レビ記 26:32-34 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 26:14-39

Prophetic maledictions. The promises of God are prophecies of good; so are his threatening prophecies of evil. Prophecy, therefore, gives no countenance to fatalism, since it is made to depend upon conditions. God may, therefore, repent him of evils threatened, viz. when sinners repent of the sin that provoked him. So long as the Hebrews were faithful to their God, they found him faithful in mercy; when they rebelled, they found him no less faithful in judgment. What a commentary upon the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 26:14-39

Divine retribution. The Divine Legislator of Israel knew well that he must contemplate disobedience as well as obedience to his laws. When he had intimated the fullness of the reward he would bestow on the faithful, he was compelled to pass on to "But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do," etc. It is sad to think that it did not need Divine prescience to foretell this issue. Human disobedience is too constantly occurring a factor in human history to require that: it may always... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 26:27-33

Punishment in the fifth degree. Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. We find that this threat was fulfilled in Samaria ( 2 Kings 6:28 ), and in Jerusalem at the time both of the earlier siege by the Chaldaeans, and of the later siege by the Romans. And I will destroy your high places. By high places is meant the tops of hills or eminences chosen for worship, whether of Jehovah (see 6:26 ; 1 Kings 3:2 ; 2 Kings 12:3 ; 1 Chronicles... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 26:34-35

The land had not participated in the sins of its inhabitants. The latter had thought that, by the neglect of the sabbatical years, they had enriched themselves by the fruits of those years which would otherwise have been wasted. The result was that they lost the land altogether for a period equal to that during which it ought to have kept sabbath, and the land "as long as she lay desolate kept sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years" ( 2 Chronicles 36:21 ). From the entrance into the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 26:3-45

As “the book of the covenant” Exodus 20:22-23:33 concludes with promises and warnings Exodus 23:20-33, 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... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 26:32-33

Leviticus 26:32-33. Your enemies which dwell therein Having driven you out, and possessed your places; shall be astonished at it A strong expression, to denote the dreadfulness of their calamity, at which their very enemies should stand amazed. A sword after you The sword shall follow you into strange lands, and you shall have no rest there. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 26:34

Leviticus 26:34. The land shall enjoy her sabbaths It shall enjoy those sabbatical years of rest from tillage, which you, through covetousness, would not give it: a most seasonable warning this. Jeremiah complains, that in his time they had contemned the ordinance of God respecting the septennial sabbaths, and had not given their servants liberty, (Jeremiah 34:17,) and gives this as one cause of their being delivered to slavery, Lamentations 1:3. And this is expressly mentioned as a... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:1-46

Promises and warnings (26:1-46)God reminded the people to put into practice all they had been taught concerning him, his sabbaths and his sanctuary (26:1-2). Obedience would bring agricultural prosperity, social contentment, victory over enemies, and a comforting sense of God’s presence (3-13). Disobedience would bring widespread disease, defeat by enemies, drought and destruction, till they awoke to their sin and turned again to God (14-20).If the people failed to respond, God would increase... read more

E.W. Bullinger