George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Deuteronomy 28:23
Of brass, and yield no rain. (Menochius) --- Pindar says, (Pyth. x.) "The heaven of brass they never can ascend." See Leviticus xxvi. 19.
Of brass, and yield no rain. (Menochius) --- Pindar says, (Pyth. x.) "The heaven of brass they never can ascend." See Leviticus xxvi. 19.
Verse Deuteronomy 28:23. _THY HEAVEN - SHALL BE BRASS, AND THE EARTH - IRON._] The atmosphere should not be replenished with aqueous vapours, in consequence of which they should have neither the earl...
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...
The Curses The opening Deuteronomy 28:15, correspond to the blessings in Deuteronomy 28:1, except that there are no antitheses to Deuteronomy 28:1 _b_and...
Cp. Leviticus 26:19: _heaven as iron, earth as brass_....
_VER._ 23. _THE HEAVEN—SHALL BE BRASS, AND THE EARTH—IRON_— A proverbial mode of speech, importing a grievous and general famine: that the _heavens_ should yield no more rain than if they were _brass,...
THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:20-24 488. Jehovah was going to interfere and interrupt the daily life of the people of Israel. Does He have less interest in His people today? 489. List the influences of God...
_AND THY HEAVEN THAT IS OVER THY HEAD SHALL BE BRASS, AND THE EARTH THAT IS UNDER THEE SHALL BE IRON._ Heaven ... brass ... earth ... iron - strong Oriental figures used to describe the effects of lo...
28:23 brass, (c-11) Elsewhere translated 'bronze' or 'copper.'...
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...
THY HEAVEN... SHALL BE BRASS, AND THE EARTH... IRON. — Not only in respect of the drought, but of God’s refusal to remove it. See Jeremiah 14:15 for a most pathetic intercession for Israel under this...
וְ הָי֥וּ שָׁמֶ֛יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל ־רֹאשְׁךָ֖ נְ
MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
THE FEARFUL RESULTS OF DISOBEDIENCE Deuteronomy 28:20 If we compare this chapter with Exodus 23:20 and Leviticus 26:1, we shall see how Moses resumes and amplifies the promises and threatenings alrea...
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 thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be (k) brass, and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron. (k) It will give you no more moisture than if it were of brass....
The picture of misery is drawn more horrible in these verses, from describing the particular features of the curses, the LORD threatens to send after the sinner. If the Reader will attend to them minu...
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...
23._And thy heaven that is over thy head_. He enumerates other causes of barrenness, and especially drought. Often does God by the Prophets, desirous of giving a token of His favor towards the people,...
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 THE HEAVEN THAT [IS] OVER THY HEAD SHALL BE BRASS,.... Or like brass, not for its clearness, brightness, and splendour, or for its being spread out like a molten looking glass which was of brass,...
And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron. Ver. 23. See on Leviticus 26:19 ....
_Shall make the pestilence cleave to thee_ Sometimes Divine Providence shall scourge you by one calamity, and sometimes by another, and they will cut off your people in great numbers. _Thy heaven shal...
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...
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, not sending forth one drop of rain, Leviticus 26:19, as often happened in the later history of Israel, AND THE EARTH THAT IS UNDER THEE SHALL BE IR...
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...
15-44 If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe th...
BE BRASS, i.e. like brass, hard and dry, and shut up from giving rain. See LEVITICUS 26:19. BE IRON, hard, and chapt, and barren....
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 28:23 heavens H8064 head H7218 bronze H5178 earth H776 iron H1270 Leviticus 26:19;...
THE SECOND SIXFOLD CURSE (DEUTERONOMY 28:21). This is now followed by a further sixfold curse, with each of the six, commencing (in EVV, in MT it comes second with the verb coming first for emphasis)...
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
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 28:23 HEAVENS... SHALL BE BRONZE. Unable to bring rain. EARTH... SHALL BE IRON. Unable to produce food....
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 17:1; 1 Kings 18:2; Amos 4:7; Jeremiah 14:1; Leviticus 26:19
Brass — Like brass, hard and dry, and shut up from giving rain. Iron — Hard and chapt and barren....