Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons Through extreme hunger. This is the very utmost calamity that could come upon a people. See it described at large, and in the most lively colours, Deuteronomy 28:53. It was fulfilled, first in the siege of Samaria, 2 Kings 6:29; next in the siege of Jerusalem before the Babylonish captivity, Lamentations 4:10; and finally, in the last destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.
Verse Leviticus 26:29. _YE SHALL EAT THE FLESH OF YOUR SONS, C._] This was literally fulfilled at the siege of Jerusalem. Josephus, WARS of the Jews, book vii., chap. ii., gives us a particular insta...
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...
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
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...
_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,
Cp. Deuteronomy 28:53; Jeremiah 19:9, and, for the fulfilment of the prophet's words, Lamentations 4:10....
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...
_AND YE SHALL EAT THE FLESH OF YOUR SONS, AND THE FLESH OF YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL YE EAT._ Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons. The revolting picture was actually exhibited at the siege of Samaria, at...
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...
This actually took place more than once: see on Deuteronomy 28:53....
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...
AND YE SHALL EAT THE FLESH OF YOUR SONS. — The harrowing scene here described is also depicted in Deuteronomy 28:53. This prediction actually came to pass at the siege of Samaria by the Syrians (2 Kin...
וַ אֲכַלְתֶּ֖ם בְּשַׂ֣ר בְּנֵיכֶ֑ם וּ בְשַׂ֥ר...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
_Daughters. To such extremities were the Jews reduced, at the sieges of Samaria and Jerusalem. (4 Kings vi. 28; Lamentations iv. 10.; Josephus, Jewish Wars vii. 8.)_...
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...
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...
29._And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons_. This scourge is still more severe and terrible (than the others;) (229) yet we know that the Israelites were smitten with it more than once. This savage a...
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...
AND YE SHALL EAT THE FLESH OF YOUR SONS,.... Which was fulfilled at the siege of Samaria, in the times of Joram, 2 Kings 6:29; and at the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, Lamentations 4:10; and t...
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...
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...
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat, in a madness of cannibal hunger brought on by the severe famine....
THE CURSE UPON THE DISOBEDIENT...
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...
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...
Through extreme hunger. See LAMENTATIONS 4:10....
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 26:29 eat H398 (H8804) flesh H1320 sons H1121 eat H398 (H8799) flesh H1320 daughters H1323...
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...
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,...
_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...
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
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 26:27 IF IN SPITE OF THIS YOU WILL NOT LISTEN. The retribution for continued rebellion includes a horrific lapse into cannibalism and the destruction of the religious cente...
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...
2 Kings 6:28; 2 Kings 6:29; Deuteronomy 28:53; Ezekiel 5:10;...
The flesh of your sons — Through extreme hunger. See Lamentations 4:10....