Deuteronomy 28:3-12

3 "Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be ¹in the country.

4 "Blessed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

5 "Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

6 "Blessed shall you be ²when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

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 ³all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

9 "⁴The 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 ⁵you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you.

11 "⁶The 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 ⁷you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

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Deuteronomy 28:3-12 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 7

1. Genesis 39:5
2. Psalms 121:8
3. Deuteronomy 15:10
4. Exodus 19:5
5. 2 Chronicles 7:14
6. Deuteronomy 28:4; Proverbs 10:22
7. Deuteronomy 23:20

Footnotes 11

[a]. Or "field"
[b]. Lit "fruit"
[c]. Lit "womb"
[d]. Lit "fruit"
[e]. Lit "fruit"
[f]. Lit "smitten"
[g]. Lit "the name of the LORD is called upon you"
[h]. Lit "fruit"
[i]. Or "womb"
[j]. Lit "fruit"
[k]. Lit "fruit"