The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, a form of leprosy which was very common in Egypt, and with the emerods, painful ulcers, and with the scab, and with the itch, both disagreeable skin diseases, whereof thou canst not be healed; all medical skill would avail nothing when the virulence of the cases would be a punishment of the Lord.
Verse Deuteronomy 28:27. _THE LORD WILL SMITE THEE WITH THE BOTCH_] שחין _shechin_, a violent inflammatory swelling. In Job 2:7, one of the Hexapla versions renders it ελεφας, the _elephantiasis_, a...
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...
BOTCH. elephantiasis. EMERODS. Old English spelling of modern Hemorrhoids. or "piles". Written "posteriors" in Hebrew text, but read "tumours" by way of Figure of speech _Euphemism._ SCAB. aggravate...
_the boil of Egypt_ Cp. P, Exodus 9:9 with Driver's note. One of the skin-diseases common in Egypt. _Boil_, Heb. _sheḥîn_; Eg. _sḥn_, -an abscess." Some think of small-pox, others of elephantiasis. Bu...
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...
_VER._ 27. _THE LORD WILL SMITE THEE WITH THE BOTCH OF EGYPT,_ &C.— שׁחין _shechin,_ rendered _the botch,_ signifies an _inflammatory swelling,_ a _burning boil,_ a _morbid tumour_ attended with a sen...
THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:25-35 490. Consider the map as to the location of Israel. How would the geographical location of Israel relate to the promise, tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms? 491. L...
_THE LORD WILL SMITE THEE WITH THE BOTCH OF EGYPT, AND WITH THE EMERODS, AND WITH THE SCAB, AND WITH THE ITCH, WHEREOF THOU CANST NOT BE HEALED._ The botch of Egypt, х_ SHªCHIYN_ (H7822)] - an inflam...
28:27 boils, (e-12) Or 'hemorrhoids.'...
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...
THE BOTCH OF EGYPT] the boil with which the Egyptians were plagued: see Exodus 9:9. EMERODS] hæmorrhoids, as in 1 Samuel 5:6. What is meant is probably the Oriental bubonic plague....
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...
THE BOTCH OF EGYPT. — The “boil,” with which the Egyptians were plagued (Exodus 9:9, &c.) is the same word. (See also 2 Kings 20:7; Job 2:7.) Rashi says of this boil, “It was very bad, being moist on...
יַכְּכָ֨ה יְהוָ֜ה בִּ שְׁחִ֤ין מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ _וּ_†_בַ_†__
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...
_Egypt. See chap. vi. 15., xxviii. 60., Exodus ix. 9, and xv. 25., or with such diseases as those with which he afflicted Egypt. (Calmet) --- Out. Hebrew, "with the emerods, scab, and itch," (Haydock)...
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...
27._The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt_. Whether you understand this passage of the extraordinary plagues which God inflicted on the Egyptians at the time of His people’s deliverance, or...
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...
THE LORD WILL SMITE THEE WITH THE BOTCH OF EGYPT,.... Which some understand of the leprosy, Of that sort of it called "elephantiasis", frequent among the Egyptians; Leviticus 13:2. Thevenot i relates,...
The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. Ver. 27. _With the botch of Egypt,_] i.e., With the lep...
_The botch of Egypt_ Such boils or blains as the Egyptians were plagued with, spreading from head to foot. _The emerods_ Those painful swellings of the hemorrhoidal vessels, called piles. _Blindness_...
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...
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 28:27 LORD H3068 strike H5221 (H8686) boils H7822 Egypt H4714 tumors H2914 (H8675) H6076 scab
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)...
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...
1 Samuel 5:12; 1 Samuel 5:6; 1 Samuel 5:9; Deuteronomy 28:35; Exodus
The botch of Egypt — Such boils and blains as the Egyptians were plagued with, spreading from head to foot: The emerodes — Or piles....