Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 28:8
The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
8. shall command ] Heb. has the jussive, command; it is uncertain which we should read; upon thee, lit. with thee.
barns ] Only here and Pro 3:10. Cp. above, Deu 15:10.
and he shall bless thee ] LXX (except some cursives) omits.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 8. The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee] Every thing that thou hast shall come by Divine appointment; thou shalt have nothing casually, but every thing, both spiritual and temporal, shall come by the immediate command of God.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Shall command, i.e. shall by his sovereign and powerful providence give it, even when it seems furthest from thee, and not likely to come to time without a word of command from God himself.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses,…. Barns, granaries, and cellar, where their corn, wine, and oil, were laid up; by preserving the corn from being devoured by vermin, and the casks of wine and oil from bursting and running out:
and in all thou settest thine hand unto; in all their manufactures, occupations, and trades, in which they were employed, and in the culture of their vines, olives, and other fruit trees:
and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee; with health and long life in it, and with an abundance of all good things, it being a land flowing with milk and honey.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(8) Thy storehouses.The word is only found here and in Pro. 3:9-10, Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. There is the same kind of contrast here which has been already pointed out in Deu. 28:5. The gathering in to the barn, and the putting forth of the handthe income and the expenditureare alike blessed. This contrast is clear in the Hebrew words employed.
And he shall bless thee in the land.Fixity of tenure in the Divine inheritance is promised here.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Deu 28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Ver. 8. The Lord shall command the blessing. ] Now if he send his Mandamus, who shall withstand it?
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
storehouses = barns. Hebrew. ‘aSamaritan Pentateuch Occurs only here and Pro 3:10.
settest thine hand = lettest thine hand go forth. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause) for all that is wrought by it. App-6.
hand. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Vulgate, read “hands”.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
command: Lev 25:21, Psa 42:8, Psa 44:4, Psa 133:3
storehouses: or, barns, Lev 26:4, Lev 26:5, Lev 26:10, 2Ki 6:27, Psa 144:13, Pro 3:9, Pro 3:10, Hag 2:19, Mal 3:10, Mal 3:11, Mat 6:26, Mat 13:30, Luk 12:18, Luk 12:24, Luk 12:25
settest: Deu 15:10
Reciprocal: Deu 16:15 – because Deu 33:14 – the precious 2Ch 31:10 – the Lord Ecc 5:20 – because
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
COMMANDED BLESSINGS
The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee.
Deu 28:8
What more encouraging thought could possibly occupy our hearts at the entrance of a New Year! All our well-being may be summed up under the head of Divinely commanded blessings. No mercies would be ours did not our Heavenly Father bid them come.
I. From the connection in which the words stand we see that they refer in the first place to Israels temporal prosperity. But we know how truly their earthly possessions in the land of Canaan set forth the spiritual privileges and resources of Gods children now. As the Lord commanded the blessing to descend upon them in the fruit of their labour, so that they were provided with plenty, in like manner the Lord is willing to command the blessing upon our souls in the path of His leading.
II. Christ has a right to command His blessings.All power, He tells us, is given unto Me. That is, not power simply but authority. The whole administration of the economy of grace has been committed into His hands. The Father has invested Him with legal right and authority over all creation; over every creature in heaven and in earth, over all angels, all persons, all passions, all principles, over all elements. On Him has been bestowed the gift of universal dominion.
Rev. E. H. Hopkins.
Illustration
(1) We may see the Lords doings with our eyes, and yet we may not be able to see them with an inner perception until the Lord gives us a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear. When God leads He finds shoe leather. We only get to know His watchful, loving care when we have travelled with Him; then we come to know Him, whom at first we only believed. It is the obedient soul which incorporates the Word of God into memory, and life that prospers in all to which it puts the hand.
(2) God gives, in what He has bestowed upon us already in Christ. And He gives again by revealing to our souls what He has thus given. All spiritual blessings, and therefore all blessings that belong to our sanctification have already been bestowed upon us in Christ. What now remains, in order that we might experimentally realise them, is that they should be revealed to us by His Spirit. It is concerning the gift of spiritual perception and appropriation that we have to pray. Let us ask for the receptive mind, for the teachable spirit, for the contrite heart, for the obedient will.
Fuente: Church Pulpit Commentary
28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine {g} hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
(g) God will bless us, if we do our duty and are not idle.