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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 28:7

i.e. Many ways, as is usual when an army is totally overthrown and dissipated. 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 28:7

Deu 28:7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. Ver. 7. The Lord shall cause thine enemies. ] Mr Fox observes, a that in King Edward VI’s time, the English put to flight their enemies in Musselburgh field, the selfsame day and hour wherein the reformation enjoined by parliament was put in execution at London, by burning of idolatrous images. Such a dependence hath... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 28:7

shall cause: Deuteronomy 28:25, Deuteronomy 32:30, Leviticus 26:7, Leviticus 26:8, 2 Samuel 22:38-Mark :, Psalms 89:23 flee before: Joshua 8:22, Joshua 10:10, Joshua 10:11, Joshua 10:42, 1 Samuel 7:3, 1 Samuel 7:4, 1 Samuel 7:10, 1 Samuel 7:11, 2 Chronicles 14:2-Joshua :, 2 Chronicles 14:9-Ezra :, 2 Chronicles 19:4, 2 Chronicles 20:22-Lamentations :, 2 Chronicles 31:20, 2 Chronicles 31:21, 2 Chronicles 32:21, 2 Chronicles 32:22 Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:13 - fell 2 Kings 7:5 - behold 2... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:7-14

7-14. The Lord shall cause thine enemies… to be smitten In these verses the speaker describes the effect of the blessings upon the nation in all the various circumstances in which it may be placed. Come out against thee one way, and flee… seven ways That is, thy enemies will come against thee in solid, compact array, but will be discomfited and routed, so that they will flee in every direction. The head, and not the tail An expression implying excellence and superiority. Comp. Isaiah... read more