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Leviticus 26:2

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

Ye shall keep my sabbaths. Very frequently, in this book of the law, the Sabbath and the sanctuary are mentioned as antidotes to idolatry.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    5. THE BLESSING, THE CURSE AND ISRAEL'S HISTORY CHAPTER 26 _ 1. Obedience and the blessings (Leviticus 26:1)_ 2. Disobedience and the curse (Leviticus 26:14) 3. The restoration (Leviti

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LEVITICUS 26:1 F. Idols forbidden (_cf. Leviticus 19:4_, Exodus 20:4 *). Images of both stone and metal are forbidden, as well as pillars (_masseboth_ pp. 98f.)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    These two _vv._contain only repetitions of the precepts already given (Leviticus 19:3-4; Leviticus 19:30); in fact, the direction to observe the sabbath appears here for the third time. The redactor o...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. CONCLUSION: PROMISES AND WARNINGS 26:1-46 1. THE NECESSITY OF RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS TO GOD 26:1, 2 TEXT 26:1, 2 1 Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pill...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS Similar 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 phraseo...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    YE SHALL KEEP MY SABBATHS... — This is exactly the same precept laid down in chap 19:30, and is here repeated because of the danger of desecrating the Sabbath to which the Israelite is exposed who sel...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֶת ־שַׁבְּתֹתַ֣י תִּשְׁמֹ֔רוּ וּ מִקְדָּשִׁ֖י תִּירָ֑אוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE PROMISES AND THREATS OF THE COVENANT Leviticus 26:1 ONE 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 wh...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    RESULTS OF OBEDIENCE AND DISOBEDIENCE Leviticus 26:1 There is a vast contrast between the ideal life of the first thirteen verses of this chapter and the remainder; just the distinction which God eve...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In these brief repetitions of laws two gracious promises and solemn warnings were set forth. The laws reiterated were fundamental. There must be no idolatry. There must be perpetual observance of the...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Reverence. The Rabbins inform us, with what respect their ancestors appeared in the temple. They left their sticks and shoes behind them, and washed their feet; entering solely to perform some act of...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here again it is precious to the believer to remark how a gracious GOD hath secured his people, in the observance of those precepts. Ezekiel 38:23. From Leviticus 26:2, let the Reader observe as he go...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 26. We have a touching picture of the ways of God in patience and in chastisement, if Israel walked contrary to Him. When they acknowledged their fault, then He would remember the covenant mad...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 theref...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD. Ver. 2. _Ye shall keep._] _See Trapp on "_ Lev 19:30 _"_...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The substance of their religious laws are here recapitulated in two chief articles, on which all the rest very much depended; and God, by Moses, inculcates upon them, 1st, A careful abhorrence of all...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Of Idolatry. 2 Religiousnes. 3 A blessing to them that keepe the Commandements. 14 A curse to those that breake them. 40 God promiseth to remember them that repent. 1 YEE shall make you [NOTE: E...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Ye shall keep My Sabbaths, as the days set a part for His special worship, AND REVERENCE MY SANCTUARY, stand in awe of the place where the holy God revealed Himself to them. I AM THE LORD. These two v...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BLESSINGS PROMISED TO THE OBEDIENT...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    This chapter is more or less a summary of the moral lessons of the book of Leviticus, a chapter that presses home the seriousness of having to do with a God of absolute holiness and truth. It is divid...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 o...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    REVERENCE MY SANCTUARY, by purging and preserving it from all uncleanness, by approaching to it, and managing all the services of it, with reverence, and in such manner only as God hath appointed....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    This chapter requires little in the way of note or exposition. It contains a most solemn and affecting record of the blessings of obedience. on the one hand, and the terrible consequences of disobedie...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 26:2 keep H8104 (H8799) Sabbaths H7676 reverence H3372 (H8799) sanctuary H4720 LORD H3068...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 26 FINAL RECOGNITION OF HIS AUTHORITY, BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS. The Book now virtually closes with the recognition that Israel were bound to Him, and only Him, by the covenant. Yahweh reaffirm...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Conditions of blessing and warnings of chastisement. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: All adverse circumstances that come upon a people are God's servants, used often as a scourge where...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 26:1. _Neither set up any image of stone,_ any large sightly stone. The druids were apt to bring or roll large stones from afar, as at Stone-henge, at Shap in Westmoreland; at Stanton Drew,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Ye shall keep My Sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary._ OF THE STATED TIMES OF GOD’S WORSHIP, PARTICULARLY THE LORD’S DAY I. What were the reasons upon which God might be supposed, under the law, t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 26:1 Blessings and Curses. Covenant documents include a list of consequences. Verses Leviticus 26:1 display the blessings if Israel obe

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    Religion as determining a Nation’s Destiny SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 26:1.—If ye walk in My statutes, etc. The Lord engaged to enrich them as a nation with temporal blessings and religious advant...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    PART V. CONCLUDING EXHORTATION. EXPOSITION THE first two verses of this chapter contain a prohibition of idolatry, and a command to observe the sabbath and to reverence God's sanctuary; that is, they...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter twenty-six again God establishes the fact that they are to worship Him. They are not to have idols, or graven images, or standing images, set up any image in the land to bow down to it: for I...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Leviticus 19:30...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    My sanctuary — By purging and preserving it from all uncleanness, by approaching to it and managing all the services of it with reverence, and in such manner only as God hath appointed....

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