Deuteronomy 28:50 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ A nation of fierceh countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: ”

• Deuteronomy 28:50 - 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 28:50 - 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 28:50 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  of fierce countenance. Hebrew. strong of face: "strong" put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct) for boldness or fierceness. Compare Isaiah 5:26-29 .

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• Deuteronomy 28:50 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

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• Deuteronomy 28:50 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 50. A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard, &c.— Such were the Chaldeans. The sacred historian, 2 Chronicles 36:17 expressly declares, that, for the wickedness of the...

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• Deuteronomy 28:50 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: A nation of fierce countenance - a just description of the Romans, who were not onl...

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• Deuteronomy 28:50 - 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 28:50 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young. — Comp. 2 Chronicles 36:17 , “The king of the Chaldecs had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man or him that s...

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• Deuteronomy 28:50 - 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 28:50 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Bitter Fruits of Disobeying God Deuteronomy 28:47-68 These predictions against the Hebrew people were partially fulfilled in earlier invasions, as for instance, those of Nebuchadnezzar and...

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• Deuteronomy 28:50 - 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 28:50 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I desired the Reader to remark with me in the opening of this Chapter, that there should seem to be somewhat prophetical in its contents. And if he compares what is here said, with the history of the...

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• Deuteronomy 28:50 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  A nation of fierce countenance ,.... Or, "strong of face" y; which aptly describes the old Romans, who are always represented as such; and whereas it is said of the Chaldeans, that they were a natio...

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• Deuteronomy 28:50 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: Ver. 50. A nation of fierce countenance. ] Heb., Strong of face, i.e., bold, fierce,...

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• Deuteronomy 28:50 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  A nation of a fierce countenance Such were the Chaldeans, who, according to the historian, “slew the young men” of the Jews “in the house of the sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or m...

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• Deuteronomy 28:50 - 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 28:50 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the L ORD thy God, to keep...

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• Deuteronomy 28:50 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Of fierce countenance, Heb. strong of face or countenance , i.e. bold and impudent, hardy and undaunted, cruel and uncompassionate and inflexible, sparing no age nor sex, &c.

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• Deuteronomy 28:50 - 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 28:50 - 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 28:50 - 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 28:50 - 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 28:50 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Curses of Disobedience

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• Deuteronomy 28:50 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 36:17 ; Daniel 7:7 ; Daniel 8:23 ; Ecclesiastes 8:1 ; Hosea 13:16 ; Isaiah 47:6 ; Luke 19:44 ; Luke 21:23 ; Luke 21:24 ; Proverbs 7:13

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