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
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