A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
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Gill's Exposition
So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate,.... Not only the rustic that has been brought up meanly, and used to hard living; but one that has been bred very tenderly, and lived in a…
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.…
One would have thought that enough had been said to possess them with a dread of that wrath of God which is revealed from heaven against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. But to show how…
Cambridge Bible
fierce countenance Lit. strong, hard or inflexible. So Dan 8:23 of Antiochus Epiphanes. Cp. Eze 2:4; Eze 3:7. On regard the personsee on Deu 1:17.
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