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Leviticus 26
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Blessings for Obedience
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. standing: or, pillar image of: or, figured stone: Heb. a stone of picture
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<strong>Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant ...
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XXVI.
(1) **Ye shall make you no idols.**—The first two verses of this chapter are still a part of the previous section in the Hebrew original. By separating them from their proper position, and making them begin a new chapter, both the logical sequence and the import of these two verses are greatly obscured. As Lev 26:47-55 legislated for cases where Israelites are driven by extreme poverty to se...
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Le 23:5-8. The Passover.
**5. the Lord's passover--**(See Ex 12:2, 14, 18). The institution of the passover was intended to be a perpetual memorial of the circumstances attending the redemption of the Israelites, while it had a typical reference to a greater redemption to be effected for God's spiritual people. On the first and last days of this feast, the people were forbidden to work [Le 23:7, ...
Read full commentary →Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
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<strong>Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ, who both satisfies God's r...
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(2) **Ye shall keep my sabbaths . . . —**This is exactly the same precept laid down in chap 19:30, and is here repeated because of the danger of desecrating the Sabbath to which the Israelite is exposed who sells himself to a heathen. The Israelite will effectually guard against idol-worship, by keeping the Sabbath holy, and reverencing God’s sanctuary.
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
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<strong>If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ, who both satisfies God's right...
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(3) **If ye walk in my statutes.**—We have already remarked that this verse begins the section in the Hebrew and ought to have begun the chapter in English. Having set forth the ceremonial and moral injunctions which are necessary for the development and maintenance of holiness and purity in the commonwealth, the legislator now concludes by showing the happiness which will accrue to the Israelites...
Read full commentary →Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
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<strong>Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>The access to God's presence tha...
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(4) **Then I will give you rain in due season.**—Better, *then I will give you your rains in due season, *that is, the former and latter rains (Deuteronomy 11:14). In Palestine the proper season for the early rain is from about the middle of October until December, thus preparing the ground for receiving the seed, whilst that of the latter or vernal rain is in the months of March and April, just b...
Read full commentary →And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
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<strong>And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><...
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(5) **And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage.**—That is, the corn crop shall be so plentiful that those who shall be employed in threshing about the month of March will not complete it before the vintage, which was about the month of July.
**The vintage shall reach unto the sowing time.**—The wine, again, is to be so abundant that those who shall be engaged in gathering and pressing the g...
Read full commentary →And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. rid: Heb. cause to cease
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<strong>And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relations...
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(6) **And I will give peace.**—Not only are they to have rich harvests, but the Lord will grant them peace among themselves, so that they shall be able to retire at night without any anxiety, or fear of robbers (Psalm 3:5; Psalm 4:8).
**I will rid evil beasts out of the land.**—The promise to destroy the beasts of prey, which endanger life, and which abounded in Palestine, is also to be found in E...
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Le 23:9-14. The Sheaf of First Fruits.
**10. ye shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest--**A sheaf, literally, an omer, of the first-fruits of the barley harvest. The barley being sooner ripe than the other grains, the reaping of it formed the commencement of the general harvest season. The offering described in this passage was made on the sixteenth of the first m...
Read full commentary →And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
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<strong>And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Christ's sacrifice accomplishes what the Levitical syst...
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(7) **And ye shall chase your enemies.**—If**, **covetous of their prosperity, the enemies should dare to attack them, God will inspire His people with marvellous courage, so that they will not only pursue them, but put them to the sword.
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
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<strong>And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>What Leviticus ...
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(8) **And five of you shall chase an hundred.**—This is a proverbial saying, corresponding to our phrase “A very small number, or a mere handful, shall be more than a match for a whole regiment.” The same phrase, with different proportions to the numbers, occurs in other parts of the Bible (Deuteronomy 32:30; Joshua 23:10; Isaiah 30:17).
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
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<strong>For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible t...
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(9) **For I will have respect unto you.**—Better, *And I will turn unto you, *as it is rendered in the Authorised Version in Ezekiel 46:9, the only other passage where this phrase occurs; that is, be merciful to them and bless them. (Comp. 2Kings 13:23; Psalm 25:16; Psalm 69:17, &c.)
