Bible Commentary

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: 27. curse ] As in Deu 28:15 ff.; and another word than in Deu 29:20 f. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges And the anger of the Lord was … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 29:27”

For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods whom they knew not, and [whom] he had not given unto them: 26. went and served ] See Deu 29:18; on whom they knew not cp. Deu 8:3; Deu 8:16, Deu 11:28; on given or allotted see note on Deu 4:19. Fuente: The Cambridge … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 29:26”

Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 25. Then men shall say, etc.] Similarly Jer 22:8 f. The phrase, forsook the covenant occurs there, 1Ki 19:10; 1Ki 19:14 and … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 29:25”

Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what [meaneth] the heat of this great anger? Even all nations shall say,…. For the destruction of this land, and the people of it, would be, as it has been, so very great and awful, and so very remarkable and surprising, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 29:24”

[And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 23. brimstone, etc.] The prediction is in terms of the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 29:23”

So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it; 22. plagues ] Or strokes, see Deu 28:59; Deu 28:61. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 29:22”

And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: 21. separate ] See on Deu 4:41. Unto evil, Jer 21:10; Jer 29:11; Jer 38:4; Jer 39:16; Jer 44:11; Jer 44:27; Jer 44:29; … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 29:21”

The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. 20. the Lord will not consent to pardon him … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 29:20”

And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 19. curse ] Rather oath, for it is on the strength of Jehovah’s oath to be … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 29:19”

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 18. lest there should be ] Perhaps better, may … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 29:18”