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Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 28:24

Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 28:24

The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

24. The Sirocco ( Sheriyeh), as the present writer has more than once encountered it in Judaea, brings up a fog of dust as dense and fine as a sea-mist, but very destructive. Until thou be destroyed, see Deu 28:20.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Verse 24. The rain of thy land powder and dust] As their heavens – atmosphere, clouds, c., were to be as brass-yielding no rain so the surface of the earth must be reduced to powder; and this, being frequently taken up by the strong winds, would fall down in showers instead of rain. Whole caravans have been buried under showers of sand; and Thevenot, a French traveller, who had observed these showers of dust, &c., says, “They grievously annoy all they fall on, filling their eyes, ears, nostrils, &c.” – Travels in the East, part 1, book ii., chap. 80. The ophthalmia in Egypt appears to be chiefly owing to a very fine sand, the particles of which are like broken glass, which are carried about by the wind, and, entering into the ciliary glands, produce grievous and continual inflammations.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

Either,

1. Thy rain shall be as unprofitable to thy ground and seed as if it were only so much dust. Or,

2. Instead of rain shall come nothing but dust from heaven, which being raised and carried up by the wind in great abundance, doth return and fall upon the earth as it were in clouds or showers.

Until thou be destroyed, to wit, by famine, following these great droughts.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

24. the rain of thy land powder anddustan allusion probably to the dreadful effects of tornadoesin the East, which, raising the sands in immense twisted pillars,drive them along with the fury of a tempest. These shifting sands aremost destructive to cultivated lands; and in consequence of theirencroachments, many once fertile regions of the East are now barrendeserts.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust,…. That is, instead of showers of rain in their season, to water, refresh, and enrich the earth, and make it fruitful; and for want of them, and through the heat of the sun, being dried and parched, and its clods crumbled into dust, this should be raised up into the air by the force of winds, and let down again in showers of dust; whereby the few herbs, plants, or green trees on it would be utterly destroyed: and so the Targum of Jonathan interprets it of the Lord’s sending a wind that should raise the dust and earth upon the herbs of their fields. Such ploughing winds, that cast up the earth and sand, and dust, into the air, whereby men and cattle are sometimes covered, are frequent in the eastern countries; of which [See comments on Jon 4:8];

from heaven shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed; that is, from the air, up to which the dust is carried by the wind, and then let fall in vast quantities, like showers, which are very destructive.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(24) Powder and dust.The great desert, which lies on the eastern frontier of Palestine, makes this only too possible.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

Ver. 24. The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust Houbigant renders this, the Lord shall give to thy land, instead of rain, dust and sand, which shall fall from heaven upon thee, &c. That is, by reason of the long drought, dust, blown up into the air by the wind, shall fall down in showers, instead of rain. The terrible consequence, of this phenomenon are thus related by an author who has travelled to the east: “These dry showers most grievously annoy all they fall upon, filling their eyes, ears, nostrils, and are enough to deprive them of their sight.” See Thevenot, part 1: book 2 chap. 80.

Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke

Deu 28:24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

Ver. 24. Powder and dust. ] Which the wind and other things raise in times of drought.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

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. Deu 28:12, Gen 19:24, Job 18:15-21, Isa 5:24, Amo 4:11

Reciprocal: Gen 4:12 – it Deu 11:17 – shut up Rth 1:1 – a famine 1Ki 8:35 – heaven 1Ki 18:2 – a sore Psa 68:6 – the rebellious Isa 5:6 – also Jer 5:25 – General Jer 14:4 – the ground Amo 4:7 – I have Hag 1:10 – General Zec 14:17 – even

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge