All: so that the little which thou mayst gather will not be worth mentioning. (Haydock) --- Hebrew may also signify, "Thy field shall produce a great deal, and give thee abundant expectations, but the locusts shall consume it," to mortify thee the more.
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...
LOCUST. Hebrew. _'arbeh._ Used of the Egyptian plague. Exodus 10:4, &c....
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...
Here the Discourse returns to Israel's misfortunes on their own land, and the connection seems to be with Deuteronomy 28:15 (or 25), to which Deuteronomy 28:38-44 are more or less parallel....
Consumption of corn by locusts and of grapes by worms, and casting of olives. For these products see on Deuteronomy 7:13. _Locust_, Heb. _"arbeh_, properly _locust-swarm. Worm_, Heb. _tola-ath_; the g...
_VER._ 38-42. _THOU SHALT CARRY MUCH SEED OUT INTO THE FIELD,_ &C.— The plagues wherewith the nation is threatened in these verses, fell upon it successively. A great famine laid waste the country in...
THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:36-46 494. Consider the chronology involved in Deuteronomy 28:36. How many years for the conquest? How many years in the period of Judges? How long before the nation of Israel w...
_THOU SHALT CARRY MUCH SEED OUT INTO THE FIELD, AND SHALT GATHER BUT LITTLE IN; FOR THE LOCUST SHALL CONSUME IT._ Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in. This i...
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...
Cp. Haggai 1:6....
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...
(38-42) These are the contrary to Deuteronomy 28:11; and Deuteronomy 28:44 is the contrary to Deuteronomy 28:12. From the order of the passage it might seem that these particular troubles were to come...
זֶ֥רַע רַ֖ב תֹּוצִ֣יא הַ שָּׂדֶ֑ה וּ מְעַ֣ט
MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
38._Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field_. He again makes mention of the scarcity of wine, of wheat, and all sorts of corn; but He assigns different causes for it. He proclaims that the harve...
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...
THOU SHALL CARRY MUCH SEED INTO THE FIELD,.... And sow it plentifully; this and what is said in some following verses plainly refer to them while in their own land, before carried captive, and not to...
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather [but] little in; for the locust shall consume it. Ver. 38. _For the locust shall consume it._] See this fulfilled in Joe 1:4 Amos 4:9;...
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...
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it, Joel 1:4....
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...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
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...
Deuteronomy 28:38 carry H3318 much H7227 seed H2233 out H3318 (H8686) field H7704 gather H622 little H4592
THE FIFTH SIXFOLD CURSE (DEUTERONOMY 28:38). This is now followed by a further sixfold pattern. Here the curses more reflect conditions in the land. The whole of their agriculture, on which they all...
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
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 4:9; Amos 7:1; Amos 7:2; Exodus 10:14; Exodus 10:15;...