Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
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.
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.
Verse Deuteronomy 28:8. _THE LORD SHALL COMMAND THE BLESSING UPON THEE_] Every thing that thou hast shall come by Divine appointment; thou shalt have nothing casually, but every thing, both spiritual...
A comparison of this chapter with Exodus 23:20 and Leviticus 26 will show how Moses here resumes and amplifies the promises and threats already set forth in the earlier records of the Law. The languag...
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...
DEUTERONOMY 28. BLESSINGS AND CURSES. This chapter is held by Kuenen, Dillmann, Driver, Addis, etc. to belong in the main to D (Deuteronomy 28:12 or Deuteronomy 28:5?). In favour of this conclusion no...
STOREHOUSES. barns. Hebrew. _'aSamaritan Pentateuch_ Occurs only here and Proverbs 3:10. SETTEST THINE HAND. lettest thine hand go forth. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause) for all that is...
_shall command_ Heb. has the jussive, _command_; it is uncertain which we should read; _upon thee_, lit. _with thee_. _barns_ Only here and Proverbs 3:10. Cp. above, Deuteronomy 15:10. _and he shall...
The Blessings Parallels in Deuteronomy 7:12-24; Deuteronomy 11:13-15; Deuteronomy 11:22-25. On the assurance of material blessings as the consequence of obedience to the commandment
C. BLESSINGS TO BE REPEATED FROM MOUNT GERIZIM (Deuteronomy 28:1-14) And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandment...
_THE LORD SHALL COMMAND THE BLESSING UPON THEE IN THY STOREHOUSES, AND IN ALL THAT THOU SETTEST THINE HAND UNTO; AND HE SHALL BLESS THEE IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE._ No JFB commen...
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 STOREHOUSES. — The word is only found here and in Proverbs 3:9, “Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: so shall _thy barns_ be filled with plenty, and...
יְצַ֨ו יְהוָ֤ה אִתְּךָ֙ אֶת ־הַ בְּרָכָ֔ה בַּ
MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
BLESSINGS UPON THE OBEDIENT Deuteronomy 28:1 A remarkable chapter! The epitome of what Israel might have been, contrasted with what she became! It is on account of the transgressions that the centur...
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...
The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine (g) hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. (g) God wil...
Though I propose to make but a short observation on the whole of these blessings, for the sake of being brief, and that I may not increase the bulk of the present Commentary too much; yet I do beg the...
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...
_COMMANDED BLESSINGS_ ‘The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee.’ Deuteronomy 28:8 What more encouraging thought could possibly occupy our hearts at the entrance of a New Year! All our well-be...
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...
THE LORD SHALL COMMAND THE BLESSING UPON THEE IN THY STOREHOUSES,.... Barns, granaries, and cellar, where their corn, wine, and oil, were laid up; by preserving the corn from being devoured by vermin,...
The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Ver. 8. _The Lo...
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...
The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, literally, place it at their disposal in causing their granaries and elevators to he full to overflowing, AND IN ALL THAT THOU SETTEST...
THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE...
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...
STOREHOUSES: Or, barns...
1-14 This chapter is a very large exposition of two words, the blessing and the curse. They are real things and have real effects. The blessings are here put before the curses. God is slow to anger,...
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 28:8 LORD H3068 command H6680 (H8762) blessing H1293 storehouses H618 set H4916 hand H3027 bless H1288
VIII. BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS WITH RESPECT TO THE COVENANT (DEUTERONOMY 28:1 TO DEUTERONOMY 29:1). CHAPTER 28 COVENANT BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS. It should be noted that verse 1 is not an invitation to e...
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
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...
2 Kings 6:27; Deuteronomy 15:10; Haggai 2:19; Leviticus 25:21;...