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The Ultimate Breakdown
Commentators explain that this verse depicts the ultimate breakdown of society. The image of a refined, gentle woman turning against her own husband and children shows how disobedience to God leads to the complete reversal of natural affection and the most fundamental human bonds.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 28:15–68
18th Century
Theologian
The curses correspond in form and number (Deuteronomy 28:15–19) to the blessings (Deuteronomy 28:3–6), and the special ways…
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 28:56
19th Century
Bishop
The tender and delicate woman. —This was fulfilled to the very letter in the case of Mary of Beth-ezob in the siege of Je…
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 28:56
17th Century
Pastor
And the tender and delicate woman amongst you
Who is instanced in because of her sex, which is more pitiful and comp…
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Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 28:45–68
17th Century
Minister
If God inflicts vengeance, what miseries His curse can bring upon humankind, even in this present world! Yet these are but the beginning of sorrows…