Deuteronomy 4:25-31
beget.31:16-18; Jud 2:8-15corrupt. See on ver.16; 31:29; Ex 32:7; Ho 9:9do evil.2Ki 17:17-19; 21:2,14-16; 2Ch 36:12-16; 1Co 10:22 I call heaven.A most solemn method of adjuration, in use among all the nations in the world; God and man being called upon to bear testimony to the truth of what was spoken, that if there was any flaw or insincerity it might be detected, and if any crime, it might not go unpunished. Such appeals to God shew at once the origin and use of oaths. 30:18,19; 31:28; 32:1; Isa 1:2; Jer 2:12; 6:19; 22:29; Eze 36:4Mic 1:2; 6:2ye shall.29:28; Le 18:28; 26:31-35; Jos 23:16; Isa 6:11; 24:1-3; Jer 44:22Eze 33:28; Lu 21:24 28:62-64; Ne 1:3,8,9; Eze 12:15; 32:26 ye shall.28:36,64; 1Sa 26:19; Jer 16:13; Eze 20:32,39; Ac 7:42neither see.Ps 115:4-7; 135:15,16; Isa 44:9; 45:20; 46:7; Jer 10:3,9 But if.30:10; Le 26:39-42; 2Ch 15:4,15; Ne 1:9; Isa 55:6,7; Jer 3:12-14Jer 29:12-14with all.30:1-3; 1Ki 8:47,48; 2Ki 10:31; 23:3; 2Ch 15:12; 31:21; Ps 119:2,10Ps 119:58,145; Jer 3:10; Joe 2:12 all these.1Ki 8:46-53; 2Ch 6:36-39; Da 9:11-19are come upon thee. Heb. have found thee.31:17; Ex 18:8; *marg:in the latter.31:29; Ge 49:1; Nu 24:20; Jer 23:20; Da 10:14; Ho 3:5; Heb 1:2if thou.30:10; La 3:40; Ho 14:2,3; Joe 2:12,13; Ac 3:19; 26:20obedient.Isa 1:19; Jer 7:23; Zec 6:15; Heb 5:9 the Lord.Ex 34:6,7; Nu 14:18; 2Ch 30:9; Ne 1:5; 9:31; Ps 86:5,15; 116:5Ps 145:8,9; Jon 4:2; Mic 7:18forget.Le 26:42,45; Ps 105:8; 111:5,9; Jer 14:21; Lu 1:72Deuteronomy 28
1 The blessings for obedience.15 The curses for disobedience. If thou shalt.11:13; 15:5; 27:1; Ex 15:26; Le 26:3-13; Ps 106:3; 111:10; Isa 1:19Isa 3:10; 55:2,3; Jer 11:4; 12:16; 17:24; Lu 11:28to do all.Ps 119:6,128; Lu 1:6; Joh 15:14; Ga 3:10; Jas 2:10,11will set.26:19; Ps 91:14; 148:14; Lu 9:48; Ro 2:7 come on thee.15,45; Zec 1:6; 1Ti 4:8 in the city.Ps 107:36,37; 128:1-5; 144:12-15; Isa 65:21-23; Zec 8:3-5in the field.Ge 26:12; 39:5; Am 9:13,14; Hag 2:19; Mal 3:10,11 11; 7:13; Ge 22:17; 49:25; Le 26:9; Ps 107:38; 127:3; 128:3; Pr 10:22Pr 13:22; 20:7; 1Ti 4:8 thy basket.By basket, may be understood the olive-gathering and vintage, in which it was employed; and by the store or remainder, all laid up for future use, or prepared for present consumption. store. or, dough, or kneading troughs.5 31:2; Nu 27:17; 2Sa 3:25; 2Ch 1:10; Ps 121:8 shall cause.25; 32:30; Le 26:7,8; 2Sa 22:38-41; Ps 89:23flee before.Jos 8:22; 10:10,11,42; 1Sa 7:3,4,10,11; 2Ch 14:2-6,9-15; 19:42Ch 20:22-25; 31:20,21; 32:21,22 command.Le 25:21; Ps 42:8; 44:4; 133:3storehouses. or, barns.Le 26:4,5,10; 2Ki 6:27; Ps 144:13; Pr 3:9,10; Hag 2:19; Mal 3:10,11Mt 6:26; 13:30; Lu 12:18,24,25settest.15:10 establish.7:6; 26:18,19; 29:13; Ge 17:7; Ex 19:5,6; Ps 87:5; Isa 