Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up [any] image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I [am] the LORD your God. Ver. 1. _Ye shall make you no idols._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 20:4 _"_ _See Trapp on "_ Exo 20:5 _"_ God kne... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD. Ver. 2. _Ye shall keep._] _See Trapp on "_ Lev 19:30 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; Ver. 3. _If ye walk in my statutes._] God's promises are with a condition, which is as an oar in a boat, or stern of a ship, and turns the promise another way.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Ver. 4. _Rain in due season._] The best almanac we should rely upon for seasonable weather is our obedience to God, love to our neighbour, care of ourselves.... [ Continue Reading ]
And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. Ver. 5. _Dwell in your land safely._] Confidently, fiducially, as boldly relying upon God's protection.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make [you] afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. Ver. 6. _Neither shall the sword._] To devour and desolate it, to eat flesh and drink blood, without measure or safet... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. Ver. 7. _And ye shall chase your enemies._] If foreigners invade you, you shall be able to quell and quiet them quickly.... [ Continue Reading ]
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. Ver. 8. _And five of you._] God strengthens or weakens the arm of either party, Eze 30:24 strikes a panic terror oft, as into those Aramites that hear... [ Continue Reading ]
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. Ver. 9. _And establish my covenant with you._] This is more than all the rest. So Genesis 17:20,21, "I have blessed Ishmael; twelve princes shall he beget, but my covenant will I establish... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. Ver. 10. _Because of the new._] Which shall sufficiently secure you from want, though the old were spent.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. Ver. 11. _I will set my tabernacle._] The philosopher could comfort himself, that though he had little else to trust to, yet ενθα και οι Yεοι ιεσιν, Here are the gods with me, meaning his household gods. And he in Plutarch sai... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. Ver. 12. _And I will walk._] _See Trapp on "_ 2Co 6:16 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright. Ver. 13. _Which brought you forth._] This they often hear of, not by way of exprobration, Jam 1:5 but to incite them to... [ Continue Reading ]
_But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;_ Ver. 14. _But if ye will not hearken._] Here we may observe twice so many threatenings as promises; which serves to set forth the baseness of our natures, that will do more for fear than love.... [ Continue Reading ]
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, [but] that ye break my covenant: Ver. 15. _Or if your soul abhor my judgments._] As, so it may prove; such is the vile canker of your corrupt natures.... [ Continue Reading ]
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. Ver. 16. _I will even appoint._] Put them in commission; send them with su... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. Ver. 17. _They that hate you._] A heavy curse to any people, to have mischievous, malicious princes set over them: odious to God, maligna... [ Continue Reading ]
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. Ver. 18. _Seven times more._] God will have the better of us, and good reason: for is it fit that he should cast down the bucklers first? _Illud quidem sic habeto,_ said the orator, _a_ _nisi... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: Ver. 19. _Your heaven as iron._] Hard hearts make hard times. “ _En quia iam nobis sint ferrea pectora, reddit_ Coelum etiam nobis durius aere Deus. Et quia iam nummos gignant pro faenore numm... [ Continue Reading ]
And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. Ver. 20. _Your land shall not yield._] See this fulfilled. Jeremiah 14:1,2 _, &c., and _ Joe 1:12 Jer 8:13 And yet their country was called _Sumen totius orb... [ Continue Reading ]
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. Ver. 21. _Contrary unto me._] Or, Carelessly before me; as our ungirt Christians, profligate professors do. _ Seven times more Plagues._] God cannot be exhausted, n... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your [high] ways shall be desolate._ Ver. 22. _I will also send wild beasts._] As he did. Numbers 21:6 _,_ 2Ki 17:25 _; _ 2Ki 2:24 Isa 13:21 Jer 5:6... [ Continue Reading ]
And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; Ver. 23. _Ye. will not be reformed._] Or chastised. God will master us; but the wicked refuse to receive corrections: like naughty boys they prove more stubborn or more stupid: they stout it out, and will not stoo... [ Continue Reading ]
Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. Ver. 24. _Then will I also walk contrary._] God will be as froward as they for the hearts of them. Psa 18:20 He will wry with them; neither may they look to get anything of him by wriggling and wrestling.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of [my] covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. Ver. 25. _I will bring a sword._] God "makes peace and creates evil,... [ Continue Reading ]
__ Leviticus 26:26 _[And] when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied._ Ver. 26. _And not be satisfied._] As sick of a bulimy, or dog-like appetite, common i... [ Continue Reading ]
And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; Ver. 27. _But walk contrary unto me._] Or, At all adventures with me.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. Ver. 28. _Seven times for your sins._] God will not cease pursuing till Sheba's head be thrown over the wall. Three times in this chapter God raiseth his note of threatening, and he raiseth... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. Ver. 29. _And ye shall eat._] As they did. 2Ki 6:29 Lam 4:19 _Pone pretium humanae corni,_ was once heard openly proclaimed at Rome in the reign of Honorius the Emperor. A hard case indeed. Here in England, in Ed... [ Continue Reading ]
_And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you._ Ver. 30. _Upon the carcasses._] Or, Stumps and shivers of your idols overturned. Jer 16:18 Eze 4:3-7 Thus in Ket's conspiracy, those rebels of Norfol... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. Ver. 31. _I will not smell._] I will show myself implacable, inexorable.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. Ver. 32. _Which dwell therein._] After that you shall be driven out of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. Ver. 33. _And I will scatter you._] As chaff. Compare Psa 44:11 Zechariah 7:14. Therefore "fan you, fan you, O nation, not to be desired before the day pass as the... [ Continue Reading ]
Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye [be] in your enemies' land; [even] then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. Ver. 34. _Then shall the land rest, and enjoy her Sabbaths._] Rest from your disquietments, whilst ye sinned upon it; and gat out the hea... [ Continue Reading ]
As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. Ver. 35. _See Trapp on "_ Lev 26:34 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
And upon them that are left [alive] of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. Ver. 36. _I will send a faintness._] See this ex... [ Continue Reading ]
And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. Ver. 37. _And they shallfall._] Through feebleness or prefestination.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 iniquity,_] _i.e., _ saith Diodate, Forsake their hardness of heart, and humble themselves with tear... [ Continue Reading ]
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; Ver. 40. A special text touching the rejection and conversion of the Jews.... [ Continue Reading ]
And [that] I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: Ver. 41. _Accept of the punishment of their iniquity._] Taking all in good part, as less t... [ Continue Reading ]
The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes. Ver. 43. _They shall accept,_] _q.d., _... [ Continue Reading ]