Leviticus 26
26
Blessings for Obedience
1“You shall not make #See ch. 19:4 idols for yourselves or erect an #See Ex. 20:4, 5 image or #Ex. 23:24 pillar, and you shall not set up a #Num. 33:52; [Ezek. 8:10]figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. 2#ch. 19:30; See Ex. 20:8You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
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Deut. 11:13-15; 28:1-14; See ch. 18:4 “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, 4then #Ps. 67:6; 85:12; Ezek. 34:26, 27; 36:30; Joel 2:23, 24; Zech. 8:12; [ver. 20; Deut. 11:17]I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5#[Amos 9:13] Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And #See ch. 25:19 you shall eat your bread to the full and #See ch. 25:18dwell in your land securely. 6#[1 Kgs. 4:25; 1 Chr. 22:9] I will give peace in the land, and #Job 11:19; Jer. 30:10; Zeph. 3:13 you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And #Ezek. 34:25; [2 Kgs. 17:25; Isa. 35:9; Ezek. 5:17; 14:15] I will remove harmful beasts from the land, #[Ezek. 14:17]and the sword shall not go through your land. 7You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8#[Deut. 32:30; Josh. 23:10; Isa. 30:17]Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9#2 Kgs. 13:23 I will turn to you and #Neh. 9:23make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. 10You shall eat #ch. 25:22old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. 11#Ezek. 37:26-28; [Rev. 21:3]I will make my dwelling#26:11 Hebrew tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. 12#Ex. 29:45; Cited 2 Cor. 6:16 And I #Jer. 7:23; 11:4; 24:7; 30:22; Ezek. 11:20; 14:11; 36:28; 37:27; See Ex. 6:7will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people. 13#See ch. 25:38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. #Ezek. 34:27; [Jer. 27:2; 28:10, 13]And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
Punishment for Disobedience
14 # [Lam. 2:17; Mal. 2:2]; See Deut. 28:15-68 “But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but #ver. 44; Deut. 31:20break my covenant, 16then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with #Deut. 28:21 wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And #Deut. 28:33, 51; Job 31:8; Jer. 5:17; Mic. 6:15you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17I will #See ch. 17:10 set my face against you, and #Deut. 28:25; Judg. 2:14; Jer. 19:7 you shall be struck down before your enemies. #Ps. 106:41 Those who hate you shall rule over you, and #Prov. 28:1; [ver. 36; Ps. 53:5]you shall flee when none pursues you. 18And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again #ver. 21, 24, 28; 1 Sam. 2:5; Ps. 119:164; Prov. 24:16sevenfold for your sins, 19and I will break #Ezek. 30:6; [Jer. 13:9] the pride of your power, and I #Deut. 28:23will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20And #[Ps. 127:1; Isa. 49:4] your strength shall be spent in vain, for #[Hag. 1:10]; See ver. 4your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
21 # ver. 27 “Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 22And #Deut. 32:24; See ver. 6 I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that #Judg. 5:6; Isa. 33:8; Lam. 1:4; Zech. 7:14your roads shall be deserted.