**And multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.**—That is, by multiplying them as the stars of heaven and t...
Read full commentary →And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
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<strong>And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-for-all sacrifice supersedes the repeated Levitical ...
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(10) **And ye shall eat old store.**—Better, *old store which hath become old. *Though they will thus multiply, there shall be abundant stores for them, which become old because it will take them so long to consume them.
**And bring forth the old because of the new.**—Better, *and remove the old on account of the new, *that is, they will always have such abundant harvests that they will be obliged...
Read full commentary →And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
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<strong>And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fulfilled in reality through His...
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(11) **And I will set my tabernacle among you.**—Better, *And I will set my dwelling-place among you. *(See Leviticus 15:31.) Not only will God bless them with these material blessings, but will permanently abide with them in the sanctuary erected in their midst.
**My soul shall not abhor you.**—That is, God has no aversion to them; does not regard it below His dignity to sojourn amongst them, and...
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Le 23:15-22. Feast of Pentecost.
**15. ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath--**that is, after the first day of the passover week, which was observed as a Sabbath.
And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
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<strong>And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fulfilled in reality through ...
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(12) **And I will walk among you.**—This promise is quoted by St. Paul (2Corinthians 6:16).
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**16. number fifty days--**The forty-ninth day after the presentation of the first-fruits, or the fiftieth, including it, was the feast of Pentecost. (See also Ex 23:16; De 16:9).
I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
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<strong>I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationshi...
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(13) **I have broken the bands of your yoke.**—The promises thus made to the Israelites of the extraordinary fertility of their land, of peace within and immunity from war without, and of the Divine presence constantly sojourning amongst them, if they will faithfully obey the commandments of the Lord, now conclude with the oft-repeated solemn appeal to the obligation they are under to the God who ...
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**17. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals, &c.--**These loaves were made of "fine" or wheaten flour, the quantity contained in them being somewhat more than ten pounds in weight. As the wave-sheaf gave the signal for the commencement, the two loaves solemnized the termination of the harvest season. They were the first-fruits of that season, being offered u...
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But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
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<strong>But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fulfilled in reality through ...
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(14) **But if ye will not hearken unto me.**—The glowing promises of blessings for obedience are now followed by a catalogue of calamities of the most appalling nature, which will overtake the Israelites if they disobey the Divine commandments. The first degree of punishment with which this verse begins extends to Leviticus 26:17.
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
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<strong>And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>The holiness dem...
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(15) **And if ye shall despise my statutes.**—From passive indifference to the Divine statutes mentioned in the preceding verse, their falling away is sure to follow. Hence what was at first mere listlessness now develops itself into a contemptuous education of God’s ordinances.
**Or if your soul abhor my judgments.**—Better, *and if your soul, *&c, as the picture of their Apostasy goes on develop...
Read full commentary →I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. over: Heb. upon
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<strong>I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishin...
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(16) **I also will do this unto you.**—That is, He will do the same unto them; He will requite them in the same way, and abhor them.
**I will even appoint over you terror.**—Better, *and I will appoint, *&c, that is, God will visit them with terrible things, consisting of consumption and burning ague. These two diseases also occur together in Deuteronomy 28:22, the only passage in the Bible where ...
Read full commentary →And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
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<strong>And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>Ev...
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(17) **And I will set my face against you.**—That is, make them feel his anger. (See Note on Leviticus 17:10.)
**Be slain before your enemies.**—Better, *be smitten before your enemies, *as this phrase is rendered in the Authorised Version (Numbers 14:42; Deuteronomy 1:42; Deuteronomy 28:25).
**Shall reign over you.**—Better, *shall rule over you, *as the Authorised Version renders it in Isaiah 14...
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**21. ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein--**Though it extended over a week, the first day only was held as a Sabbath, both for the national offering of first-fruits and a memorial of the giving of the law.
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
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<strong>And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in Leviticus points forward t...
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(18) **And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me.**—Better, *and if up to these ye will not hearken unto me, *that is, if they should persist in their disobedience to the very end of those punishments mentioned in Leviticus 26:16-17. This verse, therefore, introduces the second degree of punishments, which ends with Leviticus 26:20.
