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Verse Deuteronomy 28:29. _THOU SHALT BE ONLY OPPRESSED, C._] Perhaps
no people under the sun have been more oppressed and spoiled than the
rebellious Jews. Indeed, this has been their portion, with b...
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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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The mental weakness and even infatuation which possess nations and
individuals physically debilitated lead to their oppression by
stronger peoples; the details of which are illustrated in the next
Deu...
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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...
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_VER._ 29-31. _THOU SHALT BE ONLY OPPRESSED AND SPOILED EVERMORE,_
&C.— See ver. 33. How often has this threatening been verified! What
frequent seizures have been made of their effects in almost all...
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THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:25-35
490.
Consider the map as to the location of Israel. How would the
geographical location of Israel relate to the promise, tossed to and
fro among all the kingdoms?
491.
L...
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_AND THOU SHALT GROPE AT NOONDAY, AS THE BLIND GROPETH IN DARKNESS,
AND THOU SHALT NOT PROSPER IN THY WAYS: AND THOU SHALT BE ONLY
OPPRESSED AND SPOILED EVERMORE, AND NO MAN SHALL SAVE THEE._
Thou sh...
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28:29 continually, (f-29) Lit. 'all the days.' so ver. 33....
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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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THOU SHALT NOT PROSPER IN THY WAYS. — The exact opposite is promised
to Joshua (Deuteronomy 1:8) if he follows the Book of the Law. (Comp.
Isaiah 29:10.) When men find it no longer possible to follow...
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וְ הָיִ֜יתָ מְמַשֵּׁ֣שׁ בַּֽ †
צָּהֳרַ֗יִם כַּ...
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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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...
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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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And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the (n) blind gropeth in darkness,
and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only
oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].
(n)...
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_Ways. Is not this visibly the present condition of the Jews, amid the
blaze of the gospel light, the miracles and divine conduct of the Son
of God! They shut their eyes, and will not acknowledge him...
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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...
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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 THOU SHALT GROPE AT NOON DAY AS THE BLIND GROPETH IN DARKNESS,....
That is, being in darkness through the loss of their sight; otherwise
the darkness and the light are alike to them, and they grop...
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And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and
thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed
and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].
Ver. 29...
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_The botch of Egypt_ Such boils or blains as the Egyptians were
plagued with, spreading from head to foot. _The emerods_ Those painful
swellings of the hemorrhoidal vessels, called piles. _Blindness_...
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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 thou shalt grope at noonday, at the time when objects should be
doubly clear, AS THE BLIND GROPETH IN DARKNESS, AND THOU SHALT NOT
PROSPER IN THY WAYS, utterly unable to find the way which would l...
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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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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...
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AT NOON-DAY, i.e. in the most clear and evident matters thou shalt
grossly mistake and miss thy way. THOU SHALT NOT PROSPER IN THY WAYS;
thy counsels and enterprises shall be frustrated, and turn to t...
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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 28:29 grope H4959 (H8764) noonday H6672 blind H5787 gropes
H4959 (H8762) darkness H653 prosper H674
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THE SECOND SIXFOLD CURSE (DEUTERONOMY 28:21).
This is now followed by a further sixfold curse, with each of the six,
commencing (in EVV, in MT it comes second with the verb coming first
for emphasis)...
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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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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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1 Samuel 13:19; 1 Samuel 13:5; 2 Corinthians 4:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4;...