Deuteronomy 28:8-14 NIV

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:8

The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses ,.... Barns, granaries, and cellar, where their corn, wine, and oil, were laid up; by preserving the corn from being devoured by vermin, and the casks of wine and oil from bursting and running out: and in all thou settest thine hand unto ; in all their manufactures, occupations, and trades, in which they were employed, and in the culture of their vines, olives, and other fruit trees: and he shall bless thee in the land... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:9

And the Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself ,.... Having separated them from all others, for his service, honour, and glory, should continue them as such, and settle them in the land, and confirm all their privileges, natural, civil, and religious. The Targum of Jonathan is,"the Word of the Lord shall establish thee, &c.;'he that brought them out of Egypt, through the Red sea and wilderness, to the land of Canaan: as he hath sworn unto thee : and to their fathers;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:10

And all the people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord ,.... Called his children, his people, his portion, and his inheritance; and that they are his, and he is theirs, by the care he takes of them, the provision he makes for them, and the protection they have from him: and they shall be afraid of thee ; as not only the Canaanites were, but all other nations; see Deuteronomy 11:25 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:11

And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods ,.... In all temporal good things, give them an affluence of them, even all things richly to enjoy; the Targum of Jonathan is,"the Word of the Lord shall, &c.;" in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground : increase their children, cattle, and substance, as before, Deuteronomy 28:4 , in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee ; the land of Canaan, often thus... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:13

And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail ,.... Give them dominion over others, and not make them subject to them; the head signifies rulers and governors, and the tail the common people that are subjects; or the one such that are honourable and in high esteem, and the other such that are mean and base; see Isaiah 9:14 ; the Targum of Jonathan is,"the Word of the Lord shall make thee, &c.;" and thou shalt be above only, and thou shall not be beneath ; which explains... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:14

And thou shall not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day ,.... Depart from them as a rule to walk by, turn out from them as a path to walk in, neglect and disobey them, and go into practices contrary to them: turning to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them ; which to do was to break the first and principal table of the law, than which nothing was more abominable and provoking to God. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:8

The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee - Every thing that thou hast shall come by Divine appointment; thou shalt have nothing casually, but every thing, both spiritual and temporal, shall come by the immediate command of God. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:9

The Lord shall establish thee a holy people unto himself - This is the sum of all blessings, to be made holy, and be preserved in holiness. If thou shalt keep, etc. - Here is the solemn condition; if they did not keep God's testimonies, taking them for the regulators of their lives, and according to their direction walking in his ways, under the influence and aids of his grace, then the curses, and not the blessings, must be their portion. See Deuteronomy 28:15 , etc. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:1-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 28:9

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