Leviticus 18:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God. ”

• Leviticus 18:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  General Warning against Conformity to Indigenous Practices. The phrase I am Yahweh is characteristic of Ezek. and H, occurring twenty-one times in Leviticus 18-20. If a command is understood as com...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  judgments . regulations.

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  4. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments. Because it is no less difficult to correct vices, to which men have been long accustomed, than to cure diseases of long standing, espe...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God. I am the Lord your God. This renewed mention of the divine sovereignty over the Israelites was intended to bear p...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Law of Forbidden Degrees of Marriage, and of Chastity 3. Some of the unions here forbidden as incestuous were permitted among the nations of antiquity. The early Egyptians, e.g. permitted marriage...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Ye shall do my judgments. — The expression “my judgments and mine ordinances” is here used emphatically, in opposition to “their ordinances,” and has here the force of Mine only; just as the phra...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE LAW OF HOLINESS: CHASTITY Leviticus 18:1-30 Chapter S 18, 19, and 20, by a formal introduction Leviticus 18:1-5 and a formal closing, Leviticus 20:22-26 are indicated as a distinct sect...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  At this point in the enunciation of the laws of separation they assume a slightly altered character. So far, the fundamental matters of relationships to God have been the principal note. Now the habi...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  How David speaks of his love to the LORD'S judgments, Psalms 119:1 throughout! But, Reader, did not these statutes, judgments, testimonies, etc. (which as far as I recollect are mentioned, under on...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Ye shall do my judgments ,.... Which are just and right, and according to the rules of justice and equity; these are things, as Jarchi observes, which are said in the law with judgment, or are laws...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I [am] the LORD your God. Ver. 4. To walk therein. ] Not to halt therein, nor to take a turn or two, or for a while, as Samson...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  My judgments Though you do not see the particular reason of some of them, and though they be contrary to the laws and usages of the other nations.

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• Leviticus 18:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  FORBIDDING SEXUAL SINS (vv. 1-30) Chapter 17 has dealt with sin directly against God; now chapter 18 speaks of sin in relationship with other creatures, primarily humans, but also animals (v. 23)....

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Cautions against Idolatrous Practices. B. C. 1490.       1 And the L ORD spake unto Moses, sa...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  My judgments and mine ordinances; mine universally, Deuteronomy 27:26 Galatians 3:10 ; for though the words be indefinite, the matter is necessary; and mine solely, Deuteronomy 6:13 , compare...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Command To Obey Yahweh Their God Whose Commands Bring Life ( Leviticus 18:2-5 ). Leviticus 18:2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I am Yahweh your God.” What follows ver...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Incestuous Marriages: Domestic Purity SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 18:2 .—Speak unto them and say, I am the Lord your God. Jehovah is the sole lawgiver, His word the one law to His people: ungo...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Leviticus 18:21 . Molech, or Moloch, was the chief idol of the Sabians, and of the Ammonites. 1 Kings 11:7 ; 1 Kings 11:33 . To this idol Solomon built a high place on mount Olivet. The form of...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Ye shall do My judgments Safety in the observance of God’s laws This preface of some is taken generally to concern all the laws of God; the observation whereof is ever the sure safety of a sta...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  PART III . SECTION III . EXPOSITION MORAL UNCLEANNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT . This being the subject of the three following chapters (chapters 18-20), they naturally form a sequence...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Unlawful Marriages

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 4:1 ; Deuteronomy 4:2 ; Deuteronomy 6:1 ; Ezekiel 20:19 ; Ezekiel 36:27 ; Ezekiel 37:24 ; John 15:14 ; Leviticus 18:26 ; Leviticus 19:37 ; Leviticus 20:22 ; Luke 1:6 ; Psalms...

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• Leviticus 18:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  My judgments — Though you do not see the particular reason of some of them, and though they be contrary to the laws and usages of the other nations.

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