Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Leviticus 19:37
Therefore Because my blessings and deliverances are not indulgences to sin, but greater obligations to all duties to God and men.
Therefore Because my blessings and deliverances are not indulgences to sin, but greater obligations to all duties to God and men.
Verse Leviticus 19:37. _SHALL YE OBSERVE ALL MY STATUTES_] חקתי _chukkothi_, from חק _chak_, to _describe, mark_, or _trace out_; the righteousness which I have described, and the path of duty which...
2. DIFFERENT DUTIES CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Honoring parents and fearing God (Leviticus 19:1)_ 2. The care of the poor (Leviticus 19:9) 3. Against stealing and lying (Leviticus 19:11) 4
CONCLUDING INJUCTIONS 19:30-37 TEXT 19:30-37 30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah. 31 Turn ye not unto them that have familiar spirits, nor unto the wizards; seek...
_THEREFORE SHALL YE OBSERVE ALL MY STATUTES, AND ALL MY JUDGMENTS, AND DO THEM: I AM THE LORD._ I am the Lord. This solemn admonition by which these various precepts are repeatedly sanctioned is equi...
VARIOUS LAWS, MAINLY OF A MORAL AND HUMANE CHARACTER This chapter was very naturally regarded by Jewish authorities as an embodiment of the Decalogue. It will be observed that in general the precepts...
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...
וּ שְׁמַרְתֶּ֤ם אֶת ־כָּל ־חֻקֹּתַי֙ וְ אֶת
THE LAW OF HOLINESS (CONCLUDED) Leviticus 19:1 WE have in this chapter a series of precepts and prohibitions which from internal evidence appear to have been selected by an inspired redactor of the c...
The more positive habits of separation are insisted on by the repetition of laws already given, with one reiterated emphasis, namely, the fact that the God of this people is Jehovah. There was, first,...
These precepts are to the same effect as the former, in point of plainness and tendency. And they are enforced by the same authority. It is very interesting to the true believer in CHRIST, while readi...
REFLECTIONS MY soul! learn hence thy noble privileges, in the contemplation of that gracious state, into which thou art brought by faith. Oh! for faith, in full exercise, from the SPIRIT's work in the...
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...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20. Chapter s 19, 20, carry us somewhat farther. They were to be holy, for Jehovah was holy. Chapter 19 takes up rather the side of good, though keepin...
THEREFORE SHALL YE OBSERVE ALL MY STATUTES, AND ALL MY JUDGMENTS,.... Delivered in this and the preceding Chapter s, and elsewhere, whether ceremonial or judicial, or moral, as there were of each, whi...
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I [am] the LORD. Ver. 37. _And do them._] For they are _verba vivenda, non legenda._ Words not so much to be read as liv...
1 A repetition of sundry Lawes. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and say vnto them, [NOTE: Leviticus 11:44; Leviticus 20:7; 1 Pet...
MANY LAWS GROUPED TOGETHER (VV. 1-37) We have seen at the beginning and end of chapter 18 God's announcement, “I am the Lord your God.” In chapter 19 the expression “I am the Lord” occurs 15 times. Bu...
THEREFORE; because my blessings and deliverances are not indulgences to sin, but greater obligations to all duties to God and men. So that if religion and righteousness were utterly lost in the world,...
Leviticus 19:37 observe H8104 (H8804) statutes H2708 judgments H4941 perform H6213 (H8804) LORD H3068...
THE FINAL COMMAND (LEVITICUS 19:37). Leviticus 19:37 “And you shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them: I am Yahweh.” So are they to observe all His statutes and ordinances...
CONTENTS: Further laws concerning proper relationships. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God's people being distinguished from all other people by a peculiar relationship with Him through Christ,...
The leading precepts of the law are here repeated to give them new force, and with many additions and illustrations, that they might be better understood. Most of these having already been explained,...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 19:1__ The Lord strongly commands the people (including the priests) to become holy in their practice, as he is holy (v. Leviticus 19:2). They do this by observi
Practical Piety: Religion in all Relationships SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 19:2.—Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say: Nowhere else in the whole of Leviticus does this...
EXPOSITION From the prohibition of moral uncleanness exhibiting itself in the form of incest and licentiousness, the legislator proceeds to a series of laws and commandments against other kinds of imm...
Now God continues in this same vein, as He moves into chapter nineteen. Speak unto all of the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am ho...
1 John 3:22; 1 John 3:23; Deuteronomy 4:1; Deuteronomy 4:2; Deuteron
Therefore — Because my blessings and deliverances are not indulgences to sin, but greater obligations to all duties to God and men....