18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. 37And you shall become (X)an[f] astonishment, a proverb, (Y)and a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you. Here Deuteronomy develops the idea world of the parallel curse in the Esarhaddon Treaties so unfaithful wives and houses in which the owner cannot reside but couches these motifs in the characteristic syntactic form of the futility curse, significantly expanding upon the Akkadian original by adding further clauses that develop traditional Northwest Semitic motifs concerning frustrated vineyards and livestock (see Smoak 2008). Yet immediately following Deut. Web22 views, 0 likes, 0 loves, 0 comments, 3 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Baldwin First UMC: 4th Sunday of Easter. Eugene Merrill: The result would be a greatly reduced population. 20:6; Job 31:8; Jer. WebDeuteronomy 28 Leviticus 26 (More Curses) Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: Leviticus Chapter 26 Verses 14 - 46 speak of the CURSES / PUNISHMENTS that would come upon Israel if they chose to disobey the laws of Yah. 41You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for (AC)they shall go into captivity. This may well account for the problem of Akkadian literacy in Judah. (AY) 41You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. 2. WebLife and Death, Blessing and Curse In part one (00:00-18:28), Tim and Jon dive into the final movement of Deuteronomy and begin tracing the words blessing and curse. You 40 You shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 36The Lord will (V)bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and (W)there you shall serve other godswood and stone. 52They shall (AL)besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you. 44 He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.. A. 1. 53Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. These 12 offences are sins that could be committed secretly and therefore escape the notice of the authorities. WebDeuteronomy Images and Notes. 11:18-20; cf. Grid & List Views. The short opening set of curses (vv. (:51) Comprehensive Consumption by the Attacking Enemy, Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish., 3. 1988. 7:13; Mal. (D), 17Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes. Finish. (BT) 52They will lay siege(BU) to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. WebBusiness, Economics, and Finance. (E), 18The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. 1:6 (x4); Zech. Whereas the imprecations of 27:1526 and 28:1519 are formulaic in nature, the curses in verses 2068 are cast in impassioned rhetorical style and expound in exhaustive detail the reversal of the blessings specified in verses 713. And it shall come about that as the LORD delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you shall be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it., 2. God wanted His people to know that when these calamities struck, they would recognize the hand of the Lord and not think it was a series of coincidences. Crypto (2) The enemy will be fast. Grid & List Views. WebDeuteronomy 28 Fruit of thy body ( vv. (BW) 54Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. If Israel asked how life may be filled with hope, in the enjoyment of Gods blessing and with This verse is a near replica of 28:1, except for the last clause. Root Strong's. (F), 19You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.(G). Crypto 1619) are the negative counterpart to the opening blessings (vv. 45All these curses will come on you. WebThe first of these 12 curses is upon those who would treat their father or mother with contempt. New International Version (NIV). 15But it shall come to pass, (B)if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: 16Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. Lev. 20The Lord will send on you curses,(H) confusion and rebuke(I) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin(J) because of the evil(K) you have done in forsaking him. 32Your sons and your daughters shall be given to (R)another people, and your eyes shall look and (S)fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be [e]no strength in your (T)hand. 50+ reference books. Meanwhile, across the corpus of Old Aramaic inscriptions, there are nineteen occurrences of the futility curse, stemming from three separate inscriptions datable within the range of the ninth to the eighth centuries BCE, and with a geographic distribution across the Trans- and Cisjordan: from the Tell Fakhariyah bilingual inscription (x6); the Sefire treaties (x11); and the recently discovered stele from Bukn (x2). Jennie Ebeling --Department of Archaeology and Art History, University of Evansville, Copyright 2000-2023 The Bible and Interpretation| All Rights Reserved |The University of Arizona | Developed bySBS Tech SAA, II; Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. The catalogue of seven afflictions expresses Yahwehs sovereignty over all agents of death and destruction. 