All these blessings, &c. In the Old Testament God promised temporal blessings to the keepers of his law, heaven being not opened as yet; and that gross and sensual people being more moved with present and sensible things. But in the New Testament, the goods that are promised us are spiritual and eternal: and temporal evils are turned into blessings.
Verse Deuteronomy 28:2. _ALL THESE BLESSINGS SHALL COME ON THEE_] God shall pour out his blessing from heaven upon thee. _And overtake thee_. Upright men are represented as _going_ to the kingdom of...
A comparison of this chapter with Exodus 23:20 and Leviticus 26 will show how Moses here resumes and amplifies the promises and threats already set forth in the earlier records of the Law. The languag...
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...
DEUTERONOMY 28. BLESSINGS AND CURSES. This chapter is held by Kuenen, Dillmann, Driver, Addis, etc. to belong in the main to D (Deuteronomy 28:12 or Deuteronomy 28:5?). In favour of this conclusion no...
THESE BLESSINGS. Figure of speech _Hypotyposis._ App-6....
The Blessings Parallels in Deuteronomy 7:12-24; Deuteronomy 11:13-15; Deuteronomy 11:22-25. On the assurance of material blessings as the consequence of obedience to the commandment
_overtake_ This vb. is used of the avenger, Deuteronomy 19:6. A man's goodness as well as his sin is sure to find him out, even when he does not expect this: see Matthew 25:37....
_VER._ 2. _ALL THESE BLESSINGS SHALL—OVERTAKE THEE_— "They shall be thy portion without thy pursuit of them, by the care and good providence of God;" Matthew 6:33. We may just observe, respecting thes...
C. BLESSINGS TO BE REPEATED FROM MOUNT GERIZIM (Deuteronomy 28:1-14) And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandment...
_AND ALL THESE BLESSINGS SHALL COME ON THEE, AND OVERTAKE THEE, IF THOU SHALT HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE OF THE LORD THY GOD._ All these blessings shall come on thee - their national obedience was to be...
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...
AND OVERTAKE THEE. — A beautiful expression, _i.e., shall come home to thee,_ and impress the heart with the thought of God’s love and of His promises, even when it is least expected. Comp. Zechariah...
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
BLESSINGS UPON THE OBEDIENT Deuteronomy 28:1 A remarkable chapter! The epitome of what Israel might have been, contrasted with what she became! It is on account of the transgressions that the centur...
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...
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and (b) overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. (b) When you think you are forsaken....
Though I propose to make but a short observation on the whole of these blessings, for the sake of being brief, and that I may not increase the bulk of the present Commentary too much; yet I do beg 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...
AND ALL THESE BLESSINGS SHALL COME ON THEE AND OVERTAKE THEE,.... After mentioned, which should come upon them from God from heaven, by the direction of his providence, and that freely and plentifully...
_And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God._ Ver. 2. _And overtake thee._] Unexpectedly befall thee. "Surely goodness and...
_All these blessings shall overtake thee_ The blessings which others greedily follow after, and never overtake, shall follow after thee, and shall be thrown into thy lap by special kindness. _In the c...
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...
THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE...
and all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee, so as to surround every obedient Israelite with their fullness, IF THOU SHALT HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE OF THE LORD, THY GOD, for that is alw...
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...
1-14 This chapter is a very large exposition of two words, the blessing and the curse. They are real things and have real effects. The blessings are here put before the curses. God is slow to anger,...
Those blessings which others greedily follow after, and ofttimes never overtake, they shall follow after thee, and shall be thrown into thy lap by my special kindness....
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...
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VIII. BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS WITH RESPECT TO THE COVENANT (DEUTERONOMY 28:1 TO DEUTERONOMY 29:1). CHAPTER 28 COVENANT BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS. It should be noted that verse 1 is not an invitation to e...
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 Timothy 4:8; Deuteronomy 28:15; Deuteronomy 28:45; Zechariah 1:6...
Overtake thee — Those blessings which others greedily follow after, and never overtake, shall follow after thee, and shall be thrown into thy lap by special kindness....