Leviticus

Leviticus 26 ©

1 Against idolatry. 3 A blessing is promised to them that keep the commandments. 14 A curse is denounced against those that break them. 40 God promiseth to remember those that repent.

1

YE shall make you ano idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a 1standing image, neither shall ye set up any 2image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

a ch. 19.4. Ex. 20.4,5. De. 5.8; 16.21,22; 27.15. Nu. 33.52. Is. 2.16. Ps. 97.7.
2

¶Ye bshall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

b ch. 19.30; 23; 25. Ex. 20.8-11. Nu. 28; 29.
3

¶If cye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

c De. 11.13-15; 28.1-14; 4-27. ch. 18.4,5,30; 1-25. Ex. 20.1..
4

Then dI will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

d De. 11.14; 28.12. Je. 3.3; 14.22. Eze. 34.26,27. Joel 2.23,24. Ps. 67.6; 65.9-13; 85.12.
5

And your ethreshing shall reach unto the *vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye fshall eat your bread to the full, and gdwell in your land safely.

e Am. 9.13.
f Ex. 16.8. Job 11.18,19. ch. 25.19.
g ch. 25.18.
6

And hI will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and inone shall make you afraid: and I jwill 3*rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall kthe sword go through your land.

h Is. 35.9. Je. 30.10. Eze. 34.27,28. Ho. 2.18. Mi. 4.4. Ps. 3.5; 4.8.
i Job 11.19.
j Eze. 34.25; 5.17; 14.15. 2Ki. 2.24; 17.25,26.
k Eze. 14.17.
7

And ye shall lchase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

l Nu. 14.9. Jos. 23.10. De. 32.30. 1Ch. 11.11,20. 2Sa. 23.8-18. 2Ch. 13; 14; 20; 26.
8

And mfive 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.

m De. 32.30. Jos. 23.10.
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For I will nhave respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and oestablish my covenant with you.

n 2Ki. 13.23. Ex. 1.7; 2.23-25. Ne. 9.23. Je. 23.3.
o Ge. 6.18; 17.6,7,8. Ex. 3.8; 6.7; 19.5,6; 24.3-8; 23.22-31.
10

And ye shall eat pold store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

p ch. 25.22. Is. 37.30. Jos. 5.11.
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And qI will set my *tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

q Eze. 37.26-28. Ex. 40. 1Ki. 8. Ezr. 6. Zep. 3.17. Is. 62.3-5. Re. 21.3.
12

And rI will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

r 2Co. 6.16. Re. 2.1; 21.3. Ge. 17.7. Zec. 13.9. Je. 31.33. Ex. 29.45.
13

I sam 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 bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

s Ex. 20.2; 3.7,8. Ps. 81.6,10; 50.7; 116.16. Lu. 1.74,75. ch. 25.38.
14

¶But tif ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

t De. 28.15-68. La. 2.17. Mal. 2.2. v.18.
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And if ye ushall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye vbreak my covenant:

u v.43. 2Ki. 17.15. Je. 6.19; 32.23. Eze. 5.6; 20.13,24.
v Ge. 17.14. De. 31.16,20. Is. 24.5. Je. 11.10. Eze. 16.59.
16

I also will do this unto you; I will even wappoint 4over you terror, *consumption, and the burning *ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

w Ps. 109.6; 78.33. Je. 5.17; 12.13; 15.8; 31.25. De. 28.22,33,51,65. 1Sa. 2.33. Job 31.8.
17

And I will xset my face against you, and ye yshall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall zflee when none pursueth you.

x ch. 17.10; 20.5,6. Ps. 21.9; 34.16; 68.1,2. Eze. 15.7.
y Ju. 2.14; 3; 4; 6; 10. 1Sa. 4; 31. 2Ch. 12; 13; 21; 28; 36. Ne. 9.28. Ps. 106.41,42. De. 28.25.
z Ps. 53.5. Pr. 28.1. Job 15.20,21.
18

And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you aseven times more for your sins.

a v.21,24,28. 1Sa. 2.5.
19

And I will bbreak the pride of your power; and I will make your cheaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

b 1Sa. 4.11. Eze. 7.24. Ju. 3; 4; 10.
c De. 28.23. Je. 3.3; 14.1-6. Joel 1.4-20; 2.1-11. 1Ki. 17.1,7; 18.1. Ja. 5.17. Hab. 3.17. Hag. 1.10,11; 2.19. Mal. 3.9-11.
20

And your dstrength shall be spent in vain: for eyour land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

d Ps. 127.1.
e v.4.
21

¶And if ye walk 5contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

22

I will also fsend wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be gdesolate.

f Eze. 5.17. Je. 15.3. Nu. 21.6. 2Ki. 2.24; 17.25. De. 32.24. v.6.
g Ju. 5.6. 2Ch. 15.5. Is. 33.8. Eze. 14.15. La. 1.4. Mi. 3.12.
23

