Deuteronomy 28:12-13

12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.

13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.

Deuteronomy 28:12-13 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. Job 38:22; Psalms 135:7; Jeremiah 10:13; Jeremiah 51:16
• 2. Psalms 65:11; Psalms 68:10; Jeremiah 31:12
• 3. S Leviticus 26:4; 1 Kings 8:35-36; 1 Kings 18:1; Psalms 104:13; Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 30:23; Isaiah 32:20
• 4. Isaiah 61:9; Isaiah 65:23; Jeremiah 32:38-41; Malachi 3:12
• 5. ver 44; S Leviticus 25:19; S Deuteronomy 15:3,6; Ezekiel 34:26
• 6. Jeremiah 11:6
• 7. S Deuteronomy 26:19