Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Leviticus 26:16
I will even appoint over you; I will give them power over you, that you shall not be able to avoid or resist them. Shall consume the eyes, by the decay of spirits, and affluence of ill humours.
I will even appoint over you; I will give them power over you, that you shall not be able to avoid or resist them. Shall consume the eyes, by the decay of spirits, and affluence of ill humours.
Verse Leviticus 26:16. _I WILL EVEN APPOINT OVER YOU TERROR, C._] How dreadful is this curse! A whole train of evils are here _personified_ and appointed to be the governors of a disobedient people....
As “the book of the covenant” Exodus 20:22 concludes with promises and warnings Exodus 23:20, so does this collection of laws contained in the Book of Leviticus. But the former passage relates to the...
5. THE BLESSING, THE CURSE AND ISRAEL'S HISTORY CHAPTER 26 _ 1. Obedience and the blessings (Leviticus 26:1)_ 2. Disobedience and the curse (Leviticus 26:14) 3. The restoration (Leviti
The punishments of disobedience: plague and defeat, to be followed, after neglect of this warning, by infertility and wild animals and, if repentance is still withheld, by the threefold penalty of swo...
BURNING AGUE. Probably. fever. CONSUME THE EYES. causing the sight to fail. HEART. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
_The penalties that shall ensue, if Israel prove disobedient_(Cp. Deuteronomy 28:15 ff.) They are arranged in five groups, viz. (_a_) Leviticus 26:16-18, (_b_) Leviticus 26:19-20,
_terror_ i.e. terrible things, viz. those that follow. _the soul_ your life....
APPOINT OVER YOU TERROR— See Deuteronomy 28:28. Psalms 78:33 compared with the 36th verse of this chapter, which fully explains the meaning of the word. Houbigant reads, בחלה _bechle,_ here, after the...
3. THE CHASTISEMENTS FOR DISOBEDIENCE 26:14-39 TEXT 26:14-39 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul...
_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 Y...
CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS Similar exhortations are found at the conelusion of other codes of laws, as in Exodus 23:20,; and frequently in Deuteronomy, e.g. in Leviticus 28. The leading ideas and phraseo...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
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, t...
אַף ־אֲנִ֞י אֶֽעֱשֶׂה ־זֹּ֣את לָכֶ֗ם וְ הִפְק
THE PROMISES AND THREATS OF THE COVENANT Leviticus 26:1 ONE would have expected that this chapter would have been the last in the book of Leviticus, for it forms a natural and fitting close to the wh...
"THE VENGEANCE OF THE COVENANT" Leviticus 26:14 "But if ye will not hearken unto Me, and will not do all these commandments; and if ye shall reject My statutes, and if your soul abhor My judgments, s...
RESULTS OF OBEDIENCE AND DISOBEDIENCE Leviticus 26:1 There is a vast contrast between the ideal life of the first thirteen verses of this chapter and the remainder; just the distinction which God eve...
In these brief repetitions of laws two gracious promises and solemn warnings were set forth. The laws reiterated were fundamental. There must be no idolatry. There must be perpetual observance of the...
_Heat. Hebrew kaddachath, is rendered "scab and jaundice," by the Septuagint: and by others "a dangerous wind," like that which causes so many diseases in Egypt. The precise meaning of some terms in t...
Reader, remark with me the gentleness with which GOD begins his punishment. Sickness is among the kind rods with which the LORD manifests his love, as a Father to his children. Hebrews 12:6; Deuterono...
We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
Chapter 26. We have a touching picture of the ways of God in patience and in chastisement, if Israel walked contrary to Him. When they acknowledged their fault, then He would remember the covenant mad...
I ALSO WILL DO THIS UNTO YOU,.... Henceforward follow threatenings of dreadful evils to the transgressors and despisers of the commandments of God, which thus begin: I WILL EVEN APPOINT OVER YOU TERR...
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 yo...
_I will appoint over you terror_ The original _word_, בהלה, _behalah_, properly signifies a sudden and grievous consternation, and may be intended to denote that slavish fear, pusillanimity, and dejec...
1 Of Idolatry. 2 Religiousnes. 3 A blessing to them that keepe the Commandements. 14 A curse to those that breake them. 40 God promiseth to remember them that repent. 1 YEE shall make you [NOTE: E...
I also will do this unto you: I WILL EVEN APPOINT OVER YOU TERROR, order it to strike them, to fill their hearts with nameless dread, CONSUMPTION, AND THE BURNING AGUE, a consuming fever, THAT SHALL C...
THE CURSE UPON THE DISOBEDIENT...
This chapter is more or less a summary of the moral lessons of the book of Leviticus, a chapter that presses home the seriousness of having to do with a God of absolute holiness and truth. It is divid...
OVER YOU: _ Heb._ upon you...
14-39 After God has set the blessing before them which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse before them, the evils which would make them miserable, if they...
This chapter requires little in the way of note or exposition. It contains a most solemn and affecting record of the blessings of obedience. on the one hand, and the terrible consequences of disobedie...
Leviticus 26:16 do H6213 (H8799) appoint H6485 (H8689) terror H928 disease H7829 fever H6920 consume H3615 ...
THE CURSINGS (LEVITICUS 26:14). In the ancient second millennium covenants the cursings were regularly more than the blessings, and so it is here. The devastating consequence of disobedience and unfai...
CONTENTS: Conditions of blessing and warnings of chastisement. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: All adverse circumstances that come upon a people are God's servants, used often as a scourge where...
Leviticus 26:1. _Neither set up any image of stone,_ any large sightly stone. The druids were apt to bring or roll large stones from afar, as at Stone-henge, at Shap in Westmoreland; at Stanton Drew,...
_But if ye will not hearken._ NATIONAL TRANSGRESSION AND DISASTER I. A nation’s progressive apostasy. 1. Passive indifference to Divine teachings and appeals: “Not hearken.” 2. Non-compliance with...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 26:1 Blessings and Curses. Covenant documents include a list of consequences. Verses Leviticus 26:1 display the blessings if Israel obe
Religion as determining a Nation’s Destiny SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 26:1.—If ye walk in My statutes, etc. The Lord engaged to enrich them as a nation with temporal blessings and religious advant...
PART V. CONCLUDING EXHORTATION. EXPOSITION THE first two verses of this chapter contain a prohibition of idolatry, and a command to observe the sabbath and to reverence God's sanctuary; that is, they...
Chapter twenty-six again God establishes the fact that they are to worship Him. They are not to have idols, or graven images, or standing images, set up any image in the land to bow down to it: for I...
1 Samuel 2:33; Deuteronomy 28:21; Deuteronomy 28:22; Deuteronomy 28:32;...
That shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart — Two remarkable effects of this distemper, when it continues long. It eminently weakens the sight, and sinks the spirit. All chronical diseases...