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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:20

Cursing, vexation, and rebuke The first of these words seems to import that God would blast all their designs; the second relates to disquiet and perplexity of mind, arising from the disappointment of their hopes, and presages of approaching miseries; the third respects such chastisements from God as would give them a severe check and rebuke for their sins and follies.

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See also Deuteronomy 28:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 28:20. _CURSING_] This shall be thy state; _vexation _- grief, trouble, and anguish of heart; _rebuke _- continual judgments, and marks of God's displeasure....

  • 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...

  • 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

    For the terminology see notes on Deuteronomy 28:1. 20A forms with 25 a clear antithesis to Deuteronomy 28:7, but is more elaborate than the latter. For _cursing_cp. Malachi 2:2;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 15-20. _BUT—IF THOU WILT NOT HEARKEN_— To these promises of prosperity if they obeyed the laws, the most dreadful menaces of adversity are opposed in case they disobeyed them; a general disappo...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:20-24 488. Jehovah was going to interfere and interrupt the daily life of the people of Israel. Does He have less interest in His people today? 489. List the influences of God...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _CURSED SHALT THOU BE IN THE CITY, AND CURSED SHALT THOU BE IN THE FIELD._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CURSING, VEXATION, AND REBUKE. — _Deficiency,_ and _anxiety,_ and _failure_ in every enterprise, would convey the idea, according to another interpretation. There are two views of the derivation of th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יְשַׁלַּ֣ח יְהוָ֣ה ׀ בְּ֠ךָ אֶת ־הַ מְּאֵרָ֤ה...

  • 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

    _Rebuke, or "curse." Septuagint, the pestilence, (Calmet) or destruction, ( analosin.) (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • 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

    THE LORD SHALL SEND UPON THEE CURSING,.... Which is either a general word for all that follows, or rather, since that had been expressed before in various instances, this may denote some particular ju...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of 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

    THE CURSES OF DISOBEDIENCE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, His emphatic execration, VEXATION, the dismay and consternation following the divine curse, AND REBUKE, the threat of His holy wrath, IN ALL THAT THOU SETTEST TH...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FOR TO THEE: _ Heb._ which thou wouldst do...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    VEXATION, or, _disturbance_. This seems chiefly to concern the mind, and its torment arising from the disappointment of hopes, the presages of its approaching miseries. REBUKE, to wit, from God, not s...

  • 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 28:20 LORD H3068 send H7971 (H8762) cursing H3994 confusion H4103 rebuke H4045 set H4916 hand H302

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST SIXFOLD CURSE (DEUTERONOMY 28:16). These curses parallel the blessings in Deuteronomy 28:3 and must therefore all be seen together. Deuteronomy 28:16 ‘Cursed shall you b

  • 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 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

    1 Samuel 14:20; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Deuteronomy 4:26; Isaiah 28:19;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Vexation — This seems chiefly to concern the mind, arising from the disappointment of hopes and the presages of its approaching miseries. Rebuke — Namely, from God, not so much in words as by his acti...

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