Deuteronomy 28:62-64

62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God.

63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

Deuteronomy 28:62-64 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

• 1. S Genesis 22:17; Deuteronomy 4:27; Deuteronomy 10:22; Nehemiah 9:23
• 2. S Leviticus 26:22
• 3. Deuteronomy 30:9; Isaiah 62:5; Isaiah 65:19; Jeremiah 32:41; Zephaniah 3:17
• 4. Proverbs 1:26
• 5. S Genesis 6:7
• 6. Psalms 52:5; Jeremiah 12:14; Jeremiah 31:28; Jeremiah 45:4
• 7. Leviticus 26:33; S Deuteronomy 4:27; Ezra 9:7; Isaiah 6:12; Jeremiah 32:23; Jeremiah 43:11; Jeremiah 52:27
• 8. Nehemiah 1:8; Psalms 44:11; Jeremiah 13:24; Jeremiah 18:17; Jeremiah 22:22
• 9. S Deuteronomy 4:32; S Jeremiah 8:19
• 10. Deuteronomy 11:28; Deuteronomy 32:17