If ye will not hearken, &c. If, notwithstanding these great promises, which were designed to work upon their gratitude and obedience, they should generally become transgressors of his laws, God threatens that they should be visited with as extraordinary plagues; with poverty and vexation at home, and alarms of war and destruction from foreign enemies, such as would dispirit and rob them of all true comfort, even in the land of promise.
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...
_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,
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...
_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 exten...
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...
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...
וְ אִם ־לֹ֥א תִשְׁמְע֖וּ לִ֑י וְ לֹ֣א
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...
Here the subject changeth, and an awful but comes in. I would request the Reader to remark with me the progress of sin. First it begins in refusing to hearken to GOD. Malachi 2:2 Secondly, after refus...
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...
14._But if ye will not hearken unto me_. Thus far a kind invitation has been set before the people in the shape of promises, in order that the observance of the Law might be rendered pleasant and agre...
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...
BUT IF YE WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO ME,.... To his commandments, as the rule of their duty, and to his promises, as an encouragement to it, or to his prophets and ministers, explaining and enforcing his l...
_But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;_ Ver. 14. _But if ye will not hearken._] Here we may observe twice so many threatenings as promises; which serves to set f...
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...
But if ye will not hearken unto Me, and will not do all these commandments,...
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...
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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 26:14 obey H8085 (H8799) observe H6213 (H8799) commandments H4687 Leviticus 26:18;...
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...
Acts 3:23; Deuteronomy 28:15; Hebrews 12:25; Jeremiah 17:27;...