a pillar maẓẓçbâh, an upright stone, frequently mentioned in connexion with local worship. See for illustrations of those discovered at Gezer, Driver's Schweich Lectures, p. 63.
any figured stone i.e. with some idolatrous representation carved on it.
CHAPTER XXVI _Idolatry forbidden_, 1. _The Saobath to be sanctified_, 2, 3. Promises _to obedience, of fruitful fields, plentiful harvests,_ _and vintage_, 4, 5. _Of peace and security_, 6. Disc...
IDOLS - literally, “things of nought.” Hebrew אלילים _'ĕlı̂ylı̂m_. There appears to have been a play on the similarity in sound of this word to אלהים _'ĕlohı̂ym_ (God). Compare 1 Corinthians 8:4. ST...
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
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.)....
YE refers to any Israelites sold to heathen masters, who hence were in danger of being tempted to idolatry, while in this servitude. IDOLS. non-entities. Heb, _'elilim_. clay or terra cotta "gods". C...
YE SHALL MAKE YOU NO IDOLS, &C.— For the word rendered _idols,_ see on ch. Leviticus 19:4. For the word rendered _standing image,_ see Exodus 34:13. The words rendered, _image of stone,_ are, in the H...
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...
_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._ Ye shall...
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...
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...
XXVI. (1) YE SHALL MAKE YOU NO IDOLS. — The first two verses of this chapter are still a part of the previous section in the Hebrew original. By separating them from their proper position, and making...
לֹֽא ־תַעֲשׂ֨וּ לָכֶ֜ם אֱלִילִ֗ם וּ פֶ֤סֶל וּ
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...
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...
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...
To adore it. This explains the prohibition of making graven things, &c. The Protestants translate as usual, "Ye shall make you no idols, nor graven image, neither rear ye up a standing image, neither...
CONTENTS This chapter seems to form a brief summary of the arguments, by which the laws contained in the foregoing Chapter s are enforced; in that it points out the blessings to obedience, and the cu...
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...
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...
YE SHALL HAVE NO IDOLS, OR GRAVEN IMAGE,.... Some of the Jewish writers, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra, think this law against idolatry is mentioned on account of the Israelite sold to a stranger, spoken of...
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...
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...
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...
BLESSINGS PROMISED TO THE OBEDIENT...
Ye shall make you no idols, literally, nothingnesses, vain, empty deities of your own imagination, NOR GRAVEN IMAGE, one carved or chiseled from wood and stone, NEITHER REAR YOU UP A STANDING IMAGE, a...
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...
STANDING IMAGE: Or, pillar IMAGE OF STONE: Or, figured stone. _Heb._ a stone of picture...
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...
LEVITICUS CHAPTER 26 God commands them to shun idolatry, LEVITICUS 26:1, keep his sabbaths, and reverence his sanctuary, LEVITICUS 26:2, and walk in his statutes, LEVITICUS 26:3; promising plenty, pea...
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...
Leviticus 26:1 make H6213 (H8799) idols H457 image H6459 pillar H4676 up H6965 (H8686) up H5414 ...
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...
CHAPTER 26) Chapter 26 should be read in connection with Deut. 28, 29, the Palestinian Covenant....
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...
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,...
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
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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 10:19; 1 Corinthians 10:20; Acts 17:29; Deuteronomy 16:21;...
An image — Or pillar, that is, to worship it, or bow down to it, as it follows. Otherwise this was not simply prohibited, being practised by holy men, both before and after this law....