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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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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...
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Cp. Leviticus 26:19: _heaven as iron, earth as brass_....
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_VER._ 23. _THE HEAVEN—SHALL BE BRASS, AND THE EARTH—IRON_— A
proverbial mode of speech, importing a grievous and general famine:
that the _heavens_ should yield no more rain than if they were
_brass,...
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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...
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_AND THY HEAVEN THAT IS OVER THY HEAD SHALL BE BRASS, AND THE EARTH
THAT IS UNDER THEE SHALL BE IRON._
Heaven ... brass ... earth ... iron - strong Oriental figures used to
describe the effects of lo...
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28:23 brass, (c-11) Elsewhere translated 'bronze' or 'copper.'...
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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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THY HEAVEN... SHALL BE BRASS, AND THE EARTH... IRON. — Not only in
respect of the drought, but of God’s refusal to remove it. See
Jeremiah 14:15 for a most pathetic intercession for Israel under this...
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וְ הָי֥וּ שָׁמֶ֛יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל
־רֹאשְׁךָ֖ נְ
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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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...
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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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And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be (k) brass, and the
earth that is under thee [shall be] iron.
(k) It will give you no more moisture than if it were of brass....
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_Of brass, and yield no rain. (Menochius) --- Pindar says, (Pyth. x.)
"The heaven of brass they never can ascend." See Leviticus xxvi. 19._...
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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...
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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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23._And thy heaven that is over thy head_. He enumerates other causes
of barrenness, and especially drought. Often does God by the Prophets,
desirous of giving a token of His favor towards the people,...
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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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AND THE HEAVEN THAT [IS] OVER THY HEAD SHALL BE BRASS,.... Or like
brass, not for its clearness, brightness, and splendour, or for its
being spread out like a molten looking glass which was of brass,...
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And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth
that is under thee [shall be] iron.
Ver. 23. See on Leviticus 26:19 ....
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_Shall make the pestilence cleave to thee_ Sometimes Divine Providence
shall scourge you by one calamity, and sometimes by another, and they
will cut off your people in great numbers. _Thy heaven shal...
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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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And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, not sending forth
one drop of rain, Leviticus 26:19, as often happened in the later
history of Israel, AND THE EARTH THAT IS UNDER THEE SHALL BE IR...
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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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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...
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BE BRASS, i.e. like brass, hard and dry, and shut up from giving rain.
See LEVITICUS 26:19. BE IRON, hard, and chapt, and barren....
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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 28:23 heavens H8064 head H7218 bronze H5178 earth H776
iron H1270
Leviticus 26:19;...
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THE SECOND SIXFOLD CURSE (DEUTERONOMY 28:21).
This is now followed by a further sixfold curse, with each of the six,
commencing (in EVV, in MT it comes second with the verb coming first
for emphasis)...
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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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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 28:23 HEAVENS... SHALL BE BRONZE.
Unable to bring rain. EARTH... SHALL BE IRON. Unable to produce food....
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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 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:2; Amos 4:7; Jeremiah 14:1; Leviticus 26:19
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Brass — Like brass, hard and dry, and shut up from giving rain. Iron
— Hard and chapt and barren....