The quarrel of my covenant, i.e. my quarrel with you for your breach of your faith and covenant made with me. Into the hand of the enemy; because those few that shall be left of the pestilence will be unable to defend you in your cities or strong holds. read more
Broken the staff of your bread; either, 1. By taking away that power and virtue of nourishing which I have put into bread or food, which when I withdraw it will be unable to nourish. Or rather, 2. By sending a famine, or scarcity of bread, which is the staff and support of man’s present life, Psalms 104:15; for so this phrase is commonly used, and elsewhere explained, as Psalms 105:16; Ezekiel 4:16, and so the following words expound it here. Ten women, i.e. ten or many families, for the women... read more
Contrary unto you in fury; or, in fury of rashness or carelessness with you or among you, like a raging lion breaking into a multitude of people, and destroying all he meets with promiscuously, or without any distinction, both righteous and wicked together, as is threatened Ezekiel 21:3. Or, in fury of contrariety, or meeting with you, or against you, like a man that meets his enemy in the fury of battle. read more
Through extreme hunger. See Lamentations 4:10. read more
Your high places, in which you will sacrifice after the manner of the heathens. See Leviticus 19:26; Numbers 33:52. Your images; or, your images of the sun, made for the honour and worshipping of the sun, and having some resemblance to it. See 2 Chronicles 34:7. Under this one kind of idolatry, famous and frequent in those times and places, he contains all the rest. The carcasses of your idols; so he calls them, either to signify that their idols, how specious soever or glorious in their eyes,... read more
Your sanctuaries; either, 1. God’s sanctuary, called sanctuaries here, as also Psalms 73:17; Psalms 74:7; Jeremiah 51:51; Ezekiel 28:18, because there were divers apartments in it, each of which was a sanctuary, or, which is all one, a holy place, as they are severally called. And your emphatically, not mine, for I disown and abhor it, and all the services you do in it, because you have defiled it. Or, 2. The temples built by you to idols, therefore called their sanctuaries, in opposition to... read more
Having driven you out and possessed your places. See Lamentations 5:2. read more
The sword shall follow you into strange lands, and you shall have no rest there. read more
Either, 1. Because it shall be rid of you, who were the unprofitable and heavy burdens thereof, under whom it in a manner groaned. Or rather, 2. Because it shall now enjoy those sabbatical years of rest from tillage, which you through covetousness ofttimes would not give it, as the next verse informs us, though God commanded it, Leviticus 25:4. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 26:24
Contrary unto you, or, carelessly with you or towards you, i.e. I will put you out of my care and protection. read more