Deuteronomy 28:27, Deuteronomy 28:35 ASV

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:27-34

Second group . The Lord should afflict them with various loathsome diseases, vex them with humiliating and mortifying calamities, and give them over to be plundered and oppressed by their enemies. 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 28:27-29

Deuteronomy 28:27-29. 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 Of mind, so that they should not know what to do. Astonishment They should be filled with wonder and horror because of the strangeness and soreness of their calamities. Grope at noon-day In the most clear and evident matters thou shalt grossly mistake. Thy ways Thy... 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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 28:27

botch = elephantiasis. emerods = Old English spelling of modern Hemorrhoids. or "piles". Written "posteriors" in Hebrew text, but read "tumours" by way of Figure of speech Euphemism. scab = aggravated psoriasis. itch = prurigo. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:27

"And Jehovah will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. Jehovah will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart; 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 robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee. Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 28:27

Ver. 27. The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, &c.— שׁחין shechin, rendered the botch, signifies an inflammatory swelling, a burning boil, a morbid tumour attended with a sense of heat. In Job 2:7 one of the versions of the Hexapla renders it the elephantiasis, a kind of leprosy. It is most probably the same malady mentioned Exodus 9:9. See Parkhurst on the word. Thevenot, in his Description of the Diseases of Egypt, mentions, among others, a kind of inflammation breaking out in... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 28:27

27. the botch of Egypt—a troublesome eruption, marked by red pimples, to which, at the rising of the Nile, the Egyptians are subject. emerods—fistulæ or piles. scab—scurvy. itch—the disease commonly known by that name; but it is far more malignant in the East than is ever witnessed in our part of the world. 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