Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 28:35
The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
Verse 35. With a sore botch] shechin, an inflammatory swelling, a burning boil. See De 28:27.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
35. the Lord shall smite thee in theknees, and in the legsThis is an exact description ofelephantiasis, a horrible disease, something like leprosy, whichattacks particularly the lower extremities.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch, that cannot be healed,…. Which in those parts as it is very painful, so is not easily cured; and this which is threatened was incurable by the art of man, as others in De 28:27; and which should not stop there in the lower parts of the body, but proceed and spread:
from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head; and so be filled with them, as Job was with his boils and ulcers.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Verses 35-37:
The third group of curses (verses 35-36): this amplifies those already listed, and emphasizes that these calamities would separate them from God and bring them under the rule of foreign nations.
First, the men of military age would be stricken in their legs, and be smitten with incurable botch (see verse 27), from head to foot.
Then, foreign nations would be permitted to attack, conquer, and enslave them, and compel them under threat of death to worship false gods.
“Astonishment, shammah, also translated “desolation,” 2Ki 22:19; Isa 24:12; Jer 49:13, et.al.
“Proverb,” mashal, a widely known saying, here denoting that the calamity was widely known and quoted.
“Byword,” sheninah, “taunt, sharp saying,” see Jer 24:9.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
35. The Lord shall smite thee in the knees. Since death is common to the whole human race, they must needs also be all subject to disease; nor is it a matter of surprise that the whole posterity of Adam, which is infected with the taint of sin, should so be liable to many afflictions, which are the wages of sin. But, since the offenses of all are not alike, God also maintains a just proportion in the execution of His various punishments; thus, in this passage He does not speak only of common maladies, but of those whereby He openly shews His vengeance against the transgressors of the Law; of which sort are incurable diseases.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(35) A sore botch.A boil, as in Deu. 28:27.
In the knees.Comp. Eze. 7:17; Eze. 21:7, All knees shall be weak as water.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
35. Smite thee in the knees The threatened calamities are here presented in another view. The Lord will smite the people with leprosy. This disease excludes the one afflicted with it from the congregation of Israel. We are then to understand that the nation, for its sins, will be excluded from fellowship of Jehovah. Leprosy is used as a type of sin. The nation will become as a leper. Comp. Isa 1:5-6. In the days of the prophet the whole nation had become as a body with a mass of wounds and bruises and putrefying sores.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Ver. 35. The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch With a grievous breaking-out, which began in the lower parts, and so spread from the soles of the feet to the crown of the head. This is mentioned also by Thevenot, as one of the diseases of Egypt.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Deu 28:35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
Ver 35. See Trapp on “ Deu 28:34 “
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
botch: Deu 28:27, Job 2:6, Job 2:7, Isa 1:6, Isa 3:17, Isa 3:24
Reciprocal: Gen 14:11 – General Exo 9:9 – a boil Lev 26:16 – consumption 2Sa 14:25 – from the sole 2Sa 24:13 – three days’ 1Ch 21:12 – even the pestilence 2Ch 26:20 – the Lord