(AZ) 42Swarms of locusts(BA) will take over all your trees and the crops of your land. Y suceder el da que crucis el Jordn hacia la tierra que os da Jehovah tu Dios, que os levantaris piedras grandes, las cuales recubriris con cal. 27a, 28a, cf. WebHeres what will happen if you dont obediently listen to the Voice of GOD, your God, and diligently keep all the commandments and guidelines that Im commanding you today. 2 Sam 24:13; 1 Kgs 8:37; Ezek 5:12; Amos 4:10), but in its finality it speaks metaphorically of the affliction of deportation (Lev 26:25) or disinheritance (Num 14:12). 49The Lord will bring a nation against you(BM) from far away, from the ends of the earth,(BN) like an eagle(BO) swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,(BP) 50a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old(BQ) or pity for the young. 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 2002. Eugene Merrill: Most immediately, however, destruction and ruin would come through disease, blight, and unremitting drought. 23:15; Dan. 20, 45, 47, 62). [] 17 When the sun set and it was very dark, there appeared a smoking oven, and a flaming torch which passed between those pieces. Copyright 2002-2023 Got Questions Ministries. (W) 26Your carcasses will be food for all the birds(X) and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away. The imbalance [between blessings and curses] finds an obvious reason in light of the purpose of the exposition of the curses in the address of Moses. The lists of curses in other ancient Near Eastern treaty texts typically were longer than the lists of blessings. In the process the land and the children God has given will be lost. (CU) 68The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. Placing the biblical curses within the larger context of this ancient Near Eastern material provides new insights into the background and function of the curses in the book of Deuteronomy. And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships ,. Michael Grisanti: Moses clearly defines the people on whom the curses will fall, namely, those who do not obey the stipulations of the covenant. View Options English. 2. And not just the most crass or barbaric among them would do so. (: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. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under heaven. 44He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. 56-57a). A. Deu 28:63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. 34So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see. Crouch, Carly L. 2014. The exemptions were possible because God would grant His people victory in battle. These hyperbolic expressions declare Yahwehs goal: to destroy the covenantal triangle and in effect wipe out the nation itself. Both the biblical and inscriptional texts seem to demonstrate a large body of rites and rituals that would have come along with the formalization of a treaty or covenant. Transliteration. Nu 1314; Dt 1:28) or resorted to other sources of strength (political alliances, idolatry, etc.). 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. (Y) 27The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt(Z) and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 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. 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. 2:2, Deut. The first image is tragic: Exhibiting no compassion toward his brothers and remaining children, the father refuses to share with them the flesh of his children. 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. They will leave you no grain, new wine(BR) or olive oil,(BS) nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. I also want to stress the importance of these Northwest Semitic inscriptions for understanding the production of biblical literature in general. He 39You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the (AB)wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 5:10 (x2); Jer. Eugene Merrill: The result would be a greatly reduced population. As well as helping us to understand the compositional process that belies the book of Deuteronomy, this recognition increases our understanding of the ritual context of treaty formation in the ancient Near East. Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. license, Tempe | 90 views, 3 likes, 0 loves, 10 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from First Baptist Church - Tempe: First Baptist Church of Tempe April 30, 2023 Live Stream License # 145555 WebDeuteronomy 29:20-28New International Version. Once she lived in security, but now she would live in anxiety, despair, and in constant suspense and fear for her life (vv. You may unsubscribe from Bible Gateways emails at any time. (CP) There you will worship other godsgods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. (: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. 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). 11:11; Hos. 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. WebNow, Deuteronomy 28 has a long and detailed list of curses, and I want to focus on the curses that cover sicknesses and diseases that Jesus has redeemed you and me from: Consumption (diseases that cause your lungs to waste away), fever, and inflammation (Deut. Deut. Deut 1:10; 10:22). (8 The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. Crypto B. (:59-62) Overturning of Previous Blessings into Extraordinary Curses, a. No less tragic and stark would be the reversal of the covenant promise concerning the land. Clearly the ritual context of treaty formation in ancient Israel and Judah involved a complex body of rites and actions, encompassing at the very least signs, sacrifice, the recitation and writing of curses and perhaps a ritual procession between the two halves of an animal as implied in Genesis 15, and explicit in Jeremiah 34. WebIn this section Moses identified about four times as many curses as he had listed previous blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14). (CL) You will be uprooted(CM) from the land you are entering to possess. He will put an iron yoke(BK) on your neck(BL) until he has destroyed you. 26:26; Deut. 1:13; Deuteronomy 28:30: Deut. WebDeuteronomy 28:18-24New International Version. Frankena, Rintje. 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. Weinfeld, Moshe. When heard orally, these curses create terror in the mind of the hearer. (CQ) 65Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place(CR) for the sole of your foot. WebThe opposite is true also of the curses (Deuteronomy 28:15). 1:28 (x2). The blessings make Israel's future sound like the perfect mix of the Garden of Eden and the promises made to Abraham. 25(I)The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become [d]troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. The LORD will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they shall pursue you until you perish.. 27:1-28:68). Their refusal to trust in their covenantal Lord led to their rebellion and idolatry and, eventually, to their experience of covenantal curse. Traces of Assyrian Treaty Formulae in Deuteronomy,Biblica46: 417-427. (AE) 31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Immediately following this statement, the text shifts again, employing further curses in the guise of the futility form. 4748). 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.. 