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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Leviticus 20:24

But I have said unto you. — That is, promised to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and also to you, that he would expel the Canaanites, and give the land to the Israelites as an inheritance.

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See also Leviticus 20:24 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 20:24. _A LAND THAT FLOWETH WITH MILK AND HONEY_] _See this explained "_Exodus 3:8_"_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The ground is here again stated on which all these laws of holiness should be obeyed. See Leviticus 18:24 note. Leviticus 20:24 Compare the margin reference....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. WARNINGS AGAINST SPECIAL SINS AND THEIR PENALTIES CHAPTER 20 _ 1. Warning against Molech--worship and familiar spirits (Leviticus 20:1)_ 2. Warning against cursing parents (Leviticus 20:9) 3. C...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FINAL APPEAL, emphasizing the motive of separation from the customs of the original inhabitants, complementary to that of fear of defilement (Leviticus 18:30). Refusal to make the due distinction...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    An exhortation fundamentally in agreement with Leviticus 18:24-30. The idea of a separation from other nations is prominent in connexion with that of holiness....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    EXHORTATION TO FAITHFULNESS 20:22-26 TEXT 20:22-26 22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you no...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT I HAVE SAID UNTO YOU, YE SHALL INHERIT THEIR LAND, AND I WILL GIVE IT UNTO YOU TO POSSESS IT, A LAND THAT FLOWETH WITH MILK AND HONEY: I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD, WHICH HAVE SEPARATED YOU FROM OTHER...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    (CHS. 17-26) THE LAW OF HOLINESS This section of Leviticus occupies a position by itself, being distinguished from the rest of the book both by style and contents. A few only of its main characteristi...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וָ אֹמַ֣ר לָכֶ֗ם אַתֶּם֮ תִּֽירְשׁ֣וּ אֶת ־אַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    PENAL SANCTIONS Leviticus 20:1 In no age or community has it been found sufficient, to secure obedience, that one should appeal to the conscience of men, or depend, as a sufficient motive, upon the n...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Once more we have a repetition of laws already enunciated with the same persistent thought of responsibility. In this section we find the death sentence associated with certain forms of disobedience,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that (i) floweth with milk and honey: I [am] the LORD your God, which have separated you from ...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Honey. Most fertile and delicious. (Menochius)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Let the Reader remark with me, in the perusal of these verses, the grounds on which the LORD enjoins sanctity of life and manners, and the very strong motives in which it is founded, namely, that the...

  • 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

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20. Chapter s 19, 20, carry us somewhat farther. They were to be holy, for Jehovah was holy. Chapter 19 takes up rather the side of good, though keepin...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT I HAVE SAID UNTO YOU, YE SHALL INHERIT THE LAND,.... Promised it unto them, as he had to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and also to them; or he had said the above things unto them, that...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I [am] the LORD your God, which have separated you from [othe...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Of him that giueth of his seed to Molech. 4 of him that fauoureth such an one. 6 Of going to Wizards. 7 Of sanctification. 9 Of him that curseth his parents. 10 Of adulterie. 11.14.17.19 Of Inc...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey, of unusual fruitfulness. I AM THE LORD, YOUR GOD, WHICH HAVE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ADMONITION TO HOLINESS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    PENALTIES FOR SIN GODWARD (VV. 1-8) Chapter 19 has given many laws forbidding sin; now chapter 20 shows that law, when it is broken, demands certain penalties. These penalties were to be executed as s...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-27 These verses repeat what had been said before, but it was needful there should be line upon line. What praises we owe to God that he has taught the evil of sin, and the sure way of deliverance f...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    By my special grace and favour vouchsafed to you above all people, in glorious and miraculous works wrought for you and among you, and in ordinances and other singular privileges and blessings imparte...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 20:24 said H559 (H8799) inherit H3423 (H8799) land H127 give H5414 (H8799) possess H3423 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL ARE INHERITING A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY AND MUST NOT DEFILE IT BUT MUST BE HOLY TO YAHWEH (LEVITICUS 20:22). Leviticus 20:22 “You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my or...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Further laws on relationship and walk of God's people. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God has distinguished His people from all others by a holy covenant with them through Christ, the...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 20:2. _Molech._ See on Leviticus 18:21. Leviticus 20:3. _I will cut him off._ Ahaz gave his son to Molech, and the Lord afflicted his reign with miseries....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He shall surely be put to death._ PENAL SANCTIONS This chapter, directly or indirectly, casts no little light on some most fundamental and practical questions regarding the administration of justice...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 20:22 A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY is a common scriptural description of Canaan (Exodus 13:5;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    Social and Moral Crimes SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 20:2.—Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel. These denunclations of sin (already denounced in ch. 18.) are to be _repeated_ in the heari...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The subject of Leviticus 18:1, is resumed in this chapter; but that which was before considered as sin only is now regarded as crime, and penalties are attached according to the heinousness...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter twenty, now God begins to get a little heavier. In chapter twenty God goes over some of the things He dealt with in chapter eighteen, only in chapter twenty telling that the violators of these...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:53; 1 Peter 2:9; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Deuteronomy 14:2;...

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