Deuteronomy 28:7-17

7 "The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.
8 "The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in 1all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
9 "2The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
10 "So all the peoples of the earth will see that 3you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you.
11 "4The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
12 "The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and 5you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
13 "6The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to observe them carefully,
14 and 7do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Consequences of Disobedience

15 "8But it shall come about, if you do not obey * the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
16 "9Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.
17 "10Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

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Deuteronomy 28:7-17 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.

Cross References 10

  • 1. Deuteronomy 15:10
  • 2. Exodus 19:5
  • 3. 2 Chronicles 7:14
  • 4. Deuteronomy 28:4; Proverbs 10:22
  • 5. Deuteronomy 23:20
  • 6. Deuteronomy 28:1, 44
  • 7. Deuteronomy 5:32; Joshua 1:7
  • 8. Leviticus 26:14-43; Joshua 23:15; Daniel 9:11
  • 9. Deuteronomy 28:3
  • 10. Deuteronomy 28:5

Footnotes 9

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