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Deuteronomy 28:15-45
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Curses for Disobedience
15 "But 1if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and 2overtake you.
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Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
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Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
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Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
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"The LORD 4 will send on you curses, confusion, and 5frustration in all that you undertake to do, 6until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.
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The LORD will make 7the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
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8The LORD will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought[a] and with 9blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.
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The LORD will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
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11"The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you 12shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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And 13your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and 14there shall be no one to frighten them away.
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The LORD will strike you 15with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and 16scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.
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and you shall 18grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.[b] And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.
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19You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. 20You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. 21You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit.
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Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you.
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22Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, 23but you shall be helpless.
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A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,
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The LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs 25with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
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"The LORD will 26bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you 27nor your fathers have known. And 28there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
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And you shall become 29a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.
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30You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for 31the locust shall consume it.
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32You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.
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You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you 33shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.
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You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for 34they shall go into captivity.
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36The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
Deuteronomy 28:15-45 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 39
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Leviticus 26:14 ;Lamentations 2:17 ;Daniel 9:11, 13 ;Malachi 2:2 - 2. ver. 2
- 3. [ver. 3-6]
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Malachi 2:2 -
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Psalms 80:16 ;Isaiah 30:17 ;Isaiah 51:20 ;Isaiah 66:15 -
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Joshua 23:16 -
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Leviticus 26:25 -
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Leviticus 26:16 -
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1 Kings 8:37 ;2 Chronicles 6:28 ;Amos 4:9 ;Haggai 2:17 -
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Leviticus 26:19 -
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Deuteronomy 32:30 ;Leviticus 26:17, 37 ;Isaiah 30:17 ; [ver. 7] -
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Ezekiel 23:46 -
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1 Samuel 17:44, 46 ;Psalms 79:2 ;Jeremiah 16:4 ;Jeremiah 19:7 ;Jeremiah 34:20 ] -
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Jeremiah 7:33 - 15. [ver. 35]
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Leviticus 21:20 ;Leviticus 22:22 -
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[ver. 34;
Zechariah 12:4 ] -
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Job 5:14 ;Isaiah 59:10 -
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Deuteronomy 20:5-7 ;Jeremiah 8:10 -
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Amos 5:11 ;Zephaniah 1:13 -
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Deuteronomy 20:6 ;Leviticus 19:23-25 ; [Micah 6:15 ] -
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[
2 Chronicles 29:9 ;Joel 3:6 ] -
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Nehemiah 5:5 - 24. ver. 67
- 25. [ver. 27]
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2 Kings 17:4, 6 ;2 Kings 24:12, 14 ;2 Kings 25:7, 11 ;2 Chronicles 33:11 ;2 Chronicles 36:6, 20 -
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Jeremiah 9:16 ;Jeremiah 16:13 -
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ver. 64;
Deuteronomy 4:28 -
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1 Kings 9:7, 8 ;2 Chronicles 7:20 ;Jeremiah 24:9 ;Jeremiah 25:9 ; [Ezekiel 14:8 ] -
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Micah 6:15 ;Haggai 1:6 -
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Joel 1:4 ;Joel 2:25 -
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Zephaniah 1:13 -
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Micah 6:15 -
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Lamentations 1:5 - 35. [See ver. 38 above]
- 36. [ver. 13]
- 37. [ver. 12]
- 38. [See ver. 43 above]
- 39. ver. 15
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