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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:13

The head The chief of all people in power, or at least in dignity and privileges; so that even they that are not under thy authority shall reverence thy greatness and excellence. So it was in David's and Solomon's time, and so it should have been oftener and much more, if they had performed the conditions.

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See also Deuteronomy 28:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A comparison of this chapter with Exodus 23:20 and Leviticus 26 will show how Moses here resumes and amplifies the promises and threats already set forth in the earlier records of the Law. The languag...

  • 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

    DEUTERONOMY 28. BLESSINGS AND CURSES. This chapter is held by Kuenen, Dillmann, Driver, Addis, etc. to belong in the main to D (Deuteronomy 28:12 or Deuteronomy 28:5?). In favour of this conclusion no...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE HEAD, AND NOT THE TAIL. Figure of speech _Pleonasm_ (App-6) for great emphasis. ABOVE... AND NOT BENEATH. Figure of speech _Pleonasm._ See note above....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Blessings Parallels in Deuteronomy 7:12-24; Deuteronomy 11:13-15; Deuteronomy 11:22-25. On the assurance of material blessings as the consequence of obedience to the commandment

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the head, and not the tail_ Isaiah 9:14; Isaiah 19:15. _only_ Heb. _raḳ_; see on Deuteronomy 10:15. Here = _nothing but_. _if thou shalt_ Rather (as in...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 13. _THE LORD SHALL MAKE THEE THE HEAD, AND NOT THE TAIL,_— A proverbial method of speaking, which the following words explain: "You shall rule over other nations, but other nations shall not r...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. BLESSINGS TO BE REPEATED FROM MOUNT GERIZIM (Deuteronomy 28:1-14) And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandment...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE LORD SHALL MAKE THEE THE HEAD, AND NOT THE TAIL; AND THOU SHALT BE ABOVE ONLY, AND THOU SHALT NOT BE BENEATH; IF THAT THOU HEARKEN UNTO THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD THY GOD, WHICH I COMMAND T...

  • 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

    וּ נְתָֽנְךָ֙ יְהוָ֤ה לְ רֹאשׁ֙ וְ לֹ֣א

  • 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

    BLESSINGS UPON THE OBEDIENT Deuteronomy 28:1 A remarkable chapter! The epitome of what Israel might have been, contrasted with what she became! It is on account of the transgressions that the centur...

  • 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

    _Tail, as he had promised, ver. 1. (Menochius) --- You shall have dominion over others. (Calmet) --- So Isaias (ix. 14,) says, the Lord shall destroy the head, (the magistrate) and the tail, or (ver....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Though I propose to make but a short observation on the whole of these blessings, for the sake of being brief, and that I may not increase the bulk of the present Commentary too much; yet I do beg 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 THE LORD SHALL MAKE THEE THE HEAD, AND NOT THE TAIL,.... Give them dominion over others, and not make them subject to them; the head signifies rulers and governors, and the tail the common people...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command th...

  • 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 the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail, always first and never last; and thou shalt be above only, AND THOU SHALT NOT BE BENEATH, having the advantage in every undertaking, always the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE...

  • 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

    1-14 This chapter is a very large exposition of two words, the blessing and the curse. They are real things and have real effects. The blessings are here put before the curses. God is slow to anger,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE HEAD; the chief of all people in power, or at least in dignity and privileges; so that even they that are not under thine authority shall reverence thy greatness and excellency. So it was in David...

  • 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 28:13 LORD H3068 make H5414 (H8804) head H7218 tail H2180 only H4605 beneath H4295 heed H8085

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    VIII. BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS WITH RESPECT TO THE COVENANT (DEUTERONOMY 28:1 TO DEUTERONOMY 29:1). CHAPTER 28 COVENANT BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS. It should be noted that verse 1 is not an invitation to e...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _The head, and not the tail._ THE SAINTS LEADING THE WAY If we obey the Lord He will compel our adversaries to see that His blessing rests upon us. Though this be a promise of the law, yet it stands...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • 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

    Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 4:6; Isaiah 9:14; Isaiah 9:15; Numb

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The head — The chief of all people in power, or at least in dignity and privileges; so that even they that are not under thine authority shall reverence thy greatness and excellency. So it was in Davi...

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