_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._ Ye shall make you no idols, х_ 'ªLIYLIM_ (H457)] - nothings (see the note at Leviticus 19:4). Idolatry had b... [ Continue Reading ]
_YE SHALL KEEP MY SABBATHS, AND REVERENCE MY SANCTUARY: I AM THE LORD._ Ye shall keep my sabbaths. Very frequently, in this book of the law, the Sabbath and the sanctuary are mentioned as antidotes to idolatry.... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF YE WALK IN MY STATUTES, AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, AND DO THEM;_ If ye walk in my statutes. In that covenant into which God graciously entered with the people of Israel, He promised to bestow upon them a variety of blessings, so long as they continued obedient to Him as their Almighty Ruler; and... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ I will give you rain in due season. Rain seldom fell in Judea except at two seasons-the former rain at the end of autumn-the seed time-and the latter rain in spring,... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Your threshing shall reach ... The barley harvest in Judea was about the middle of April; the wheat harvest about six weeks af... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YE SHALL EAT OLD STORE, AND BRING FORTH THE OLD BECAUSE OF THE NEW._ Ye shall eat old store. Their stock of old grain would be still unexhausted and large when the next harvest brought a new supply.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL SET MY TABERNACLE AMONG YOU: AND MY SOUL SHALL NOT ABHOR YOU._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ I have broken the bands of your yoke - a metaphorical expression to denote their emancipation from Egyptian slavery.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT IF YE WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO ME, AND WILL NOT DO ALL THESE COMMANDMENTS;_ But if ye will not ... In proportion to the great and manifold privileges bestowed upon the Israelites would be the extent of their national criminality and the severity of their national punishments if they disobeyed; an... [ Continue Reading ]
_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:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Terror, х_ BEHAALAAH_ (H928)] - sickness, disease [Septuagint, aporia],... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF YE WILL NOT YET FOR ALL THIS HEARKEN UNTO ME, THEN I WILL PUNISH YOU SEVEN TIMES MORE FOR YOUR SINS._ Punish you seven times more - i:e., with far more severe and protracted calamities. 'Seven is the number in the divine law with which the idea of remission was ever linked. It is true that... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL BREAK THE PRIDE OF YOUR POWER; AND I WILL MAKE YOUR HEAVEN AS IRON, AND YOUR EARTH AS BRASS:_ I will make your heaven as iron. No figures could have been employed to convey a better idea of severe and long-continued famine or of grinding tyranny.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 HIGHWAYS SHALL BE DESOLATE._ I will also send wild beasts. This was one of the four judgments threatened, Ezekiel 14:21: see also 2 Kings 2:24. YOUR HIGH WAY... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF YE WILL NOT BE REFORMED BY ME BY THESE THINGS, BUT WILL WALK CONTRARY UNTO ME;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Ten women shall bake ... The bread used in families is usually baked by women, and at home. But sometimes als... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF YE WILL NOT FOR ALL THIS HEARKEN UNTO ME, BUT WALK CONTRARY UNTO ME;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YE SHALL EAT THE FLESH OF YOUR SONS, AND THE FLESH OF YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL YE EAT._ Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons. The revolting picture was actually exhibited at the siege of Samaria, at the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar (Lamentations 4:10), and at the destruction of that city by... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ I will destroy your high places, х_ WªHISHMADTIY_ (H8045)] - I will pluck down (a word of strong meaning, implying utter destruction: cf. Numbers 33:... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL MAKE YOUR CITIES WASTE, AND BRING YOUR SANCTUARIES UNTO DESOLATION, AND I WILL NOT SMELL THE SAVOUR OF YOUR SWEET ODOURS._ I will make your cities waste. This destruction of its numerous and flourishing cities, which was brought upon Judea through the sins of Israel, took place by the f... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL BRING THE LAND INTO DESOLATION: AND YOUR ENEMIES WHICH DWELL THEREIN SHALL BE ASTONISHED AT IT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ I will scatter ... - as was done when the elite of the nation were removed into Assyria, and placed in various parts of that kingdom.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Then shall the land ... A long arrear of Sabbatic years had accumulated through the avarice and apostasy of the Israelites, who had deprive... [ Continue Reading ]
_AS LONG AS IT LIETH DESOLATE IT SHALL REST; BECAUSE IT DID NOT REST IN YOUR SABBATHS, WHEN YE DWELT UPON IT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Upon them that are left alive ... I will send a... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YE SHALL PERISH AMONG THE HEATHEN, AND THE LAND OF YOUR ENEMIES SHALL EAT YOU UP._ The land of your enemies ... On the removal of the ten tribes into captivity, they never returned, and all traces of them were lost.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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;_ If they shall confess ... This passage holds out the gracious promise of divine forgiveness and favour on their repentanc... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ These are the statutes. It has been thought by some that the last chapter was originally placed after the 25th (Adam Clarke); while others consider that t... [ Continue Reading ]