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ESV Reformation Study Bible – Deut 28:12
Deut 28:12
28:12 his good treasury, the heavens. This idiom expresses the conviction that the rainfall so crucial to Israel’s agricultural prosperity was a gift of God (11:11–17; Ps. 104:13). Here is an implicit warning against the Canaanite fertility religions which ascribed the rainfall to the pagan god Baal.