Deuteronomy 28:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: ”

• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 o...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The curses to follow disobedience. These answer generally to the blessings of Deuteronomy 28:1-6 , only that the order Deuteronomy 28:5 ; Deuteronomy 28:4 is presumed and Deuteronomy 28:1 b a...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  28. The Lord shall smite thee with madness and blindness. This punishment is very often referred to by the Prophets, when God is said to smite the wicked with a spirit (243) of giddiness and...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: The Lord shall smite thee with madness - שגעון shiggaon, distraction, so that thou shalt not know what to do. And bl...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 28. With madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart — These calamities at home will in time throw you into distraction, stupidity, and infatuation: quite astonish and confound your u...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: Madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart - they "would be bewildered and paralyzed with terror at ex...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Blessing and the Curse This chapter properly follows Deuteronomy 26:19 , and concludes the second discourse. It enforces the injunctions given, by exhibiting the blessings associated with the...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Madness, and blindness, and astonishment. — The three words are all found in Zechariah 12:4 But in that place the threat seems directed against the enemies of Jerusalem (see Deuteronomy 30:7 )....

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1-40 , Deuteronomy 27:1-26 ; Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ; Deuteronomy 29:1-29 ; Deuteronomy 30:1-20 . WITH the twenty-sixth chapter the entirely homogeneous c...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Fearful Results of Disobedience Deuteronomy 28:20-46 If we compare this chapter with Exodus 23:20-23 and Leviticus 26:1-46 , we shall see how Moses resumes and amplifies the promises and...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now come to the commencement of the third discourse of Moses. It was pre\-eminently the uttering of solemn warnings in which he laid before the people the results of disobedience and rebellion. He...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The picture of misery is drawn more horrible in these verses, from describing the particular features of the curses, the LORD threatens to send after the sinner. If the Reader will attend to them min...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The Lord shall smite thee with madness ,.... At the calamities befallen them, and through the force of diseases on them: and blindness ; not of body, but of mind; with judicial blindness and hardn...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: Ver. 28. With madness and blindness. ] Spiritual, especially; such as befell the Jews of old, Romans 11:18 2Co 3...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  FROM MOUNT GERIZIM -- BLESSINGS (vs.1-14) Though Chapter 28 does not say that these blessings were pronounced from Mount Gerizim, yet Chapter 27:12 indicates this. But the blessings were prefaced...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Threatenings. B. C. 1451.       15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Blindness, to wit, of mind, so that they shall not know what to do; see Job 5:13,14 ; so as they shall commonly choose and follow the worst counsels and courses, to their own ruin. Astonishment...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Cursings That Will Result If They Are Not Faithful To The Covenant ( Deuteronomy 28:15-68 ). But once they wander outside the sphere of the covenant only cursings can await them. They will ha...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .—Moses now enlarges and gives the blessings and curses in detail ( cf . Exodus 23:20-23 and Leviticus 26 .) The blessings are declared in fourteen verses; the curses require nearl...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Deuteronomy 28:5 . Blessed shall be thy basket. The LXX read, thy barns and thy store. Deuteronomy 28:24 . The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust. Our oriental travellers say...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Curses of Disobedience

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 16:14 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 ; Acts 13:41 ; Ezekiel 4:17 ; Isaiah 19:11-17 ; Isaiah 43:19 ; Isaiah 6:10 ; Isaiah 6:9 ; Jeremiah 4:9 ; Luke 21:25 ; Luke 21:26 ; Psalms 60:3

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• Deuteronomy 28:28 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Blindness — Of mind, so that they shall not know what to do: Astonishment — They shall be filled with wonder and horror because of the strangeness and soreness of their calamities.

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