Leviticus 26:19 KJV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 26:19-20

Leviticus 26:19-20. The pride of your power That is, your strength, of which you are proud, your numerous and united forces, your kingdom, yea, your ark and sanctuary. I will make your heaven as iron The heavens shall yield you no rain, nor the earth, fruits. Your strength shall be spent in vain In ploughing, and sowing, and tilling the ground. 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

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 26:19

of. Genitive of cause, the power being the cause of the pride = your great pride. Compare Ezekiel 30:6 . So Ezekiel 24:21 , where the sense is lost in Authorized Version by the rendering "the excellency of your strength". read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 26:19

19. I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass—No figures could have been employed to convey a better idea of severe and long-continued famine. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 26:1-46

G. PROMISES AND WARNINGS ch. 26"In the ancient Near East it was customary for legal treaties to conclude with passages containing blessings upon those who observed the enactments, and curses upon those who did not. The international treaties of the second millennium BC regularly included such sections as part of the text, with the list of curses greatly outnumbering the promises of blessing. In the Old Testament this general pattern occurs in Exodus 23:25-33, Deuteronomy 28:1-68, and Joshua... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 26:14-33

3. The warning for contempt of the law 26:14-33These punishments would come on the Israelites not for individual errors and sins but for a settled contempt for the whole covenant. They manifested such contempt in presumptuous and obstinate rebellion against the law (Leviticus 26:14-15)."In the curses the converse of the blessings is spelled out. It was usual in legal texts for the curses to be much fuller and longer than the blessings section (cf. Deuteronomy 28 . . .). But this disproportion... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 26:18-20

The second stage of barren land might follow (one curse; cf. 1 Kings 17:1). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 26:1-46

Concluding ExhortationsSimilar exhortations are found at the conelusion of other codes of laws, as in Exodus 23:20,; and frequently in Deuteronomy, e.g. in Leviticus 28. The leading ideas and phraseology are the same in all. There is the same insistence on the holy character of Jehovah, the same demand for holiness on the part of His people, the same promises on condition of obedience, and the same warnings against being led astray by the evil example of the idolatrous nations among whom they... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 26:19

(19) And I will break the pride of your power.—That is, the strength which is the cause of your pride, the wealth which they derive from the abundant harvests mentioned in Leviticus 26:4-5, as is evident from what follows immediately, where the punishment is threatened against the resources of this power or wealth. Comp. Ezekiel 30:6; Ezekiel 33:28.) The authorities during the second Temple, however, took the phrase “the pride of your power” to denote the sanctuary, which is called “the pride... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:1-46

THE PROMISES AND THREATS OF THE COVENANTLeviticus 26:1-46ONE would have expected that this chapter would have been the last in the book of Leviticus, for it forms a natural and fitting close to the whole law as hitherto recorded. But whatever may have been the reason of its present literary form, the fact remains that while this chapter is, in outward form, the conclusion of the Levitical law, another chapter follows it in the manner of an appendix.Chapter 26 opens with these words (Leviticus... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 26:19-20

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:1-46

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 26:19

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 26:19

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 26:1-46

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 26:14-33

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 26:18-20

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 26:1-46

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 26:19

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:1-46

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