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Verse Deuteronomy 28:7. _THE LORD SHALL CAUSE THINE ENEMIES, C._] This
is a promise of security from foreign invasion, or total discomfiture
of the invaders, should they enter the land. _They shall co...
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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...
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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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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...
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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
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_smitten before thee_ See Deuteronomy 1:42....
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_VER._ 7. _THE LORD SHALL CAUSE THINE ENEMIES—TO BE SMITTEN BEFORE
THY FACE_— "Upon any invasion from foreign enemies, be their numbers
and valour ever so great, God himself will undertake your cause;...
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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...
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_THE LORD SHALL CAUSE THINE ENEMIES THAT RISE UP AGAINST THEE TO BE
SMITTEN BEFORE THY FACE: THEY SHALL COME OUT AGAINST THEE ONE WAY, AND
FLEE BEFORE THEE SEVEN WAYS._
Flee before thee seven ways -...
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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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SEVEN WAYS] (at once), a proverbial saying expressing a disorderly
rout....
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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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AND FLEE BEFORE THEE SEVEN WAYS. — “So is the custom of them that
are terrified, to flee, scattering in every direction” (Rashi). See
the story of the flight of the Midianites (Judges 7:21), and of th...
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יִתֵּ֨ן יְהוָ֤ה אֶת ־אֹיְבֶ֨יךָ֙ הַ
קָּמִ֣ים...
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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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...
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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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The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be
smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and
flee before thee (f) seven ways.
(f) Meaning many ways....
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_Down. Hebrew, "dead." Septuagint, "bruised to pieces," ver. 25.
(Calmet) --- Seven. This denotes the confusion and hurry with which
the enemy shall endeavour to escape. (Menochius)_...
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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...
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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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THE LORD SHALL CAUSE THINE ENEMIES THAT RISE UP AGAINST THEE TO BE
SMITTEN BEFORE THY FACE,.... As the Philistines, Moabites, Syrians,
Edomites, and Ammonites were, especially in the times of David:...
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The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be
smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and
flee before thee seven ways.
Ver. 7. _The Lord shall cause th...
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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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The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be
smitten before thy face, said in the form of a sincere wish: May the
Lord deliver thine enemies smitten before thy face! the obligati...
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THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE...
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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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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,...
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i.e. Many ways, as is usual when an army is totally overthrown and
dissipated....
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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 28:7 LORD H3068 cause H5414 (H8799) enemies H341 (H8802)
rise H6965 (H8801) defeated H5062 ...
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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...
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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 28:7 YOUR ENEMIES... TO BE DEFEATED.
Compare v. Deuteronomy 28:25....
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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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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...