John Gill Commentary Deuteronomy 28:15

"But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee." — Deuteronomy 28:15 (ASV)

But it shall come to pass, if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord your God As directed, exhorted, and encouraged to, (Deuteronomy 28:1)

to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day; both moral and ceremonial:

that all these curses shall come upon you; and overtake you; pursuing after you, will come up to you, and seize upon you, though they may seem to move slowly; see (Zechariah 5:3Zechariah 5:4); namely, the curses which follow.

Manasseh Ben Israel ^F6 divides them into two parts, the first from hence to (Deuteronomy 28:45); which respects the destruction of the first temple, and the things that went before or related to that; and the second from thence to the end of the chapter, which he thinks refers to the destruction of the second temple, and their present case and circumstances; and it must be owned that for the most part the distinction may seem to hold good; what is prophesied of that should befall the Jews for their disobedience being more remarkably and distinctly fulfilled in the one than in the other; yet there are things in the whole which respect both, or that were fulfilled, some under one dispensation, and some under another, and some that were fulfilled in both; but chiefly and more manifestly at and since their dispersion by the Romans.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F6: De Termino Vitae, l. 3. sect. 3. p. 126.