is turning away today from YHWH our Elohim to go and serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poison and wormwood.
19 · This verse (above)
20YHWH will not be willing to forgive him, for then the anger of YHWH and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and every oath of imprecation written in this book will settle on him, and YHWH will blot out his name from under the heavens.
