Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Deuteronomy 28:23

heaven . . . brass . . . earth . . . iron—strong Oriental figures used to describe the effects of long-continued drought. This want of regular and seasonable rain is allowed by the most intelligent observers to be one great cause of the present sterility of Palestine.




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