Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Leviticus 26:1-46
Religion as determining a Nation’s DestinySUGGESTIVE READINGSLeviticus 26:1-13.—If ye walk in My statutes, etc. The Lord engaged to enrich them as a nation with temporal blessings and religious advantages, if, and so long as, Israel maintained allegiance to God’s worship and statutes, His Sabbaths and sanctuary. He crowns the enumeration of favours relating to this life with higher assurance that He would dwell among them in all the spiritual nearness ensured by His “covenant.” Our fidelity to... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 26:6
Neither shall the sword go through your land, i.e. war, as the sword is oft taken, as Numbers 14:3; 2 Samuel 12:10. Otherwise there is the sword of justice. It shall not enter into it, nor have passage through it, much less shall your land be made the seat of war. read more