Verse 37
Through want of rain, or any other cause, as there had been a three years' famine in the time of David, and it is supposed it might be again, though Canaan was a land flowing with milk and honey:
if there be pestilence ; as there had been, for David's numbering the people:
blasting ; or blights, occasioned by the east wind:
mildew ; a kind of clammy dew, which falling on plants, corn, &c.; corrupts and destroys them, see Amos 4:9 ,
locust , or
if there be caterpillar ; creatures very pernicious to the fruits of the earth, and cause a scarcity of them, see Joel 1:4 ,
if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities ; so that they cannot go out to gather the increase of the earth, or till their land:
whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be ; whatever stroke from the hand of God, or what judgment or calamity soever befalls.
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