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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...
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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...
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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...
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EAT. Compare Jeremiah 19:9....
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_And thou shalt eat_, etc.] Cp. Leviticus 26:29; Ezekiel 5:10, and for
instances of this horror 2 Kings 6:28 f., Lamentations 2:20;...
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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...
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_VER._ 53-56. _IN THE STRAITNESS WHEREWITH THINE ENEMIES SHALL
DISTRESS THEE_— In the sieges before mentioned, they were to suffer
much especially from famine. Accordingly we find, that when the king...
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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...
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_AND THOU SHALT EAT THE FRUIT OF THINE OWN BODY, THE FLESH OF THY SONS
AND OF THY DAUGHTERS, WHICH THE LORD THY GOD HATH GIVEN THEE, IN THE
SIEGE, AND IN THE STRAITNESS, WHEREWITH THINE ENEMIES SHALL...
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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...
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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...
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THOU SHALT EAT THE FRUIT OF THINE OWN BODY. — Specially confirmed in
the siege of Samaria by the Syrians (2 Kings 6:26; but see on
Deuteronomy 28:56), and also in Jerusalem when besieged by
Nebuchadne...
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וְ אָכַלְתָּ֣ פְרִֽי ־בִטְנְךָ֗
בְּשַׂ֤ר בָּנֶ֨יךָ֙...
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MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 29:1;...
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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...
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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...
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_Womb; a cruelty which the Jews were guilty of in the sieges of
Samaria and of Jerusalem. See Baruch ii. 2, 13., Lamentations ii. 20.,
and iv., and 4 Kings vi. 28., and Josephus, Jewish Wars vii. 8.
...
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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...
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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...
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53._And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body_. This is one of
those portents which was mentioned a little while ago; for it is an
act of ferocity detestable and more than tragical, that fathers...
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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...
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AND THOU SHALL EAT THE FRUIT OF THINE BODY,.... Than which nothing can
be more shocking and unnatural, which is explained as follows:
THE FLESH OF THY SONS AND OF THY DAUGHTERS, WHICH THE LORD THY GO...
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And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons
and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the
siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall d...
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_Thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body_ The stoutest and most
obstinate resistance will avail you nothing; all the advantage you
will gain by it will be to suffer such long and pressing straits b...
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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...
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And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons
and of thy daughters, which the Lord, thy God, hath given thee, a most
revolting form of cannibalism, IN THE SIEGE AND IN THE STRA...
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THE CURSES OF DISOBEDIENCE...
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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...
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BODY:
_ Heb._ belly...
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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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...
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Deuteronomy 28:53 eat H398 (H8804) fruit H6529 body H990 flesh H1320
sons H1121 daughters H1323 LORD H3068 G
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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...
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DETAILS OF THE SIXTH SIXFOLD CURSE (DEUTERONOMY 28:49).
The curses now go deeper while repeating some of what has gone before.
They had been engaged in much siege warfare in their defeat of Sihon
and...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Kings 6:28; 2 Kings 6:29; Deuteronomy 28:18; Deuteronomy 28:55;...