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Deuteronomy 28:46-56

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46 "They shall become 1a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever *.
47 "2Because * you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;
48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, 3in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He 4will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
49 "5The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, 6as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand,
50 a nation of fierce countenance who will 7have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.
51 "Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.
52 "8It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the LORD your God has given you.
53 "9Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you.
54 "The man who is refined and very delicate among you shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain,
55 so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing * else left, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in all your towns.
56 "10The refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and refinement, shall be hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter,
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Deuteronomy 28:46-56 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 28

In this chapter Moses enlarges on the blessings and the curses which belong, the one to the doers, the other to the transgressors of the law; the blessings, De 28:1-14; the curses, some of which concern individual persons, others the whole nation and body of people, and that both under the former and present dispensations, and which had their fulfilment in their former captivities, and more especially in their present dispersion, De 28:15-68.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 10

  • 1. Numbers 26:10; Isaiah 8:18; Ezekiel 5:15; Ezekiel 14:8
  • 2. Deuteronomy 12:7; Nehemiah 9:35-37
  • 3. Lamentations 4:4-6
  • 4. Jeremiah 28:13, 14
  • 5. Isaiah 5:26-30; Isaiah 7:18-20; Jeremiah 5:15; Jeremiah 6:22, 23
  • 6. Jeremiah 48:40; Jeremiah 49:22; Lamentations 4:19; Hosea 8:1
  • 7. Isaiah 47:6
  • 8. Jeremiah 10:17, 18; Zephaniah 1:15, 16
  • 9. Leviticus 26:29; 2 Kings 6:28, 29; Jeremiah 19:9; Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 4:10
  • 10. Lamentations 4:10

Footnotes 15

  • [a] Lit "seed"
  • [b] Lit "fruit"
  • [c] Lit "gates"
  • [d] Lit "gates"
  • [e] Lit "fruit"
  • [f] Or "distress"
  • [g] Lit "tender"
  • [h] Lit "his eye shall be evil toward"
  • [i] Lit "of his bosom"
  • [j] Or "distress"
  • [k] Lit "gates"
  • [l] Lit "tender"
  • [m] Lit "tenderness"
  • [n] Lit "her eye shall be evil toward"
  • [o] Lit "of her bosom"
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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