Read our latest issue or browse back issues. All of that changed in a glance at Deuteronomy 28: the blessings and the curses. I fell in love. This chapter should not have compelled me. Biblical ...
Blessing is similar to charm. In the Bible, blessings and curses are related; the book of Deuteronomy prescribes that obedience to the Torah brings God's blessing, while disobedience brings a curse.
These are condensed in the 10 Commandments and specified later in those books If the Jews abandon holiness they suffer self-imposed curses. Deuteronomy Chapter 28 describes these blessings and curses.
The book of Deuteronomy speaks of blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, illustrating that poverty can sometimes be a consequence of sin (Deuteronomy 28). Deuteronomy 8:18 also says ...
It was this fall at the rostrum of the General Assembly that Prime Minister Netanyahu held aloft placards with “Blessing” and “Curse” written on them ... The phrasing is from Deuteronomy 11:26-28.
Proverbs 10:4 says, “Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.” The book of Deuteronomy speaks of blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, illustrating that poverty can ...
The Lord answers Judah 's continual infidelity with the ultimate curse of Deuteronomy ... Faithfulness to the Lord's covenant leads to blessing, unity and abundance in the land, but unfaithfulness ...
Isaiah 65’s vision of the new heavens and earth gives us a glimpse of what true justice looks like in the economy of God.
Is Deuteronomy Dreadful? So maybe Deuteronomy isn’t dry but what about dreadful? It has chapters and chapters of blessings and curses related to behaviour and the further into it we get the more the ...