20The Lord will send on you (C)cursing, (D)confusion, and (E)rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me. (:58-68) DOUBLEBACK ON CURSES THAT REVERSE ISRAELS PREVIOUS BLESSINGS. This rules out negotiations and contributes to horror. (:30b) The Futility of Home Construction, you shall build a house, but you shall not live in it;, c. (:30c) The Futility of Agricultural Labors, you shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not use its fruit., d. (:31) The Futility of Owning Livestock. This was clearly a judgment on covenant violation as the repetition of the conditional protasis clause (because you did not obey the LORD your God) puts beyond doubt. Thus the long and solemn sermon on the curse of God provides a final incentive for wholehearted commitment in renewing the covenant. Certainly this is the logic that underlines the treaty formalized between Jacob and Laban, and the mound of witness that acts as the sign of their covenant, named in Aramaic by Laban, and in Hebrew by Jacob (Genesis 31:47). e. (:32) The Futility of Family Relationships, Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes shall look on and yearn for them continually; but there shall be nothing you can do.. Esarhaddon was the third king of the Sargonid Dynasty of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and the Succession Treaties are the formal record of a treaty concerning the royal succession of Esarhaddons chosen heir, his son Assurbanipal, in Assyria, written in 672 BCE. Just as Ezra had intermediaries to help the people understand the reading of the Torah, translating it and giving the sense (Neh. [a] 21The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. These hyperbolic expressions declare Yahwehs goal: to destroy the covenantal triangle and in effect wipe out the nation itself. 64Then the Lord will scatter(CN) you among all nations,(CO) from one end of the earth to the other. 4, 11, 18) Harvest of crops Fruit of thy cattle ( vv. Conventional images and language are employed with gruesome effect to describe what happens to a people when an enemy comes and besieges a city, causing starvation, cannibalism, and the loss of all dignity. v. 35a), to be followed by a list of agents he will engage. Only these curses expand much beyond the blessings. 18Cursed shall be the [a]fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. 68And the Lord (BF)will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, (BG)You shall never see it again. And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.. These curses are not just speech acts: the text is explicit that an accompanying rite is meant to posit the association between the broken object and the cursed individual. WebIn the third portion, Moses describes the blessings Israel will face if they keep the covenant, and the curses that will destroy them if they do not (Deut. 30(O)You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; (P)you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; (Q)you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes. The contrast is further defined by v. 63: just as the Lord had increased Israels numbers and prosperity, he would, in judgment, decrease them in the day of his wrath. WebDeuteronomy 28:18-24New International Version. (:52) Suffocating Siege by the Attacking Enemy, And it shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the LORD your God has given you.. New Translation Selector Drag & Drop Order. The potential actions of God described in the verses that follow are not the mindless or capricious acts of an unknown and malevolent deity; they are the just acts of a righteous God whose covenant love would have been spurned by his own people. Notice the repeated pattern: Sow much seed / harvest little / harvest consumed by locusts, Plant and cultivate vineyards / no wine to drink / grapes consumed by worms, Have numerous olive trees / no oil to use / olives drop off prematurely, Have sons and daughters / no enjoyment of their company / children go into captivity, 1. WebWho we are:Calvary Chapel Fergus Falls is a Christian fellowship of believers in Jesus Christ located in Fergus Falls, MN. A. How mysterious is the work of the Spirit! In fact, they would keep for themselves their newborn infants and even the afterbirth even if it meant that their husbands and other children had to do without and starve. WebDeuteronomy 28:15-68 Catalog of Covenant Cursings for Israel 1) Ox Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; 2) Donkey your donkey English Hebrew. Finish. (3) The enemy will speak an unintelligible language. Skip Next. