Vexation — This seems chiefly to concern the mind, arising from the disappointment of hopes and the presages of its approaching miseries. Rebuke — Namely, from God, not so much in words as by his actions, by cross providences, by sharp and sore afflictions.
Verse Deuteronomy 28:20. _CURSING_] This shall be thy state; _vexation _- grief, trouble, and anguish of heart; _rebuke _- continual judgments, and marks of God's displeasure....
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...
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...
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...
For the terminology see notes on Deuteronomy 28:1. 20A forms with 25 a clear antithesis to Deuteronomy 28:7, but is more elaborate than the latter. For _cursing_cp. Malachi 2:2;...
The Curses The opening Deuteronomy 28:15, correspond to the blessings in Deuteronomy 28:1, except that there are no antitheses to Deuteronomy 28:1 _b_and...
_VER._ 15-20. _BUT—IF THOU WILT NOT HEARKEN_— To these promises of prosperity if they obeyed the laws, the most dreadful menaces of adversity are opposed in case they disobeyed them; a general disappo...
THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:20-24 488. Jehovah was going to interfere and interrupt the daily life of the people of Israel. Does He have less interest in His people today? 489. List the influences of God...
_CURSED SHALT THOU BE IN THE CITY, AND CURSED SHALT THOU BE IN THE FIELD._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
CURSING, VEXATION, AND REBUKE. — _Deficiency,_ and _anxiety,_ and _failure_ in every enterprise, would convey the idea, according to another interpretation. There are two views of the derivation of th...
יְשַׁלַּ֣ח יְהוָ֣ה ׀ בְּ֠ךָ אֶת ־הַ מְּאֵרָ֤ה...
MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
THE FEARFUL RESULTS OF DISOBEDIENCE Deuteronomy 28:20 If we compare this chapter with Exodus 23:20 and Leviticus 26:1, we shall see how Moses resumes and amplifies the promises and threatenings alrea...
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...
_Rebuke, or "curse." Septuagint, the pestilence, (Calmet) or destruction, ( analosin.) (Haydock)_...
The picture of misery is drawn more horrible in these verses, from describing the particular features of the curses, the LORD threatens to send after the sinner. If the Reader will attend to them minu...
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...
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 SEND UPON THEE CURSING,.... Which is either a general word for all that follows, or rather, since that had been expressed before in various instances, this may denote some particular ju...
The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of th...
_Cursing, vexation, and rebuke_ The first of these words seems to import that God would blast all their designs; the second relates to disquiet and perplexity of mind, arising from the disappointment...
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 send upon thee cursing, His emphatic execration, VEXATION, the dismay and consternation following the divine curse, AND REBUKE, the threat of His holy wrath, IN ALL THAT THOU SETTEST TH...
THE CURSES OF DISOBEDIENCE...
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...
FOR TO THEE: _ Heb._ which thou wouldst do...
15-44 If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe th...
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 s...
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 28:20 LORD H3068 send H7971 (H8762) cursing H3994 confusion H4103 rebuke H4045 set H4916 hand H302
THE FIRST SIXFOLD CURSE (DEUTERONOMY 28:16). These curses parallel the blessings in Deuteronomy 28:3 and must therefore all be seen together. Deuteronomy 28:16 ‘Cursed shall you b
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...
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...
1 Samuel 14:20; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Deuteronomy 4:26; Isaiah 28:19;...