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then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
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Astonishing Judgments
The term "wonderful" plagues can be confusing. Commentators explain it doesn't mean 'good' but rather 'astonishing' or 'remarkable.' The judgments for disobedience would be so visibly severe and distinct that they would cause wonder to all who witnessed them, serving as a clear sign of God's power.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The curses correspond in form and number (Deuteronomy 28:15–19) to the blessings (Deuteronomy 28:3–6), and the special ways…
19th Century
Anglican
See Note on Deuteronomy 25:2-3.
This glorious and fearful name, the Lord thy God. —The first Note of the Decalogue…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then the Lord will make your plagues wonderful Visible, remarkable, distinguishable, and astonishing to all that see…
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