If they accept of The meaning is, if they sincerely acknowledge the righteousness of God and their own wickedness, and patiently submit to his correcting hand; if, with David, they are ready to say, It is good for us that we are afflicted, that we may learn God's statutes And yield obedience to them for the future, which is a good evidence of true repentance.
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
CONFESSION AND RESTORATION. The order of thought is confession by the exiles of the sin of their own and of previous generations, Yahweh's memory of His ancient covenant, and His (implied) deliverance...
WALKED. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
_Repentance shall bring restoration_...
_accept of_ acknowledge that the punishment was deserved and has had its remedial effect....
DISCOURSE: 143 GOD’S PROMISES TO PENITENTS Leviticus 26:40. If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, end that also...
4. GOD'S FAITHFULNESS TO HIS COVENANT 26:40-45 SUMMARY STATEMENT 26:46 TEXT 26:40-46 40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespas...
_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;_ If they shall confess...
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...
UNCIRCUMCISED HEARTS] unclean, not consecrated to God: see on Leviticus 19:23....
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 THAT I ALSO HAVE WALKED CONTRARY UNTO THEM. — That is, and they shall also confess that through their walking contrary unto God, He also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land o...
אַף ־אֲנִ֗י אֵלֵ֤ךְ עִמָּם֙ בְּ קֶ֔רִי וְ
"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...
THE PROMISED RESTORATION Leviticus 26:40 "And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against Me, and also that because they have...
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...
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...
_Mind. Hebrew, "heart," wicked, rebellious, and unclean. (Menochius) --- Pray for. Hebrew and Syriac, "please themselves in," &c. They shall see what advantage they have derived from their sins. (Calm...
Reader! I detain you in this place, to remark the abundant grace of our gracious GOD. Read these verses twice, and if possible never forget them; well might Paul say, where sin abounded grace did much...
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...
AND [THAT] I ALSO HAVE WALKED CONTRARY UNTO THEM,.... Showed no regard unto them, as if he took no care of them, or in a providential way concerned himself for them, but let what would befall them; ye...
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 i...
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 that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies, thereby freely acknowledging that they were suffering a well-deserved punishment; IF THEN THEIR UN...
THE EFFECTS OF THESE VISITATIONS AND THE RESTORATION OF THE COVENANT...
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...
40-46 Among the Israelites, persons were not always prosperous or afflicted according to their obedience or disobedience. But national prosperity was the effect of national obedience, and national ju...
The Hebrew word _avou_ commonly signifies _iniquity_, but it is oft used for THE PUNISHMENT OF INIQUITY, as here and 1 SAMUEL 28:10 PSALMS 31:10 ISAIAH 53:6,11. The meaning is, if they sincerely ackno...
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 26:41 walked H3212 (H8799) contrary H7147 brought H935 (H8689) land H776 enemies H341 (H8802)...
BUT REPENTANCE WILL BRING MERCY. GOD'S MERCY IS UNFAILING (LEVITICUS 26:39). Compare here Deuteronomy 30:1. God's judgments are in the earth that men might learn righteousness (Isaiah 26:9) His mercy...
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
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 26:40__ If the people repent, God will deliver them from exile and restore them to the Land of Promise. UNCIRCUMCISED HEART. Although the Israelites are circumcised in the...
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 Kings 21:29; 1 Peter 5:5; 1 Peter 5:6; 2 Chronicles 12:12;...
If they accept of — The meaning is, if they sincerely acknowledge the righteousness of God and their own wickedness, and patiently submit to his correcting hand; if with David they are ready to say, i...