Deuteronomy 28:1-3

Blessings for Obedience

1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:
3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

Deuteronomy 28:1-3 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 28

In this chapter Moses enlarges on the blessings and the curses which belong, the one to the doers, the other to the transgressors of the law; the blessings, De 28:1-14; the curses, some of which concern individual persons, others the whole nation and body of people, and that both under the former and present dispensations, and which had their fulfilment in their former captivities, and more especially in their present dispersion, De 28:15-68.

Cross References 6

  • 1. S Deuteronomy 15:5
  • 2. Exodus 15:26; S Leviticus 26:3; Deuteronomy 7:12-26
  • 3. S Numbers 24:7; S Deuteronomy 26:19
  • 4. Jeremiah 32:24; Zechariah 1:6
  • 5. Psalms 144:15; Psalms 128:1,4
  • 6. S Genesis 39:5
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