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. (CL) You will be uprooted(CM) from the land you are entering to possess. (:47-48) Root Causes and Summary Consequences, Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.. DepartmentBldg Tucson, AZ 85721 TEL 520-621-6897 FAX 520-626-9014. WebA retired old guy who loves people and is happy to share my (FREE) advice, mistakes, valuable career and life lessons, wisdom - and plenty of funny stuff, too. It has become fairly common in the history of the interpretation of the book of Deuteronomy to understand the book as a covenant or treaty detailing the terms of the relationship between God and man, and developed along the same structural lines as ancient Near Eastern treaty texts. (:47-57) DESTRUCTIVE CONSEQUENCES OF A SIEGE BY FOREIGN ENEMIES. (BX) 56The most gentle and sensitive(BY) woman among youso sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her footwill begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter(BZ) 57the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For the terminology see notes on Deuteronomy 28:1. 43 The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you shall go down lower and lower. MacArthur: Significantly, the phrase the Lord your God is used approximately 280 times in the book of Deuteronomy. The second is grotesque: The mother secretly eats her children, and like an animal she also devours the afterbirth. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.. 9 The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he 27:1-28:68). Transliteration. [] 17 When the sun set and it was very dark, there appeared a smoking oven, and a flaming torch which passed between those pieces. Instead, the heavens would rain down dust, which would only exacerbate an already hopeless situation on the earth (v. 24; cf. Eugene Merrill: The inevitable calamities that befall the disobedient nation would be indelibly engraved in their memories and forever after would witness to the truth that the Lord and his covenant will cannot be flaunted. Blessings and curses are directly associated with the covenant God made with the people of Israel, so they should be interpreted within that context. 34So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see. WebDeuteronomy 29:20-28New International Version. He will put an iron yoke(BK) on your neck(BL) until he has destroyed you. The gentlest soul would abandon all restraint and loyalty and in his hour of self-preservation would feed upon his own precious loved ones (v. 54), not retaining a shred of generosity toward others in similar plight (v. 55). Daniel Block: These verses echo Leviticus 26:19, which also portrays the heavens as a sheet of metal preventing moisture above the firmament from watering the earth, and the ground as hardened and resisting cultivation. The fourth term, which means feverish heat, could refer to either category (an illness [Craigie, 343] or severe heat [NIV; Merrill, Deuteronomy, 359]). Deut 1:10; 10:22). 45Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you [i]did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. Like an eagle swooping down on his prey, he will attack his targets suddenly and without warning. Daniel Block: Both panels also depict men and women turning against members of their own families. 49(AI)The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, (AJ)as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50a nation of fierce countenance, (AK)which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. Both Deuteronomy and ancient Near Eastern treaty texts feature a similar structure with a historical prologue before a section of legal material and finally blessings and curses. (AC) You will build a house, but you will not live in it. (:16-19) Comprehensive Spheres of Cursing, Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl., Cursed shall be the offspring of your body, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock., and cursed shall you be when you go out., II. Deuteronomy 28 and the Aramaic Curse Tradition. 1965, The Vassal-Treaties of Esarhaddon and the Dating of Deuteronomy,Oudtestamentische Studin14: 122-154. Deuteronomy 28:16 (KJV) Cursed shalt (:58-62) Final Warning What Will Happen If You Disobey Gods Law? 46They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. Web7 The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. WebDeuteronomy 28 Deuteronomy 28:1-14 Moses then presents the blessings and curses that will relate to the obedience of the people to Gods Commandments The (CP) There you will worship other godsgods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. 5859). 1. Then the text returns in v. 32 to more faithfully reflect the Akkadian, abandoning the syntax of the futility curse and stressing along with the Esarhaddon Treaties that the root cause of the curse which in both seems to envision deportation will be at the hand of an enemy nation, so in Hebrew another people and in the Akkadian a strange enemy.. Who we are:Calvary Chapel Fergus Falls is a Christian fellowship of believers in Jesus Christ located in Fergus Falls, MN. 2003. 