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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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The only _vv_. in this ch. (except Deuteronomy 28:68 _b_) in which the
Pl. address occurs. The text, including the change to Sg. in the final
clauses of both _vv_., is on the whole confirmed by LXX. S...
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Still Further Development of the Curses
After a fresh statement of the condition on which they will be
inflicted, viz. Israel's disobedience to the law (Deuteronomy 28:58),
diseases are again threate...
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_VER._ 62. _YE SHALL BE LEFT FEW IN NUMBER, WHEREAS YE WERE AS THE
STARS,_ &C.— To mention no other of the calamities and slaughters
which they have undergone, there was in the last siege of Jerusalem...
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THOUGHT QUESTIONS 28:58-68
506.
How is the word fearful in Deuteronomy 28:58? How is the word
wonderful used in Deuteronomy 28:59?
507.
Please remember there are two sides of God's character: wrath...
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_AND YE SHALL BE LEFT FEW IN NUMBER, WHEREAS YE WERE AS THE STARS OF
HEAVEN FOR MULTITUDE; BECAUSE THOU WOULDEST NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF THE
LORD THY GOD._
Ye shall be left few in number. Notwithstandi...
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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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וְ נִשְׁאַרְתֶּם֙ בִּ מְתֵ֣י מְעָ֔ט
תַּ֚חַת א
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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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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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62._And ye shall be left few in number_. Since it had been promised to
Abraham that his seed should be like the stars of heaven in multitude,
it was a signal token of God’s wrath that his posterity sh...
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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 YE SHALL BE LEFT FEW IN NUMBER,.... There were but very few left
in the land of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar's general when Jerusalem was
taken by him; and these were of the poorer sort, and were left...
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And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of
heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the
LORD thy God.
Ver. 62. _And ye shall be left few in number._]...
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_Ye shall be left few in number_ “Not to mention here any other of
the calamities and slaughters which the Jews have undergone, there was
in the last siege of Jerusalem, by Titus, an infinite multitud...
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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 ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of
heaven for multitude, because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the
Lord, thy God. And still more strongly the Lord puts His threa...
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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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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 28:62 left H7604 (H8738) few H4592 number H4962 whereas
H834 stars H3556 heaven H8064 multitude H72
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THE THIRD SERIES OF CURSES (DEUTERONOMY 28:59).
The sixfold pattern here is not quite so apparent (there is always the
danger of seeking to fit the text into a pre-prepared straitjacket).
It is certa...
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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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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 13:7; 2 Kings 24:14; Deuteronomy 10:22; Deuteronomy 4:27;...