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Revised Standard Version

Deuteronomy 28:2

And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Obedience;   Righteous;   Thompson Chain Reference - Blessings;   Blessings-Afflictions;   Promises, Divine;   The Topic Concordance - Blessings;   Calling;   Israel/jews;   Obedience;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Obedience to God;   Rebellion against God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gerizim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Farming;   Nature;   Wealth;   Weather;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Blessing;   Command, Commandment;   Land (of Israel);   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Faithfulness of God;   Jews;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sadducees;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Agriculture;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount gerizim;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   Law of Moses, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Salvation;  

Devotionals:

- Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for February 6;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All these blessings will come and overtake you, because you obey the Lord your God:
Hebrew Names Version
and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
King James Version
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.
Lexham English Bible
And all of these blessings shall come upon you, and they shall have an effect on you if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God:
English Standard Version
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.
New Century Version
Obey the Lord your God so that all these blessings will come and stay with you:
New English Translation
All these blessings will come to you in abundance if you obey the Lord your God:
Amplified Bible
"All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you pay attention to the voice of the LORD your God.
New American Standard Bible
"And all these blessings will come to you and reach you if you obey the LORD your God:
Geneva Bible (1587)
And all these blessings shal come on thee, and ouertake thee, if thou shalt obey the voyce of the Lord thy God.
Legacy Standard Bible
And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God:
Complete Jewish Bible
and all the following blessings will be yours in abundance — if you will do what Adonai your God says:
Darby Translation
and all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God.
Easy-to-Read Version
If you will obey the Lord your God, all these blessings will come to you and be yours:
George Lamsa Translation
And all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall hearken to the voice of the LORD your God.
Good News Translation
Obey the Lord your God and all these blessings will be yours:
Literal Translation
And all these blessings shall come on you and overtake you if you will listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and all these blessynges shal come vpon the, and ouertake the, because thou hast bene obedient vnto the voyce of the LORDE thy God.
American Standard Version
and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God.
Bible in Basic English
And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all these blessinges shall come on thee and ouertake thee, if thou shalt hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
King James Version (1611)
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and ouertake thee, if thou shalt hearken vnto the voice of the Lord thy God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and shall find thee. If thou wilt indeed hear the voice of the Lord thy God,
English Revised Version
and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
Berean Standard Bible
All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And alle these blessyngis schulen come on thee, and schulen take thee; if netheles thou herist hise comaundementis.
Young's Literal Translation
and all these blessings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee, because thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God:
Update Bible Version
and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
Webster's Bible Translation
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God.
World English Bible
and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
New King James Version
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God:
New Living Translation
You will experience all these blessings if you obey the Lord your God:
New Life Bible
All these good things will come upon you if you will obey the Lord your God.
New Revised Standard
all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the Lord your God:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and all these blessings shall come in upon thee, and reach thee, - because thou dost hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee: yet so if thou hear his precepts.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the LORD your God:

Contextual Overview

1 "And if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments which I command you this day, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God. 3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. 5 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. 6 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. 7 "The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways. 8 The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you undertake; and he will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you. 9 The LORD will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways. 10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

come on thee: Deuteronomy 28:15, Deuteronomy 28:45, Zechariah 1:6, 1 Timothy 4:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 22:17 - in blessing Genesis 49:25 - with blessings 2 Kings 2:19 - barren Job 1:10 - about Psalms 1:1 - Blessed Psalms 132:15 - bless her provision Proverbs 3:33 - he blesseth Proverbs 10:6 - Blessings Haggai 2:19 - from

Cross-References

Genesis 24:10
Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose, and went to Mesopota'mia, to the city of Nahor.
Genesis 24:29
Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
Genesis 24:50
Then Laban and Bethu'el answered, "The thing comes from the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good.
Genesis 25:20
and Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, the daughter of Bethu'el the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Genesis 28:5
Thus Isaac sent Jacob away; and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, the son of Bethu'el the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Genesis 28:15
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done that of which I have spoken to you."
Genesis 28:20
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
Genesis 29:1
Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the people of the east.
Genesis 31:18
and he drove away all his cattle, all his livestock which he had gained, the cattle in his possession which he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.
Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness which thou hast shown to thy servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee,.... After mentioned, which should come upon them from God from heaven, by the direction of his providence, and that freely and plentifully, and beyond their expectations and deserts, and continue with them:

if thou shall hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God; obedience to the law being the condition of their coming and continuance; for only temporal blessings in the land of Canaan are here intended, as follow.

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 28:2. All these blessings shall come on thee — God shall pour out his blessing from heaven upon thee. And overtake thee. Upright men are represented as going to the kingdom of God, and God's blessings as following and overtaking them in their heavenly journey. There are several things in this verse worthy of the most careful observation: -

1. If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. The voice of God must be heard; without a Divine revelation how can the Divine will be known? And if not known, it cannot be fulfilled.

2. When God speaks, men must hearken to the words of his mouth. He who does not hearken will not obey.

3. He who hearkens to the words of God must set out for the kingdom of heaven. The curse must fall on him who stands in the way of sinners, and will overtake them who loiter in the way of righteousness.

4. Those who run in the way of God's testimonies shall have an abundance of blessing. Blessings shall come upon them, and blessings shall overtake them - in every part of their march through life they shall continue to receive the fulfilment of the various promises of God which relate to all circumstances, vicissitudes, trials, stages of life, &c., &c., each overtaking them in the time and place where most needed.


 
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