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Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 28:6

i.e. In all thy affairs and administrations, which are oft expressed by this phrase, as Numbers 27:17; Deuteronomy 31:2; 2 Samuel 3:25; 2 Chronicles 1:10; Acts 1:21; Acts 9:28. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:1-68

CRITICAL NOTES.—Moses now enlarges and gives the blessings and curses in detail (cf. Exodus 23:20-23 and Leviticus 26:0.) The blessings are declared in fourteen verses; the curses require nearly four times as many. Thus here again the curse is the more conspicuous feature in the law Speak. Com. Obedience the condition of blessing and this is repeated at beginning (Deuteronomy 28:2) middle (29) and close (Deuteronomy 28:13-14) in positive and energetic form.Deuteronomy 28:1-6. Blessings actual... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:1-68

Chapter 28Now 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 do all his commandments ( Deuteronomy 28:1 )You get this over and over again because this was the condition of the covenant. Whereby they could have this land and dwell there. This was the condition of God's blessing; it was the obedience to the commandments of God.that God will set thee... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 28:1-68

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 succession, that when hurricanes happen in the sandy deserts, they carry the fine sands high in the air, and rain on cities and villages the dust, which penetrates every corner of the houses where the air has access. They often bury camels and asses in the deserts, and form ridges and hills... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:6

Deu 28:6 Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out. Ver. 6. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in. ] "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow thee all the days of thy life"; Psa 23:6 thou shalt have a confluence of all, both inward and outward, comforts and contentments. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 28:6

Deuteronomy 31:2, Numbers 27:17, 2 Samuel 3:25, 2 Chronicles 1:10, Psalms 121:8 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:19 - General 2 Kings 19:27 - thy going out Job 5:24 - thou shalt visit read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Deuteronomy 28:6

Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.Comest in — That is, in all thy affairs and administrations. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:3-6

3-6. Blessed shall thou be The manifold blessings in all the relations of life are expressed by six beatitudes. Israel will be blessed in the city and in the country; will be blessed with children, with productive fields, with countless flocks and herds; will be blessed in baskets in which the fruits are kept and in which provisions were carried; blessed in the kneading-trough in which the daily food was prepared; blessed will the nation be in all its relations. Thy basket and thy store ... read more

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