申命记 28:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

耶和華必使你作頭不作尾，居上不居下，只要你聽從耶和華你的　神的誡命，就是我今日吩咐你的，謹守遵行；

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 若 听 从 耶 和 华 ─ 你 　 神 的 诫 命 ， 就 是 我 今 日 所 吩 咐 你 的 ， 谨 守 遵 行 ， 不 偏 左 右 ， 也 不 随 从 事 奉 别 神 ， 耶 和 华 就 必 使 你 作 首 不 作 尾 ， 但 居 上 不 居 下 。

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

the head: Numbers 24:18, Numbers 24:19, Isaiah 9:14, Isaiah 9:15

if that thou: Deuteronomy 28:1, Deuteronomy 4:6-9, Philippians 1:27

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 15:6 - thou shalt reign Deuteronomy 28:44 - General Judges 15:11 - Philistines 2 Samuel 22:44 - head Lamentations 3:45 - as

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15
All this land that you see I will give to you and your descendants forever.

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 26:3
Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. I will give you and your descendants all these lands, and I will keep the oath I made to Abraham your father.

Genesis 26:24
The Lord appeared to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Don't be afraid, because I am with you. I will bless you and give you many descendants because of my servant Abraham."

Genesis 28:4
May he give you and your descendants the blessing of Abraham so that you may own the land where you are now living as a stranger, the land God gave to Abraham."

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 28:15
I am with you and will protect you everywhere you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

Genesis 28:16
Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said, "Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not know it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail,.... Give them dominion over others, and not make them subject to them; the head signifies rulers and governors, and the tail the common people that are subjects; or the one such that are honourable and in high esteem, and the other such that are mean and base; see Isaiah 9:14; the Targum of Jonathan is,

"the Word of the Lord shall make thee, c.''

and thou shalt be above only, and thou shall not be beneath which explains what is meant by head and tail, being uppermost and lowermost, as the head is the upper part, and the tail the lower part of a creature; the one is more honourable, the other vile: the sense is, that they should be superior to other people in honour and dignity, and not below them, or vassals to them:

if that thou hearken to the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day to observe and to do [them]; which is the condition on which all this happiness depended.

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).