Leviticus 26:30

_AND I WILL DESTROY YOUR HIGH PLACES, AND CUT DOWN YOUR IMAGES, AND CAST YOUR CARCASES UPON THE CARCASES OF YOUR IDOLS, AND MY SOUL SHALL ABHOR YOU._ I will destroy your high places, х_ WªHISHMADTIY_ (H8045)] - I will pluck down (a word of strong meaning, implying utter destruction: cf. Numbers 33:52; Esther 3:6) consecrated enclosures on the tops of mountains, or on little hillocks, raised for practicing the rites of idolatry. CUT DOWN YOUR IMAGES, х_ CHAMAANEEYKEM_ (H2553)] - images of the sun. This interpretation is confirmed by the discovery of ten Punic cippi with inscriptions to Baal, (see Gesenius, 'Monum. Phoenic.') According to some, those images were made in the form of cha

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 were disobedient. Two things would bring ruin. 1. A contempt of God's commandments. They that reject the precept, will come at last to renounce the covenant. 2. A contempt of his corrections. If they will not learn obedience by the things they suffer, God himself would be against them; and this is the root and cause of all their misery. And also, The whole creation would be at war with them. All God's sore judgments would be sent against them. The threatenings here are very particular, they were prophecies, and He that foresaw all their rebellions, knew they would prove so. TEMPORAL judgments are threatened. Those who will not be parted from their sins by the commands of God, shall be parte...

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 conquest of the land of promise, this one to the subsequent history of the nation. The longer similar passage in Deuteronomy Deut. 27–30 is marked by broader and deeper promises and denunciations having immediate reference not only to outward consequences, but to the spiritual death incurred by transgressing the divine will. Leviticus 26:4 RAIN IN DUE SEASON - The periodical rains, on which the fertility of the holy land so much depends, are here s

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 repeat in summary the substance of the Israelites, religious duty, negative and positive, as comprised in the first table of the Decalogue. They form, therefore, a prologue to the remainder of the chapter, which solemnly announces: 1. The blessings. which should result from obedience (Leviticus 26:3). 2. The curses which should follow disobedience (Leviticus 26:14-3). 3. The gracious treatment which would ensue on repentance ...

AND I WILL DESTROY YOUR HIGH PLACES,.... Which Jarchi interprets of towers and palaces; but Aben Ezra of the place of sacrifices; for on high places, hills and mountains, they used to build altars, and there offer sacrifices, in imitation of the Heathens; Ezekiel 6:13; AND CUT DOWN YOUR IMAGES; called Chammanim, either from Ham, the son of Noah, the first introducer of idolatrous worship after the flood, as some have thought; or from Jupiter Ammon, worshipped in Egypt, from whence the Jews might have these images; or rather from Chammah, the sun, so called from its heat; so Jarchi says, there were a sort of idols placed on the roofs of houses, and because they were set in the sun, they were called by this name; and Kimchi s observes they were made of wood, and made by the worshippers of the sun, see...

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 (Leviticus 26:40) This great chapter is very fitting for the close of this book. We have no types here, but direct utterances of Jehovah. Israel's history and their future restoration is here predicted. He reminds them that He brought them out of the land of Egypt; they are His people. Therefore He wants obedience. If this is yielded blessings would be the results. These promised blessings consisted in abundance of rain, great fruitfulness of their land, peace in the land, deliverance from wi

The results of neglect of the third warning: the extremities of famine and captivity; siege; desolation of the country, destruction of the cities, uselessness of all religious observances; dispersion of the nation; desertion of Palestine and abject misery of the survivors. Such experiences of famine and siege as are described in 2 Kings 6:25 f. would be familiar in the last years of Jerusalem, and the reference to exile (more definite than in Deuteronomy 28; _cf._ to Egypt, 68) suggests the years after, and immediately before, 586 B.C. The mention of the local sanctuaries (Leviticus 26:31) shows that they cannot all have been destroyed in the reformation of 621 B.C. The reference to the Sabbaths of the land breaks the sense and appears to be an insertion....

HIGH PLACES: used for idolatrous worship (Numbers 22:41; Numbers 33:52.Deuteronomy 12:2.Joshua 13:17 (margin). Thus showing the helplessness of the gods worshipped. IMAGES. Hebrew. _hammanim,_ sun-idols. Compare Leviticus 26:1; 2 Chronicles 34:4. This was prophetic. CARCASES. Figure of speech _Catachresis._ App-6. Another prophecy, See...

_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, (_c_) Leviticus 26:21; Leviticus 26:32, (_d_) Leviticus 26:23-26, (_e_) Leviticus 26:27-39, overthrow a

I WILL DESTROY YOUR HIGH PLACES, AND CUT _DOWN YOUR IMAGES_— Or, _I will destroy your pillars,_ (_altars_,) _and cut down your solar statues._ Some have translated the word _images, by temples dedicated to the fire;_ which, say they, was a symbol of the sun. The _carcases of the idols,_ in all probability, mean the broken bodies of the images, which are called in contempt _the carcases._ The word is well rendered _truncos_ by Houbigant; _the trunks of your idols._ Ezekiel 6:4; Ezekiel 5:13 and Jeremiah 8:1 will fully explain this passage. _Your sanctuaries,_ in the next verse, either mean their idol temples, or the one true temple of their God; which, consisting of various parts