Chapter 26:
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Leviticus 26
Concise Complete
Promises upon keeping the precepts. (1-13)
Threatenings against disobedience. (14-39) God promises to remember those that
repent. (40-46)
Verses 1-13
This chapter contains a general enforcement of all the laws given by Moses; by
promises of reward in case of obedience, on the one hand; and threatenings of
punishment for disobedience, on the other. While Israel maintained a national
regard to God's worship, sabbaths, and sanctuary, and did not turn aside to
idolatry, the Lord engaged to continue to them temporal mercies and religious
advantages. These great and precious promises, though they relate chiefly to the
life which now is, were typical of the spiritual blessings made sure by the
covenant of grace to all believers, through Christ. 1. Plenty and abundance of
the fruits of the earth. Every good and perfect gift must be expected from
above, from the Father of lights. 2. Peace under the Divine protection. Those
dwell in safety, that dwell in God. 3. Victory and success in their wars. It is
all one with the Lord to save by many or by few. 4. The increase of their
people. The gospel church shall be fruitful. 5. The favour of God, which is the
fountain of all Good. 6. Tokens of his presence in and by his ordinances. The
way to have God's ordinances fixed among us, is to cleave closely to them. 7.
The grace of the covenant. All covenant blessings are summed up in the covenant
relation, I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and they are all
grounded upon their redemption. Having purchased them, God would own them, and
never cast them off till they cast him off.
Verses 14-39
After God has set the blessing before them which would make them a happy people
if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse before them, the evils which
would make them miserable, if they were disobedient. Two things would bring
ruin. 1. A contempt of God's commandments. They that reject the precept, will
come at last to renounce the covenant. 2. A contempt of his corrections. If they
will not learn obedience by the things they suffer, God himself would be against
them; and this is the root and cause of all their misery. And also, The whole
creation would be at war with them. All God's sore judgments would be sent
against them. The threatenings here are very particular, they were prophecies,
and He that foresaw all their rebellions, knew they would prove so. TEMPORAL
judgments are threatened. Those who will not be parted from their sins by the
commands of God, shall be parted from them by judgments. Those wedded to their
lusts, will have enough of them. SPIRITUAL judgments are threatened, which
should seize the mind. They should find no acceptance with God. A guilty
conscience would be their continual terror. It is righteous with God to leave
those to despair of pardon, who presume to sin; and it is owing to free grace,
if we are not left to pine away in the iniquity we were born in, and have lived
in.
Verses 40-46
Among the Israelites, persons were not always prosperous or afflicted according
to their obedience or disobedience. But national prosperity was the effect of
national obedience, and national judgments were brought on by national
wickedness. Israel was under a peculiar covenant. National wickedness will end
in the ruin of any people, especially where the word of God and the light of the
gospel are enjoyed. Sooner or later, sin will be the ruin, as well as the
reproach, of every people. Oh that, being humbled for our sins, we might avert
the rising storm before it bursts upon us! God grant that we may, in this our
day, consider the things which belong to our eternal peace.
Chapter 26:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Exodus Numbers
Genesis
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Leviticus
Numbers
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Joshua
Judges
Ruth
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1 Kings
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1 Chronicles
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1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
James
1 Peter
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1 John
2 John
3 John
Jude
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