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Verse Leviticus 26:16. _I WILL EVEN APPOINT OVER YOU TERROR, C._] How
dreadful is this curse! A whole train of evils are here _personified_
and appointed to be the governors of a disobedient people....
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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...
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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
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The punishments of disobedience: plague and defeat, to be followed,
after neglect of this warning, by infertility and wild animals and, if
repentance is still withheld, by the threefold penalty of swo...
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BURNING AGUE. Probably. fever.
CONSUME THE EYES. causing the sight to fail.
HEART. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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_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,
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_terror_ i.e. terrible things, viz. those that follow.
_the soul_ your life....
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APPOINT OVER YOU TERROR— See Deuteronomy 28:28. Psalms 78:33
compared with the 36th verse of this chapter, which fully explains the
meaning of the word. Houbigant reads, בחלה _bechle,_ here, after
the...
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3. THE CHASTISEMENTS FOR DISOBEDIENCE 26:14-39
TEXT 26:14-39
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But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these
commandments;
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and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul...
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_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 Y...
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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...
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LEVITICUS
*WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS
LEVITICUS
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
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I ALSO WILL DO THIS UNTO YOU. — That is, He will do the same unto
them; He will requite them in the same way, and abhor them.
I WILL EVEN APPOINT OVER YOU TERROR. — Better, _and I will appoint,_
&c, t...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Heat. Hebrew kaddachath, is rendered "scab and jaundice," by the
Septuagint: and by others "a dangerous wind," like that which causes
so many diseases in Egypt. The precise meaning of some terms in t...
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Reader, remark with me the gentleness with which GOD begins his
punishment. Sickness is among the kind rods with which the LORD
manifests his love, as a Father to his children. Hebrews 12:6;
Deuterono...
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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...
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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...
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I ALSO WILL DO THIS UNTO YOU,.... Henceforward follow threatenings of
dreadful evils to the transgressors and despisers of the commandments
of God, which thus begin:
I WILL EVEN APPOINT OVER YOU TERR...
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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 yo...
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_I will appoint over you terror_ The original _word_, בהלה,
_behalah_, properly signifies a sudden and grievous consternation, and
may be intended to denote that slavish fear, pusillanimity, and
dejec...
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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...
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I also will do this unto you: I WILL EVEN APPOINT OVER YOU TERROR,
order it to strike them, to fill their hearts with nameless dread,
CONSUMPTION, AND THE BURNING AGUE, a consuming fever, THAT SHALL
C...
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THE CURSE UPON THE DISOBEDIENT...
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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...
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OVER YOU:
_ Heb._ upon you...
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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...
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I WILL EVEN APPOINT OVER YOU; I will give them power over you, that
you shall not be able to avoid or resist them. Shall consume the eyes,
by the decay of spirits, and affluence of ill humours....
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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...
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Leviticus 26:16 do H6213 (H8799) appoint H6485 (H8689) terror H928
disease H7829 fever H6920 consume H3615 ...
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THE CURSINGS (LEVITICUS 26:14).
In the ancient second millennium covenants the cursings were regularly
more than the blessings, and so it is here. The devastating
consequence of disobedience and unfai...
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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...
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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,...
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_But if ye will not hearken._
NATIONAL TRANSGRESSION AND DISASTER
I. A nation’s progressive apostasy.
1. Passive indifference to Divine teachings and appeals: “Not
hearken.”
2. Non-compliance with...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 2:33; Deuteronomy 28:21; Deuteronomy 28:22; Deuteronomy
28:32;...
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That shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart — Two
remarkable effects of this distemper, when it continues long. It
eminently weakens the sight, and sinks the spirit. All chronical
diseases...