1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 18:2; Amos 4:7; Jeremiah 14:1-6; Leviticus 26:19
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...
And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be (k) brass, and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron. (k) It will give you no more moisture t...
The curses to follow disobedience. These answer generally to the blessings of Deuteronomy 28:1-6 , only that the order Deuteronomy 28:5 ; Deuteron...
23. And thy heaven that is over thy head. He enumerates other causes of barrenness, and especially drought. Often does God by the Prophets, d...
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. Thy heaven - shall be brass, and the earth...
Ver. 23. The heaven—shall be brass, and the earth—iron — A proverbial mode of speech, importing a grievous and general famine: that the heavens...
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. Heaven ... brass ... earth ... iron - st...
The Blessing and the Curse This chapter properly follows Deuteronomy 26:19 , and concludes the second discourse. It enforces the injunctions give...
Thy heaven... shall be brass, and the earth... iron. — Not only in respect of the drought, but of God’s refusal to remove it. See Jeremiah 14:15...
MOSES' FAREWELL SPEECHES Deuteronomy 4:1-40 , Deuteronomy 27:1-26 ; Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ; Deuteronomy 29:1-29 ; Deuteronomy 30:1-20 . WITH t...
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 se...
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 pe...
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...
And the heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass ,.... Or like brass, not for its clearness, brightness, and splendour, or for its being spread...
And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron. Ver. 23. See on Leviticus 26:19 .
Shall make the pestilence cleave to thee Sometimes Divine Providence shall scourge you by one calamity, and sometimes by another, and they will cut...
FROM MOUNT GERIZIM -- BLESSINGS (vs.1-14) Though Chapter 28 does not say that these blessings were pronounced from Mount Gerizim, yet Chapter 27:...
Threatenings. B. C. 1451. 15 But it sha...
Be brass, i.e. like brass, hard and dry, and shut up from giving rain. See Leviticus 26:19 . Be iron, hard, and chapt, and barren.
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 c...
The Second Sixfold Curse ( Deuteronomy 28:21-29 ). This is now followed by a further sixfold curse, with each of the six, commencing (in EVV, in...
CRITICAL NOTES .—Moses now enlarges and gives the blessings and curses in detail ( cf . Exodus 23:20-23 and Leviticus 26 .) The blessings are dec...
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...
EXPOSITION THE BLESSING AND THE CURSE . Having enjoined the proclamations of the blessing and the curse on their entering into possessi...
The Curses of Disobedience
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, not sending forth one drop of rain, Leviticus 26:19 , as often happened in the later history of...
Brass — Like brass, hard and dry, and shut up from giving rain. Iron — Hard and chapt and barren.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.