This general promise of blessings is followed by a lengthy list of fourteen specific blessings.

Prosperity theology advocates also argue that biblical promises of blessings awaiting the poor have been unnecessarily spiritualized, and should be understood literally.

He criticised orthodox Indian religions as dead, filled with empty ritual, oppressing their followers with fears of damnation and the promise of blessings.

Therefore along with the law, God gave Israel a promise and a warning - the gracious promise of blessings if they obeyed His law, and the stern warning of curses if they disobeyed.

The themes of Deuteronomy in relation to Israel are election, faithfulness, obedience, and God's promise of blessings, all expressed through the covenant: "obedience is not primarily a duty imposed by one party on another, but an expression of covenantal relationship."