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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 26:1-13

Here is, I. The inculcating of those precepts of the law which were of the greatest consequence, and by which were of the greatest consequence, and by which especially their obedience would be tried, Lev. 26:1, 2. They are the abstract of the second and fourth commandments, which, as they are by much the largest in the decalogue, so they are most frequently insisted on in other parts of the law. As, when a master has given many things in charge to his servant, he concludes with the repetition... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 26:14-39

After God had set the blessing before them (the life and good which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient), he here sets the curse before them, the death and evil which would make them as miserable if they were disobedient. Let them not think themselves so deeply rooted as that God's power could not ruin them, nor so highly favoured as that his justice would not ruin them if they revolted from him and rebelled against him; no You only have I known, therefore I will punish... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:2

Ye shall keep my sabbaths ,.... The seventh day sabbaths, and the seventh year sabbaths; especially the former are meant, in which religious worship was given to the one true and living God, and therefore the observance of them is strictly enjoined; and hence this law follows closely upon the former, though Aben Ezra restrains it to the sabbatical years, or seventh year sabbaths, as he applies the sanctuary in the following clause to the jubilee year, which is said to be holy, Leviticus... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:3

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them. Both moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which had been delivered unto them, and now completely recorded in this and the preceding book; for what follow in the two next are chiefly repetitions of what are contained in these. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:4

Then I will give you rain in due season ,.... The former and latter rain, in the two seasons of the year in which rain usually fell, and the Scriptures frequently speak of; and when the land of Israel, which required rain, not being watered with a river, as Egypt, was blessed with it; the one was at the sowing of their seed, or a little after it, and the other a little before harvest; and when it was had in those times it was had in due season, and hence the word is in the plural number,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:5

And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time ,.... Signifying that there should be such plentiful harvests of barley and wheat, the first of which began in March, as would employ them in threshing them out unto the time of vintage, which may be supposed to, be in the month of July; for on the twenty ninth of Sivan, which was about the middle of June, was the time of the first ripe grapes, as appears; see Gill on Numbers 13:20 ; and that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:6

And I will give peace in the land ,.... Among yourselves, as Aben Ezra; that as safety from enemies is promised before, here it is assured they should be free from insurrections and from riots, broils, contentions, and civil wars among themselves: and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid ; that is, lie down upon their beds, and sleep quietly and comfortably, and not be in any fear of thieves and robbers breaking in upon them, Psalm 3:5 , and I will rid evil beasts out... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:7

And ye shall chase your enemies ,.... Who being overcome in battle, and put to the flight, should be pursued: and they shall fall before you by the sword ; not by the sword of one another, as the Midianites did, Judges 7:21 , so Jarchi; but rather by the sword of the Israelites, for oftentimes multitudes of the enemy are killed in a pursuit. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:8

And five of you shall chase an hundred ,.... One man chase twenty: and an hundred of you put ten thousand to flight ; which, had it been in proportion to the other number, should have been two thousand, as in Deuteronomy 32:30 ; where there is a proportion observed; and Abendana observes, there are some that give the sense of it thus, an hundred of you, an hundred times five, that is, five hundred, and so it comes up to a right computation; but here it seems to be a certain number for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:9

For I will have respect unto you ,.... Look at them with delight and pleasure, and with a careful eye on them, watch over them to do them good, and protect them from all evil; or turn himself to them from all others, having a particular regard for them and special care of them: and make you fruitful and multiply you ; increase their number, as he did in Egypt, even amidst all their afflictions; and much more might they expect this blessing in the land of Canaan, when settled there, which... read more

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