Deuteronomy 28:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. ”

Deuteronomy 28:9 - 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...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - 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...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

holy. See note on Exodus 3:5 . as . according as.
Deuteronomy 28:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9. The Lord shall establish thee a holy people unto himself. This refers indeed to earthly blessings, as if Moses said, that by them would be manifested God’s love towards His chosen people;...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. The Lord shall establish thee a h...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. No JFB...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - 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...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The Lord shall establish thee an holy people — i.e., shall “maintain” thee in that position or shall “raise thee up” into it, and exalt thee to it, in its fullest sense. The word here employed has...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - 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...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - 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...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - 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...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - 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...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself ,.... Having separated them from all others, for his service, honour, and glory, should continue them as such, and settle them in the la...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. Ver. 9. The Lord shall establi...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Establish thee Shall confirm his covenant with thee, by which he separated thee to himself as a holy and peculiar people. Called by the name of the Lord That you are in truth his people and child...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - 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...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Promises. B. C. 1451. 1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto th...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, i.e. shall confirm and establish his covenant with thee, by which he separated thee to himself as a holy and peculiar people, and shall publicly ow...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - 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...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - 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...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - 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...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - 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...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Blessings of Obedience
Deuteronomy 28:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:9-11 ; 1 Peter 5:10 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:3 ; Deuteronomy 13:17 ; Deuteronomy 26:18 ; Deuteronomy 26:19 ; Deuteronomy 29:12 ; Deuteronomy 29:13 ; Deuteronomy 7:6 ; Deuteronomy 7:8 ;...
Deuteronomy 28:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Establish thee — Shall confirm his covenant with thee, by which he separated thee to himself as an holy and peculiar people.

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deuteronomy 28:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 28:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 28:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes