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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:1-14

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 enter into covenant. The offer of the covenant had already been made by Yahweh out of His lovingkindness, and had been accepted by Israel in Exodus 24:0, as confirmed in the last chapter, Deuteronomy 27:0. This is a promise and a warning subsequent to the covenant concerning the consequence of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:1-14

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-Ezekiel : or Deuteronomy 28:5-Ezekiel :?). In favour of this conclusion note: ( a) Moses speaks in the first person as in Deuteronomy 28:5-Ezekiel :. ( b) It forms a fitting hortatory conclusion to Deuteronomy 28:12-Ezekiel : (or Deuteronomy 28:5-Ezekiel :); cf. Exodus 23:20-Micah :, and Leviticus 26:3-John :, which close the Book of the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 28:2

Those blessings which others greedily follow after, and ofttimes never overtake, they shall follow after thee, and shall be thrown into thy lap by my special kindness. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:1-68

CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses now enlarges and gives the blessings and curses in detail (cf. Exodus 23:20-23 and Leviticus 26:0.) The blessings are declared in fourteen verses; the curses require nearly four times as many. Thus here again the curse is the more conspicuous feature in the law Speak. Com. Obedience the condition of blessing and this is repeated at beginning (Deuteronomy 28:2) middle (29) and close (Deuteronomy 28:13-14) in positive and energetic form.Deuteronomy 28:1-6. Blessings actual... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:1-68

Chapter 28Now 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 do all his commandments ( Deuteronomy 28:1 )You get this over and over again because this was the condition of the covenant. Whereby they could have this land and dwell there. This was the condition of God's blessing; it was the obedience to the commandments of God.that God will set thee... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 28:1-68

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 succession, that when hurricanes happen in the sandy deserts, they carry the fine sands high in the air, and rain on cities and villages the dust, which penetrates every corner of the houses where the air has access. They often bury camels and asses in the deserts, and form ridges and hills... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:2

Deu 28:2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. Ver. 2. And overtake thee. ] Unexpectedly befall thee. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow thee," Psa 23:6 as the evening sunbeams follow the passenger, as the rock water followed the Israelites in the wilderness, and overtook them at their stations. 1Co 10:4 "O continue," or draw out to the length, "thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee." Psa 36:10... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 28:2

come on thee: Deuteronomy 28:15, Deuteronomy 28:45, Zechariah 1:6, 1 Timothy 4:8 Reciprocal: Genesis 22:17 - in blessing Genesis 49:25 - with blessings 2 Kings 2:19 - barren Job 1:10 - about Psalms 1:1 - Blessed Psalms 132:15 - bless her provision Proverbs 3:33 - he blesseth Proverbs 10:6 - Blessings Haggai 2:19 - from read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Deuteronomy 28:2

And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.Overtake thee — Those blessings which others greedily follow after, and never overtake, shall follow after thee, and shall be thrown into thy lap by special kindness. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:1-2

BLESSINGS PROMISED TO OBEDIENCE, Deuteronomy 28:1-14. 1, 2. If thou shalt hearken If the nation will be obedient to Jehovah their God he will exalt them above the nations of the earth. Moses lays down the condition on which these blessings will be bestowed, at the beginning, in the middle, and at the close of the address. The blessings in poetical imagery so common among the Eastern nations are personified, and represented as following after and overtaking the nation. read more