Deu 27:15-26, 29:12-14, 2Ch 15:13-14, Neh 5:12-13, 13:25, Psa 119:106 | TSK | STEP | Cursed be. maketh. an abomination. and putteth. And all. Amen.To each of the curses the people were to say Amen, as well as to the blessings; to denote a profession of their faith in the truth of them, that they were the real declarations of the wrath of God; and an acknowledgement of the equity of these curses. It was such an imprecation upon themselves, as strongly obliged them to have nothing to do with those evil practices on which the curse is entailed. We read of those who entered a curse to walk in God's law. Ne 10:29. All the people, by saying this Amen, became bound one for another, that they would observe God's laws, by which every man was obliged, as far as he could, to prevent his neighbour from breaking these laws, and to reprove those that had offended, lest they should bear sin and the curse for them.

Deuteronomy 27:15-26

Cursed be.

28:16-19; Ge 9:25; 1Sa 26:19; Jer 11:3

maketh.

4:16-23; 5:8; Ex 20:4,23; 32:1-4; 34:17; Le 19:4; 26:1

Isa 44:9,10,17; Ho 13:2,3

an abomination.

29:17; 1Ki 11:5-7; 2Ki 23:13; 2Ch 33:2; Isa 44:19; Eze 7:20

Da 11:31; Mt 24:15; Re 17:4,5

and putteth.

Ge 31:19,34; 2Ki 17:19; Ps 44:20,21; Jer 23:24; Eze 8:7-12; 14:4

And all.

Nu 5:22; Jer 11:5; 28:6; Mt 6:13; 1Co 14:16

Amen.To each of the curses the people were to say Amen, as well as to the blessings; to denote a profession of their faith in the truth of them, that they were the real declarations of the wrath of God; and an acknowledgement of the equity of these curses. It was such an imprecation upon themselves, as strongly obliged them to have nothing to do with those evil practices on which the curse is entailed. We read of those who entered a curse to walk in God's law. Ne 10:29. All the people, by saying this Amen, became bound one for another, that they would observe God's laws, by which every man was obliged, as far as he could, to prevent his neighbour from breaking these laws, and to reprove those that had offended, lest they should bear sin and the curse for them.

21:18-21; Ex 20:12; 21:17; Le 19:3; Pr 30:11-17; Eze 22:7; Mt 15:4-6

19:14; Pr 22:28; 23:10,11

Le 19:14; Job 29:15; Pr 28:10; Isa 56:10; Mt 15:14; Re 2:14

10:18; 24:17; Ex 22:21-24; 23:2,8,9; Ps 82:2-4; Pr 17:23; 31:5

Mic 3:9; Mal 3:5

22:30; Ge 35:22; 49:4; Le 18:8; 20:11; 2Sa 16:22; 1Ch 5:1; Eze 22:10

Am 2:7; 1Co 5:1

Ex 22:19; Le 18:23; 20:15

Le 18:9; 20:17; 2Sa 13:1,8-14; Eze 22:11

Le 18:17; 20:14

19:11,12; Ex 20:13; 21:12-14; Le 24:17; Nu 35:31; 2Sa 3:27; 11:15-17

2Sa 12:9-12; 13:28; 20:9,10

10:17; 16:19; Ex 23:7,8; Ps 15:5; Pr 1:11-29; Eze 22:12,13

Mic 3:10,11; 7:2,3; Mt 26:15; 27:3,4; Ac 1:18

Cursed.

15; 28:15-68; Ps 119:21; Mt 25:41; 1Co 16:22

confirmeth.

Jer 11:3-5; Eze 18:24; Ro 3:19,20; 10:5; Ga 3:10

Deuteronomy 29:12-14

thou shouldest.

5:2,3; Ex 19:5,6; Jos 24:25; 2Ki 11:17; 2Ch 15:12-15

enter. Heb. pass.This is an allusion to the solemn ceremony used by several ancient nations, when they entered into a covenant with each other. The victims, slain as a sacrifice on this occasion, were divided, and and parts laid asunder: the contracting parties then passed between them, imprecating, as a curse on those who violated the sacred compact, that they might in like manner be cut asunder. (Ge 15:10.) St. Cyril, in his work against Julian, shows that passing between the divided parts of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other people.

into his oath.

14; 2Ch 15:12-15; Ne 10:28,29

establish.

7:6; 26:18,19; 28:9

he may be.

Ge 17:7; 26:3,4; 28:13-15; Ex 6:7; Jer 31:31-33; 32:38; Heb 11:16

Jer 31:31-34; Heb 8:7-12

2 Chronicles 15:13-14

whosoever.

Ex 22:20; De 13:5-15; 17:2-5; 1Ki 18:40

whether small.

Ge 19:11; Ex 12:29; De 29:18; Job 3:19; 34:19; Ps 115:13; Ac 26:22

Re 6:15; 20:12

sware.

Ne 5:13; 10:29

trumpets.

Ps 81:1-4

Nehemiah 5:12-13

We will restore.

2Ch 28:14,15; Ezr 10:12; Mt 19:21,22; Lu 19:8

I called.

10:29; 13:25; 2Ki 23:2,3; 2Ch 6:22,23; 15:13,14; Ezr 10:5

Jer 34:8-10; Mt 26:63

I shook my lap.So "when the Roman ambassadors entered the senate of Carthage, they had their toga gathered up in their bosom, and said, We carry here peace and war; you may have which you will. The senate answered, You may give which you please. They then shook their toga, and said, We bring you war."--Livy.

Mt 10:14; Ac 13:51; 18:6

So God.

1Sa 15:28; 1Ki 11:29-31; Zec 5:3,4

emptied. Heb. empty, or void. Amen.

Nu 5:22; De 27:14-26

praised.

1Ch 16:36

the people.

2Ki 23:3; Ps 50:14; 76:11; 119:106; Ec 5:5