Five of you shall chase a hundred A proverbial expression, signifying that a small number of them should be an over-match for many of their enemies. I will establish my covenant Will actually perform all that I have promised in my covenant made with you.
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 blessings of obedience: fertility, freedom from wild beasts, victory over enemies, and the presence of Yahweh Himself in the midst. For the first reward, _cf._ Amos 9:13; for the thought in genera...
FIVE. See App-10, this promise enlarged in Deuteronomy 32:30; Joshua 23:10. Compare 2 Samuel 23:8 2 Samuel 23:18....
_The blessing that shall follow upon obedience_. (Cp. Deuteronomy 28:1-11.)...
2. THE BLESSINGS OF OBEDIENCE TO GOD 26:3-13 TEXT 26:3-13 3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4 then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yiel...
_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...
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...
AND FIVE OF YOU SHALL CHASE AN HUNDRED. — This is a proverbial saying, corresponding to our phrase “A very small number, or a mere handful, shall be more than a match for a whole regiment.” The same p...
וְ רָדְפוּ֙ מִכֶּ֤ם חֲמִשָּׁה֙ מֵאָ֔ה וּ מֵאָ
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 PROMISES OF THE COVENANT Leviticus 26:3 "If ye walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them; then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield her increase, and...
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...
_Five. Thus Gedeon's 300 men put to flight the great army of the Madianites; (Judges vii. 22,) and the Machabees destroyed vast numbers with a small force._...
Thirdly, not only peace at home, but success abroad: victory over all our enemies. And this considered in a spiritual sense is very sweet indeed. See that precious promise. Isaiah 54:17....
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 FIVE OF YOU SHALL CHASE AN HUNDRED,.... One man chase twenty; AND AN HUNDRED OF YOU PUT TEN THOUSAND TO FLIGHT; which, had it been in proportion to the other number, should have been two thousand...
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. Ver. 8. _And five of you._] God strengthens or wea...
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 five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight, a proverbial expression for the absolute certainty of victory for Israel's arms, Deuteronomy 23:20; Isai...
BLESSINGS PROMISED TO THE OBEDIENT...
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...
1-13 This chapter contains a general enforcement of all the laws given by Moses; by promises of reward in case of obedience, on the one hand; and threatenings of punishment for disobedience, on the o...
FIVE OF YOU, i.e. a small number; a certain number for an uncertain....
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 26:8 Five H2568 chase H7291 (H8804) hundred H3967 hundred H3967 thousand H7233 flight H7291 (H8799) ene
THE BLESSINGS (LEVITICUS 26:3). Here follow all the blessings that would be theirs if only they would walk in His statutes and keep His commandments in their hearts and do them. Leviticus 26:3 “If y...
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,...
_And five of you shall chase an hundred._ PANIC AMONG SOLDIERS During the Italian war a panic occurred in a whole reserve _corps d’armee _of the French forces, and the account is given us by the Hen....
_If ye walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them._ THE ADVANTAGES OF RELIGION IN A NATION’S LIFE I. Wherein a nation’s religious life consists. The recognised presence of God in the...
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 26:3__ If the Israelites are faithful to the Word of God, then they will be blessed with abundance, a visible sign of the Lord’s presence. ⇐
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 Chronicles 11:11; 1 Chronicles 11:20; 1 Samuel 14:6; 1 Samuel 17:45;...
Five — A small number; a certain number for an uncertain....