Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 28:56
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
56. The most tender and most delicate woman among you ] Almost as in Deu 28:54.
which would not adventure ] Rather, who had never ventured or tried (for the vb. see on Deu 4:34), having been accustomed to be carried.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 56. The tender and delicate woman] This was literally fulfilled when Jerusalem was besieged by the Romans; a woman named Mary, of a noble family, driven to distraction by famine, boiled and ate her own child! See a similar case 2Kg 6:29; and See Clarke on Le 26:29.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Evil, i.e. unmerciful: she will desire or design their destruction for her food.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And the tender and delicate woman amongst you,…. Who is instanced in because of her sex, which is more pitiful and compassionate, and especially one that has been brought up genteelly, and has always lived deliciously, on the most delicate fare, and nicest dainties, and used to all the delights of nature:
which would not venture to set her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness; for fear of taking cold, or defiling her feet:
her eye shall be evil towards the husband of her bosom, and towards her son, and towards her daughter; begrudge them every bit they eat, and restrain food from them as much as in her lies, and even snatch it out of their mouths; so Josephus e relates, that
“women snatched the food out of the mouths of their husbands, and sons out of the mouths of their fathers; and, what is most miserable, mothers out of the mouths of their infants.”
e De Bello Jud. l. 5. c. l0. sect. 3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(56) The tender and delicate woman.This was fulfilled to the very letter in the case of Mary of Beth-ezob in the siege of Jerusalem by Titus. The story is told with horrible minuteness by Josephus, and again by Eusebius in his Church History. The secrecy of the deed was one of its horrors.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Deu 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
Ver. 56. The tender and delicate. ] These threatenings were tanquam in speculo conspicuae, literally and punctually fulfilled upon the Jews at the last destruction of Jerusalem, at which time wrath came upon them to the utmost. 2Th 2:6-13
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
adventure. Old English idiom for “venture to go”.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
and delicate: Isa 3:16, Lam 4:3-6
her eye shall be evil: Deu 28:54
Reciprocal: Job 39:16 – as Pro 22:9 – He that hath a bountiful eye Pro 23:6 – an Isa 32:9 – ye women Isa 47:1 – thou shalt Isa 49:15 – they may Lam 4:10 – in Mic 1:16 – thy delicate Mar 7:22 – an evil Mar 13:17 – General Luk 21:23 – woe 1Ti 5:6 – in pleasure
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Deu 28:56-57. The tender and delicate woman shall eat her children secretly Not in order to escape the infamy of the action, but lest others should have a share with her. In the siege and straitness This was fulfilled about six hundred years after the time of Moses, among the Israelites, when Samaria was besieged by the king of Syria, and two women agreed together, the one to give up her son to be boiled and eaten that day, and the other to deliver up her son to be dressed and eaten the next, and one of them was eaten accordingly, 2Ki 6:28. It was fulfilled again about nine hundred years after Moses, in the siege of Jerusalem, before the Babylonish captivity, Bar 2:1-3; Lam 4:10. And again it was fulfilled above one thousand five hundred years after Moses, in the last siege of Jerusalem by Titus; Josephus informing us particularly of a noble womans killing and eating her own sucking child; and she did it, as Moses says she should do it, secretly; for, according to Josephus, when she had boiled and eaten half, she covered up the rest, and kept it for another time. At so many different times, and distant periods, hath this prophecy been fulfilled, to the perpetual reproach of the Jewish nation; for never was the like done, either by Greek or barbarian. See the fruit of being abandoned of God! Nothing is too barbarous for such to do.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
28:56 The tender and delicate {s} woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
{s} As came to pass in the days of Joram king of Israel, 2Ki 6:28 and when the Romans besieged Jerusalem.