**I will punish you seven times more.**—That is, indefi...
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**22. thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, &c.--**(See on Le 19:9). The repetition of this law here probably arose from the priests reminding the people, at the presentation of the first-fruits, to unite piety to God with charity to the poor.
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
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<strong>And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-for-all sacrifice su...
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(19) **And I will break the pride of your power.**—That is, the strength which is the cause of your pride, the wealth which they derive from the abundant harvests mentioned in Leviticus 26:4-5, as is evident from what follows immediately, where the punishment is threatened against the resources of this power or wealth. Comp. Ezekiel 30:6; Ezekiel 33:28.) The authorities during the second Temple, h...
Read full commentary →And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
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<strong>And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>The access to God's pr...
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(20) **And your strength shall be spent in vain.**—That is, with the heaven over them as metal, their labour expended in ploughing, digging, and sowing will be perfectly useless.
**Your land shall not yield her increase,** as no amount of human labour will make up for the want of rain. In Deuteronomy 11:17, where the same punishment is threatened, and the same phrase is used, the Authorised Versio...
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Le 23:23-25. Feast of Trumpets.
**24. In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath--**That was the first day of the ancient civil year.
**a memorial of blowing of trumpets--**Jewish writers say that the trumpets were sounded thirty successive times, and the reason for the institution was for the double purpose of announcing the commencement of the new year, which...
Read full commentary →And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. contrary: or, at all adventures with me
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<strong>And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed throu...
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(21) **And if ye walk contrary unto me.**—That is, continue the defiance of the Divine law, and rebel against God’s authority. The third warning, contained in Leviticus 26:21-22, threatens them with destruction by wild beasts.
**Seven times more plagues.**—That is, a still greater number. (See Leviticus 26:18.)
**According to your sins.**—This increased number of scourges will be in proportion to ...
Read full commentary →I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
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<strong>I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br...
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(22) **I will also send wild beasts.**—Better, *and I will send wild beasts. *Wild beasts, which abounded in Palestine (Exodus 23:29), are used as a punishment for sin (Deuteronomy 32:24; 2Kings 17:25; Isaiah 13:21-22; Ezekiel 14:15, &c.).
And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
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<strong>And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefully regulated is now freely ...
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(23) **And if ye will not be reformed.**—The fourth warning (Leviticus 26:23-26) threatens the rebellious Israelites with a more intensified form of the punishment partially mentioned in the first warning. (See Leviticus 26:17.)
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**27-32. there shall be a day of atonement ... and ye shall afflict your souls--**an unusual festival, at which the sins of the whole year were expiated. (See Le 16:29-34). It is here only stated that the severest penalty was incurred by the violation of this day.
Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
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<strong>Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Christ fulfilled in ...
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(24) **Then will I also walk contrary unto you.**—By their increased hostility to God, they simply increase their calamities, since He whom they are defying now also assumes a hostile attitude towards those who are defiant.
**And will punish you yet.**—Better, *and I also will smite you. *(See Leviticus 26:28.)
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**27-32. there shall be a day of atonement ... and ye shall afflict your souls--**an unusual festival, at which the sins of the whole year were expiated. (See Le 16:29-34). It is here only stated that the severest penalty was incurred by the violation of this day.
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
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<strong>And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establish...
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(25) **That shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant.**—Better, *that shall avenge my covenant, *that is, the sword, which shall avenge the breach of the Divine covenant; a war, which will devastate them because of their rebellion against the covenant God. Hence the Chaldee Versions render it, “that shall avenge on you the vengeance for that ye have transgressed against the words of the law.”
**And...
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**27-32. there shall be a day of atonement ... and ye shall afflict your souls--**an unusual festival, at which the sins of the whole year were expiated. (See Le 16:29-34). It is here only stated that the severest penalty was incurred by the violation of this day.
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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<strong>And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant r...
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(26)**And when I have broken the staff of your bread.**—Better, *when I break you the staff of bread, *that is, when God cuts off their supply of bread, which is the staff of life. “To break the staff of bread” denotes to take away or to destroy the staff or the support which bread is to man. This metaphor also occurs in other parts of Scripture (Isaiah 3:1; Ezekiel 4:16; Ezekiel 5:16; Ezekiel 14:...