1:26; 62:122Th 3:3; Tit 2:14; 1Pe 2:9-11; 5:10sworn.7:8; 13:17; 29:12; Ex 19:5,6; Jer 11:5; Heb 6:13-18 And all.Mal 3:12called.Nu 6:27; 2Ch 7:14; Isa 63:19; Da 9:18,19and they shall.4:6-8; 11:25; Ex 12:33; 14:25; Jos 5:1; 1Sa 18:12-15,28,291Ch 14:17; Jer 33:9; Re 3:9 plenteous.4; 30:9; Le 26:9; Pr 10:22in goods. or, for good. body. Heb. belly.Job 19:17; Ps 132:11; *margins open.11:14; Le 26:4; Job 38:22; Ps 65:9-13; 135:7; Joe 2:23,24to bless all.14:29; 15:10lend.44; 15:6; Pr 22:7 the head.Nu 24:18,19; Isa 9:14,15if that thou.1; 4:6-9; Php 1:27 thou shalt.5:32; 11:16,26-28; Jos 23:6; 2Ki 22:2; Pr 4:26,27the right.Isa 30:21 if thou wilt.Le 26:14-46; La 2:17; Da 9:11-13; Mal 2:2; Ro 2:8,9all these curses.The same variety of expression is used in these terrible curses, as in the preceding blessings, to intimate every kind of prosperity or adversity, personal, relative, and public. Consulting the marginal references will generally lead to the best exposition of the terms employed; and will frequently point out the fulfilment of the promises and threatenings. 2; 27:15-26; 29:20; Isa 3:11; Ga 3:10 in the city.3-14; Pr 3:33; Isa 24:6-12; 43:28; Jer 9:11; 26:6; 44:22; La 1:1La 2:11-22; 4:1-13; Mal 2:2; 4:6in the field.55; Ge 3:17,18; 4:11,12; 5:29; 8:21,22; 1Ki 17:1,5,12Jer 14:2-5,18; La 5:10; Joe 1:4,8-18; 2:3; Am 4:6-9; Hag 1:9-11Hag 2:16,17; Mal 3:9-12 5; Ps 69:22; Pr 1:32; Hag 1:6; Zec 5:3,4; Mal 2:2; Lu 16:25 the fruit of thy body.4; 5:9; Job 18:16-19; Ps 109:9-15; La 2:11,12,20; Ho 9:11-14Mal 2:3; Lu 23:29,30thy land.16; Le 26:19,20,26; Hab 3:17 6; Jud 5:6,7; 2Ch 15:5 send.Ps 7:11; Mal 2:2vexation.1Sa 14:20; Ps 80:4-16; Isa 28:19; 30:17; 51:20; 66:15; Zec 14:12,13Joh 3:36; 1Th 2:16for to do. Heb. which thou wouldest do. until thou be.4:26; Le 26:31-33,38; Jos 23:16 Ex 5:3; Le 26:25; Nu 14:12; 16:46-49; 25:9; 2Sa 24:15; Jer 15:2; 16:4Jer 21:6,7; 24:10; Mt 26:7 a consumption.Le 26:16; 2Ch 6:28; Jer 14:12sword. or, drought. blasting.1Ki 8:37; Am 4:9; Hag 2:17 The language here is remarkable: "Thy heaven;" that part of the atmosphere which was over Judea, instead of being replenished with aqueous vapours, should become, with respect to moisture, like brass: and consequently their land would become as hard as iron, and wholly incapable of cultivation; while the clouds might give showers in abundance, and the earth be moist and fruitful in other regions. Le 26:19; 1Ki 17:1; 18:2; Jer 14:1-6; Am 4:7 make the rain.This was a natural consequence of their heaven's being brass, or yielding no rain; for the surface of the earth being reduced to powder, and frequently taken up by strong winds, would fall down in showers instead of rain. These showers of sand frequently, in the East, bury whole caravans. 