4, 11) Offspring of your cows Plenteous ( v. 11) To have many Vexation ( v. 20) Confusion and frustration Rebuke ( v. 20) Reprimand, scold Pestilence ( v. 21) Plagues, diseases Cleave ( vv. Disobedient to the Lord, however, would mean that God would no longer fight for His people. If the ritual aspect of these treaty texts is emphasized, then the need for a formal written translation of the Esarhaddon Treaties may very well be negated. The curses come close to the end of the ceremony of covenant renewal; they provide the speaker with an excellent opportunity for one final warning to the people of the dangers of disobeying the law of God. 43The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. 2:9 (x2); 4:10 (x2); 5:6; 8:7; 9:12, 16; Amos 4:8; 5:11 (x2); 8:12; Micah 3:4; 6:14 (x2), 15 (x3); Zeph. The curses following, reversing the blessings of God which the Israelites had already begun to experience, constitute a final, awesome warning to the Israelites who are now engaged in the last part of the renewal of the covenant in Moab. The inscriptions are the first and only treaties that have been found in Aramaic, a Northwest Semitic language closely related to Hebrew (for the text see Donner and Rllig 2002; vocalization and translation is my own). View Options English. 12:11; Job 31:10; Jer. (CV) There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you. 40You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. Whatever it is, it will be chronic, as the verb form indicates (hidbq, cause to cling to). ), ferocity, and sheer horror swallow up the delicate and kind blessings in the same way that the emaciated cows devoured the fat ones in Pharaoh's dreams. (:49-50) Ruthless Resolve of the Attacking Enemy, The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance who shall have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.. 56The [m]tender and [n]delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, [o]will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter, 57her [p]placenta which comes out (AP)from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. Daniel Block: The curses in verses 2729a, 34 threaten the personal health of the Israelites. In the case of traditions of cursing and treaties, ritual performance could provide a useful perspective with which to think through the connections between these traditions. All rights reserved. 28. The land they live in will produce all the food they need ( Deuteronomy 28:4 ). Eugene Merrill: As impervious as these metals are to water and tools, so both the heavens and the earth would be in the day of calamity. Building Houses and Planting Vineyards: The Inner-Biblical Discourse on an Ancient Israelite Wartime Curse,Journal of Biblical Literature127: 19-35. Weinfeld, Moshe. Whereas verse 20 identifies the targets of doom as the work of the Israelites hands, verse 45 identifies the Israelites themselves as the targets. 26:26; Deut. The rainbow in the Noaic covenant in Genesis 6, or the tablets of stone in the Mosaic covenant in Exodus 24, can be understood in this way. God had delivered her from bondage in Egypt, but the people would voluntarily return to that misery and in such a humiliated condition that no Egyptian would purchase them as slaves. Moreover, the reduction of numbers from the uncountable stars to the remnant is a deliberate harking back to the covenant promise made to Abraham that his offspring would be as multitudinous as the stars (Gen 15:5; 22:17; cf. Hebrew. A sacrifice or ritual slaughter seems to have been inherent to many of the biblical covenants. 39:19, Lev. Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because you did not obey the LORD your God.. Both Deut. WebThe curses are terribleexile, worship of pagan idols, being beaten in battle, vicious attack, infertile soil and unproductive efforts, even to the extent of starvation under siege, such 6:28, 29; Jer. WebWhat are the curses God promised Israel for disobedience? 64Then the Lord (AY)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and (AZ)there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have knownwood and stone. Parpola Simo and Kazuko Watanabe. I also want to stress the importance of these Northwest Semitic inscriptions for understanding the production of biblical literature in general. For in her dire need she intends to eat them(CA) secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities. WebHebrew Interlinear :: Deuteronomy 28:67 (WLC KJV) Search. Michael Grisanti: This last indictment (walls in which you trust, v.52) is Israels fundamental problem. Blight apparently refers to premature drying of grain growing in the fields, perhaps because of the desiccating effect of scorching east wind. MacArthur: The unthinkable activity of cannibalism is introduced in v. 53 and then illustrated in the verses that follow (see 2KI 6:28, 29; La 2:20; 4:10). 61The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law,(CF) until you are destroyed. Supported by: Very often some sort of sign must mark the spot of the treaty agreement. WebDeuteronomy 28:15-68 New International Version Curses for Disobedience 15 However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you: 16