42 The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground. WebHebrew Interlinear :: Deuteronomy 28:67 (WLC KJV) Search. Here animals are cut in two, before a flaming torch passes between the two parts of the animals in a symbolic procession. Whereas verse 20 has Yahweh dispatching the agents of Israels doom, verse 45 compares the curses to an animal pursuing and overtaking its prey. 40You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. 1965. (BG) 47Because you did not serve(BH) the Lord your God joyfully and gladly(BI) in the time of prosperity, 48therefore in hunger and thirst,(BJ) in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. Cant avoid a pang of depression when it appears that my religion and that of so many others rests on a sacred book which gives an important places to, of all things, futility curses. The Book of Deuteronomy. On the other hand, a number of scholars have been wary to posit a direct literary relationship between the Succession Treaties and the book of Deuteronomy, usually due to their reticence to attribute the kind of Akkadian literacy that this would necessitate to the Hebrew scribes who wrote the biblical text (e.g., Morrow 2005; Crouch 2014). 28The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. WebIn Deuteronomy 28 Moses sets before the congregation of Israel the blessings and the curses of the covenant that they are renewing. 6:28, 29; Jer. your donkey shall be torn away from you. WebIn the same connection Deuteronomy 27:15-26 contain a list of crimes which are visited with a curse and no blessings; this cannot be the proclamation of blessing and cursing which is here required. Between the Covenant Code and Esarhaddons Succession Treaty,Journal of Ancient Judaism3: 123-140. 26:29; 2 Kin. Deuteronomy 28:1 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: Deuteronomy 28:2 - And all (8 The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. 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. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. (:29b) Material Deprivation and Physical Danger, and you shall not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you., 3. The image of the woman who becomes hostile even toward her afterbirth is shocking (vv. 51They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. 42Locusts shall [h]consume all your trees and the produce of your land. Curses in the Book of Deuteronomy and in Old Aramaic Inscriptions, Media, Video and Lectures From The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies of the University of Arizona, Teaching the Bible in Public Schools and Higher Ed, Scholars, Frauds, the Media and the Public, Essays on Minimalism from Bible and Interpretation, Final Reports on the Yehoash Inscription and James Ossuary from the Israeli Antiquities Authority, Essays on the James Ossuary and the Temple Tablet from Bible and Interpretation, University of Arizona, Center for Judaic Studies, Department of Archaeology and Art History, University of Evansville. Christs body is under Grace and not Law, neither does the curses of the Law (Deuteronomy 28) come for His members, Sealed . . Unlike the Esarhaddon Treaty, these inscriptions are written in Old Aramaic, a Northwest Semitic language utilized in Syria during the first millennium BCE. Grid & List Views. 29 Apr 2023 22:28:03 How mysterious is the work of the Spirit! 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. The syntactical, lexical and ideational regularity of the futility curses demonstrates that it was a standard literary form which was utilized by Northwest Semitic scribes in the first-millennium BCE (see also Ramos 2016). Continues after advertising. SAA, II; Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. While linked in substance, the styles of these bookends differ. Day, John. The law code of the book of Deuteronomy is capped with a series of curses that threaten harm upon any individual that should fail to keep the Deuteronomic laws. 45All these curses will come on you. 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. 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. 5657a). Web7 The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. 23And (H)your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron. 5:1-11:32), then the particular rules (Deut. 15 - 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. 19Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. At the same time, the Esarhaddon Treaties still provide the conceptual framework for these curses. B. March 2018. (BC) They will be the head, but you will be the tail.(BD). In particular, a Neo-Assyrian treaty written in Akkadian in the seventh century BCE, The Succession Treaties of Esarhaddon (EST for short) has been suggested by some scholars to provide direct parallels with some of the curses found in Deuteronomy 28 (Weinfeld 1965; Frankena 1965; Levinson and Stackert 2012). B. your sheep shall be given to your enemies. (:63-68) Hopeless Condition How Bad Will It Get? (:64) Scattered and Subjected to Foreign Bondage, Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known., And among those nations you shall find no rest, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. Start your free trial today! The best value in digital Bible study. And He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. Daniel Block: In verse 20 we arrive at the longest literary unit in Deuteronomy. 54The [k]sensitive and very refined man among you (AN)will[l] be hostile toward his brother, toward (AO)the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind, 55so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. 1:8; Jer. 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. WebThe Curse of Covenant Reversal: Deuteronomy 28:58-68 and Israel's Exile become clear that this passage relates both backwards to the promises given to Abraham and forwards to the renewal of those promises in the renewed hope of the prophets of Israel. 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 . Hebrew Root. (:38-44) Productivity Opposition Futility Curses, You shall bring out much seed to the field but you shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it. Everything the people of Israel have will be taken by those who conquer them: their fiances will be raped, their homes and vineyards taken, their oxen slaughtered, their asses and sheep stolen, their children enslaved, and their produce consumed. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue(AB) you. By Laura Quick 39 You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall devour them. At critical junctures Moses inserts reminders of the causes of these disasters. Only these curses expand much beyond the blessings. Michael Grisanti: vv. Whereas in verse 20 Yahweh commissions a triad of agents of doom against Israel, verse 45 replaces these with a triad of verbs. 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. WebDeuteronomy Images and Notes. All rights reserved. The past few decades have brought to light additional inscriptions that also provide paralleled phenomena to the curses in Deuteronomy 28. Daniel Block: The curses in verses 2729a, 34 threaten the personal health of the Israelites. He demonstrated his stupendous power and willingness to intervene in their behalf on numerous occasions. Supported by: 20A forms with 25 a clear antithesis to Deuteronomy 28:7, but is more elaborate English Hebrew. 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.