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Deuteronomy 28:46

DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON Deuteronomy 28:46 a sign and a wonder. Signs and wonders usually refer to Israel’s salvation from slavery (e.g., Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 7:19; Deuteronomy 26:8); the use of the terms here is highly ironic.

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See also Deuteronomy 28:46 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FOR EVER. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Whole). App-6. The whole of time put for. part of it....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Return to the keynote of the section (cp. Deuteronomy 28:15), and obvious conclusion to the curses which may originally have closed here. _for a sign and for a wonder_ See on Deuteronomy 4:34....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 45-48. _MOREOVER, ALL THESE CURSES SHALL COME UPON THEE_— "These instances of divine vengeance will fall upon you, one after another; ever keeping pace with, and bearing proportion to, your obs...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:36-46 494. Consider the chronology involved in Deuteronomy 28:36. How many years for the conquest? How many years in the period of Judges? How long before the nation of Israel w...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _MOREOVER ALL THESE CURSES SHALL COME UPON THEE, AND SHALL PURSUE THEE, AND OVERTAKE THEE, TILL THOU BE DESTROYED; BECAUSE THOU HEARKENEDST NOT UNTO THE VOICE OF THE LORD THY GOD, TO KEEP HIS COMMANDM...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָי֣וּ בְךָ֔ לְ אֹ֖ות וּ לְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _For ever. The nations which were employed by God to scourge the Jews, recognized that they were the instruments of his indignation. We are accustomed to consider many evils as the necessary appendage...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I desired the Reader to remark with me in the opening of this Chapter, that there should seem to be somewhat prophetical in its contents. And if he compares what is here said, with the history of the...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY SHALL BE UPON THEE FOR A SIGN AND FOR A WONDER,.... That is, those curses before pronounced, Deuteronomy 27:15, and what follow, should rest and remain upon them, continue with them, and be v...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. Ver. 46. _For a sign._] Of God's heavy displeasure....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They_ (these curses now mentioned) _shall be upon thee for a sign _ This, indeed, they have been in a most wonderful and astonishing manner. Since man was first placed on the earth, never was there a...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed forever. The curses are spoken of as arousing astonishment and horror, because they so plainly show the direct interference o...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CURSES OF DISOBEDIENCE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    45-68 If God inflicts vengeance, what miseries his curse can bring upon mankind, even in this present world! Yet these are but the beginning of sorrows to those under the curse of God. What then will...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY SHALL BE, i.e. these curses now mentioned. For a wonder, i.e. signal and wonderful to all that hear of them....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 28:46 sign H226 wonder H4159 descendants H2233 forever H5704 H5769 a sign - Deuteronomy 28:37,

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A SUMMARY. The first series of curses are now summarised. There have been five sixfold curses, and it might have been felt that that was enough, but more were to come. And they would be even more ter...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:11; Deuteronomy 28:37; Deuteronomy 28:59; Deuteronomy 29:20;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    They — These curses now mentioned. A wonder — Signal and wonderful to all that hear of them. 'Tis amazing, a people so incorporated, should be so universally disperst! And that a people scattered in a...

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