Deuteronomy 32:25

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

Cross-reference

Leviticus 26:36 describes 'faintness' and fleeing as from a sword — the same 'terror within' from Deuteronomy 32:25.

Leviticus 26:37 continues the image of falling before a sword when none pursues — matching the terror within in Deuteronomy 32:25.

Jeremiah 9:21 says death cuts off children from without and young men — parallel to 'sword without' destroying young in Deuteronomy 32:25.

Lamentations 1:20 explicitly echoes 'abroad the sword, at home death' — directly parallel to 'sword without, terror within' in Deuteronomy 32:25.

Lamentations 2:19-22 vividly describes the same horrors of siege—sword, famine, and all ages perishing—fulfilling the judgment decreed here.

Ezekiel 7:15 uses the exact phrase 'sword without' and adds famine within — strongly parallel to Deuteronomy 32:25.

2 Corinthians 7:5 says 'without were fightings, within were fears' — a clear NT echo of the 'sword without, terror within' in Deuteronomy 32:25.

Leviticus 26:25 promises a sword to avenge the covenant, directly paralleling the sword that 'bereaves' outside in this verse.

2 Kings 25:4 Historical context

2 Kings 25:4 describes Jerusalem's wall breached and soldiers fleeing—a historical fulfillment of the 'sword outside' and terror inside.

Isaiah 65:12 pronounces judgment by the sword for disobedience, directly mirroring the sword that bereaves in this verse.

Jeremiah 18:21 echoes the same curse: sword bereaving children, young men slain in battle, wives widowed—matching the total devastation of all ages.

Jeremiah 44:7 warns of cutting off man, woman, infant, child—matching the total destruction of all ages in Deut 32:25.

Jeremiah 51:22 directly parallels: breaking man/woman, old/young, young man/young woman—same comprehensive destruction of all ages.

Hosea 9:12 Allusion

Hosea 9:12 says God will bereave them of children—same 'bereave' language as the sword's action in Deut 32:25.

Leviticus 26:16 lists 'sudden terror' as a covenant curse, matching the 'inside terror' described here as part of divine judgment.