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Deuteronomy 28:55

in Deuteronomy 28

refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in all thy gates.

KJV

So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

This verse in Deuteronomy 28

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Such were the dreadful extremities to which the inhabitants during the siege were reduced that many women sustained a wretched existence by eating the flesh of their own children. Parental affection was extinguished, and the nearest relatives were jealously, avoided, lest they should discover and demand a share of the revolting viands.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • מִתֵּ֣ת׀from giving

    mitetH5414 →2011 times

  • לְאַחַ֣דto one

    leachadH259 →971 times

  • מֵהֶ֗םfrom <the> them

    mehem

  • מִבְּשַׂ֤רany of [the] flesh of

    mibesarH1320 →270 times

  • בָּנָיו֙children his

    banavH1121 →4930 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhom

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יֹאכֵ֔לhe will eat

    yokhelH398 →810 times

  • מִבְּלִ֥יbecause not

    mibeliH1097 →58 times

  • הִשְׁאִֽיר־he has left

    hishir-H7604 →133 times

  • ל֖וֹto <the> him

    lo

  • כֹּ֑לanything

    kolH3605 →5413 times

  • בְּמָצוֹר֙in [the] siege

    bematzorH4692 →25 times

  • וּבְמָצ֔וֹקand in [the] distress

    uvematzokH4689 →6 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יָצִ֥יקhe will bring distress

    yatzikH6693 →11 times

  • לְךָ֛to <the> you

    lekha

  • אֹיִבְךָ֖enemy your

    ʾoyivkhaH341 →282 times

  • בְּכָל־in all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • שְׁעָרֶֽיךָ׃gates your

    sheareikhaH8179 →374 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 34:2

    The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am about to deliver this…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 21:10

      For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it…

    • Jeremiah 34:22

      Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will…

    • 2 Chronicles 36:11–12

      Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.

    • Jeremiah 37:8–10

      Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 52:6

    By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 39:2

      And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.

    • Isaiah 3:1

      For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,

    • Jeremiah 38:9

      “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 5:10

    Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 4:27

      For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.