“ Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. ”
A comparison of this chapter with Exodus 23:20-23 and Leviticus 26 will show how Moses here resumes and amplifies the promises and threats already set forth in the earlier records of the Law. T...
Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the (c) city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field. (c) You will live richly.
Deuteronomy 28. Blessings and Curses. This chapter is held by Kuenen, Dillmann, Driver, Addis, etc. to belong in the main to D ( Deuteronomy 28:12-26 or Deuteronomy 28:5-26 ?). In favour of this...
Blessed. Figure of speech Anaphora. App-6. "Blessed" six times. Compare note on "Cursed", Deuteronomy 27:15 .
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. In the city - In all civil employments. In the field - in all agricultural pursuits.
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. In the city, and ... in the field - whether living in town or country, whether engaged in trade or agriculture.
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...
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...
Blessings upon the Obedient Deuteronomy 28:1-19 A remarkable chapter! The epitome of what Israel might have been, contrasted with what she became! It is on account of the transgressions that th...
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...
Though I propose to make but a short observation on the whole of these blessings, for the sake of being brief, and that I may not increase the bulk of the present Commentary too much; yet I do beg th...
Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city ,.... Not only in the city of Jerusalem, where the temple would be built, and there be blessed with the service, worship, and ordinances of God, but in all othe...
Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field. Ver. 3. Blessed shalt thou be. ] What blessedness is, See Trapp on " Mat 5:3 "
All these blessings shall overtake thee The blessings which others greedily follow after, and never overtake, shall follow after thee, and shall be thrown into thy lap by special kindness. In the...
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...
Promises. B. C. 1451. 1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto th...
No text from Poole on this verse.
VIII. BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS WITH RESPECT TO THE COVENANT ( Deuteronomy 28:1 to Deuteronomy 29:1 ). Chapter 28 Covenant Blessings and Cursings. It should be noted that verse 1 is not an inv...
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...
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...
Blessed shalt thou be in the city. Blessed in the city The city is full of care, and he who has to go there from day to day finds it to be a place of great wear and tear. It is full of noise, a...
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 Blessings of Obedience
Amos 9:13 ; Amos 9:14 ; Genesis 26:12 ; Genesis 39:5 ; Haggai 2:19 ; Isaiah 65:21-23 ; Malachi 3:10 ; Malachi 3:11 ; Psalms 107:36 ; Psalms 107:37 ; Psalms 128:1-5 ; Psalms 144:12-15 ; Z...
In the city, and in the field — Whether they were husbandmen or tradesmen, whether in the town or country, they should be preserved from the dangers of both, and have the comforts of both. How cons...