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The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:15-26
Each of the first eleven curses is directed against some particular sin already denounced in the Law. The twelfth curse is directed generally against all breaches of the Law, against those who fail or refuse to set up t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:15
(Cf. Exodus 20:4; Le Exodus 26:1.)
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:15-26
The curses to be pronounced were twelve in number, probably to correspond with the number of the tribes. The blessings are not here recorded; but when the injunction here given was fulfilled by Joshua, the blessing as w…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:16
(Cf. Exodus 21:17.)
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:17
(Cf. Deuteronomy 19:14.)
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:18
(Cf. Le Deuteronomy 19:14.)
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:19
(Cf. Deuteronomy 24:17.)
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:20
(Cf. Le Deuteronomy 18:8; Deuteronomy 22:30.)
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:21
(Cf. Le 18:23; Deuteronomy 20:15.) Deuteronomy 27:22, Deuteronomy 27:23 .—(Cf. Le Deuteronomy 18:9, Deuteronomy 18:17.)
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:24
(Cf. Exodus 20:13; Numbers 35:16, etc.)
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:25
(Cf. Exodus 23:7, Exodus 23:8.)
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 27:26
(Cf. Deuteronomy 28:15; Jeremiah 11:3, Jeremiah 11:4.) HOMILETICS
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:1-14
The present portion of a good man. The natural world may be fitly regarded as the visible symbol of the spiritual world, the earthly state a lower copy of the heavenly. The order of cause and effect is as uniform in the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:1-68
EXPOSITION THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE. Having enjoined the proclamations of the blessing and the curse on their entering into possession of Canaan, Moses, for the sake of impressing on the minds of the people both the b…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:1
The blessing. The condition sine qua non of all enjoyment of the Divine bounty was obedience on the part of the people to the word and Law of Jehovah their God. This rendered, the blessing would come on them rich and fu…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:1-14
God's blessing promised to the obedient. The aged lawgiver was finishing his course. Ere the end comes he would open up to the people once more the dread alternative of blessing and cursing, and would show them that the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:1-14
The blessing. Blessing and curse, as Keil says, are viewed in these verses "as actual powers, which follow in the footsteps of the nation, and overtake it" (Deuteronomy 28:2, Deuteronomy 28:15, Deuteronomy 28:22; Zechar…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:1-14
The purpose of temporal blessing. After the "Amens" from Mount Ebal had been faithfully given, the Levites turned to Gerizim with the detail of blessings, and received from the assembled thousands the grand "Amen." We h…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:2
The blessings about to be specified are represented as personified, as actual agencies coming upon their objects and following them along their path.
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:3-7
The fullness of the blessing in all the relations of life, external and internal, is presented in six particulars, each introduced by the word "blessed." Israel should be blessed in the house and in the field, in the fr…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:8
The blessing that maketh rich. I. FULL STOREHOUSES, WITHOUT GOD'S BLESSING, ARE NOT RICHES. God does not count a man rich further than the good things he has are of real and lasting benefit to him. Wealth unblessed of G…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:8
The effect of the blessing should be seen, not only in the supremacy of Israel over all opposition, but in the abundance of their possessions, in the success of their undertakings, and in the respect in which they shoul…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:9
Established. Probation, in the case of the faithful, ends in establishment. If Israel would keep the commandments, God would "perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle" them as "an holy people" to himself, and so confirm th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:9
The Lord would establish them to be a people holy unto himself, in whose Blessed condition all would see that they were indeed his people, favored by him.