Kanaanische und aramische Inschriften 1(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz). Ki Tavo and Our God In particular, a Neo-Assyrian treaty written in Akkadian in the seventh century BCE, The Succession Treaties of Esarhaddon (EST for short) has been suggested by some scholars to provide direct parallels with some of the curses found in Deuteronomy 28 (Weinfeld 1965; Frankena 1965; Levinson and Stackert 2012). You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue(AB) you. 42 The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground. WebIn Deuteronomy 28 Moses sets before the congregation of Israel the blessings and the curses of the covenant that they are renewing. 9:1014; Mal. 46They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. Matthew 15:1-20 Defilement Is a Heart Issue, Matthew 14:22-36 Walking on Water Growing Insight into the Identity of Jesus, Matthew 14:13-21 Miraculous Feeding of the 5,000 Messianic Provision, Matthew 14:1-12 The Beheading of John the Baptist Speaking Truth to Depraved Power Can Cost You Dearly, Matthew 13:53-58 No Home Court Advantage for Prophets Just Rejection. 68 And the LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, You will never see it again! And there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.. ANEM, 8; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature. 5:1-11:32), then the particular rules (Deut. B. WebIn this section Moses identified about four times as many curses as he had listed previous blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-14). Your baskets and storehouses will be cursed vs 17 4. Our Challenge: We will publicly debate any "Bible Theologian" on the curses Peter Craigie: It is more likely that there was a body of common conceptions in the Near East associated with curses, whether in treaties, law codes, or other types of texts. Translations. Everything the people of Israel have will be taken by those who conquer them: their fiances will be raped, their homes and vineyards taken, their oxen slaughtered, their asses and sheep stolen, their children enslaved, and their produce consumed. 65-66). What does this mean? v. 35a), to be followed by a list of agents he will engage. Web1. Vers. 26:26; Deut. 2003. All rights reserved. 53(AM)You shall eat the [j]fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you. Then the text returns in v. 32 to more faithfully reflect the Akkadian, abandoning the syntax of the futility curse and stressing along with the Esarhaddon Treaties that the root cause of the curse which in both seems to envision deportation will be at the hand of an enemy nation, so in Hebrew another people and in the Akkadian a strange enemy.. Once again, in this portion of Deuteronomy 28, the orientation of the text has shifted back to Northwest Semitic ideas and metaphors. Deuteronomy 27-28: Curses And Blessings - Daily Readings Duane Christensen: The center of this structure (vv 3031) contains a list of calamities that essentially undo the blessings of vv 4, 8, and 11. 1988. Whereas verse 20 declares that Yahwehs actions against Israel are precipitated by the peoples evil deeds and their abandonment of Yahweh, verse 45 specifies the offenses as refusing to obey Yahweh, not keeping his commands and decrees. 46And they shall be upon (AD)you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever. 2. Deuteronomy 28:15-68 NKJV - Curses on Disobedience - But it