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.
Verse Deuteronomy 28:9. _THE LORD SHALL ESTABLISH THEE A HOLY PEOPLE UNTO_ _HIMSELF_] This is the sum of all blessings, to be made _holy_, and be preserved in _holiness_. _IF THOU SHALT KEEP, C._] H...
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...
HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. AS. according as....
_holy_ See Deuteronomy 7:6, and note on Holiness, p. 108. Here (as the context shows) the meaning is not ethical, but = set apart for Himself, therefore inviolate; cp. Jeremiah 2:3. _if thou shalt kee...
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...
THE LORD SHALL ESTABLISH THEE AN HOLY PEOPLE — i.e., shall “maintain” thee in that position or shall “raise thee up” into it, and exalt thee to it, in its fullest sense. The word here employed has bra...
יְקִֽימְךָ֙ יְהוָ֥ה לֹו֙ לְ עַ֣ם קָדֹ֔ושׁ כַּ
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...
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...
9._The Lord shall establish thee a holy people unto himself_. This refers indeed to earthly blessings, as if Moses said, that by them would be manifested God’s love towards His chosen people; still it...
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...
AND THE LORD SHALL ESTABLISH THEE AN HOLY PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF,.... Having separated them from all others, for his service, honour, and glory, should continue them as such, and settle them in the land,...
The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. Ver. 9. _The Lord shall establish...
_Establish thee_ Shall confirm his covenant with thee, by which he separated thee to himself as a holy and peculiar people. _Called by the name of the Lord_ That you are in truth his people and childr...
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 establish thee, set thee up on high, AN HOLY PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF, AS HE HATH SWORN UNTO THEE, Exodus 19:5; Genesis 22:16, IF THOU SHALT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD, THY GOD, AND W...
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...
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 28:9 LORD H3068 establish H6965 (H8686) holy H6918 people H5971 sworn H7650 (H8738) keep H8104 ...
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
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 28:9 A PEOPLE HOLY. See Deuteronomy 7:6 and note....
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...
1 Peter 2:9; 1 Peter 5:10; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; Deuteronomy 13:17;...
Establish thee — Shall confirm his covenant with thee, by which he separated thee to himself as an holy and peculiar people....