Deuteronomy 28:1, The blessings for obedience; Deuteronomy 28:15, The curses for disobedience.
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Deuteronomy 28
Deuteronomy 28 — Overview
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Deuteronomy 28 — OverviewDeuteronomy 28 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter is a very large exposition of two words in the foregoing
chapter, the blessing and the curse. Those were pronounced blessed in
general that were obedient, and those cursed that were disobedient;…Deuteronomy 28 — OverviewDeuteronomy 28 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleIn this chapter Moses enlarges on the blessings and the curses which belong, the one to the doers, the other to the transgressors of the law; the blessings, De 28:1; the curses, some of which concern individual persons,…Deuteronomy 28:1-14Deuteronomy 28:1-14 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe blessings are here put before the curses, to intimate, 1. That God
is slow to anger, but swift to show mercy: he has said it, and sworn,
that he would much rather we would obey and live than sin and die. It…Deuteronomy 28:1Deuteronomy 28:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe blessing. The condition sine qua non of all enjoyment of the Divine bounty was obedience on the part of the people to the word and Law of Jehovah their God. This rendered, the blessing would come on them rich and…Deuteronomy 28:1-14Deuteronomy 28:1-14 · The Pulpit CommentaryGod's blessing promised to the obedient.
The aged lawgiver was finishing his course. Ere the end comes he would open up to the people once more the dread alternative of blessing and cursing, and would show them that…Deuteronomy 28:1-14Deuteronomy 28:1-14 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe blessing.
Blessing and curse, as Keil says, are viewed in these verses "as actual powers, which follow in the footsteps of the nation, and overtake it" (Deuteronomy 28:2, Deuteronomy 28:15, Deuteronomy 28:22;…
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