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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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NATIONS. peoples. Compare 1 Kings 9:8; Psalms 44:13; Psalms 44:14....
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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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_a proverb_ Rather, _a taunt_.
_byword_ Only here, Jeremiah 24:9; 1 Kings 9:7; 2 Chronicles 7:20;
lit. the object of _biting remarks_.
_shall lead thee away_ So in...
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_VER._ 36, 37. _THE LORD SHALL BRING THEE, AND THY KING,_ &C.— This
was partly fulfilled when Jehoiachim was carried captive to Babylon,
Exodus 24:15 and afterwards, Zedekiah, Deuteronomy 25:7. Jeremi...
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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...
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_AND THOU SHALT BECOME AN ASTONISHMENT, A PROVERB, AND A BYWORD, AMONG
ALL NATIONS WHITHER THE LORD SHALL LEAD THEE._
Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, among
all nations -...
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Cp. 1 Kings 9:7....
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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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AND THOU SHALT BECOME AN ASTONISHMENT, A PROVERB, AND A BYWORD. —
This verse is the contrary to Deuteronomy 28:10. It was verified in
the first captivity, and did not wait for the last dispersion. (Se...
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וְ הָיִ֣יתָ לְ שַׁמָּ֔ה לְ מָשָׁ֖ל וְ
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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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_Lost. Hebrew, "an object of desolation, a fable and a mockery."
Septuagint, "thou shalt be a riddle, a parable, and an example," to
employ the thoughts and tongues of all nations, who will not be abl...
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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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37._And thou shalt become an astonishment_. The climax of their
miseries is here added, that they should be so far from receiving
consolation from men, that on every side their misery should meet with...
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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 SHALL BECOME AN ASTONISHMENT,.... To neighbouring nations,
that shall hear of their overthrow and captivity, and that shall see
the miserable condition they are brought into:
A PROVERB AND A...
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And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among
all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
Ver. 37. _And thou shalt become._] See on Psalms 44:14 ....
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_Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word _ “And
do we not hear and see this prophecy fulfilled almost every day? Is
not the avarice, usury, and hard-heartedness of a Jew grown
prov...
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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 become an astonishment, an object which would cause
horror, A PROVERB, one whose example would be cited in proverbial
sayings, AND A BYWORD, an object of raillery, AMONG ALL NATIONS
WHI...
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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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All other nations shall wonder to see such calamities befall such a
people; and when they would express any dreadful affliction in a
proverbial way, they shall make use of thy example: they shall also...
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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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1 Kings 9:7; 1 Kings 9:8; 2 Chronicles 7:20; Deuteronomy 28:28;...