CHAPTER XXVI _Idolatry forbidden_, 1. _The Saobath to be sanctified_, 2, 3. Promises _to obedience, of fruitful fields, plentiful harvests,_ _and vintage_, 4, 5. _Of peace and security_, 6. _Discomfiture of their enemies_, 7-9. _Of abundance_, 10. _Of the Divine presence_, 11-13. Threatenin... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Leviticus 26:3. _IF YE WALK IN MY STATUTES_] For the meaning of this and similar words used in the law, Leviticus 26:15, Leviticus 26:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Leviticus 26:4. _RAIN IN DUE SEASON_] What in Scripture is called the _early_ and the _latter_ rain. The first fell in Palestine at the commencement of _spring_, and the latter in _autumn_. - _Calmet_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Leviticus 26:5. _YOUR THRESHING SHALL REACH UNTO THE VINTAGE_] According to Pliny, _Hist. Nat._, l. xviii., c. 18, the Egyptians reaped their barley six months, and their oats seven months, after seed time; for they sowed all their grain about the end of summer, when the overflowings of the N... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Leviticus 26:11. _I WILL SET MY TABERNACLE AMONG YOU_] This and the following verse contain the grand promise of the _Gospel_ _dispensation_, viz. the _presence, manifestation_, and _indwelling of_ _God_ in human nature, and his constant in dwelling in the souls of his followers. So John 1:14... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Leviticus 26:15. _IF YE SHALL DESPISE MY STATUTES - ABHOR MY JUDGMENTS_] As these words, and others of a similar import, which point out different properties of the revelation of God, are frequently occurring, I Judge it best to take a general view of them, once for all, in this place, and sho... [ Continue Reading ]
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. _Terror_ is to be one of their keepers. How awful a state! to be continually under the influence of... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Leviticus 26:22. _I WILL ALSO SEND WILD BEASTS AMONG YOU_] God fulfilled these threatenings at different times. He sent _fiery_ SERPENTS among them, Numbers 21:6; LIONS, 2 Kings 17:25; BEARS, 2 Kings 2:24, and threatened them with total desolation, so that their land should be overrun with _w... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Leviticus 26:26. _TEN WOMEN SHALL BAKE YOUR BREAD IN ONE OVEN_] Though in general every family in the East bakes its own bread, yet there are some _public bakehouses_ where the bread of several families is baked at a certain price. Moses here foretells that the desolation should be so great an... [ Continue Reading ]
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 instance in dreadful detail of a woman named _Mary_, who, in the extremity of the famine during the siege,... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Leviticus 26:34. _THEN SHALL THE LAND ENJOY HER SABBATHS_] This Houbigant observes to be a historical truth. - "From Saul to the Babylonish captivity are numbered about _four hundred and ninety_ _years_, during which period there were _seventy Sabbaths_ of years; for 7, multiplied by 70, make... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Leviticus 26:38. _THE LAND OF YOUR ENEMIES SHALL EAT YOU UP._] Does this refer to the total loss of the _ten tribes_? These are so completely swallowed up in _some enemies_' land, that nothing concerning their existence or place of residence remains but mere conjecture.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Leviticus 26:44. _NEITHER WILL I ABHOR THEM TO DESTROY THEM UTTERLY_] Though God has literally fulfilled all his threatenings upon this people in dispossessing them of their land, destroying their polity, overturning their city, demolishing their temple, and scattering themselves over the face... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Leviticus 26:46. _THESE_ ARE _THE STATUTES, AND JUDGMENTS, C._] Leviticus 26:15. This verse appears to be the proper concluding verse of the whole book and I rather think that the Leviticus 27 originally followed the Leviticus 25. As the law was anciently written upon skins of parchment, shee... [ Continue Reading ]