What is the meaning of Deuteronomy 28:56? The most gentle and refined woman among you - Scripture paints her as the very picture of tenderness and privilege—yet even she is not exempt from covenant consequences (Deuteronomy 28:15). - History verifies this warning: during Samaria’s siege a mother cried, “Give up your son so we may eat him” (2 Kings 6:28-29). - God’s Word is literal; the curse reached even the highest rungs of society (Isaiah 3:16-17; Lamentations 4:5). so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground - Luxury once kept her feet from ever touching bare earth (Amos 6:4). - Covenant breach flips comfort into misery—“the sky over your head will be bronze” (Deuteronomy 28:23). - Siege conditions erase refinement; those who “once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets” (Lamentations 4:5). will begrudge the husband she embraces - Starvation makes her guard every bite, even from her own husband (Deuteronomy 28:53). - Love chilled by lawlessness echoes Christ’s later warning (Matthew 24:12). - Similar scenes played out as Jerusalem’s rations dwindled (Jeremiah 37:21). and her son and daughter - The maternal instinct collapses; she withholds food—and, as verse 57 shows, even consumes what should nourish her children (Jeremiah 19:9; Lamentations 2:20, 4:10; Leviticus 26:29). - The horror fulfills the precise wording of the curse, proving God’s faithfulness in judgment as surely as in blessing. summary - Deuteronomy 28:56 vividly demonstrates how disobedience can warp the gentlest heart when God’s protective favor is removed. - Every clause tracks a descent: pampered delicacy → exposure to hardship → breakdown of marital love → collapse of maternal care. - The verse came true in Israel’s sieges, validating the literal accuracy of Scripture. - By showing how far sin can drag even the refined and loving, the passage urges wholehearted obedience to the Lord who alone preserves mercy and compassion. |
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