Blessings For Obedience
Bible Study Questions 10206
PASSAGE: Deuteronomy 28:1-23
COMMENT: This chapter tells of the blessings and cursings that God will pour out on the children of Israel: blessings if they obey His commandments; cursings if they do not. This lesson gives all the blessings but only some of the cursings.
WHAT DOES IT SAY?
1. If Israel will hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord, He will set Israel on _______ above all nations on the ________.
2. “Blessed shalt thou be when thou _________ in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou __________ out.”
3. The Lord will establish Israel as an _________ people unto ___________.
4. But Israel will be cursed if they will not hearken to the _________of the Lord to _________ to do all his ___________________.
5. The Lord will send upon Israel cursing, ___________, and rebuke.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
1. What does the phrase, “fruit of thy body” (v.4, 8, 18, 53), mean? How does this meaning compare with Psalm 132:11 and Micah 6:7? Why do you think God used this phrase?
2. As part of their blessings, God will make Israel “the head, and not the tail” (v.13). Give an explanation of what you think this means.
3. Verse 22 gives a list of seven things the Lord will use to smite the Israelites when they disobey Him. They are consumption, fever, inflammation, extreme burning, sword, blasting, and mildew. Using a dictionary, try to give a meaning for each of these words.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ME?
1. When Israel is obedient to the Lord, “all the people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD” (v.10). What does it mean to be called by the name of the Lord? How does this apply to us today?
2. When they are disobedient, Israel will find that the heaven over their head will be as brass and the earth under them will be as iron (v.23). What do you think this is a picture of? What kind of times does this describe in our lives?
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TEXT: Deuteronomy 28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD 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:
16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
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