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Leviticus Chapter 26

Leviticus 26:4
26:4 Then I will give you {a} rain in due season, and the land
     shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall
     yield their fruit.

     (a) By promising abundance of earthly things, he stirs the
         mind to consider the rich treasures of the spiritual
         blessings.

Leviticus 26:6
26:6 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 {b} sword go
     through your land.

     (b) You shall have no war.

Leviticus 26:9
26:9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful,
     and multiply you, and {c} establish my covenant with you.

     (c) Perform that which I have promised.

Leviticus 26:11
26:11 And I will set my {d} tabernacLe among you: and my soul
      shall not abhor you.

      (d) I will be daily present with you.

Leviticus 26:13
26:13 I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of
      the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen;
      and I have broken the {e} bands of your yoke, and made you
      go upright.

      (e) I have set you at full liberty, whiLe before you were
          as beasts tied in bands.

Leviticus 26:15
26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor
      my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments,
      [but] that ye break my {f} covenant:

      (f) Which I made with you in choosing you to be my people.

Leviticus 26:17
26:17 And I will set {g} my face against you, and ye shall be
      slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign
      over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

      (g) Read Leviticus 17:10.

Leviticus 26:18
26:18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then
      I will punish you {h} seven times more for your sins.

      (h) That is, more extremely.

Leviticus 26:19
26:19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make
      your heaven as {i} iron, and your earth as brass:

      (i) You shall have drought and barrenness.

Leviticus 26:21
26:21 And if ye walk {k} contrary unto me, and will not hearken
      unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you
      according to your sins.

      (k) Or as some read, by fortune, imputing my plagues to
          chance and fortune.

Leviticus 26:22
26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall {l}
      rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and
      make you few in number; and your {m} [high] ways shall be
      desolate.

      (l) Read 2 Kings 17:25.
      (m) Because no one dares to pass by it for fear of the
          beasts.

Leviticus 26:26
26:26 [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.

      (n) That is, the strength by which life is sustained,
          Ezekiel 4:16,5:16.
      (o) One oven will be sufficient for ten families.

Leviticus 26:31
26:31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your
      sanctuaries unto desolation, and I {p} will not smell the
      savour of your sweet odours.

      (p) I will not accept your sacrifices.

Leviticus 26:35
26:35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did
      not rest in your {r} sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

      (r) Which I commanded you to keep.

Leviticus 26:36
26:36 And upon them that are left [alive] of you I will send a
      faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
      and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they
      shall {s} flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall
      fall when none pursueth.

      (s) As if their enemies chased them.

Leviticus 26:39
26:39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their
      iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the
      iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with {t}
      them.

      (t) In that, as they are blameworthy of their fathers
          faults, they shall be punished as well as their
          fathers.

Leviticus 26:43
26:43 {u} The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy
      her sabbaths, whiLe she lieth desolate without them: and
      they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
      because, even because they despised my judgments, and
      because their soul abhorred my statutes.

      (u) WhiLe they are captives, and without repentance.

Leviticus 26:45
26:45 But I will for their sakes remember the {x} covenant of
      their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of
      Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their
      God: I [am] the LORD.

      (x) Made to their forefathers.

Leviticus 26:46
26:46 These [are] the statutes and judgments and laws, which the
      LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount
      {y} Sinai by the hand of Moses.

      (y) Fifty days after they came out of Egypt.



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