Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Deuteronomy 28:28
Blindness — Of mind, so that they shall not know what to do: Astonishment — They shall be filled with wonder and horror because of the strangeness and soreness of their calamities.
Blindness — Of mind, so that they shall not know what to do: Astonishment — They shall be filled with wonder and horror because of the strangeness and soreness of their calamities.
Verse Deuteronomy 28:28. _THE LORD SHALL SMITE THEE WITH MADNESS_] שגעון _shiggaon_, distraction, so that thou shalt not know what to do. _AND BLINDNESS_] _ivvaron_, blindness, both physical and men...
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...
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...
Cp. Zechariah 12:4; _astonishment_, better, DISMAY....
_VER._ 28. _WITH MADNESS, AND BLINDNESS, AND ASTONISHMENT OF HEART_— These calamities at home will in time throw you into distraction, stupidity, and infatuation: quite astonish and confound your unde...
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 SHALL SMITE THEE WITH MADNESS, AND BLINDNESS, AND ASTONISHMENT OF HEART:_ Madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart - they "would be bewildered and paralyzed with terror at extent o...
They will be afflicted with mental as well as bodily diseases. 30-34. These troubles are the consequences of defeat in war and oppression by foreign nations. For a historical instance see Judges 6:3....
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...
MADNESS, AND BLINDNESS, AND ASTONISHMENT. — The three words are all found in Zechariah 12:4 But in that place the threat seems directed against the enemies of Jerusalem (see Deuteronomy 30:7)....
יַכְּכָ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה בְּ שִׁגָּעֹ֖ון וּ בְ עִוָּ
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...
_Madness, folly, or phrensy; with such Saul was attacked, and David feigned himself (1 Kings xxi. 13,) to be in a similar condition at the court of Achis._...
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...
28._The Lord shall smite thee with madness and blindness_. This punishment is very often referred to by the Prophets, when God is said to smite the wicked with a spirit (243) of giddiness and madness,...
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 SHALL SMITE THEE WITH MADNESS,.... At the calamities befallen them, and through the force of diseases on them: AND BLINDNESS; not of body, but of mind; with judicial blindness and hardness o...
The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: Ver. 28. _With madness and blindness._] Spiritual, especially; such as befell the Jews of old, Romans 11:18 2Co 3:14...
_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...
The Lord shall smite thee with madness, an insanity which shut off all sane consciousness, AND BLINDNESS, AND ASTONISHMENT OF HEART, a disease which interfered with the proper functioning of the heart...
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...
BLINDNESS, to wit, of mind, so that they shall not know what to do; see JOB 5:13,14; so as they shall commonly choose and follow the worst counsels and courses, to their own ruin. ASTONISHMENT OF HEAR...
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 28:28 LORD H3068 strike H5221 (H8686) madness H7697 blindness H5788 confusion H8541 heart H3824...
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...
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)...
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 16:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Acts 13:41; Ezekiel 4:17;...