Deu 28:15-26 | TSK | e4.org | if thou wilt ; ; ; ; all these curses The same variety of expression is used in these terrible curses, as in the preceding blessings, to intimate every kind of prosperity or adversity, personal, relative, and public. Consulting the marginal references will generally lead to the best exposition of the terms employed; and will frequently point out the fulfilment of the promises and threatenings. , , ; ;

‏ Deuteronomy 28:15-26

if thou wilt Lev 26:14-46; Lam 2:17; Dan 9:11-13; Mal 2:2; Rom 2:8-9

all these curses The same variety of expression is used in these terrible curses, as in the preceding blessings, to intimate every kind of prosperity or adversity, personal, relative, and public. Consulting the marginal references will generally lead to the best exposition of the terms employed; and will frequently point out the fulfilment of the promises and threatenings. Deut 28:2, Deut 27:15-26, Deut 29:20; Isa 3:11; Gal 3:10

in the city Deut 28:3-14; Prov 3:33; Isa 24:6-12, Isa 43:28; Jer 9:11, Jer 26:6, Jer 44:22; Lam 1:1; Lam 2:11-22, Lam 4:1-13; Mal 2:2, Mal 4:6

in the field Deut 28:55; Gen 3:17-18, Gen 4:11-12, Gen 5:29, Gen 8:21-22; 1Kgs 17:1, 1Kgs 17:5, 1Kgs 17:12; Jer 14:2-5, Jer 14:18; Lam 5:10; Joel 1:4, Joel 1:8-18, Joel 2:3; Amos 4:6-9; Hag 1:9-11; Hag 2:16-17; Mal 3:9-12

Deut 28:5; Ps 69:22; Prov 1:32; Hag 1:6; Zech 5:3-4; Mal 2:2; Luke 16:25

the fruit of thy body Deut 28:4, Deut 5:9; Job 18:16-19; Ps 109:9-15; Lam 2:11-12, Lam 2:20; Hos 9:11-14; Mal 2:3; Luke 23:29-30

thy land Deut 28:16; Lev 26:19-20, Lev 26:26; Hab 3:17

Deut 28:6; Judg 5:6-7; 2Chr 15:5

send Ps 7:11; Mal 2:2

vexation 1Sam 14:20; Ps 80:4-16; Isa 28:19, Isa 30:17, Isa 51:20, Isa 66:15; Zech 14:12-13; John 3:36; 1Thess 2:16

for to do Heb. which thou wouldest do

until thou be Deut 4:26; Lev 26:31-33, Lev 26:38; Josh 23:16

Exod 5:3; Lev 26:25; Num 14:12, Num 16:46-49, Num 25:9; 2Sam 24:15; Jer 15:2, Jer 16:4; Jer 21:6-7, Jer 24:10; Matt 26:7

a consumption Lev 26:16; 2Chr 6:28; Jer 14:12

sword or, drought

blasting 1Kgs 8:37; Amos 4:9; Hag 2:17

The language here is remarkable: "Thy heaven;" that part of the atmosphere which was over Judea, instead of being replenished with aqueous vapours, should become, with respect to moisture, like brass, and consequently their land would become as hard as iron, and wholly incapable of cultivation; while the clouds might give showers in abundance, and the earth be moist and fruitful in other regions.

Lev 26:19; 1Kgs 17:1, 1Kgs 18:2; Jer 14:1-6; Amos 4:7

make the rain This was a natural consequence of their heaven's being brass, or yielding no rain; for the surface of the earth being reduced to powder, and frequently taken up by strong winds, would fall down in showers instead of rain. These showers of sand frequently, in the East, bury whole caravans. Deut 28:12; Gen 19:24; Job 18:15-21; Isa 5:24; Amos 4:11

cause thee Deut 28:7, Deut 32:30; Lev 26:17, Lev 26:36-37; Isa 30:17

removed Heb. for a removing, Jer 15:2-9, Jer 24:9, Jer 29:18, Jer 34:17; Ezek 23:46; Luke 21:24

1Sam 17:44-46; Ps 79:1-3; Isa 34:3; Jer 7:33, Jer 8:1, Jer 16:4, Jer 19:7, Jer 34:20; Ezek 39:17-20