Deuteronomy 28:2
Verse 2 of 68. The 28th of 34 chapters in Deuteronomy, in The Law.
1And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.
3Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
5Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
6Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
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Deuteronomy 28:2 in the World English Bible
All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to the LORD your God’s voice.Read Deuteronomy 28:2 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:2
These blessings are said to overtake them, v. 2. Good people sometimes, under the sense of their unworthiness, are ready to fly from the blessing and to conclude that it belongs not to them; but the blessing shall find them out and follow them notwithstanding. Thus in the great day the blessing will overtake the righteous that say, Lord, when saw we thee hungry and fed thee? Matt. xxv. 37. Observe,
Read Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:1–14: Promises. (b. c. 1451.)
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.