14Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. …
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
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.
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-26)Here, I. The caution against idolatry is repeated, and against communion with idolaters: “Thou shalt consume the people, and not serve their gods.” Deut. 7:16. We are in danger of having fellowship with the works of darkness if we take pleasure in fellowship with those that do those works. Here is also a repetition of the charge to destroy the images, Deut. 7:25 , 26 . The idols which the heathen…
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