George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Deuteronomy 28:47
Things: as in gratitude thou oughtest to have done. On the contrary, the more the Jews were cherished by God, the more insolent they became, chap. xxxii. 15.
Things: as in gratitude thou oughtest to have done. On the contrary, the more the Jews were cherished by God, the more insolent they became, chap. xxxii. 15.
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...
A Further Development of the Curses Invasion by a far-off, unknown nation, who shall ruthlessly devastate the land and besiege Israel's cities; with the horrors of his siege. All this is not threaten...
This should be a new sentence opening a new paragraph. BECAUSE THOU HAST NOT SERVED _the Lord thy God_ or _worshipped_. _with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart_ Characteristic of the temper of D...
_VER._ 45-48. _MOREOVER, ALL THESE CURSES SHALL COME UPON THEE_— "These instances of divine vengeance will fall upon you, one after another; ever keeping pace with, and bearing proportion to, your obs...
THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:47-57 500. Joyfulness and gladness are an essential ingredient for acceptableness with Jehovah; Why? 501. Who put a yoke of iron upon the neck of Israel? 502. Note the three...
_MOREOVER ALL THESE CURSES SHALL COME UPON THEE, AND SHALL PURSUE THEE, AND OVERTAKE THEE, TILL THOU BE DESTROYED; BECAUSE THOU HEARKENEDST NOT UNTO THE VOICE OF THE LORD THY GOD, TO KEEP HIS COMMANDM...
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...
תַּ֗חַת אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹא ־עָבַ֨דְתָּ֙ אֶת ־יְהוָ֣ה...
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...
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...
_JOYFUL SERVICE_ ‘Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things … He shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck.’ Deuteronomy 28...
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...
BECAUSE THOU SERVEDST NOT THE LORD THY GOD,.... By attending his worship, and keeping his commandments: WITH JOYFULNESS AND GLADNESS OF HEART, FOR THE ABUNDANCE OF ALL [THINGS]; which they enjoyed in...
Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all [things]; Ver. 47. _For the abundance all things._] Aristotle was wont to tax his Athe...
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...
Because thou servedst not the Lord, thy God, with joyfullness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things, for the Lord, from the beginning, had blessed His people in an unusually rich...
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...
Or, IN THE ABUNDANCE OF ALL THINGS; for this is opposed to in hunger, in thirst, &c., DEUTERONOMY 28:48. And the Hebrew _men_ oft signifies in, as Exodus 25:18 Job 19:26...
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 28:47 serve H5647 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 joy H8057 gladness H2898 heart H3824 abundance H7230
THE SECOND SERIES OF CURSES (DEUTERONOMY 28:47). The curses in this second series can be analysed as follows in the words of Moses: a Because you did not serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and wi...
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...
_Because thou servedst not the lord._ RIGHT SERVICE The text brings before us a subject essentially important--that as the service of the Lord Jesus Christ must be such as answered the great end tha...
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...
1 Timothy 6:17; Deuteronomy 12:7; Deuteronomy 16:11; Deuteronomy 32:13;...