“ All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.f ”
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...
All thy trees and fruit of thy land (q) shall the locust consume. (q) Under one kind he contains all the vermin, which destroy the fruit of the land: and this is an evident token of God's curse.
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...
locust . grasshopper. Hebrew. zelazal, from noise of its wings. consume. Hebrew possess.
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
Ver. 38-42. Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, &c.— The plagues wherewith the nation is threatened in these verses, fell upon it successively. A great famine laid waste the coun...
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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...
(38-42) These are the contrary to Deuteronomy 28:11 ; and Deuteronomy 28:44 is the contrary to Deuteronomy 28:12-13 . From the order of the passage it might seem that these particular troubles we...
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...
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...
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...
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...
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. Which is a creature that not only consumes grass, and herbs, and the corn of the field, but all green trees; see Exodus 10:15 . This s...
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. Ver. 42. The locusts. ] All sorts of vermin.
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...
Threatenings. B. C. 1451. 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the...
No text from Poole on this verse.
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...
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...
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 Curses of Disobedience
Amos 7:1 ; Amos 7:2 ; Deuteronomy 28:38 ; Deuteronomy 28:39