Gen 9:25, Deu 28:15-26, Judg 9:20, 57, 2Ki 1:10-12, Jer 28:16, 29:21-23 | TSK | STEP | Cursed. a servant.The devoted nations, which God destroyed before Israel, were descended from Canaan: and so were the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, who were at length subjugated with dreadful destruction by the Greeks and Romans. The Africans, who have been bought and sold like beasts, were also his posterity.

Genesis 9:25

Cursed.

22; 3:14; 4:11; 49:7; De 27:16; 28:18; Mt 25:41; Joh 8:34

a servant.The devoted nations, which God destroyed before Israel, were descended from Canaan: and so were the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, who were at length subjugated with dreadful destruction by the Greeks and Romans. The Africans, who have been bought and sold like beasts, were also his posterity.

Jos 9:23,27; Jud 1:28-30; 1Ki 9:20,21; 2Ch 8:7,8; Joh 8:34

Deuteronomy 28:15-26

if thou wilt.

Le 26:14-46; La 2:17; Da 9:11-13; Mal 2:2; Ro 2:8,9

all these curses.The same variety of expression is used in these terrible curses, as in the preceding blessings, to intimate every kind of prosperity or adversity, personal, relative, and public. Consulting the marginal references will generally lead to the best exposition of the terms employed; and will frequently point out the fulfilment of the promises and threatenings.

2; 27:15-26; 29:20; Isa 3:11; Ga 3:10

in the city.

3-14; Pr 3:33; Isa 24:6-12; 43:28; Jer 9:11; 26:6; 44:22; La 1:1

La 2:11-22; 4:1-13; Mal 2:2; 4:6

in the field.

55; Ge 3:17,18; 4:11,12; 5:29; 8:21,22; 1Ki 17:1,5,12

Jer 14:2-5,18; La 5:10; Joe 1:4,8-18; 2:3; Am 4:6-9; Hag 1:9-11

Hag 2:16,17; Mal 3:9-12

5; Ps 69:22; Pr 1:32; Hag 1:6; Zec 5:3,4; Mal 2:2; Lu 16:25

the fruit of thy body.

4; 5:9; Job 18:16-19; Ps 109:9-15; La 2:11,12,20; Ho 9:11-14

Mal 2:3; Lu 23:29,30

thy land.

16; Le 26:19,20,26; Hab 3:17

6; Jud 5:6,7; 2Ch 15:5

send.

Ps 7:11; Mal 2:2

vexation.

1Sa 14:20; Ps 80:4-16; Isa 28:19; 30:17; 51:20; 66:15; Zec 14:12,13

Joh 3:36; 1Th 2:16

for to do. Heb. which thou wouldest do. until thou be.

4:26; Le 26:31-33,38; Jos 23:16

Ex 5:3; Le 26:25; Nu 14:12; 16:46-49; 25:9; 2Sa 24:15; Jer 15:2; 16:4

Jer 21:6,7; 24:10; Mt 26:7

a consumption.

Le 26:16; 2Ch 6:28; Jer 14:12

sword. or, drought. blasting.

1Ki 8:37; Am 4:9; Hag 2:17 The language here is remarkable: "Thy heaven;" that part of the atmosphere which was over Judea, instead of being replenished with aqueous vapours, should become, with respect to moisture, like brass: and consequently their land would become as hard as iron, and wholly incapable of cultivation; while the clouds might give showers in abundance, and the earth be moist and fruitful in other regions.

Le 26:19; 1Ki 17:1; 18:2; Jer 14:1-6; Am 4:7

make the rain.This was a natural consequence of their heaven's being brass, or yielding no rain; for the surface of the earth being reduced to powder, and frequently taken up by strong winds, would fall down in showers instead of rain. These showers of sand frequently, in the East, bury whole caravans.

12; Ge 19:24; Job 18:15-21; Isa 5:24; Am 4:11

cause thee.

7; 32:30; Le 26:17,36,37; Isa 30:17

removed. Heb. for a removing.

Jer 15:2-9; 24:9; 29:18; 34:17; Eze 23:46; Lu 21:24

1Sa 17:44-46; Ps 79:1-3; Isa 34:3; Jer 7:33; 8:1; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20

Eze 39:17-20

Judges 9:20

let fire come out.

15,23,56,57; 7:22; 2Ch 20:22,23; Ps 21:9,10; 28:4; 52:1-5

Ps 120:3,4; 140:10

Judges 9:57

upon them.

20,45; Jos 6:26; 1Ki 16:34

2 Kings 1:10-12

If I be a man.

2:23,24; Nu 16:28-30; 1Ki 18:36-38; 22:28; 2Ch 36:16; Ps 105:15

Mt 21:41; 23:34-37; Ac 5:3-10

let fire.Or, rather, as the original literally imports, and the LXX. render, [katabesetai pyr,] fire shall come down; Elijah's words being simply declarative, and not imprecatory.

Nu 11:1; 16:35; Job 1:16; Ps 106:18; Lu 9:54; Heb 12:29; Re 11:5

consumed.

Da 3:22,25; 6:24; Ac 12:19

Again.

Nu 16:41; 1Sa 6:9; Isa 26:11; Jer 5:3; Joh 18:5-12; Ac 4:16,17

O man.

1Sa 22:17-19; Pr 29:12; Isa 32:7; Mt 2:16; Lu 22:63,64

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