And among these nations shalt thou find no ease. — The repeated persecutions of the Jews by other nations in the time of their dispersion are among the most fearful and wonderful phenomena of history.
And failing of eyes. — “Looking for salvation, and it cometh not” (Rashi). How many years have they gone on praying that they may keep the feast “next year” in Jerusalem? and still the hope is deferred.
Verse Deuteronomy 28:65. _NO EASE - A TREMBLING HEART, AND FAILING OF EYES_] The _trembling of heart_ may refer to their state of continual _insecurity_, being, under every kind of government, proscri...
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...
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...
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...
MIND. Hebrew. _nephesh,_ soul. App-13....
Still Further Development of the Curses After a fresh statement of the condition on which they will be inflicted, viz. Israel's disobedience to the law (Deuteronomy 28:58), diseases are again threate...
_shalt thou find no ease_ The vb. is found only in Jeremiah 31:2; Jeremiah 47:6; Jeremiah 50:34; Isaiah 52:4; its substantive in...
_VER._ 65. _AMONG THESE NATIONS SHALT THOU FIND NO EASE_— _Shalt thou find no plenty, neither shalt thou have where to rest the sole of thy foot._ Schult. 306. They have been so far from finding rest,...
THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:58-68 506. How is the word fearful in Deuteronomy 28:58? How is the word wonderful used in Deuteronomy 28:59? 507. Please remember there are two sides of God's character: wrath...
_AND AMONG THESE NATIONS SHALT THOU FIND NO EASE, NEITHER SHALL THE SOLE OF THY FOOT HAVE REST: BUT THE LORD SHALL GIVE THEE THERE A TREMBLING HEART, AND FAILING OF EYES, AND SORROW OF MIND:_ Among t...
THE FAILING OF THE EYES indicates the gradual extinction of hope: cp. Deuteronomy 28:32....
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...
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...
וּ בַ † גֹּויִ֤ם הָ הֵם֙ לֹ֣א...
MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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...
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...
_Fearful, dejected, distrustful. The Jews are under continual alarms. (Calmet)_...
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...
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...
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...
AND AMONG THESE NATIONS SHALT THOU FIND NO EASE, NEITHER SHALL THE SOLE OF THY FOOT HAVE REST,.... No quiet settlement, nor certain dwelling, being obliged to move from place to place through cruel ed...
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: Ver. 65....
_Among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall thy foot have rest_ They have been so far from finding rest, that they have been banished from city to city, from country to country. In man...
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...
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest, a homeless people, always feeling the curse of the exile; BUT THE LORD SHALL GIVE THEE THERE A TREMBLING...
THE CURSES OF DISOBEDIENCE...
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...
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...
NEITHER SHALL THE SOLE OF THY FOOT HAVE REST; ye shall have no settlement in the land whither you are banished, but there you shall be tossed about from place to place, and sold from person to person,...
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 THIRD SERIES OF CURSES (DEUTERONOMY 28:59). The sixfold pattern here is not quite so apparent (there is always the danger of seeking to fit the text into a pre-prepared straitjacket). It is certa...
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...
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...
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...
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
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 28:64 SCATTER. See Deuteronomy 4:27. Because the people will continue in their disobedience and will not repent, the
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...
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...
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...
Amos 9:10; Amos 9:4; Amos 9:9; Ezekiel 12:18; Ezekiel 12:19;...
Neither shall thy foot have rest — Ye shall have no settlement in the land whither you are banished, but there you shall be tossed about from place to place, and sold from person to person, or Cain —...