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**27-32. there shall be a day of atonement ... and ye shall afflict your souls--**an unusual festival, at which the sins of the whole year were expiated. (See Le 16:29-34). It is here only stated that the severest penalty was incurred by the violation of this day.
And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
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<strong>And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-for-all sacrifice supersedes the repeated Leviti...
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(27) **And if he will not for all this hearken unto me.**—Better, *And if, notwithstanding these, ye will not hearken unto me, *that is, if in spite of these awful punishments they persist in rebellion against God. With this reiterated formula the fifth warning is introduced (Leviticus 26:27-33), which threatens the total destruction of the land and the people in the midst of the most appalling ho...
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**27-32. there shall be a day of atonement ... and ye shall afflict your souls--**an unusual festival, at which the sins of the whole year were expiated. (See Le 16:29-34). It is here only stated that the severest penalty was incurred by the violation of this day.
Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
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<strong>Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-for-all sacrifi...
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(28) **Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury.**—Whilst in Leviticus 26:24 the persistent rebellion is responded to on the part of the defied God in the simple words, “then will I also work contrary unto you,” we have here the addition “in fury” as the provocation is more intense.
**And I, even I, will chastise you.**—Better, *And I also will chastise you. *The verb here is different from...
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**27-32. there shall be a day of atonement ... and ye shall afflict your souls--**an unusual festival, at which the sins of the whole year were expiated. (See Le 16:29-34). It is here only stated that the severest penalty was incurred by the violation of this day.
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
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<strong>And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Christ's sacrifice accomplishes what the Levit...
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(29) **And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons.**—The harrowing scene here described is also depicted in Deuteronomy 28:53-57. This prediction actually came to pass at the siege of Samaria by the Syrians (2Kings 6:28-29), and at the siege of Jerusalem by the Chaldæans, which Jeremiah thus bewails, “the hands of pitiful women have sodden their own children, they were their meat in the destruction o...
Read full commentary →And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
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<strong>And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>Every sacrifice ...
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(30) **And I will destroy your high places.**—Though these eminences were also used for the worship of Jehovah (Judges 6:25-26; Judges 13:16-23; 1Samuel 7:10; 1Kings 3:2; 2Kings 12:3; 1Chronicles 21:26, &c.), the context shows that the high places here are such as were dedicated to idolatrous worship (Numbers 22:41; Numbers 33:52; Deuteronomy 12:2; Joshua 13:17, &c.). By the destruction of these p...
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**34-44. the feast of tabernacles, for seven days unto the Lord--**This festival, which was instituted in grateful commemoration of the Israelites having securely dwelt in booths or tabernacles in the wilderness, was the third of the three great annual festivals, and, like the other two, it lasted a week. It began on the fifteenth day of the month, corresponding to the end of our September and beg...
Read full commentary →And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
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<strong>And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Chris...
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(31) **I will make your cities waste.**—Not only will the elevated spots outside the cities with their idols be destroyed, and the carcases of the deluded worshippers be scattered among their remains, but the cities themselves will be converted into ruins and desolations (Jeremiah 4:7; Jeremiah 9:11; Ezekiel 6:6; Ezekiel 12:20; Nehemiah 2:17, &c.).
**And bring your sanctuaries unto desolation.**—E...
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**34-44. the feast of tabernacles, for seven days unto the Lord--**This festival, which was instituted in grateful commemoration of the Israelites having securely dwelt in booths or tabernacles in the wilderness, was the third of the three great annual festivals, and, like the other two, it lasted a week. It began on the fifteenth day of the month, corresponding to the end of our September and beg...
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<strong>And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Christ's sacrifice accompl...
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(32) **And I will bring the land into desolation. **Better, *And I myself will bring, *&c. From the ruin of the cities and the sanctuaries the desolation extends to the whole country. Whilst the devastations hitherto were the result of God permitting hostile invasions and conquests, the desolation of the whole country and the dispersion of the Israelites described in the following verses are to be...
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**34-44. the feast of tabernacles, for seven days unto the Lord--**This festival, which was instituted in grateful commemoration of the Israelites having securely dwelt in booths or tabernacles in the wilderness, was the third of the three great annual festivals, and, like the other two, it lasted a week. It began on the fifteenth day of the month, corresponding to the end of our September and beg...
