High places — In which you will sacrifice after the manner of the Heathens. The carcases of your idols — So he calls them, either to signify that their idols how specious soever or glorious in their eyes, were in truth but lifeless and contemptible carcases; or to shew that their idols should be so far from helping them, that they should be thrown down and broken with them, and both should lie together in a forlorn and loathsome state.
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 results of neglect of the third warning: the extremities of famine and captivity; siege; desolation of the country, destruction of the cities, uselessness of all religious observances; dispersion...
HIGH PLACES: used for idolatrous worship (Numbers 22:41; Numbers 33:52.Deuteronomy 12:2.Joshua 13:17 (margin). Thus showing the helplessnes
_high places_ places on which the Israelites anciently practised their worship, and often carried on idolatrous rites in connexion with it. They at first used hills or mountains, and afterwards mounds...
_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,
I WILL DESTROY YOUR HIGH PLACES, AND CUT _DOWN YOUR IMAGES_— Or, _I will destroy your pillars,_ (_altars_,) _and cut down your solar statues._ Some have translated the word _images, by temples dedicat...
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...
_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_...
26:30 idols; (c-23) See Ezekiel 6:4 ....
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...
HIGH PLACES] places of worship, usually on an eminence. The name is sometimes applied to places, used for the worship of Jehovah, but in later times the 'high places' were condemned as idolatrous. IMA...
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...
AND I WILL DESTROY YOUR HIGH PLACES. — Though these eminences were also used for the worship of Jehovah (Judges 6:25; Judges 13:16; 1 Samuel 7:10; 1 King
וְ הִשְׁמַדְתִּ֞י אֶת ־בָּמֹֽתֵיכֶ֗ם וְ הִכְרַתִּי֙...
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...
THE LAW OF THE TITHE Leviticus 26:30 "And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's: it is holy unto the Lord. And if a man will redeem aug...
DESOLATION AND CAPTIVITY FOR THE STUBBORN Leviticus 26:21 Notwithstanding the solemn and appalling pictures placed before Israel in these verses, they forsook the Lord and served other gods. Thus, th...
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...
Places. The temple of Solomon was built on Mount Moria or Sion. The Persians sacrificed upon the mountains, and the Romans and Athenians built their most magnificent temples on the highest parts of th...
Reader! still keep your mind in contemplation on the process of divine judgments. From temporal punishments the LORD proceeds to spiritual. And when it comes to this, that the sanctuary is desolate, a...
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...
AND I WILL DESTROY YOUR HIGH PLACES,.... Which Jarchi interprets of towers and palaces; but Aben Ezra of the place of sacrifices; for on high places, hills and mountains, they used to build altars, an...
_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._ Ver. 30. _Upon the carcasses._] Or, Stumps and sh...
_Your high places_ In which you will sacrifice after the manner of the heathen. And _cut down your images_ חמניכם, _chamanechem;_ some would translate this, _your temples of the sun;_ from חמה, _chamm...
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...
And I will destroy your high places, where idolatrous worship was carried on, AND CUT DOWN YOUR IMAGES, the pillars erected to the heathen deities, AND CAST YOUR CARCASSES UPON THE CARCASSES OF YOUR I...
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...
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...
YOUR HIGH PLACES, in which you will sacrifice after the manner of the heathens. See LEVITICUS 19:26 NUMBERS 33:52. YOUR IMAGES; or, _your images of the sun_, made for the honour and worshipping of the...
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 26:30 destroy H8045 (H8689) places H1116 down H3772 (H8689) altars H2553 cast H5414 (H8804) carcasse
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,...
_Then I will walk contrary unto you._ GOD’S DETERMINATION TO PUNISH SINNERS I. As affecting supposition stated. “If ye will not,” &c. The Lord here supposes that His people may commit three grievous...
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
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 26:27 IF IN SPITE OF THIS YOU WILL NOT LISTEN. The retribution for continued rebellion includes a horrific lapse into cannibalism and the destruction of the religious cente...
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 Kings 13:2; 2 Chronicles 14:3; 2 Chronicles 23:17; 2 Chronicles 31:1;...
Did God abhor Israel? PROBLEM: Time and time again God reminded Israel that they were the “apple of His eye” (Zechariah 2:8), the object of His special blessing (Genesis 12:1-3). Yet here God says, “...