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Deuteronomy 28

Deuteronomy 28:1

DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 28 The blessings of obedience, DEUTERONOMY 28:1. Curses for disobedience, DEUTERONOMY 28:15. i.e. Advance and honour thee with divers privileges and blessings, as it here follows.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:2

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:5

i.e. It shall always be well replenished, and the provision thou hast there shall be preserved for, and in due time brought forth to, thy use and service. See DEUTERONOMY 26:2,10.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:6

i.e. In all thy affairs and administrations, which are oft expressed by this phrase, as NUMBERS 27:17 DEUTERONOMY 31:2 2 SAMUEL 3:25 2 CHRONICLES 1:10 ACTS 1:21, ACTS 9:28.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:8

SHALL COMMAND, i.e. shall by his sovereign and powerful providence give it, even when it seems furthest from thee, and not likely to come to time without a word of command from God himself.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:9

SHALL ESTABLISH THEE AN HOLY PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF, i.e. shall confirm and establish his covenant with thee, by which he separated thee to himself as a holy and peculiar people, and shall publicly own thee for such, as it follows, DEUTERONOMY 28:10.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:10

i.e. That you are in deed and truth his people and children: see DEUTERONOMY 14:1, DEUTERONOMY 26:18. For to be called ofttimes signifies to be, as ISAIAH 47:1,5 ISAIAH 56:7 MATTHEW 5:9,19 MATTHEW 21:13.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:12

HIS GOOD TREASURE, to wit, the heaven or the air, as it here follows, which is God's storehouse, where he treasures up rain or wind or other things for man's use. See JOB 38:22 PSALMS 33:7.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:13

THE HEAD; the chief of all people in power, or at least in dignity and privileges; so that even they that are not under thine authority shall reverence thy greatness and excellency. So it was in David's and Solomon's time, and so it should have been much oftener and much more, if they had performed... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:20

VEXATION, or, _disturbance_. This seems chiefly to concern the mind, and its torment arising from the disappointment of hopes, the presages of its approaching miseries. REBUKE, to wit, from God, not so much in words as by his actions, by cross providences, by sharp and sore afflictions, which are of... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:24

Either, 1. Thy rain shall be as unprofitable to thy ground and seed as if it were only so much dust. Or, 2. Instead of rain shall come nothing but dust from heaven, which being raised and carried up by the wind in great abundance, doth return and fall upon the earth as it were in clouds or showers... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:28

BLINDNESS, to wit, of mind, so that they shall not know what to do; see JOB 5:13,14; so as they shall commonly choose and follow the worst counsels and courses, to their own ruin. ASTONISHMENT OF HEART; they shall be filled with wonder and horror, because of the strangeness and soreness of their cal... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:29

AT NOON-DAY, i.e. in the most clear and evident matters thou shalt grossly mistake and miss thy way. THOU SHALT NOT PROSPER IN THY WAYS; thy counsels and enterprises shall be frustrated, and turn to thy destruction.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:32

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 grief and plentiful tears shed for them; and partly with earnest desire, and vain and long expectation... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:33

WHICH THOU KNOWEST NOT; which shall come from a far country, which thou didst not at all expect or fear and therefore will be the more dreadful when they come; a nation whose language thou understandest not, and therefore canst not plead with them for mercy, nor expect any favour from them. OPPRESSE... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:36

THEE AND THY KING: the calamity shall be both universal, which even thy king shall not be able to avoid, much less the subjects, who have far less advantage and opportunity for escape; and irrecoverable, because he who should protect or rescue them is lost with them. See LAMENTATIONS 4:20. THERE SHA... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:37

All other nations shall wonder to see such calamities befall such a people; and when they would express any dreadful affliction in a proverbial way, they shall make use of thy example: they shall also sport themselves in thy miseries, and say, These are the people of the Lord, the only saints upon e... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:43

WITHIN THEE, i.e. within thy gates; who formerly honoured and served thee, and were some of them glad of the crumbs which fell from thy table.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:47

Or, IN THE ABUNDANCE OF ALL THINGS; for this is opposed to in hunger, in thirst, &c., DEUTERONOMY 28:48. And the Hebrew _men_ oft signifies in, as EXODUS 25:18 JOB 19:26 PSALMS 72:16.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:49

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 7:4; but also fiercely and greedily, as the eagle to its prey; also strongly and irresistibly. Poss... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:50

OF FIERCE COUNTENANCE, Heb. _strong of face or countenance_, i.e. bold and impudent, hardy and undaunted, cruel and uncompassionate and inflexible, sparing no age nor sex, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:54

EVIL, i.e. unkind, envious, covetous, to monopolize these dainty bits to themselves, and grudging that their dearest relations should have any part of them.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:57

HER YOUNG ONE, Heb. _after-birth_; that which was loathsome to behold, will now be pleasant to eat; and together with it she shall eat the child which was wrapt up in it, and may be included in this expression. WHICH SHE SHALL BEAR, or, which she shall have born, i.e. her more grown children.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:58

NAME, i. e. thing or person, to wit, this glorious God. _Names_ are oft put for things, as 1 KINGS 5:3 PSALMS 20:1, PSALMS 95:1 ACTS 4:12 EPHESIANS 1:21; and for persons, as ACTS 1:15 REVELATION 3:4.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:63

REJOICE OVER YOU TO DESTROY YOU; his just indignation against you will be so great, that it will be a pleasure to him to take vengeance on you. For though he doth not delight in the death of a sinner in itself, yet he doth doubtless delight in the glorifying of his justice upon incorrigible sinners,... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:65

NEITHER SHALL THE SOLE OF THY FOOT HAVE REST; ye shall have no settlement in the land whither you are banished, but there you shall be tossed about from place to place, and sold from person to person, or, Cain-like, wander about like a vagabond.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:66

Either because thou art in the hands of thy enemies, that have power, and want not will, to destroy thee; or because of the terrors of thy own mind, and the guilt of thy conscience, making thee to fear, even where no great cause to fear is.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 28:68

INTO EGYPT AGAIN, whence he hath now so gloriously delivered thee, as repenting of all his kindness to thee, and resolved to undo what he hath done for thee. And the remembrance of what they endured in Egypt could not but make the thoughts of returning thither again very terrible to them. WITH SHIPS... [ Continue Reading ]

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