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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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Cp. Deuteronomy 28:28; _mad_, rather DRIVEN MAD.
35 breaks the connection between Deuteronomy 28:34_; Deuteronomy
28:36_, and is more in place after 27, _q.v._on _boil_. He
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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._ 34. _SO THAT THOU SHALT BE MAD, FOR THE SIGHT OF THINE EYES
WHICH THOU SHALT SEE_— Into what madness, fury, and desperation,
have they been pushed by the cruel usage, extortions, and oppression...
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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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_THE FRUIT OF THY LAND, AND ALL THY LABOURS, SHALL A NATION WHICH THOU
KNOWEST NOT EAT UP; AND THOU SHALT BE ONLY OPPRESSED AND CRUSHED
ALWAY:_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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FOR THE SIGHT OF THINE EYES] i.e. on account of what you see....
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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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וְ הָיִ֖יתָ מְשֻׁגָּ֑ע מִ מַּרְאֵ֥ה
עֵינֶ֖יךָ...
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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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_Astonished. Hebrew, "go mad," become stupified at such a scene of
misfortunes._...
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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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SO THAT THOU SHALT BE MAD, FOR THE SIGHT OF THINE EYES THAT THOU SHALL
SEE. On account of the shocking things seen by them, their dreadful
calamities, oppressions, and persecutions, such as before rel...
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So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt
see.
Ver. 34. _So that thou shalt be mad, &c._] As Bajazet was in his iron
cage; as Pope Boniface VIII was the time when shut up...
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_Thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes_ Quite bereaved of all
comfort and hope, and abandoned to utter despair. “Into what
madness, fury, and desperation have they been pushed,” says Bishop
Ne...
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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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so that thou shalt be mad, driven to insanity, FOR THE SIGHT OF THINE
EYES WHICH THOU SHALT SEE. The threat of v. 27 is now once more taken
up....
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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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THE FOURTH SIXFOLD CURSE (DEUTERONOMY 28:32).
The next sixfold pattern is more complicated. It is again divided into
three and three, each made up of two statements followed by a
consequence. The cur...
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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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Deuteronomy 28:28; Deuteronomy 28:68; Isaiah 33:14; Jeremiah 25:15;...
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Thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes — Quite put out of the
possession of their own souls; quite bereaved of all comfort and hope,
and abandoned to utter despair. They that walk by sight, and...