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<strong>And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in...
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(33) **And I will scatter you among the heathen.**—They will not even be permitted to tarry among the ruins of their favoured places, but God Himself, who brings about the desolation, will disperse the surviving inhabitants far and wide.
**And will draw out a sword after you.**—To show how complete this dispersion is to be, God is represented with a drawn sword in His hand pursuing them and scatte...
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**34-44. the feast of tabernacles, for seven days unto the Lord--**This festival, which was instituted in grateful commemoration of the Israelites having securely dwelt in booths or tabernacles in the wilderness, was the third of the three great annual festivals, and, like the other two, it lasted a week. It began on the fifteenth day of the month, corresponding to the end of our September and beg...
Read full commentary →Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
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<strong>Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>Every ...
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(34) **Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths.**—The land, which participates both in the happiness and misery of the Israelites (see Leviticus 18:25), and which through their disobedience of the Divine laws would be deprived of her sabbatical rests as long as the rebellious people occupy it, would now at last be able to enjoy its prescribed legal rest, when it is ridden of these defiant transgres...
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**34-44. the feast of tabernacles, for seven days unto the Lord--**This festival, which was instituted in grateful commemoration of the Israelites having securely dwelt in booths or tabernacles in the wilderness, was the third of the three great annual festivals, and, like the other two, it lasted a week. It began on the fifteenth day of the month, corresponding to the end of our September and beg...
Read full commentary →As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
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<strong>As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and shadows, Chr...
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(35) **As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest . . . —**Better, *All the days of its desolation shall it keep that rest which it did not rest, *&c, that is, the land during its desolation will not be cultivated but will lie fallow, and thus be enabled to make up by its long rest for the many sabbaths and sabbatical years of which it had been deprived by the lawless Isra...
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**34-44. the feast of tabernacles, for seven days unto the Lord--**This festival, which was instituted in grateful commemoration of the Israelites having securely dwelt in booths or tabernacles in the wilderness, was the third of the three great annual festivals, and, like the other two, it lasted a week. It began on the fifteenth day of the month, corresponding to the end of our September and beg...
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<strong>And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for d...
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(36, 37) **And upon them that are left alive of you.**—Better, *And as to those that remain of you, *as the Authorised Version generally renders this expression. This obviates the insertion of the expression “alive,” which is not in the original, and is not put in the Authorised Version in Leviticus 26:39, where the same phrase occurs. Where these will remain is explained in the next clause.
**I w...
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**34-44. the feast of tabernacles, for seven days unto the Lord--**This festival, which was instituted in grateful commemoration of the Israelites having securely dwelt in booths or tabernacles in the wilderness, was the third of the three great annual festivals, and, like the other two, it lasted a week. It began on the fifteenth day of the month, corresponding to the end of our September and beg...
Read full commentary →And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
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<strong>And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ri...
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**34-44. the feast of tabernacles, for seven days unto the Lord--**This festival, which was instituted in grateful commemoration of the Israelites having securely dwelt in booths or tabernacles in the wilderness, was the third of the three great annual festivals, and, like the other two, it lasted a week. It began on the fifteenth day of the month, corresponding to the end of our September and beg...
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<strong>And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ, who both s...
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(38) **And ye shall perish among the heathen.**—Better, *And ye shall be lost among the heathen, *as the word here rendered “perish” is often translated. (See Deuteronomy 22:3; 1Samuel 9:3; 1Samuel 9:20; Jeremiah 1:6; Ezekiel 34:4; Ezekiel 34:16; Psalm 119:176, &c.) The context plainly shows that utter destruction is not meant here. The very next verse speaks of a remnant who are to pine away, whi...
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**34-44. the feast of tabernacles, for seven days unto the Lord--**This festival, which was instituted in grateful commemoration of the Israelites having securely dwelt in booths or tabernacles in the wilderness, was the third of the three great annual festivals, and, like the other two, it lasted a week. It began on the fifteenth day of the month, corresponding to the end of our September and beg...
Read full commentary →And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
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<strong>And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>...
