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Leviticus 26:39

And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    As “the book of the covenant” Exodus 20:22 concludes with promises and warnings Exodus 23:20, so does this collection of laws contained in the Book of Leviticus. But the former passage relates to the...

  • 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

    The results of neglect of the third warning: the extremities of famine and captivity; siege; desolation of the country, destruction of the cities, uselessness of all religious observances; dispersion...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    INIQUITY. perversity. Hebrew " _avah_, App-44....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _The penalties that shall ensue, if Israel prove disobedient_(Cp. Deuteronomy 28:15 ff.) They are arranged in five groups, viz. (_a_) Leviticus 26:16-18, (_b_) Leviticus 26:19-20,

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _in the iniquities of their fathers_ in the guilt to which their fathers have contributed. _with them_ meaning either, as they have done, or, as holding fast by their fathers" iniquities....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. THE CHASTISEMENTS FOR DISOBEDIENCE 26:14-39 TEXT 26:14-39 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul...

  • 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

    AND THEY THAT ARE LEFT OF YOU SHALL PINE AWAY IN THEIR INIQUITY. — Better, _But those that remain of you shall pine away because of their iniquity,_ that is, those who will survive the terrible doom d...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הַ נִּשְׁאָרִ֣ים בָּכֶ֗ם יִמַּ֨קּוּ֙ בַּֽ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    "THE VENGEANCE OF THE COVENANT" Leviticus 26:14 "But if ye will not hearken unto Me, and will not do all these commandments; and if ye shall reject My statutes, and if your soul abhor My judgments, s...

  • 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

    DESOLATION AND CAPTIVITY FOR THE STUBBORN Leviticus 26:21 Notwithstanding the solemn and appalling pictures placed before Israel in these verses, they forsook the Lord and served other gods. Thus, th...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with (t) them. (t) In that, as they are blamew...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Own. The sins of their fathers, which they have imitated, shall fall upon them; so that they shall pine away with remorse and misery._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! still keep your mind in contemplation on the process of divine judgments. From temporal punishments the LORD proceeds to spiritual. And when it comes to this, that the sanctuary is desolate, a...

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    39._And they that are left of you_. This is another form of vengeance, that, although they may survive for a time, still they shall gradually pine away; and this may be referred both to those who go i...

  • 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

    AND THEY THAT ARE LEFT OF YOU SHALL PINE AWAY IN THEIR INIQUITY IN YOUR ENEMIES' LANDS,.... Such as were not taken off by any public calamity, as the sword or pestilence should gradually diminish and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. Ver. 39. _Shall pine away in their...

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

    _Shall pine away_ Shall languish out the remainder of their days in bitter grief, and sad reflections upon the miseries which their own and their fathers' complicated guilt has brought upon them; and...

  • 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

    And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands, So long as they remain in their unrepentant attitude toward God; AND ALSO IN THE INIQUITIES OF THEIR FATHERS SHA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE EFFECTS OF THESE VISITATIONS AND THE RESTORATION OF THE COVENANT...

  • 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

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SHALL PINE AWAY, be consumed and melt away by degrees, through diseases, oppressions, griefs, and manifold miseries....

  • 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 26:39 left H7604 (H8737) away H4743 (H8735) iniquity H5771 enemies H341 (H8802) lands H776 fathers...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    BUT REPENTANCE WILL BRING MERCY. GOD'S MERCY IS UNFAILING (LEVITICUS 26:39). Compare here Deuteronomy 30:1. God's judgments are in the earth that men might learn righteousness (Isaiah 26:9) His mercy...

  • 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

    _Then I will walk contrary unto you._ GOD’S DETERMINATION TO PUNISH SINNERS I. As affecting supposition stated. “If ye will not,” &c. The Lord here supposes that His people may commit three grievous...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 26:34 When the people are punished by being pushed out of the land, the LAND will benefit by having REST (compare...

  • 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

    Deuteronomy 28:65; Deuteronomy 30:1; Deuteronomy 5:9; Exodus 20:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Pine away — Be consumed and melt away by degrees through diseases, oppressions, griefs, and manifold miseries....

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