Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
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Gill's Exposition
Blessed shalt thou be in the city,.... Not only in the city of Jerusalem, where the temple would be built, and there be blessed with the service, worship, and ordinances of God, but in all other…
A comparison of this chapter with Exo 23:20-23 and Lev. 26 will show how Moses here resumes and amplifies the promises and threats already set forth in the earlier records of the Law. The language…
The blessings are here put before the curses, to intimate, 1. That God is slow to anger, but swift to show mercy: he has said it, and sworn, that he would much rather we would obey and live than sin…
Six forms of blessing, each introd. by the pass. part, of the vb. to bless. They cover Israel's life: in town and field, in their offspring, crops and cattle, annual harvests and daily bread, all…
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