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
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