Leviticus 19:37

_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 equivalent to 'I, your Creator, your Deliverer from bondage, and your Sovereign, who have wisdom to establish laws, have power also to punish the violation of them.' It was well fitted to impress the minds of the Israelites with a sense of their duty, and God's claims to obedience....

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 I have traced out. _Judgments_, משפטי mishpatai, from _shaphat_, to _discern, determine, direct_, c. that which Divine Wisdom has _discerned_ to be best for man, has _determined_ shall promote his best interest, and has _directed_ him conscientiously to use. Leviticus 26:15. 1. MANY difficulties occur in this very important chapter, but they are such only to _us_; for there can be no doubt of their having been perfectly well known to the Israelites, to whom the precepts contained in this chapter were given. Considerable p

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 immorality, inculcating piety, righteousness, and kindness. Leviticus 19:1 may be regarded as an extension of the previous chapter in this direction, after which the subject of Leviticus 18:1, is again taken up in Leviticus 20:1. The precepts now given are not arranged systematically, though, as Keil has remarked, "while_ _grouped together rather according to a loose association of ideas than according to any logical arrangement, they are all linked together by the common purpose expressed in th

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, which had been delivered to them; and which are all comprehended in these two words, "statutes", or ordinances, which were the determinations of his sovereign will, and of mere positive institution; and "judgments", which were such laws as respected their civil or religious conduct, formed according to the rules of justice and equity: "all" and everyone of which were to be "observed", taken notice of, and regarded, in order to be put in practice, as follows: AND DO THEM; act according to them, in civil, moral, and religious life: I [AM] THE LORD; who enjoined all these things, and had a right to do so, and expected obedience to them, which it was right fit that they should give....

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. Against oppression (Leviticus 19:13) 5. Against unrighteousness in judgment (Leviticus 19:15) 6. Thou shalt love thy neighbor (Leviticus 19:17) 7. Different commands and prohibitions ...

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 them not out, to be defiled by them: I am Jehovah your God. 32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah. 33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong. 34 The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto you as the home-born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God. 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egy...

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 in Leviticus 19:3 correspond to those of the first table of the Decalogue ('Thou shalt love the Lord thy God'), and those in Leviticus 19:9 to the second table ('Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself'). In this chapter alone the characteristic phrase 'I am the Lord' (i.e. Jehovah) occurs no fewer than sixteen times. It is the divine seal set to the enactments of the law. 5-8. See Leviticus 7:15. 9. Kindly consideration of the poor is part of that holiness which God requires and which i

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 in brackets (…). CHAPTER 19 GOD’S *COMMANDMENTS V1 The *LORD said (this) to Moses. V2 ‘Say this to all the *Israelites. Tell them (this). “Be holy, because I am holy. I am the *LORD (who is) your God. V3 Every one of you must respect his mother and his father. You must do the right things on my *Sabbath Days. I am the *LORD (who is) your God....

וּ שְׁמַרְתֶּ֤ם אֶת ־כָּל ־חֻקֹּתַי֙ וְ אֶת ־כָּל ־מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י וַ עֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם אֹתָ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָֽה׃ פ

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 canon from various original documents, with the purpose, not of presenting a complete enumeration of all moral and ceremonial duties, but of illustrating the application in the everyday life of the Israelite of the injunction which stands at the beginning of the chapter (Leviticus 19:2): "Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy." Truly strange it is, in the full light of Hebrew history, to find anyone, like Kalisch, representing this conception of holiness, so fundamental to this law, as the "ripest fruit of Hebrew culture"! For it is insisted by such competent critics, as Dillm