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Deuteronomy 28:53-63

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53 "1Then 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 "2The 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,
57 and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her legs and toward her children whom she bears; for 3she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in your towns.
58 "If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to 4fear this honored and awesome 5name, the LORD your God,
59 then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.
60 "6He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.
61 "Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring on you 7until you are destroyed.
62 "Then you shall be left few in number, 8whereas * you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey * the LORD your God.
63 "It shall come about that as the LORD 9delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will 10delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be 11torn from the land where * you are entering to possess it.
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Deuteronomy 28:53-63 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

Cross References 11

  • 1. Leviticus 26:29; 2 Kings 6:28, 29; Jeremiah 19:9; Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 4:10
  • 2. Lamentations 4:10
  • 3. 2 Kings 6:28, 29; Lamentations 4:10
  • 4. Psalms 99:3; Malachi 1:14
  • 5. Isaiah 42:8
  • 6. Deuteronomy 28:27
  • 7. Deuteronomy 4:25, 26
  • 8. Deuteronomy 1:10; Nehemiah 9:23
  • 9. Jeremiah 32:41
  • 10. Proverbs 1:26
  • 11. Jeremiah 12:14; Jeremiah 45:4

Footnotes 19

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