23“And #Jer. 2:30; 5:3; See Amos 4:6-12 if by this discipline you are not turned to me #[See ver. 21 above]but walk contrary to me, 24#2 Sam. 22:27; Ps. 18:26then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25And #Deut. 32:25; Jer. 14:12; 24:10; 29:17, 18; Ezek. 5:17; 6:3; 14:17; 29:8; 33:2 I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, #Num. 14:12; Deut. 28:21I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26#Ps. 105:16; Isa. 3:1; Ezek. 4:16; 5:16; 14:13 When I break your supply#26:26 Hebrew staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and #Isa. 9:20; Mic. 6:14; Hag. 1:6you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27“But #ver. 21, 24if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28then I will walk contrary to you #Isa. 59:18; 63:3; 66:15; Jer. 21:5; Ezek. 5:13, 15; 8:18 in fury, and I myself will discipline you #[See ver. 18 above]sevenfold for your sins. 29#Deut. 28:53; Ezek. 5:10; [2 Kgs. 6:29; Lam. 4:10]You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30And #2 Chr. 14:5; 34:3, 4, 7; See Ezek. 6:3-6 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and #[2 Kgs. 23:20; 2 Chr. 34:5; Ezek. 6:5]cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31And I will #Neh. 2:3; Jer. 4:7; See 2 Kgs. 25:4-10 lay your cities waste and will #Ps. 74:7; Lam. 1:10; Ezek. 9:6; 21:2 make your sanctuaries desolate, and #Jer. 6:20; See Isa. 1:11-15; Amos 5:21-23I will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32And #Jer. 9:11; 25:11, 18 I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be #Deut. 28:37; 1 Kgs. 9:8; Jer. 18:16; 19:8; Ezek. 5:15appalled at it. 33And #Deut. 4:27; 28:64; Neh. 1:8; Ps. 44:11; Jer. 9:16; Ezek. 12:15; 20:23; 22:15; Zech. 7:14; [Luke 21:24]I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
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2 Chr. 36:21; See ch. 25:2 “Then the land shall enjoy#26:34 Or pay for; twice in this verse; also verse 43 its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. 36And as for those of you who are left, #Ezek. 21:7 I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The #ver. 17 sound of a #Job 13:25driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And #Josh. 7:12, 13; Judg. 2:14you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39And those of you who are left shall #Deut. 28:65; Ezek. 4:17; 24:23; 33:10; [Ezek. 6:9]rot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.
40“But if #[Neh. 9:2; Prov. 28:13; 1 John 1:9]; See 1 Kgs. 8:33-36; Dan. 9:4-19 they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they #ch. 6:2; Num. 5:6committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their #See Ex. 6:12 uncircumcised heart is #[1 Kgs. 21:29; 2 Chr. 12:6, 7; 32:26; 33:12, 13]humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42then I will #Ex. 2:24; 6:5; Ps. 106:45; Ezek. 16:60 remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will #[Ps. 85:1]remember the land. 43But #[See ver. 34 above]the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, #[Deut. 4:31; 2 Kgs. 13:23; Neh. 9:31; Rom. 11:2] I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and #ver. 15break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, #ch. 22:33 whom I brought out of the land of Egypt #Ps. 98:2; Ezek. 20:9, 22in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”
46 # ch. 27:34; Deut. 6:1; 12:1 These are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses #ch. 25:1on Mount Sinai.
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Leviticus 26
26
Rewards for Obeying God
1“Don’t make idols for yourselves. Don’t set up statues or memorial stones in your land to bow down to, because I am the Lord your God!
2“Remember my special days of rest#26:2 special days of rest Or “Sabbaths.” This might mean Saturday, or it might mean all the special days when the people were not supposed to work. and honor my holy place. I am the Lord.
3“Remember my laws and commands, and obey them. 4If you do these things, I will give you rains at the time they should come. The land will grow crops and the trees of the field will grow their fruit. 5Your threshing will continue until it is time to gather grapes. And your grape gathering will continue until it is time to plant. Then you will have plenty to eat. And you will live safely in your land. 6I will give peace to your country. You will lie down in peace. No one will come to make you afraid. I will keep harmful animals out of your country. And armies will not come through your country.
7“You will chase your enemies and defeat them. You will kill them with your swords. 8Five of you will chase 100 men, and 100 of you will chase 10,000 men. You will defeat your enemies and kill them with your sword.
9“Then I will turn to you. I will let you have many children. I will keep my agreement with you. 10You will have enough crops to last for more than a year. You will harvest the new crops. But then you will have to throw out the old crops to make room for the new crops. 11Also, I will place my Holy Tent among you. I will not turn away from you. 12I will walk with you and be your God. And you will be my people. 13I am the Lord your God. You were slaves in Egypt, but I brought you out of Egypt. You were bent low from the heavy weights you carried as slaves, but I broke the poles that were on your shoulders. I let you walk proudly again.
