Deuteronomy 28:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. ”

• Deuteronomy 28:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee (f) seven ways. (f) Meaning many ways.

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. The Lord shall cause thine enemi...

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 7. The Lord shall cause thine enemies—to be smitten before thy face — "Upon any invasion from foreign enemies, be their numbers and valour ever so great, God himself will undertake your cau...

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. Flee before thee seven wa...

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - 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 28:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And flee before thee seven ways. — “So is the custom of them that are terrified, to flee, scattering in every direction” (Rashi). See the story of the flight of the Midianites ( Judges 7:21-22 ), a...

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - 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 28:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - 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 28:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face ,.... As the Philistines, Moabites, Syrians, Edomites, and Ammonites were, especially in the times of David...

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. Ver. 7. The Lord shall cause...

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - 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 28:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Promises. B. C. 1451.       1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto th...

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  i.e. Many ways, as is usual when an army is totally overthrown and dissipated.

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - 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 28:7 - 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 28:7 - 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 28:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Blessings of Obedience

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• Deuteronomy 28:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 7:10 ; 1 Samuel 7:11 ; 1 Samuel 7:3 ; 1 Samuel 7:4 ; 2 Chronicles 14:2-6 ; 2 Chronicles 14:9-15 ; 2 Chronicles 19:4 ; 2 Chronicles 20:22-25 ; 2 Chronicles 31:20 ; 2 Chronicles 31:2...

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