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(39) **And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity.**—Better, *But those that remain of you shall pine away because of their iniquity, *that is, those who will survive the terrible doom described under the five warnings, will pine away with grief, reflecting upon their sins which have brought upon them these tribulations.
**And also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they...
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**34-44. the feast of tabernacles, for seven days unto the Lord--**This festival, which was instituted in grateful commemoration of the Israelites having securely dwelt in booths or tabernacles in the wilderness, was the third of the three great annual festivals, and, like the other two, it lasted a week. It began on the fifteenth day of the month, corresponding to the end of our September and beg...
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If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
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<strong>If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship....
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(40) **If they shall confess their iniquity.**—Better, *And they shall confess, *that is, when their sufferings have reached this terrible point, the Israelites will realise and confess their iniquities and those of their fathers who have perished in these terrible punishments, on account of their sins, and who are no longer alive to confess their sins themselves. The whole description is present ...
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**34-44. the feast of tabernacles, for seven days unto the Lord--**This festival, which was instituted in grateful commemoration of the Israelites having securely dwelt in booths or tabernacles in the wilderness, was the third of the three great annual festivals, and, like the other two, it lasted a week. It began on the fifteenth day of the month, corresponding to the end of our September and beg...
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<strong>And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of ...
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(41) **And that I also have walked contrary unto them.**—That is, and they shall also confess that through their walking contrary unto God, He also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies.
**If then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled.**—Better, or rather, *their uncircumcised* *hearts shall be humbled. *This is a resumption of the statement made at the beginni...
Read full commentary →Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
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<strong>Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>The N...
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(42) **Then will I remember.**—That is, perform the covenant God made. The expression “remember” frequently denotes “to be mindful,” “to perform,” especially when used with regard to God; as, for instance, “I have remembered my covenant,” &c. (Exodus 6:5-6); “He remembered for them his covenant” (Psalm 106:45).
**My covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Ab...
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<strong>The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and c...
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(43) **The land also shall be left of them.**—Better, *but the land shall be deserted by them. *The solemn warning is here reiterated, that before God will remember His covenant with the patriarchs, and also be mindful of the land, the land must be depopulated of its rebellious inhabitants, and enjoy the Sabbaths which have been denied to it. This verse, therefore which is substantially a repetiti...
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CHAPTER 24 Le 24:1-23. Oil for the Lamps.
**2. Command the children of Israel--**This is the repetition of a law previously given (Ex 27:20, 21).
**pure oil olive beaten--**or cold-drawn, which is always of great purity.
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
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<strong>And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences o...
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(44) **And yet for all that.**—Better, *And yet even so, *that is, even if it be so that they remain exiles in foreign lands for a long time, this is no proof that God has finally cast them off, has given them over to destruction, and abrogated His covenant with them. He is always their God, and will keep His covenant for ever.
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**3-4. Aaron shall order it from the evening unto the morning--**The daily presence of the priests was necessary to superintend the cleaning and trimming.
But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
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<strong>But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant rel...
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(45) **But I will for their sakes remember the covenant.**—Better, *And will remember unto them the covenant, *that is, as their God He will execute to them the covenant which He made with their ancestors. This verse is therefore closely connected with the preceding verse.
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**3-4. Aaron shall order it from the evening unto the morning--**The daily presence of the priests was necessary to superintend the cleaning and trimming.
These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
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<strong>These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Blessings and Curses</strong>. Covenant blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience, establishing consequences of Israel's covenant relationship.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portra...
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(46) **These are the statutes and judgments.**—That is, the statutes and judgments contained in Leviticus 25:1 to Leviticus 26:45.**
In Mount Sinai.**—That is, in the mountainous district of Sinai. This group of statutes therefore concludes with the very phrase with which it began (see Leviticus 25:1), thus showing that it forms a section by itself.
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**5-9. take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes--**for the showbread, as previously appointed (Ex 25:30). Those cakes were baked by the Levites, the flour being furnished by the people (1Ch 9:32; 23:29), oil, wine, and salt being the other ingredients (Le 2:13).
**two tenth deals--**that is, of an ephah--thirteen and a half pounds weight each; and on each row or pile of cakes some frankincense was...
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