8. Let his wife be a widow (v 9)
9. Let his children be vagabonds continually (v 10)
10. Let his children beg (v 10)
11. Let them seek their breads in desolate places (v 10)
12. Let the extortioner catch all that he has (v 11)
13. Let strangers spoil his labour (v 11)
14. Let none extend him mercy (v 12)
15. Let none favour his children (v 12)
16. Let his posterity be cut off (v 13)
17. Let their name be blotted out (v 13)
18. Let iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord (v 14)
19. Let not the sin of his mother be blotted out (v 14)
20. Let them be before the Lord continually (v 15)
21. Let the memory of them be cut off from the earth (v 15)
22. Let cursing come to him (v 17)
23. Let blessing be far from him (v 17)
24. Let cursing come unto him like water (v 18)
25. Let curses enter him like oil into his bones (v 18)
26. Let curses cling to him like a garment (v 19)
- 27. Let curses cling to him like a girdle (v 19).
6. People who do not pay tithes are cursed with the curse of closed
heavens. The heavens over them are become brass.
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is
under thee shall be iron.
Deuteronomy 28:23
A very significant curse that follows non-tithers is that of a “closed heaven”.
“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine
house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open
you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not
be room enough to receive it” (Malachi 3:10).
A specific difficulty that comes upon non-tithers is that the heavens above
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