Levítico 26:3-42 NVIPT

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 26:39-46

But Repentance Will Bring Mercy. God’s Mercy Is Unfailing (Leviticus 26:39-46 ). Compare here Deuteronomy 30:1-6. God’s judgments are in the earth that men might learn righteousness (Isaiah 26:9) His mercy is always thus open to those who repent (compare especially Jonah 3:1-10). Leviticus 26:39-41 a “And those who are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. And they shall confess their... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 26:3-13

Leviticus 26:3-1 Chronicles : . The blessings of obedience: fertility, freedom from wild beasts, victory over enemies, and the presence of Yahweh Himself in the midst. For the first reward, cf. Amos 9:13; for the thought in general, Deuteronomy 28:1-2 Chronicles :, Ezekiel 34:25-Hosea :; and for Leviticus 26:11 f. the expansion in Ezekiel 40-48. No distinction is made here or in many other passages between “ temporal” and “ spiritual” blessings; each is appropriate, and the future happiness... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 26:14-26

Leviticus 26:14-Ezekiel : . The punishments of disobedience: plague and defeat, to be followed, after neglect of this warning, by infertility and wild animals and, if repentance is still withheld, by the threefold penalty of sword, pestilence, and famine. Sin is to be paid for seven times over (contrast Isaiah 40:2). This is the great prophetic “ commonplace” from Am. ( Leviticus 4:4-1 Chronicles :) onwards. In the famine what would have been the portion of one family has to be eked out among... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 26:27-39

Leviticus 26:27-Malachi : . The results of neglect of the third warning: the extremities of famine and captivity; siege; desolation of the country, destruction of the cities, uselessness of all religious observances; dispersion of the nation; desertion of Palestine and abject misery of the survivors. Such experiences of famine and siege as are described in 2 Kings 6:25 f. would be familiar in the last years of Jerusalem, and the reference to exile (more definite than in Deuteronomy 28; cf. “... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 26:40-45

Leviticus 26:40-Romans : . 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 of His people. The order is simplified if Leviticus 26:41-John : is regarded as an insertion; “ if” ( Leviticus 26:41), which should be translated “ or,” suggests this. The double mention of the covenant (note the order of the names in Leviticus 26:42), and the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 26:4

I will give you rain; therefore God placed them not in a land where there were such rivers as Nilus to water it and make it fruitful, but in a land which depended wholly upon the rain of heaven, the key whereof God kept in his own hand, that so he might the more effectually oblige them to obedience, in which their happiness consisted. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 26:5

Your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, i.e. you shall have so plentiful a harvest, that you shall not be able to thresh out your corn in a little time, but that work will last till the vintage. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 26:6

Neither shall the sword go through your land, i.e. war, as the sword is oft taken, as Numbers 14:3; 2 Samuel 12:10. Otherwise there is the sword of justice. It shall not enter into it, nor have passage through it, much less shall your land be made the seat of war. read more

Matthew Poole