Deuteronomy 28:43

43 "¹The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:43 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:43

The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above thee
very high
In wealth and riches, in power and authority, in honour and dignity. This Manasseh Ben Israel ^F18 interprets of the Samaritans, whom the king of Assyria drove out of Samaria, and the neighbouring places; but the design of the expression is to show how mean and abject they should be in another country; that even one who had been a stranger or proselyte of the gate, when in their own country, should now be vastly above them:

and thou shall come down, very low;
into a very mean condition, to be in great subjection, a vassal and a slave; see ( Psalms 106:41 Psalms 106:42 ) ; and much more when reduced by the Romans, and sent to the mines in Egypt.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 De Termino Vitae, l. 3. sect. 3. p. 128.

Deuteronomy 28:43 In-Context

41 "You shall have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

42 "The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground.

43 "The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.

44 "He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail.

45 "So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 28:13