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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Leviticus 26:19-20

The pride of your power That is, your strength, of which you are proud, your numerous and united forces, your kingdom, yea, your ark and sanctuary. I will make your heaven as iron The heavens shall yield you no rain, nor the earth, fruits. Your strength shall be spent in vain In ploughing, and sowing, and tilling the ground.

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See also Leviticus 26:19-20 in other biblical comments:

  • 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 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OF. Genitive of cause, the power being the cause of the pride. your great pride. Compare Ezekiel 30:6. So Ezekiel 24:21, where the sense is lost in Authorized Version by the rendering "the excellency...

  • 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

    _the pride of your power_ the pride with which ye rely upon your prosperity and the fruitfulness of your land. The expression is found elsewhere only in Ezekiel, where in Ezekiel 7:24 LXX., Ezekiel 24...

  • 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND I WILL BREAK THE PRIDE OF YOUR POWER; AND I WILL MAKE YOUR HEAVEN AS IRON, AND YOUR EARTH AS BRASS:_ I will make your heaven as iron. No figures could have been employed to convey a better idea...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The rain will be withheld, and the ground in consequence become like brass for hardness; see on Deuteronomy 28:23, and for an instance, 1 Kings 17:1....

  • 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 I WILL BREAK THE PRIDE OF YOUR POWER. — That is, the strength which is the cause of your pride, the wealth which they derive from the abundant harvests mentioned in Leviticus 26:4, as is evident f...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שָׁבַרְתִּ֖י אֶת ־גְּאֹ֣ון עֻזְּכֶ֑ם וְ נָ

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as (i) iron, and your earth as brass: (i) You shall have drought and barrenness....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _As brass (æneam). "Brazen," without moisture, and barren. (Onkelos)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader, remark how graciously, even in punishment, the LORD deals with his people. He doth not give them up; but calls upon them with a louder call, and by more alarming providences. He makes all natu...

  • 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

    AND I WILL BREAK THE PRIDE OF YOUR POWER,.... Which the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi interpret of the sanctuary, which they were proud of, trusted in, and boasted of; but was broke or destroyed, firs...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • 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 I will break the pride, the majesty, the glory, the boast, of your power; AND I WILL MAKE YOUR HEAVEN AS IRON AND YOUR EARTH AS BRASS, withholding both the rain above and the fruitfulness below;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CURSE UPON THE DISOBEDIENT...

  • 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

    THE PRIDE OF YOUR POWER, i.e. your strength, of which you are proud, your numerous and united forces, your kingdom, yea, your ark and sanctuary. YOUR EARTH AS BRASS; the heavens shall yield you no rai...

  • 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 26:19 break H7665 (H8804) pride H1347 power H5797 make H5414 (H8804) heavens H8064 iron H1270 earth

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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

    _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...

  • 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

    1 Kings 17:1; 1 Samuel 4:11; 1 Samuel 4:3; Daniel 4:37; Deuteronomy 2

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The pride of your power — That is, your strength of which you are proud, your numerous and united forces, your kingdom, yea, your ark and sanctuary. I will make your heaven as iron — The heavens shall...

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