Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 11:17
And [then] the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
Heaven is compared sometimes to a bottle, Job 38:37, which may be either stopped or opened; sometimes to a great storehouse, wherein God lays up his treasures of rain, Job 38:22; Psa 33:7, the doors whereof God is said to open when he gives rain, and to shut when he withholds it. See 1Ki 8:35; 2Ch 6:26; 7:13.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And then the Lord’s wrath be kindled against you,…. For their idolatry, nothing being more provoking to him than that, it being contrary to his nature and being, as well as to his will, and to his honour and glory:
and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain; the treasures and storehouses of it there, or the windows of it, the clouds, which when opened let it down, but when shut withhold it; the key of rain is one of the keys which the Jews say k the Lord keeps in his own hand, and with it he opens and no man shuts, and shuts and no man opens; see
De 28:12
and that the land yield not her fruit; which is unavoidably the case when rain is withheld:
and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you; for if the land does not yield its fruits sufficient to support the inhabitants of it, they must in course perish.
k Targum Jon. in Deut. xxviii. 12.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Deu 11:17 And [then] the LORD’S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
Ver. 17. And he shut up the heaven. ] The keys of heaven, of the heart, of the womb, and of the grave, God keeps and carries under his own belt, as we may say.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
shut up. The power of the Creator thus manifested. Compare 1Ki 8:35. Jam 5:17.
land = ground. Hebrew ‘adamah.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
the Lord’s: Deu 6:15, Deu 30:17, Deu 30:18
shut up: Deu 28:23, Deu 28:24, 1Ki 8:35, 1Ki 17:1, 2Ch 6:26, 2Ch 7:13, Jer 14:1-6, Amo 4:7, Hag 1:9-11
ye perish: Deu 4:26, Deu 8:19, Deu 8:20, Deu 30:18, Jos 23:13-16
Reciprocal: Lev 26:20 – for your land Deu 29:18 – among you man Zec 14:17 – even