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Deuteronomy 28:32

thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, dragged away into shameful slavery, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand, the parents would be altogether helpless, unable to rescue their children. This section is now summarized.

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See also Deuteronomy 28:32 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 28:32. _THY SONS AND THY DAUGHTERS SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO_ _ANOTHER PEOPLE_] In several countries, particularly in _Spain_ and _Portugal_, the children of the Jews have been taken from...

  • 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

    MIGHT. power. Hebrew. _'el._ App-4. HAND. Some codices, with three early printed editions and Syriac, read plural, "hands"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Judah suffered from a large deportation of her people by Sennacherib in 701. On any of the conflicting estimates of the deportations under Nebuchadrezzar, there must have remained in the land a majori...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 32. _THY SONS AND THY DAUGHTERS SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO ANOTHER PEOPLE,_ &C.— In several countries, Spain and Portugal particularly, the children of the Jews have been taken from them by order of t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:25-35 490. Consider the map as to the location of Israel. How would the geographical location of Israel relate to the promise, tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms? 491. L...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THY SONS AND THY DAUGHTERS SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO ANOTHER PEOPLE, AND THINE EYES SHALL LOOK, AND FAIL WITH LONGING FOR THEM ALL THE DAY LONG: AND THERE SHALL BE NO MIGHT IN THINE HAND._ Thy sons and th...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    28:32 it]. (b-36) Lit. 'and thy hand shall not be for a god (el),' or 'for strength.'...

  • 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...

  • 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

    THY SONS AND THY DAUGHTERS. — The language of this verse is perhaps the most pathetic piece of description in the whole chapter. Many of the nations bordering on Israel were accustomed when they made...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בָּנֶ֨יךָ וּ בְנֹתֶ֜יךָ נְתֻנִ֨ים לְ עַ֤ם אַח

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thy sons and thy daughters [shall be] given unto another people, and thine eyes (o) shall look, and fail [with longing] for them all the day long: and [there shall be] no might in thine hand. (o) Whe...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Hand. Hebrew also, "thy hand shall not be lifted up towards God." Targum of Jerusalem says, Thou shalt possess nothing, wherewith thou mayest render God propitious. (Calmet) --- Thou shalt not be abl...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • 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 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

    THY SONS AND THY DAUGHTERS [SHALL BE] GIVEN UNTO ANOTHER PEOPLE,.... This also was not true in the Babylonish captivity; for then their sons and daughters went with them, and continued with them, and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thy sons and thy daughters [shall be] given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail [with longing] for them all the day long: and [there shall be] no might in thine hand. Ver. 32. _A...

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

    _Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given_ When you have provoked the divine justice to deliver you into the hands of your enemies, you shall have nothing left which you can call your own. Your very...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO ANOTHER PEOPLE, by those who have conquered them, and taken them captives, who shall give or sell them to other persons, as the manner was. FAIL, or, _be consumed_, partly with gri...

  • 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 28:32 sons H1121 daughters H1323 given H5414 (H8803) another H312 people H5971 eyes H5869 look H720

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FOURTH SIXFOLD CURSE (DEUTERONOMY 28:32). The next sixfold pattern is more complicated. It is again divided into three and three, each made up of two statements followed by a consequence. The cur...

  • 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

    2 Chronicles 29:9; Amos 5:27; Deuteronomy 28:18; Deuteronomy 28:41;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Unto another people — By those who have conquered them, and taken them captives, who shall give or sell them to other persons. Fail — Or, be consumed, partly with grief and plentiful tears; and partly...

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