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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...
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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...
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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...
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FEAR. Hebrew. _Homonym_: _pahad_, to fear, here and Job 23:15. but.
rejoice, Isaiah 60:5....
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_and thy life shall_ BE HANGING _before thee_ Shall be _in suspense_,
as on a thread. As indicated later in the _v_., thou shalt have no
assurance of thy life. The vb is the same as that whose part. i...
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Still Further Development of the Curses
After a fresh statement of the condition on which they will be
inflicted, viz. Israel's disobedience to the law (Deuteronomy 28:58),
diseases are again threate...
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THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:58-68
506.
How is the word fearful in Deuteronomy 28:58? How is the word
wonderful used in Deuteronomy 28:59?
507.
Please remember there are two sides of God's character: wrath...
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_AND THY LIFE SHALL HANG IN DOUBT BEFORE THEE; AND THOU SHALT FEAR DAY
AND NIGHT, AND SHALT HAVE NONE ASSURANCE OF THY LIFE:_
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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...
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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...
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THY LIFE SHALL HANG IN DOUBT BEFORE THEE. — “Perhaps 1 shall die
to-day by the sword that cometh upon me” (Rashi)....
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וְ הָי֣וּ חַיֶּ֔יךָ תְּלֻאִ֥ים לְךָ֖
מִ נֶּ֑ג
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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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...
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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...
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_Thy life, being in danger from all sides. The Fathers explain this
verse of the behaviour of the Jews towards their Messias, who was
crucified before their eyes; and still they will not believe in hi...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AND THY LIFE SHALL HANG IN DOUBT BEFORE THEE,.... Whether it shall be
spared or not by the enemy:
AND THOU SHALT FEAR DAY AND NIGHT; being in continual dread of being
killed:
AND SHALT HAVE NONE ASS...
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And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day
and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
Ver. 66. _And thy life shall hang in doubt._] _Semper et indesinenter
despe...
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_Thy life shall hang in doubt_ Either because thou art in the hands of
thy enemies that have power, and want not the will, to destroy thee;
or because of the terrors of thy own mind, and the guilt of...
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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...
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and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee, like a precious treasure
hanging suspended by a very thin thread and ever in danger of being
lost; AND THOU SHALT FEAR DAY AND NIGHT, AND SHALT HAVE NONE...
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THE CURSES OF DISOBEDIENCE...
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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...
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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...
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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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Deuteronomy 28:66 life H2416 hang H8511 (H8803) doubt H5048 fear H6342
(H8804) day H3119 night H3915 assur
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THE THIRD SERIES OF CURSES (DEUTERONOMY 28:59).
The sixfold pattern here is not quite so apparent (there is always the
danger of seeking to fit the text into a pre-prepared straitjacket).
It is certa...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 28:64 SCATTER. See Deuteronomy 4:27.
Because the people will continue in their disobedience and will not
repent, the
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 28:67; Hebrews 10:27; Lamentations 1:13; Revelation 6:15...
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Thy life shall hang in doubt — Either because thou art in the hands
of thy enemies that have power, and want no will, to destroy thee: or
because of the terrors of thy own mind, and the guilt of thy
c...