And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
Parallel translations
- WEB All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
- BSB And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:
- NKJV And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:
- NASB And all these blessings will come to you and reach you if you obey the Lord your God:
- NLT You will experience all these blessings if you obey the Lord your God:
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Quick answer
God's blessings will actively pursue and overtake those who obey his voice.
Overview
The image of blessings overtaking Israel pictures God's grace as something that chases down the obedient. Far from grudging, God delights to bless his faithful people abundantly. This abundance flows from listening to and heeding his word.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Zech 1:6But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
- Deut 28:15But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
- 1 Tim 4:8For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
- Deut 28:45Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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