Punishment for Not Obeying God
14“But if you don’t obey me and all my commands, bad things will happen to you. 15If you refuse to obey my laws and commands, you have broken my agreement. 16If you do that, I will cause terrible things to happen to you. I will cause you to have disease and fever. They will destroy your eyes and take away your life. You will not have success when you plant your seed. And your enemies will eat your crops. 17I will be against you, so your enemies will defeat you. These enemies will hate you and rule over you. You will run away even when no one is chasing you.
18“After these things, if you still don’t obey me, I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19And I will also destroy the great cities that make you proud. The skies will not give rain, and the earth will not produce crops.#26:19 The skies … crops Literally, “Your skies will be like iron, your land like bronze.” 20You will work hard, but it will not help. Your land will not give any crops, and your trees will not grow their fruit.
21“If you still turn against me and refuse to obey me, I will beat you seven times harder! The more you sin, the more you will be punished. 22I will send wild animals against you. They will take your children away from you. They will destroy your animals. They will kill many of your people. The roads will all be empty.
23“If you don’t learn your lesson after all this, and if you still turn against me, 24then I will also turn against you. I—yes, I myself—will punish you seven times for your sins. 25You will have broken my agreement, so I will punish you. I will bring armies against you. You will go into your cities for safety, but I will cause diseases to spread among you. And your enemies will defeat you. 26I will give you a share of the grain left in that city. But there will be very little food to eat. Ten women will be able to cook all their bread in one oven. They will measure each piece of bread. You will eat, but you will still be hungry.
27“If you still refuse to listen to me, and if you still turn against me, 28then I will really show my anger! I—yes, I myself—will punish you seven times for your sins. 29You will become so hungry that you will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters. 30I will destroy your high places. I will cut down your incense altars. I will put your dead bodies on the dead bodies of your idols. You will be disgusting to me. 31I will destroy your cities. I will make your holy places empty. I will stop smelling your offerings. 32I will make your land empty. And your enemies who come to live there will be shocked at it. 33I will scatter you among the nations. I will pull out my sword and destroy you. Your land will become empty, and your cities will be destroyed.
34“You will be taken to your enemy’s country. Your country will be empty. So your land will finally get its rest. The land will enjoy its time of rest. 35During the time that the land is empty, it will get the time of rest that you did not give it while you lived there. 36The survivors will lose their courage in the land of their enemies. They will be afraid of everything. They will run around like a leaf blown by the wind. They will run as if someone is chasing them with a sword. They will fall even when no one is chasing them. 37They will run as if someone is chasing them with a sword. They will fall over each other—even when no one is chasing them.
“You will not be strong enough to stand up against your enemies. 38You will be lost in other nations. You will disappear in the land of your enemies. 39So the survivors will rot away in their sin in their enemies’ countries. They will rot away in their sins just as their ancestors did.
There Is Always Hope
40“But maybe the people will confess their sins. And maybe they will confess the sins of their ancestors. Maybe they will admit that they turned against me. Maybe they will admit that they sinned against me. 41Maybe they will admit that I turned against them and brought them into the land of their enemies. These people will be like strangers to me. But maybe they will become humble#26:41 These people … humble Literally, “If they humble their uncircumcised heart.” and accept the punishment for their sin. 42If they do, I will remember my agreement with Jacob. I will remember my agreement with Isaac. I will remember my agreement with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
43“The land will be empty. The land will enjoy its time of rest. Then the survivors will accept the punishment for their sins. They will learn that they were punished because they hated my laws and refused to obey my rules. 44They have sinned. But if they come to me for help, I will not turn away from them. I will listen to them, even if they are in the land of their enemies. I will not completely destroy them. I will not break my agreement with them, because I am the Lord their God. 45For them, I will remember the agreement with their ancestors. I brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt so that I could become their God. The other nations saw these things. I am the Lord.”
46These are the laws, rules, and teachings that the Lord gave to the Israelites. These laws are the agreement between the Lord and the Israelites. The Lord gave these laws to Moses at Mount Sinai.
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