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Verse Deuteronomy 28:49. _A NATION - FROM FAR_] Probably the _Romans_.
_AS THE EAGLE FLIETH_] The very animal on all the Roman standards. The
_Roman eagle_ is proverbial.
_WHOSE TONGUE THOU SHALT N...
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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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THEE. The judgments that follow are for "the Jew first", but also for
the Gentile. Compare Isaiah 13:9; Romans 2:7.
AS. according as....
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A Further Development of the Curses
Invasion by a far-off, unknown nation, who shall ruthlessly devastate
the land and besiege Israel's cities; with the horrors of his siege.
All this is not threaten...
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_from far_, etc.] Isaiah 5:26 of Assyrians, Jeremiah 5:15 of
Babylonians (though perhaps originally of Scythians).
_as the_ VULTURE SWOOPETH] See on Deuteronomy 14:12 f.; cp....
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_VER._ 49. _THE LORD SHALL BRING A NATION AGAINST THEE FROM
FAR—SWIFT AS THE EAGLE—WHOSE TONGUE THOU SHALT NOT UNDERSTAND_—
"The Chaldeans might be said to come _from far,_ in comparison with
the Moab...
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THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:47-57
500.
Joyfulness and gladness are an essential ingredient for acceptableness
with Jehovah; Why?
501.
Who put a yoke of iron upon the neck of Israel?
502.
Note the three...
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_THE LORD SHALL BRING A NATION AGAINST THEE FROM FAR, FROM THE END OF
THE EARTH, AS SWIFT AS THE EAGLE FLIETH; A NATION WHOSE TONGUE THOU
SHALT NOT UNDERSTAND;_
The Lord shall bring a nation against...
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28:49 not; (d-27) Lit. 'hearest not.'...
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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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The Chaldeans or Assyrians are meant: see Jeremiah 5:15; Habakkuk 1:6.
53-57. This crowning horror of a longcontinued siege actually took
place during the siege of Samaria by the Syrians (2 Kings 6:26...
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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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Deuteronomy 28:49. CONQUEST OF ISRAEL BY A STRANGE NATION. MISERIES OF
THE SIEGE.
(49) THE LORD SHALL BRING A NATION AGAINST THEE. — Comp. “Lo, I
will _bring a nation upon you from far,_ O house of Is...
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יִשָּׂ֣א יְהוָה֩ עָלֶ֨יךָ גֹּ֤וי מֵ
רָחֹוק֙ מ
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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THE BITTER FRUITS OF DISOBEYING GOD
Deuteronomy 28:47
These predictions against the Hebrew people were partially fulfilled
in earlier invasions, as for instance, those of Nebuchadnezzar and his
gener...
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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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_Swiftly. The Chaldeans are designated in the same manner, Jeremias v.
5., and Ezechiel xvii. 3, 12. The Romans also carried an eagle, as
their chief standard, and the rapidity of their conquests asto...
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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...
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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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49._The Lord shall bring a nation against them from far_. He enforces
the same threatenings in different words, viz., that unknown and
barbarous enemies should come, who shall attack them with great
i...
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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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THE LORD SHALL BRING A NATION AGAINST THEE FROM FAR, FROM THE END OF
THE EARTH,.... Now though Babylon is represented as a country distant
from Judea, and said to be a nation "from far", Jeremiah 5:15...
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The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of
the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou
shalt not understand;
Ver. 49. _As the eagle fleeth._] Swift...
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_The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far_ “The Chaldeans
might be said to come from far, in comparison of the Moabites,
Philistines, and other neighbouring nations, which used to infest
Ju...
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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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The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of
the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth, as he pounces down suddenly
upon his prey; A NATION WHOSE TONGUE THOU SHALT NOT UNDERSTAND...
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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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UNDERSTAND:
_ Heb._ hear...
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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...
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AS THE EAGLE FLIETH, Heb. as _the eagle flies_, i.e. not only swiftly,
as is expressed in our translation, for which the Babylonian is noted
and compared to an eagle, JEREMIAH 4:13 EZEKIEL 17:3 DANIEL...
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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 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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DETAILS OF THE SIXTH SIXFOLD CURSE (DEUTERONOMY 28:49).
The curses now go deeper while repeating some of what has gone before.
They had been engaged in much siege warfare in their defeat of Sihon
and...
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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 Corinthians 14:21; Daniel 6:22; Daniel 6:23; Daniel 9:26; Ezek