Blessings for Obedience

Deuteronomy 28

1 "And q if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you r high above all the nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and s overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. 3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and t blessed shall you be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be u the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 5 Blessed shall be your basket and your v kneading bowl. 6 Blessed shall you be w when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

7 "The Lord x will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. 8 The Lord y will command the blessing on you in your barns and z in all that you undertake. a And he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 9 b The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. 10 And c all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are d called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be e afraid of you. 11 And f the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in u the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, g to give the rain to your land in its season and h to bless all the work of your hands. And i you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13 And the Lord will make you j the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them, 14 k and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 15:26
    Saying, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.
    Exodus 23:22
    But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
    Leviticus 26:3
    If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them.
    Isaiah 55:2
    Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 26:19
    And that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:15
    But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
    Zechariah 1:6
    But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 39:5
    From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in house and field.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 7:13
    He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
    Deuteronomy 30:9
    The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers.
    Genesis 49:25
    By the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
    Exodus 23:26
    None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
  6. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:17
    Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
    Exodus 8:3
    The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.
    Exodus 12:34
    So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 121:8
    The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 23:22
    But if you carefully obey his voice and do all ...
    Exodus 23:27
    I will send my terror before you and will throw...
    Leviticus 26:7 - 8
    You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fa...
    Deuteronomy 28:25
    The Lord will cause you to be defeated before y...
    2 Samuel 22:38 - 41
    I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and di...
    Psalms 18:37 - 40
    I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and did...
  9. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:21
    I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.
    Psalms 133:3
    It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
  10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:7
    And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
  11. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 15:4
    But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess -
  12. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 7:6
    For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
    Deuteronomy 26:18 - 19
    And the Lord has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments.
    Deuteronomy 29:13
    That he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
    Exodus 19:5 - 6
    Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.
  13. Cross References
    Isaiah 61:9
    Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.
  14. Cross References
    Numbers 6:27
    "So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them."
  15. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 2:25
    This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.
    Deuteronomy 11:25
    No one shall be able to stand against you. The Lord your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.
  16. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 30:9
    The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers.
  17. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:4
    Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
  18. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 11:14
    He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.
    Leviticus 26:4
    Then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
  19. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 14:29
    And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.
  20. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 15:6
    For the Lord your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
    Deuteronomy 28:44
    He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
    Psalms 37:26
    He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.
  21. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:14 - 15
    So the Lord cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day -
    Isaiah 19:15
    And there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.
  22. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 5:32
    You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
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