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Deuteronomy 28:23
23There will be no clouds in the sky above to give any rain. The ground under your feet will be as hard as iron.
Deuteronomy 28:23 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
- New International Version (NIV)The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron.
Context of Deuteronomy 28:23
21The Lord will make you very ill so that you do not get better again. He will completely remove you from the land that you are now going into. 22The Lord will give you many kinds of disease. Your bodies will become weak and very hot. They will grow big and have a lot of pain. He will send great heat and there will be no rain. Your crops will all become spoiled. You will have all this pain until you die. There will be no clouds in the sky above to give any rain. The ground under your feet will be as hard as iron. 24There will be clouds of dust instead of rain. Dirt will come down from the sky until it has destroyed you. 25The Lord will let your enemies knock you down. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run away from them in seven directions. When the people of other nations see what has happened to you, they will see it is a terrible thing.
Read all of Deuteronomy 28Deuteronomy 28:23 word by word
וְהָי֥וּ שָׁמֶ֛יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־רֹאשְׁךָ֖ נְחֹ֑שֶׁת וְהָאָ֥רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־תַּחְתֶּ֖יךָ בַּרְזֶֽל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Deuteronomy 28:23
- Leviticus 26:19He will make them ashamed. He will not send any rain and the land will be hard and dry.
- 1 Kings 17:1There was a prophet called Elijah who came from Tishbe in Gilead. He said to King Ahab, ‘I am a servant of the Lord, Israel's God. As surely as God lives, there will be no rain or dew for the next few years. Nothing will make the ground wet until I command it to happen.’
- 1 Kings 18:2So Elijah went to meet Ahab. At that time, the famine in Samaria was very bad.
- Jeremiah 14:1This is the Lord's message that he gave to Jeremiah about the famine:
- Amos 4:7‘Three months before your food was ready to pick, I did not send rain. So all the food became too dry. Sometimes I sent rain to one city, but I did not send it to other cities. I sent rain to one person's land, but I did not send it to another person's land. So that other person's land became too dry.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 28:23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 23Thy heaven - shall be brass, and the earth - iron - The atmosphere should not be replenished with aqueous vapours, in consequence of which they should have neither the early nor the latter rain; hence the earth - the ground, must be wholly intractable, and, through its hardness, incapable of cultivation. God shows them by this that he is Lord of nature; and that drought and sterility are not casualties, but proceed from the immediate appointment of the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15-68Verses 15-68 The curses correspond in form and number Deuteronomy 28:15-19 to the blessings Deuteronomy 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deuteronomy 28:20-26 First series of judgments. The curse of God should rest on all they did, and should issue in manifold forms of disease, in famine, and in defeat in war. Deuteronomy 28:20 Vexation - Rather, confusion: the word in the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-44Verses 15-44 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23This graphic picture of drought and famine shows the sky holding back the rain, which makes the earth dry and barren.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2323. heaven ... brass ... earth ... iron--strong Oriental figures used to describe the effects of long-continued drought. This want of regular and seasonable rain is allowed by the most intelligent observers to be one great cause of the present sterility of Palestine.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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