John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:12
The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure ,.... The Lord has his treasures of snow and of hail, and of wind, Job 38:22 ; but here his good treasure, as appears by what follows, is his treasure of rain. In the Targum of Jonathan it is said, "there are four keys in the hand of the Lord of the whole world, which he does not deliver into the hands of any prince; the keys of life, and of the grave, and of food, and of rain:" the heaven, to give the rain unto thy land in its season ;... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:1-14
The blessings are here put before the curses, to intimate, 1. That God is slow to anger, but swift to show mercy: he has said it, and sworn, that he would much rather we would obey and live than sin and die. It is his delight to bless. 2. That though both the promises and the threatenings are designed to bring and hold us to our duty, yet it is better that we be allured to that which is good by a filial hope of God's favour than that we be frightened to it by a servile fear of his wrath. That... read more