3Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
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That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: …
And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)The blessings are here put before the curses, to intimate, 1. That God is slow to anger, but swift to show mercy: he has said it, and sworn, that he would much rather we would obey and live than sin and die. It is his delight to bless. 2. That though both the promises and the threatenings are designed to bring and hold us to our duty, yet it is better that we be allured to that which is good by a…
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