Passage Research
Deuteronomy 28 — Sermon Preparation
Detailed blessings for obedience and even more detailed curses for disobedience are proclaimed — culminating in a graphic warning of siege, famine, and exile. Below is a research summary for Deuteronomy 28, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 69
- verses
- 994 / 312
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 8
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Deuteronomy 28 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| פְּרִי | pᵉrîy | H6529 | 13 | fruit |
| נָתַן | nâthan | H5414 | 17 | give, put |
| אֲדָמָה | ʼădâmâh | H127 | 9 | soil |
| שָׁמַד | shâmad | H8045 | 7 | desolate |
| אֹיֵב | ʼôyêb | H341 | 8 | hating, adversary |
| בָּרַךְ | bârak | H1288 | 8 | kneel, bless |
| אָרַר | ʼârar | H779 | 6 | execrate |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Deuteronomy 28, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“If we do not keep God's commandments, we not only come short of the blessing promised, but we lay ourselves under the curse, which includes all misery, as the blessing all happiness. Observe the justice of this curse. It is not a curse causeless, or for some light cause. The extent and power of this curse. Wherever the sinner goes, the curse of God follows; wherever he is, it rests upon him. Whatever he has is under a curse. All his enjoyments are made bitter; …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Deuteronomy 28:15–44 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Egypt— Deut 28:27
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