And if ye hwill not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

h Je. 2.30; 5.3.
24

Then iwill I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

i v.18. 2Sa. 22.27. Ps. 18.26. Am. 4.6-12. Job 9.4; 40.2,11,12.
25

And I jwill bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, kI will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

j Eze. 6.3; 14; 17. Is. 24. Ju. 3; 4; 6; 10. 2Ki. 8; 10.32; 13.3,7; {{replace-12.} 24; 25. 2Sa. 24.15. Je. 15.2-4; 16.4; 9.21,22.
k Nu. 14.12. De. 28.21. Je. 14.12.
26

And when lI 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.

l Is. 3.1; 9.20. Eze. 4.16; 5.16; 14.13. Ho. 4.10. Je. 38.9; 52.6. Mi. 6.14,15. Hag. 1.6. Ps. 105.16.
27

And mif ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

m v.18,21,23.
28

Then I nwill walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

n v.18,21,24. Is. 42.24,25; 43.11,25; 51.12; 63.3. Eze. 5.13.
29

And oye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

o De. 28.53-55. Eze. 5.10. 2Ki. 6.29. La. 4.10.
30

And I will pdestroy your high places, and qcut down your images, and rcast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

p Eze. 20.29. Je. 32.35. 2Ch. 14.3,5; 31.1; 34.3,4,7.
q Eze. 6.4-6. 2Ch. 34.4; 23.17. Is. 27.9.
r Je. 8.1,2. 2Ch. 34.5. Ps. 79.1-3. Eze. 6.4,5,13. 2Ki. 23.20.
31

And I will smake your cities waste, and tbring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will unot smell the savour of your sweet odours.

s Je. 9.11. Ne. 2.17. La. 1; 2.7. Eze. 9; 21.7. Ne. 2.3. Eze. 6.6.
t Ps. 74.7. La. 1.10. Eze. 9.6.
u Am. 5.21. Is. 1.11-13; 66.3. Pr. 15.8; 21.27. Ne. 2.3. Eze. 6.6.
32

And I will vbring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be wastonished at it.

v Eze. 33.28,29. Is. 1.7,8. De. 29.22-24. La. 5.12. Je. 9.11; 25.11,18.
w 1Ki. 9.8.
33

And I will xscatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

x De. 4.27; 28.62,64; 32.21-26. Ps. 44.11. Zec. 7.14. Je. 9.16. Eze. 12.14,15. Lu. 21.24; 19.43,44.
34

Then yshall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

y ch. 25.2,4,10. De. 15.1. 2Ch. 36.21.
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As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did znot rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

z Is. 24.5,6. Je. 23.10. Ro. 8.22. ch. 25.2.
36

And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a afaintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a 6shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

a Job 15.21,22. Pr. 28.1. Is. 10.4; 30.17. De. 32.30; 28.65-67. Lu. 21.25,26. Ex. 23.27. Eze. 21.7,12,15.
37

And bthey shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and cye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

b Is. 10.4.
c Jos. 7.12,13.
38

And ye shall dperish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

d Is. 27.13. Je. 50.6. Ho. 9.6. Mat. 21.44; 24.28. Lu. 19.27,42; 21.24. 1Th. 2.16.
39

And they that are left of you shall epine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

e De. 30.1. Ne. 1.3. Je. 3.25; 22.12,13. Eze. 4.17; 6.9; 20.44; 24.23; 33.10. Ho. 5.15; 3.4. Ex. 20.5. Mat. 23.35,36. Ro. 11.8-10.
40

If they shall fconfess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their *trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

f Da. 9. Ne. 9. Je. 3.12-14. 1Ki. 8.33-53. Ho. 5.15; 6.1,2. Eze. 7.16; 16.63; 36.31. Nu. 5.7. 1Ki. 8.33,35. Pr. 28.13. 1Jn. 1.9. Lu. 15.18.
41

And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then gtheir uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

g Je. 6.10; 9.26; 29.11-13; 30.11. Ps. 51.4. Da. 9.7. 2Ch. 6.37; 7.14; 32.26; 30.11. Ro. 2.29; 11.26. Col. 2.11. Ex. 6.12.
42

Then will I hremember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I iwill remember the land.

h De. 4.31; 30.1-9. Ps. 106.45; 136.23. Eze. 16.60. Lu. 1.72. Ex. 2.24; 6.5.
i Eze. 36.33,34. Ps. 85.1,2.
43

jThe 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 kdespised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

j v.34,35.
k Eze. 13.10. Zec. 11.8. 2Ki. 17.7-17. 2Ch. 36.14-16. De. 32.15-21. v.15,44.
44

And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, lI will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to mbreak my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

l De. 4.29-31. Eze. 14.22,23. Je. 4.27; 5.10; 30.11; 46.28. Ne. 9.31. Ro. 11.2,26,28. 2Ki. 13.23.
m v.15.
45

But I will nfor their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, owhom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt pin the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

n v.42. Ro. 11.28,29. Ex. 3.6; 10.5,6; 2.24. De. 4.1.
o ch. 22.33.
p Ps. 98.2. Eze. 20.9,14,22.
46

These qare the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel rin mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

q ch. 27.34; 7.35-38; 11.46,47; 14.54-57; 15.32,33; 23.2. De. 6.1; 12.1.
r ch. 25.1.