The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Gill's Exposition
The Lord shall smite thee with madness,.... At the calamities befallen them, and through the force of diseases on them:
and blindness; not of body, but of mind; with judicial blindness and hardness…
The curses correspond in form and number Deu 28:15-19 to the blessings Deu 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deut.…
Having viewed the bright side of the cloud, which is towards the obedient, we have now presented to us the dark side, which is towards the disobedient. If we do not keep God's commandments, we not…
Cambridge Bible
See on Deu 28:28; Deu 28:28a.
tossed to and fro Rather, for a tremblingor a horror (Heb. leza-avah). So the v. does not necessarily imply exile. Cp. Jer 15:4; Jer 24:9; Jer 29:18; Jer 34:17.
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