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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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_fierce countenance_ Lit. _strong_, HARD or _inflexible_. So Daniel
8:23 of Antiochus Epiphanes. Cp. Ezekiel 2:4; Ezekiel 3:7. On _regard
the person_see on...
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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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_VER._ 50. _A NATION OF FIERCE COUNTENANCE, WHICH SHALL NOT REGARD,_
&C.— Such were the Chaldeans. The sacred historian, 2 Chronicles
36:17 expressly declares, that, for the wickedness of the Jews, Go...
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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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_A NATION OF FIERCE COUNTENANCE, WHICH SHALL NOT REGARD THE PERSON OF
THE OLD, NOR SHEW FAVOUR TO THE YOUNG:_
A nation of fierce countenance - a just description of the Romans, who
were not only bold...
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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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WHICH SHALL NOT REGARD THE PERSON OF THE OLD, NOR SHOW FAVOUR TO THE
YOUNG. — Comp. 2 Chronicles 36:17, “The king of the Chaldecs had
no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man or him that stoope...
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גֹּ֖וי עַ֣ז פָּנִ֑ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹא
־יִשָּׂ֤א פָ
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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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_Insolent. Hebrew, "of a fierce countenance." It is well known how the
Babylonians treated the princes of the Jews. (Calmet)_...
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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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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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A NATION OF FIERCE COUNTENANCE,.... Or, "strong of face" y; which
aptly describes the old Romans, who are always represented as such;
and whereas it is said of the Chaldeans, that they were a nation
d...
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A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of
the old, nor shew favour to the young:
Ver. 50. _A nation of fierce countenance._] Heb., Strong of face,
_i.e., _ bold, fierce, cr...
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_A nation of a fierce countenance_ Such were the Chaldeans, who,
according to the historian, “slew the young men” of the Jews “in
the house of the sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or
ma...
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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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a nation of fierce countenance, beyond every impression of mercy,
WHICH SHALL NOT REGARD THE PERSON OF THE OLD, NOR SHOW FAVOR TO THE
YOUNG, striking down indiscriminately whatever happens to be in th...
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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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OF FIERCE COUNTENANCE:
_ Heb._ strong of face...
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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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OF FIERCE COUNTENANCE, Heb. _strong of face or countenance_, i.e. bold
and impudent, hardy and undaunted, cruel and uncompassionate and
inflexible, sparing no age nor sex, &c....
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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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Deuteronomy 28:50 nation H1471 fierce H5794 countenance H6440 respect
H5375 (H8799) elderly H6440 H2205 favor...
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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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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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2 Chronicles 36:17; Daniel 7:7; Daniel 8:23; Ecclesiastes 8:1; H