申命记 28:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

耶和華必為你打開他天上的寶庫，按時降雨在你的地上，在你手裡所作的一切事上賜福給你；你要借貸給許多國的民，卻不會向人借貸。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 和 华 必 为 你 开 天 上 的 府 库 ， 按 时 降 雨 在 你 的 地 上 。 在 你 手 里 所 办 的 一 切 事 上 赐 福 与 你 。 你 必 借 给 许 多 国 民 ， 却 不 至 向 他 们 借 贷 。

Contextual Overview

¹ You must completely obey the Lord your God, and you must carefully follow all his commands I am giving you today. Then the Lord your God will make you greater than any other nation on earth. ² Obey the Lord your God so that all these blessings will come and stay with you: ³ You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. ⁴ Your children will be blessed, as well as your crops; your herds will be blessed with calves and your flocks with lambs. ⁵ Your basket and your kitchen will be blessed. ⁶ You will be blessed when you come in and when you go out. ⁷ The Lord will help you defeat the enemies that come to fight you. They will attack you from one direction, but they will run from you in seven directions. ⁸ The Lord your God will bless you with full barns, and he will bless everything you do. He will bless the land he is giving you. ⁹ The Lord will make you his holy people, as he promised. But you must obey his commands and do what he wants you to do. ¹⁰ Then everyone on earth will see that you are the Lord 's people, and they will be afraid of you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

open: Deuteronomy 11:14, Leviticus 26:4, Job 38:22, Psalms 65:9-13, Psalms 135:7, Joel 2:23, Joel 2:24

to bless all: Deuteronomy 14:29, Deuteronomy 15:10

lend: Deuteronomy 28:44, Deuteronomy 15:6, Proverbs 22:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:25 - the God Deuteronomy 28:24 - make the rain 1 Kings 8:35 - heaven 1 Kings 18:1 - I will send rain Psalms 37:21 - borroweth Jeremiah 5:24 - that giveth Jeremiah 14:22 - Art Ezekiel 34:26 - shower Malachi 3:10 - open Acts 14:17 - and gave Hebrews 6:7 - the earth

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these things happened, the Lord spoke his word to Abram in a vision: "Abram, don't be afraid. I will defend you, and I will give you a great reward."

Genesis 15:12
As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep. While he was asleep, a very terrible darkness came.

Genesis 20:3
But one night God spoke to Abimelech in a dream and said, "You will die. The woman you took is married."

Genesis 28:1
Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and commanded him, "You must not marry a Canaanite woman.

Genesis 28:2
Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, in Northwest Mesopotamia. Laban, your mother's brother, lives there. Marry one of his daughters.

Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent Jacob to Northwest Mesopotamia, to Laban the brother of Rebekah. Bethuel the Aramean was the father of Laban and Rebekah, and Rebekah was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 28:6
Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Northwest Mesopotamia to find a wife there. He also learned that Isaac had commanded Jacob not to marry a Canaanite woman

Genesis 28:7
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Northwest Mesopotamia.

Genesis 28:11
When he came to a place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. He found a stone and laid his head on it to go to sleep.

Genesis 28:12
Jacob dreamed that there was a ladder resting on the earth and reaching up into heaven, and he saw angels of God going up and coming down the ladder.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure,.... The Lord has his treasures of snow and of hail, and of wind, Job 38:22; but here his good treasure, as appears by what follows, is his treasure of rain. In the Targum of Jonathan it is said,

"there are four keys in the hand of the Lord of the whole world, which he does not deliver into the hands of any prince; the keys of life, and of the grave, and of food, and of rain:''

the heaven, to give the rain unto thy land in its season; that is, he will open the heaven, where his good treasure of rain is laid up, and bring it forth or, the land of Canaan for the enriching of it; or will open the windows thereof, and pour down the blessing; see Malachi 3:10; and that at the proper time, both in autumn and spring, the one is called the former, and the other the latter rain; the one was in Marchesvan, or October, and the other in Nisan, or March, as the Targum of Jonathan; the former rain for the fitting the earth for seed, or for watering it when sown, and the latter for the plumping of it before harvest:

and to bless all the work of thine hand; in agriculture, for without the blessing of rain, all the labour of the husbandman would be to little purpose:

and thou shall lend unto many nations, and thou shall not borrow;

Malachi 3:10- :. The connection of these words with what goes before may lead to observe this sense of them, that they should furnish other countries with corn, and not need any of theirs; see Ezekiel 27:17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A comparison of this chapter with Exodus 23:20-23 and Leviticus 26:0 will show how Moses here resumes and amplifies the promises and threats already set forth in the earlier records of the Law. The language rises in this chapter to the sublimest strains, especially in the latter part of it; and the prophecies respecting the dispersion and degradation of the Jewish nation in its later days are among the most remarkable in scripture. They are plain, precise, and circumstantial; and the fulfillment of them has been literal, complete, and undeniable.

The Blessing. The six repetitions of the word “blessed” introduce the particular forms which the blessing would take in the various relations of life.

Deuteronomy 28:5

The “basket” or bag was a customary means in the East for carrying about whatever might be needed for personal uses (compare Deuteronomy 26:2; John 13:29).

The “store” is rather the kneading-trough Exodus 8:3; Exodus 12:34. The blessings here promised relate, it will be observed, to private and personal life: in Deuteronomy 28:7 those which are of a more public and national character are brought forward.

Deuteronomy 28:9

The oath with which God vouchsafed to confirm His promises to the patriarchs (compare Genesis 22:16; Hebrews 6:13-14) contained by implication these gifts of holiness and eminence to Israel (compare the marginal references).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 28:12. The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure — The clouds, so that a sufficiency of fructifying showers should descend at all requisite times, and the vegetative principle in the earth should unfold and exert itself, so that their crops should be abundant.