12; Ge 19:24; Job 18:15-21; Isa 5:24; Am 4:11 cause thee.7; 32:30; Le 26:17,36,37; Isa 30:17removed. Heb. for a removing.Jer 15:2-9; 24:9; 29:18; 34:17; Eze 23:46; Lu 21:24 1Sa 17:44-46; Ps 79:1-3; Isa 34:3; Jer 7:33; 8:1; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20Eze 39:17-20 the botch.35; Ex 9:9,11; 15:26emerods.1Sa 5:6,9,12; Ps 78:66scab.Le 13:2-8; 21:20; Isa 3:17 1Sa 16:14; Ps 60:3; Isa 6:9,10; 19:11-17; 43:19; Jer 4:9; Eze 4:17Lu 21:25,26; Ac 13:41; 2Th 2:9-11 grope.Job 5:14; 12:25; Ps 69:23,24; Isa 59:10; La 5:17; Zep 1:17Ro 11:7-10,25; 2Co 4:3,4thou shalt be.Jud 3:14; 4:2,3; 6:1-6; 10:8; 13:1; 1Sa 13:5-7,19-22; Ne 9:26-29,37Ps 106:40-42; La 5:8; Ac 21:24 betroth.20:6,7; Job 31:10; Jer 8:10; Ho 4:2build.Job 3:18; Isa 5:9,10; 65:21,22; Jer 12:13; La 5:2; Am 5:11Mic 6:15; Zep 1:13gather. Heb. profane, or, use it as common meat.20:6; *marg: ox.Jud 6:1; Job 1:14,15be restored to thee. Heb. return to thee. sons.In several countries, particularly in Spain and Portugal, the children of the Jews have been taken from them, by order of the government, to be educated in the Popish faith. 18,41; Nu 21:29; 2Ch 29:9; Ne 5:2-5; Jer 15:7-9; 16:2-4; Eze 24:25Joe 3:6; Am 5:27; Mic 4:10fail.65; Job 11:20; 17:5; Ps 69:3; 119:82,123; Isa 38:14; La 2:11; 4:17La 5:17 The fruit.30,51; Le 26:16; Ne 9:36,37; Isa 1:7; Jer 5:17; 8:16thou shalt be.29; Jer 4:17 28,68; Isa 33:14; Jer 25:15,16; Re 16:10,11 botch.27; Job 2:6,7; Isa 1:6; 3:17,24 bring thee.2Ki 17:4-6; 24:12-15; 25:6,7,11; 2Ch 33:11; 36:6,17,20; Isa 39:7Jer 22:11,12,24-27; 24:8-10; 39:5-7; 52:8-11; La 4:20; Eze 12:12,13there shalt thou.The Israelites, who were carried captive by the Assyrians, and many of the Jews in Chaldea, were finally incorporated with the nations among whom they lived, and were given up to their idolatry. It is probable, however, that this refers to Jews being compelled, in Popish countries, to conceal their religion, and profess that of the Romish church. 64; 4:28; Jer 16:13; Eze 20:32,33,39 become.28; 29:22-28; 1Ki 9:7,8; 2Ch 7:20; Ps 44:13,14; Jer 24:9; 25:9Joe 2:17; *marg:Zec 8:13a proverb.The name of Jew has long been a proverbial mark of detestation and contempt among all the nations whither they have been dispersed, and is so to this day, whether among Christians, Mohmammedans, or Pagans. shalt carry.Isa 5:10; Mic 6:15; Hag 1:6for the locust.Ex 10:14,15; Joe 1:4; 2:3,25; Am 4:9; 7:1,2 for the worms.Joe 1:4-7; 2:2-4; Jon 4:7 anoint thyself.Ps 23:5; 104:15; Mic 6:15 thou shalt not enjoy them. Heb. they shall not be thine.for. 32; 2Ki 24:14; La 1:5 thy trees.38,39; Am 7:1,2consume. or, possess. Jud 2:3,11-15; 4:2,3; 10:7-10; 14:4; 15:11,12; 1Sa 13:3-7,19-232Ki 17:20,23; 24:14-16; Joh 18:31; 19:15 12,13; La 1:5 