John Trapp Complete Commentary
Deuteronomy 28:3
Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.
Ver. 3. Blessed shalt thou be.] What blessedness is, See Trapp on " Mat 5:3 "
Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.
Ver. 3. Blessed shalt thou be.] What blessedness is, See Trapp on " Mat 5:3 "
Verse Deuteronomy 28:3. _IN THE CITY_] In all civil employments. _In the_ _field _- in all agricultural pursuits....
A comparison of this chapter with Exodus 23:20 and Leviticus 26 will show how Moses here resumes and amplifies the promises and threats already set forth in the earlier records of the Law. The languag...
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...
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 or Deuteronomy 28:5?). In favour of this conclusion no...
BLESSED. Figure of speech _Anaphora._ App-6. "Blessed" six times. Compare note on "Cursed", Deuteronomy 27:15....
The Blessings Parallels in Deuteronomy 7:12-24; Deuteronomy 11:13-15; Deuteronomy 11:22-25. On the assurance of material blessings as the consequence of obedience to the commandment
Six forms of blessing, each introd. by the pass. part, of the vb. _to bless_. They cover Israel's life: in town and field, in their offspring, crops and cattle, annual harvests and daily bread, all th...
C. BLESSINGS TO BE REPEATED FROM MOUNT GERIZIM (Deuteronomy 28:1-14) And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandment...
_BLESSED SHALT THOU BE IN THE CITY, AND BLESSED SHALT THOU BE IN THE FIELD._ In the city, and ... in the field - whether living in town or country, whether engaged in trade or agriculture....
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...
בָּר֥וּךְ אַתָּ֖ה בָּ † עִ֑יר וּ בָר֥וּךְ...
MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
BLESSINGS UPON THE OBEDIENT Deuteronomy 28:1 A remarkable chapter! The epitome of what Israel might have been, contrasted with what she became! It is on account of the transgressions that the centur...
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...
Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the (c) city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field. (c) You will live richly....
_Field. Wherever thou art, all thy undertakings shall prosper. (Calmet)_...
Though I propose to make but a short observation on the whole of these blessings, for the sake of being brief, and that I may not increase the bulk of the present Commentary too much; yet I do beg 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...
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...
BLESSED [SHALT] THOU [BE] IN THE CITY,.... Not only in the city of Jerusalem, where the temple would be built, and there be blessed with the service, worship, and ordinances of God, but in all other c...
_All these blessings shall overtake thee_ The blessings which others greedily follow after, and never overtake, shall follow after thee, and shall be thrown into thy lap by special kindness. _In the c...
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...
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field, out in the country, these two designations including the spheres in which life ordinarily moves....
THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE...
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...
1-14 This chapter is a very large exposition of two words, the blessing and the curse. They are real things and have real effects. The blessings are here put before the curses. God is slow to anger,...
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 28:3 Blessed H1288 (H8803) city H5892 blessed H1288 (H8803) country H7704 in the city -...
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 e...
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...
_Blessed shalt thou be in the city._ BLESSED IN THE CITY The city is full of care, and he who has to go there from day to day finds it to be a place of great wear and tear. It is full of noise, and s...
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
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 28:3 For parallel curses, see vv. Deuteronomy 28:16. CITY... FIELD... COME IN... GO OUT. The pairing of opposites in
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 9:13; Amos 9:14; Genesis 26:12; Genesis 39:5; Haggai 2:19;...
In the city, and in the field — Whether they were husbandmen or tradesmen, whether in the town or country, they should be preserved from the dangers of both, and have the comforts of both. How constan...