Deuteronomy 28:25-42

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:36-37

As a consequence, God would bring them under subjection to a foreign power, and they should be made to serve other gods, wood and stone ( Deuteronomy 4:28 ), and would become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among the nations (cf. 1 Kings 9:7 ; Jeremiah 24:9 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:37-42

God, Ruler in nature. I. NATURAL OBJECTS ARE OF HIS CREATION . The Psalmist bids us lift up our eyes to the hills, and seek help from God, "who made heaven and earth" ( Psalms 121:2 ). It is this which enables him to help us, and makes it reasonable in us to implore and trust in his assistance; as well as leads us to fear his displeasure. Seed, vineyards, olive trees, are his creatures, and subserve his purposes. He who made can destroy. II. NATURAL AGENCIES ARE ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:38

Even in their own land the curse would overtake them and rest upon them in all their interests and relations. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:39

Worms ; probably the vine weevil, the convolvulus or involvulus of the Latin writers (Pliny, 'Nat. Hist.,' 17.47; Care, ' De Re Rust.,' c. 95; Plaut; 'Cistell.,' 4.2), the ἴξ or ἴψ of the Greeks (Bochart, 'Hieroz.,' pt. it. bk. 4. c. 27). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:40

Thine olive shall cast his fruit. Some would render here "shall be plundered or rooted out," taking the verb יִשַּׁל as the Niph. of שָׁלַל ; but the majority regard it as part of the verb נָשַׁל , and render "shall drop off," or as in the Authorized Version. There is some doubt, however, whether the verb נָשַׁל can be used intransitively. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 28:42

Consume ; literally, take possession of . The name given here to the ravaging insect is not the same as in Deuteronomy 28:38 ; but there can be no doubt it is the locust that is intended. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 28:15-68

The curses correspond in form and number Deuteronomy 28:15-19 to the blessings Deuteronomy 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deuteronomy 28:20-68.Deuteronomy 28:20-26First series of judgments. The curse of God should rest on all they did, and should issue in manifold forms of disease, in famine, and in defeat in war.Deuteronomy 28:20Vexation - Rather, confusion: the word in the original is used Deuteronomy 7:23;... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 28:27-29

Deuteronomy 28:27-29. The botch of Egypt Such boils or blains as the Egyptians were plagued with, spreading from head to foot. The emerods Those painful swellings of the hemorrhoidal vessels, called piles. Blindness Of mind, so that they should not know what to do. Astonishment They should be filled with wonder and horror because of the strangeness and soreness of their calamities. Grope at noon-day In the most clear and evident matters thou shalt grossly mistake. Thy ways Thy... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 28:32

Deuteronomy 28:32. Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given When you have provoked the divine justice to deliver you into the hands of your enemies, you shall have nothing left which you can call your own. Your very wives and children shall become a prey to your enemies; shall be taken from you and given, or sold, to another people By those who have conquered you and taken them captives. Thine eyes shall fail Or be consumed, partly with grief and plentiful tears, and partly with... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 28:33

Deuteronomy 28:33. Which thou knowest not Who shall come from a far country, whom thou didst not at all expect or fear, and therefore will be the more dreadful when they come. This was remarkably fulfilled when Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came and dispossessed the ten tribes, and when Nebuchadnezzar carried the other two tribes away, and placed other people in their room. Thou shalt be oppressed and crushed always They were not to be quite rooted out and destroyed, as the Amalekites and... read more

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