Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Deuteronomy 28:29
Grope at noon day — In the most clear and evident matters thou shalt grossly mistake. Thy ways — Thy counsels and enterprizes shall be frustrated and turn to thy destruction.
Grope at noon day — In the most clear and evident matters thou shalt grossly mistake. Thy ways — Thy counsels and enterprizes shall be frustrated and turn to thy destruction.
Verse Deuteronomy 28:29. _THOU SHALT BE ONLY OPPRESSED, C._] Perhaps no people under the sun have been more oppressed and spoiled than the rebellious Jews. Indeed, this has been their portion, with b...
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 mental weakness and even infatuation which possess nations and individuals physically debilitated lead to their oppression by stronger peoples; the details of which are illustrated in the next Deu...
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._ 29-31. _THOU SHALT BE ONLY OPPRESSED AND SPOILED EVERMORE,_ &C.— See ver. 33. How often has this threatening been verified! What frequent seizures have been made of their effects in almost all...
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...
_AND THOU SHALT GROPE AT NOONDAY, AS THE BLIND GROPETH IN DARKNESS, AND THOU SHALT NOT PROSPER IN THY WAYS: AND THOU SHALT BE ONLY OPPRESSED AND SPOILED EVERMORE, AND NO MAN SHALL SAVE THEE._ Thou sh...
28:29 continually, (f-29) Lit. 'all the days.' so ver. 33....
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...
THOU SHALT NOT PROSPER IN THY WAYS. — The exact opposite is promised to Joshua (Deuteronomy 1:8) if he follows the Book of the Law. (Comp. Isaiah 29:10.) When men find it no longer possible to follow...
וְ הָיִ֜יתָ מְמַשֵּׁ֣שׁ בַּֽ † צָּהֳרַ֗יִם כַּ...
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...
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the (n) blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee]. (n)...
_Ways. Is not this visibly the present condition of the Jews, amid the blaze of the gospel light, the miracles and divine conduct of the Son of God! They shut their eyes, and will not acknowledge him...
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...
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...
AND THOU SHALT GROPE AT NOON DAY AS THE BLIND GROPETH IN DARKNESS,.... That is, being in darkness through the loss of their sight; otherwise the darkness and the light are alike to them, and they grop...
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee]. Ver. 29...
_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...
And thou shalt grope at noonday, at the time when objects should be doubly clear, AS THE BLIND GROPETH IN DARKNESS, AND THOU SHALT NOT PROSPER IN THY WAYS, utterly unable to find the way which would l...
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...
AT NOON-DAY, i.e. in the most clear and evident matters thou shalt grossly mistake and miss thy way. THOU SHALT NOT PROSPER IN THY WAYS; thy counsels and enterprises shall be frustrated, and turn to t...
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 28:29 grope H4959 (H8764) noonday H6672 blind H5787 gropes H4959 (H8762) darkness H653 prosper H674
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 13:19; 1 Samuel 13:5; 2 Corinthians 4:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4;...