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The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:56-57

The delicate lady. (Cf. Isaiah 3:16-26 .) The queens of select society have little reason to be vain of their excessive and artificial delicacy. They need not pride themselves in it, or think that it entitles them to look haughtily on others. For— I. DELICACY IS NOT CHARACTER . It is consistent with a vain, light, scornful, wicked disposition. The tender and delicate lady in this verse is one of the enemies of God. The purest types of female character avoid those... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:57

Her young one ; literally, her after-birth . The Hebrew suggests an extreme of horror beyond what the Authorized Version indicates. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 28:15-68

The curses correspond in form and number Deuteronomy 28:15-19 to the blessings Deuteronomy 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deuteronomy 28:20-68.Deuteronomy 28:20-26First series of judgments. The curse of God should rest on all they did, and should issue in manifold forms of disease, in famine, and in defeat in war.Deuteronomy 28:20Vexation - Rather, confusion: the word in the original is used Deuteronomy 7:23;... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 28:56-57

Deuteronomy 28:56-57. The tender and delicate woman shall eat her children secretly Not in order to escape the infamy of the action, but lest others should have a share with her. In the siege and straitness This was fulfilled about six hundred years after the time of Moses, among the Israelites, when Samaria was besieged by the king of Syria, and two women agreed together, the one to give up her son to be boiled and eaten that day, and the other to deliver up her son to be dressed and... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:1-68

Obedience and disobedience (28:1-68)Further blessings and curses are now listed. These were connected more with the life of the people as a whole and were directly dependent on the people’s obedience or disobedience. The blessings mainly concerned agricultural prosperity, family happiness, victory over enemies and honour in the eyes of other nations (28:1-10). God’s assurance that he would supply their needs was linked to a warning. They were not to look for family increase or agricultural... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 28:57

Ver. 57. And towards her young one, &c.— For a critical discussion of this passage, we refer to Houbigant's note on the place, and to his Prolegomena, p. 35. He renders it, and she shall boil that which cometh, &c. even her infants, whom she shall spare that she may eat them secretly for want, &c. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 28:15-68

D. The curses that follow disobedience to general stipulations 28:15-68In this section Moses identified about four times as many curses as he had listed previous blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14). The lists of curses in other ancient Near Eastern treaty texts typically were longer than the lists of blessings. [Note: Gordon J. Wenham, "The Structure and Date of Deuteronomy" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of London, 1969), p. 161.] The reason was probably to stress the seriousness of violating the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 28:47-57

The fourth view pictures Israel invaded, conquered, and brutalized by her enemies. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:1-68

The Blessing and the CurseThis chapter properly follows Deuteronomy 26:19, and concludes the second discourse. It enforces the injunctions given, by exhibiting the blessings associated with the keeping of them, and the curses entailed upon disobedience.1-14. The Blessings for Obedience.5. Store] lit. ’kneading-trough’ as in Exodus 12:34. The basket is that used for holding bread: see Genesis 40:17; Leviticus 8:2; Matthew 14:20.7. Seven ways] (at once), a proverbial saying expressing a... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Deuteronomy 28:1-68

A Blessing on the Storehouse Deuteronomy 28:8 The storing of the grain is the last of the processes of harvest. We may therefore take the blessing of God upon the housed and winnowed corn as including His blessing upon all previous stages of growth or ingathering. I. The Sowing Time This is where industry comes in, and the gift of God is seen also to be His reward and blessing upon human diligence. The preparation of the soil and the choice of the seed application to human life. II. The... read more