Moreover.5,15; 29:20,21; Le 26:28; 2Ki 17:20; Pr 13:21; Isa 1:20; 65:14,15Jer 24:9,10; La 2:15-17; Eze 7:15; 14:21because.11:27,28; Ps 119:21; Jer 7:22-25 a sign.37,59; 29:20,28; Isa 8:18; Jer 19:8; 25:18; Eze 14:8; 23:32,33Eze 36:20; 1Co 10:11 12:7-12; 16:11; 32:13-15; Ne 9:35; 1Ti 6:17-19 serve.2Ch 12:8; Ne 9:35-37; Jer 5:19; 17:4; Eze 17:3,7,12in hunger.Jer 44:17,18,22,27; La 5:2-6; Eze 4:16,17a yoke.Isa 47:6; Jer 27:12,13; 28:13,14; Mt 11:29 bring a nation.Though the Chaldeans are frequently described under the figure of an eagle, yet these verses especially predict the desolations brought on the Jews by the Romans; who came from a country far more distant than Chaldea; whose conquests were as rapid as the eagle's flight, and whose standard bore this very figure; who spake a language to which the Jews were then entire strangers, being wholly unlike the Hebrew, of which the Chaldee was merely a dialect; whose appearance and victories were terrible; and whose yoke was a yoke of iron; and the havoc which they made tremendous. Nu 24:24; Isa 5:26-30; Jer 5:15-17; Da 6:22,23; 9:26; Hab 1:6,7Lu 19:43,44as the eagle.Jer 4:13; 48:40; 49:22; La 4:19; Eze 17:3,12; Ho 8:1; Mt 24:28a nation whose.Jer 5:15; Eze 3:6; 1Co 14:21understand. Heb. hear. of fierce countenance. Heb. strong of face.Pr 7:13; Ec 8:1; *marginsDa 7:7; 8:23shall not.2Ch 36:17; Isa 47:6; Ho 13:16; Lu 19:44; 21:23,24 the fruit.33; Isa 1:7; 62:8which also.Le 26:26; Jer 15:13; 17:3; Eze 12:19; Hab 3:16,17 Le 26:25; 2Ki 17:1-6; 18:13; 24:10,11; 25:1-4; Isa 1:7; 62:8Jer 21:4-7; 37:8; 39:1-3; 52:4-7; Eze 4:1-8; Da 9:26; Zec 12:2; 14:2Mt 22:7; 24:15,16; Lu 19:43,44; 21:20-24 the fruit.18,55,57; Le 26:29; 2Ki 6:28,29; Jer 19:9; La 2:20; 4:10Eze 5:10; Mt 24:19body. Heb. belly. his eye.15:9; Pr 23:6; 28:22; Mt 20:15and toward.The Roman armies at length besieged, sacked, and utterly desolated Jerusalem: and during this seige, the famine was so extreme, that even rich and delicate persons, both men and women, ate their own children, and concealed the horrible repast, lest others should tear it from them! "Women snatched the food out of the very mouths of their husbands, and sons of their fathers, and (what is most miserable) mothers of their infants." "In every house, if there appeared any semblance of food, a battle ensued, and the dearest friends and relations fought with one another; snatching away the miserable provisions of life." "A woman distinguished by birth and wealth, after she had been plundered by the tyrants (or soldiers) of all her possessions, boiling her own sucking child, ate half of him, and concealing the other half, reserved it for another time!" 13:6; 2Sa 12:3; Mic 7:5his children.Ps 103:13; Isa 49:15; Mt 7:9-11; Lu 11:11-13 