broken the staff of your bread. Figure of speech Metalepsis (App-6), bread being put for the support it gives, and staff which it is; and the breaking of the staff put for the cutting off the supply. Compare Isaiah 3:1.Ezekiel 4:16; Ezekiel 5:16; Ezekiel 14:13.Psalms 105:16.
ten. Supply Ellipsis (App-6) by supplying the word "then". then ten: i.e. one oven shall be sufficient for ten families. Compare 2 Kings 6:28; 2 Kings 6:29.
Verse Leviticus 26:26. _TEN WOMEN SHALL BAKE YOUR BREAD IN ONE OVEN_] Though in general every family in the East bakes its own bread, yet there are some _public bakehouses_ where the bread of several...
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,
_your staff of bread_ the bread which sustains life. For the expression see Psalms 105:16; Ezekiel 4:16; Ezekiel 5:16; Ezekiel 14:13, and cp....
TEN WOMEN, &C.— _Ten,_ that is, _many;_ a certain for an uncertain number. See 1 Samuel 1:8. Job 19:3. See also Ezekiel 4:16....
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 WHEN I HAVE BROKEN THE STAFF OF YOUR BREAD, TEN WOMEN SHALL BAKE YOUR BREAD IN ONE OVEN, AND THEY SHALL DELIVER YOU YOUR BREAD AGAIN BY WEIGHT: AND YE SHALL EAT, AND NOT BE SATISFIED._ Ten women...
THE STAFF OF YOUR BREAD] RV 'your staff of bread': i.e. the bread which is your staff or support: cp. Ezekiel 4:16; Ezekiel 5:16; Ezekiel 14:13. Owing to the scarcity one oven will be sufficient to ba...
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...
(26)AND WHEN I HAVE BROKEN THE STAFF OF YOUR BREAD. — Better, _when I break you the staff of bread,_ that is, when God cuts off their supply of bread, which is the staff of life. “To break the staff o...
בְּ שִׁבְרִ֣י לָכֶם֮ מַטֵּה ־לֶחֶם֒ וְ֠ אָפוּ
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...
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...
[And] when I have broken the (n) staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one (o) oven, and they shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied....
_Bread; or that which supports you. You shall be deprived of the necessaries of life. --- One oven shall be used by 10 families, so little bread shall be baked, and even that little shall be delivered...
These punishments were literally accomplished in the days of Israel's captivity. Isaiah 3:1; Jeremiah 39:1....
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...
26._And when I have broken the staff of your bread_. By these words God implies, that although He should not punish them by the sterility of the land, still He was prepared with other means for destro...
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] WHEN I HAVE BROKEN THE STAFF OF YOUR BREAD,.... Brought a famine, at least a scarcity of provisions upon them, deprived them of bread, the staff of life, by which it is supported; or however mad...
__ Leviticus 26:26 _[And] when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not b...
_When I have broken the staff of your bread_ By sending a famine, or scarcity of bread, which is the staff and support of man's present life. _Ten women_ That is, ten or many families, for the women t...
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...
THE CURSE UPON THE DISOBEDIENT...
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, which is here also represented as the staff of life, the proverbial expression denoting the infliction of extreme scarcity, ten women, of as many househ...
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...
BROKEN THE STAFF OF YOUR BREAD; either, 1. By taking away that power and virtue of nourishing which I have put into bread or food, which when I withdraw it will be unable to nourish. Or rather, 2. By...
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 26:26 off H7665 (H8800) supply H4294 bread H3899 ten H6235 women H802 bake H644 (H8804) bread...
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,...
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...
Ezekiel 14:13; Ezekiel 4:10; Ezekiel 4:16; Ezekiel 5:16; Haggai 1:6;...
When I have broken the staff of your bread — By sending a famine or scarcity of bread, which is the staff and support of man's present life. Ten women — That is, ten or many families, for the women to...