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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:49

Swiftly. The Chaldeans are designated in the same manner, Jeremias v. 5., and Ezechiel xvii. 3, 12. The Romans also carried an eagle, as their chief standard, and the rapidity of their conquests astonished all the world.

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See also Deuteronomy 28:49 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 28:49. _A NATION - FROM FAR_] Probably the _Romans_. _AS THE EAGLE FLIETH_] The very animal on all the Roman standards. The _Roman eagle_ is proverbial. _WHOSE TONGUE THOU SHALT N...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEE. The judgments that follow are for "the Jew first", but also for the Gentile. Compare Isaiah 13:9; Romans 2:7. AS. according as....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A Further Development of the Curses Invasion by a far-off, unknown nation, who shall ruthlessly devastate the land and besiege Israel's cities; with the horrors of his siege. All this is not threaten...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _from far_, etc.] Isaiah 5:26 of Assyrians, Jeremiah 5:15 of Babylonians (though perhaps originally of Scythians). _as the_ VULTURE SWOOPETH] See on Deuteronomy 14:12 f.; cp....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 49. _THE LORD SHALL BRING A NATION AGAINST THEE FROM FAR—SWIFT AS THE EAGLE—WHOSE TONGUE THOU SHALT NOT UNDERSTAND_— "The Chaldeans might be said to come _from far,_ in comparison with the Moab...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:47-57 500. Joyfulness and gladness are an essential ingredient for acceptableness with Jehovah; Why? 501. Who put a yoke of iron upon the neck of Israel? 502. Note the three...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THE LORD SHALL BRING A NATION AGAINST THEE FROM FAR, FROM THE END OF THE EARTH, AS SWIFT AS THE EAGLE FLIETH; A NATION WHOSE TONGUE THOU SHALT NOT UNDERSTAND;_ The Lord shall bring a nation against...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    28:49 not; (d-27) Lit. 'hearest not.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The Chaldeans or Assyrians are meant: see Jeremiah 5:15; Habakkuk 1:6. 53-57. This crowning horror of a longcontinued siege actually took place during the siege of Samaria by the Syrians (2 Kings 6:26...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    Deuteronomy 28:49. CONQUEST OF ISRAEL BY A STRANGE NATION. MISERIES OF THE SIEGE. (49) THE LORD SHALL BRING A NATION AGAINST THEE. — Comp. “Lo, I will _bring a nation upon you from far,_ O house of Is...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יִשָּׂ֣א יְהוָה֩ עָלֶ֨יךָ גֹּ֤וי מֵ רָחֹוק֙ מ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    49._The Lord shall bring a nation against them from far_. He enforces the same threatenings in different words, viz., that unknown and barbarous enemies should come, who shall attack them with great i...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE LORD SHALL BRING A NATION AGAINST THEE FROM FAR, FROM THE END OF THE EARTH,.... Now though Babylon is represented as a country distant from Judea, and said to be a nation "from far", Jeremiah 5:15...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; Ver. 49. _As the eagle fleeth._] Swift...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far_ “The Chaldeans might be said to come from far, in comparison of the Moabites, Philistines, and other neighbouring nations, which used to infest Ju...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth, as he pounces down suddenly upon his prey; A NATION WHOSE TONGUE THOU SHALT NOT UNDERSTAND...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CURSES OF DISOBEDIENCE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    UNDERSTAND: _ Heb._ hear...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AS THE EAGLE FLIETH, Heb. as _the eagle flies_, i.e. not only swiftly, as is expressed in our translation, for which the Babylonian is noted and compared to an eagle, JEREMIAH 4:13 EZEKIEL 17:3 DANIEL...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 28:49 LORD H3068 bring H5375 (H8799) nation H1471 afar H7350 end H7097 earth H776 eagle H5404 f

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DETAILS OF THE SIXTH SIXFOLD CURSE (DEUTERONOMY 28:49). The curses now go deeper while repeating some of what has gone before. They had been engaged in much siege warfare in their defeat of Sihon and...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 14:21; Daniel 6:22; Daniel 6:23; Daniel 9:26; Ezek

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