Deuteronomy 28:30-39 NIV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:39

Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them ,.... Plant them and prune them, in expectation of much fruit from them: but shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes ; so far from drinking of the wine of them, that they should not be able to gather any grapes from them: for the worms shall eat them ; a sort of worms pernicious to vines, which the Greeks call "ipes", or "ikes" F15 See Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 27. Colossians 622,623 . ; and the Latins... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:30

Thou shalt betroth a wife, etc. - Can any heart imagine any thing more grievous than the evils threatened in this and the following verses? To be on the brink of all social and domestic happiness, and then to be suddenly deprived of all, and see an enemy possess and enjoy every thing that was dear to them, must excite them to the utmost pitch of distraction and madness. They have, it is true, grievously sinned; but, O ye Christians, have they not grievously suffered for it? Is not the stroke... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:32

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people - In several countries, particularly in Spain and Portugal, the children of the Jews have been taken from them by order of government, and educated in the Popish faith. There have been some instances of Jewish children being taken from their parents even in Protestant countries. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:35

With a sore botch - שחין shechin , an inflammatory swelling, a burning boil. See Deuteronomy 28:27 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:36-45

Can any thing be conceived more dreadful than the calamities threatened in these verses? read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:30

Verse 30 30.Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man. He here denounces that all they possessed should be rifled and plundered by their enemies. He, however, puts the most painful thing of all in the first place, viz., that they shall be despoiled of their wives, and magnifies the enormity of the evil, by saying, that not only shall the wife be torn from her husband’s bosom, but that the betrothed virgin shall be defiled. The same denunciation is extended to their houses and vineyards. It is... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:35

Verse 35 35.The Lord shall smite thee in the knees. Since death is common to the whole human race, they must needs also be all subject to disease; nor is it a matter of surprise that the whole posterity of Adam, which is infected with the taint of sin, should so be liable to many afflictions, which are the wages of sin. But, since the offenses of all are not alike, God also maintains a just proportion in the execution of His various punishments; thus, in this passage He does not speak only of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:36

Verse 36 36.The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king. The fulfillment of this prophecy at length taught the Jews, though too late, that it was no empty threat, merely for the purpose of frightening them; and this also applies to the other predictions. For, on account of the great distance from them, the Jews would never have supposed that the Assyrians and Chaldeans were God’s scourges, as they actually found them to be; because they placed no faith in the words of Moses. Much less credible was... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:37

Verse 37 37.And thou shalt become an astonishment. The climax of their miseries is here added, that they should be so far from receiving consolation from men, that on every side their misery should meet with taunts and insults; for nothing more bitterly wounds the wretched than this indignity of being harassed by reproaches and sarcasms; and thus to be a laughing-stock and byword to all nations, is a dreadful infliction. Again, there is an implied antithesis between the ignominy to which God... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:38

Verse 38 38.Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field. He again makes mention of the scarcity of wine, of wheat, and all sorts of corn; but He assigns different causes for it. He proclaims that the harvest shall be scanty, notwithstanding an abundant sowing, because the locust shall consume the seed; that the vintage shall be poor, nay, almost nothing, because the worms shall devour the bunches; that the oil produced should be little, because the olives should wither on the trees and fall... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:39

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:30

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:32

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:35

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:36-45

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:30

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:35

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:36

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:37

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:38

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