in the seige.Jer 5:10; 34:2; 52:6 and delicate.Isa 3:16; La 4:3-6her eye shall be evil.54 young one. Heb. after-birth. cometh out.Ge 49:10; Isa 49:15for she shall.53 If thou wilt.15; Le 26:14,15; Jer 7:9,10,26-28fear this glorious.6:13; Ex 3:14,15; 6:2,3; 20:2; 34:5-7; Ne 9:5; Ps 50:7; 72:19; 83:18Isa 41:10; 42:8; Jer 5:12; Mt 10:28; Heb 10:30,31; 12:28,29 46; 29:20-28; 31:17,18; 32:22,26; 1Ki 9:7-9; 16:3,4; La 1:9,12La 4:12; Da 9:12; Ho 3:4; Mr 13:19 7:15; Ex 15:26 bring upon thee. Heb. cause to ascend.61 few in number.In the seige of Jerusalem there died 1,100,000 persons, and more than 90,000 were carried captive; and, having afterwards provoked the Romans by their crimes and rebellions, they persecuted them nearly to extirpation; to which, if the tens of thousands which were slaughtered year after year in every country be added, it appears wonderful that there were any remains left. 4:27; Le 26:22; 2Ki 13:7; 24:14; Ne 7:4; Isa 1:9; 24:6; Jer 42:2Jer 52:28-30; Mr 13:20; Ro 9:27-29as the stars.10:22; Ne 9:23; Ro 9:27 rejoiced over.30:9; Isa 62:5; Jer 32:41; Mic 7:18; Zep 3:17; Lu 15:6-10,23,24,32rejoice over.Pr 1:26; Isa 1:24; Eze 5:13; 33:11plucked from.7:22; *marg:Jer 12:14,15; 18:7; 24:6; 31:28,40; 42:10; Da 7:8 scatter.4:27,28; Le 26:33; Ne 1:8; Jer 16:13; 50:17; Eze 11:16,17; Lu 21:24there thou shalt.36; Jer 16:13 among.After the conquest of their country by the Romans, Hadrian, by a public decree, ratified by the senate, forbad any Jew to come even within sight of Judea; and hence they were dispersed over every quarter of the globe, where they found no alleviation or respite from misery. In no country are they treated as denizens; all suspect them as enemies, and behave to them as aliens; if they do not, as had been too frequently the case, harass, oppress, and persecute them, even unto death. shalt thou.Ge 8:9; Isa 57:21; Eze 5:12-17; 20:32-35; Am 9:4,9,10the Lord.Le 26:36; Isa 51:17; Eze 12:18,19; Ho 11:10,11; Hab 3:16; Lu 21:26failing of eyes.Le 26:16; Isa 65:14; La 3:65; Mt 24:8; Ro 11:10 67; La 1:13; Heb 10:27; Re 6:15-17 34; Job 7:3,4; Re 9:6 bring thee into Egypt.This verse seems especially to point out an event, which took place subsequently to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, and the desolation made by Hadrian. Numbers of the captives were sent by sea into Egypt (as well as into other countries), and sold for slaves at a vile price, and for the meanest offices; and many thousands were left to perish from want; for the multitude was so great, that purchasers could not be found for them all at any price! 17:16; Jer 43:7; 44:12; Ho 8:13; 9:3there ye shall.Ex 20:2; Ne 5:8; Es 7:4; Joe 3:3-7; Lu 21:24
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