Charles Ellicott Commentary Deuteronomy 28:26

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:26

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:26

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"And thy dead body shall be food unto all birds of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away." — Deuteronomy 28:26 (ASV)

And thy carcase shall be meat. —This is repeated in Jeremiah 7:33 and was to be fulfilled in Tophet, when they had buried until there was no more room. (Compare also Jeremiah 15:3.)

No man shall fray (that is, frighten) them away. —Not even a woman like Rizpah, who at the foot of the gallows watched her children’s bodies for half the year, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night (2 Samuel 21:10). There shall be no one to do it.