Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
No JFB commentary on these verses.
The curses correspond in form and number Deuteronomy 28:15 to the blessings Deuteronomy 28:3, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciati...
24. THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE CHAPTER 28 _ 1. The blessing promised (Deuteronomy 28:1)_ 2. The curse announced (Deuteronomy 28:15) This is one of the most solemn Chapter s in the Pentateuch. Ortho...
The curses to follow disobedience. These answer generally to the blessings of Deuteronomy 28:1, only that the order Deuteronomy 28:5; Deuteronomy 28:4 is presumed and...
_plagues_ As in Deuteronomy 28:61; Deuteronomy 29:22 (21), Leviticus 26:21. In Deuteronomy 25:3 the word is used of str
Still Further Development of the Curses After a fresh statement of the condition on which they will be inflicted, viz. Israel's disobedience to the law (Deuteronomy 28:58), diseases are again threate...
DISCOURSE: 220 THE DUTY OF FEARING GOD Deuteronomy 28:58. _If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this Law that are written in this boot, that thou mayest fear that glorious and fearful name...
_VER._ 59. _THE LORD WILL MAKE THY PLAGUES WONDERFUL—GREAT PLAGUES, AND OF LONG CONTINUANCE_— Have not their plagues continued now these seventeen hundred years? Their former captivities were very sho...
THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:58-68 506. How is the word fearful in Deuteronomy 28:58? How is the word wonderful used in Deuteronomy 28:59? 507. Please remember there are two sides of God's character: wrath...
THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE This chapter properly follows Deuteronomy 26:19, and concludes the second discourse. It enforces the injunctions given, by exhibiting the blessings associated with the keep...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 28 V1 ‘Listen carefully to the *LORD your God. *Keep and obey all his *commandments. I am order...
See Note on Deuteronomy 25:2. THIS GLORIOUS AND FEARFUL NAME, THE LORD THY GOD. — The first Note of the Decalogue is here referred to, as the great curse of the Law draws to its close. It is no light...
וְ הִפְלָ֤א יְהוָה֙ אֶת ־מַכֹּ֣תְךָ֔ וְ אֵ֖ת
MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
THE BITTER FRUITS OF DISOBEYING GOD Deuteronomy 28:47 These predictions against the Hebrew people were partially fulfilled in earlier invasions, as for instance, those of Nebuchadnezzar and his gener...
We now come to the commencement of the third discourse of Moses. It was pre\-eminently the uttering of solemn warnings in which he laid before the people the results of disobedience and rebellion. He...
_Increase. Hebrew, distinguish, or render thy plagues wonderful. (Calmet) --- Perpetual. Hebrew, "lasting." (Haydock) See ver. 27._...
I desired the Reader to remark with me in the opening of this Chapter, that there should seem to be somewhat prophetical in its contents. And if he compares what is here said, with the history of the...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 28 AND 29. In CHAPTER 28 we have the principles of God's government in the midst of that people, and the immediate consequences of obedience or disobedience-c...
THEN THE LORD WILL MAKE THY PLAGUES WONDERFUL,.... Visible, remarkable, distinguishable, and astonishing to all that see them: AND THE PLAGUES OF THY SEED; for they were to continue, as they have don...
Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, [even] great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. Ver. 59. _And of long continua...
1 The blessings for Obedience. 15 The curses for disobedience. 1 AND it shall come to passe, [NOTE: Leviticus 26:3.] if thou shalt hearken diligently vnto the voyce of the LORD thy God, to obserue a...
then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful and the plagues of thy seed, visit them with unheard-of diseases, EVEN GREAT PLAGUES, AND OF LONG CONTINUANCE, AND SORE SICKNESSES, AND OF LONG CONTINUANC...
THE CURSES OF DISOBEDIENCE...
FROM MOUNT GERIZIM -- BLESSINGS (vs.1-14) Though Chapter 28 does not say that these blessings were pronounced from Mount Gerizim, yet Chapter 27:12 indicates this. But the blessings were prefaced; b...
45-68 If God inflicts vengeance, what miseries his curse can bring upon mankind, even in this present world! Yet these are but the beginning of sorrows to those under the curse of God. What then will...
No text from Poole on this verse....
In approaching the study of this remarkable section of our book, the reader must bear in mind that it is by no means, to be confounded with chapter 27. Some expositors, in seeking to account for the a...
Deuteronomy 28:59 LORD H3068 bring H6381 descendants H2233 extraordinary H6381 (H8689) plagues H4347 great H1419 prolonged...
THE THIRD SERIES OF CURSES (DEUTERONOMY 28:59). The sixfold pattern here is not quite so apparent (there is always the danger of seeking to fit the text into a pre-prepared straitjacket). It is certa...
THE CURSINGS THAT WILL RESULT IF THEY ARE NOT FAITHFUL TO THE COVENANT (DEUTERONOMY 28:15). But once they wander outside the sphere of the covenant only cursings can await them. They will have put the...
CONTENTS: Conditions of blessing in the land and causes of chastisement. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: If we do not delight in God's will, we not only come short of the blessing promised but l...
Deuteronomy 28:5. _Blessed shall be thy basket._ The LXX read, thy barns and thy store. Deuteronomy 28:24. _The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust._ Our oriental travellers say in su...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 28:1 The focus shifts from specific sins that warrant curses to the content of the curses (vv. Deuteronomy 28:15), preceded by a shorter list of blessi
CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses now enlarges and gives the blessings and curses in detail (_cf_. Exodus 23:20 and Leviticus 26.) The blessings are declared in fourteen verses; the curses require nearly four tim...
EXPOSITION THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE. Having enjoined the proclamations of the blessing and the curse on their entering into possession of Canaan, Moses, for the sake of impressing on the minds of th...
Now as we come into chapter twenty-eight, It shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently [You see the condition. If you hearken diligently] unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and...
1 Kings 16:3; 1 Kings 16:4; 1 Kings 9:7; Daniel 9:12; Deuteronomy 28: