Leviticus 26:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: ”

Leviticus 26:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As “the book of the covenant” Exodus 20:22-23 concludes with promises and warnings Exodus 23:20-33 , so does this collection of laws contained in the Book of Leviticus. But the former passage re...
Leviticus 26:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, [but] that ye break my (f) covenant: (f) Which I made with you in choosing you to...
Leviticus 26:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 sw...
Leviticus 26:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

your soul . you (emphatic). Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. break . violate. Hebrew. parar, break asunder, as in Leviticus 26:46 . not shabar, as in verses: Leviticus 26:13 ; Leviticus 26:19 ;...
Leviticus 26:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

15. And if ye shall despise my statutes. This seems only to apply to ungodly and depraved apostates, who deliberately revolt from the service and worship of God: for if a person falls through...
Leviticus 26:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: If ye shall despise my statutes - abhor my judgme...
Leviticus 26:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: No JFB commentary on this verse.
Leviticus 26:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Concluding Exhortations Similar exhortations are found at the conelusion of other codes of laws, as in Exodus 23:20 ,; and frequently in Deuteronomy, e.g. in Leviticus 28. The leading ideas and p...
Leviticus 26:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And if ye shall despise my statutes. — From passive indifference to the Divine statutes mentioned in the preceding verse, their falling away is sure to follow. Hence what was at first mere listless...
Leviticus 26:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE PROMISES AND THREATS OF THE COVENANT Leviticus 26:1-46 ONE would have expected that this chapter would have been the last in the book of Leviticus, for it forms a natural and fitting close...
Leviticus 26:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Results of Obedience and Disobedience Leviticus 26:1-20 There is a vast contrast between the ideal life of the first thirteen verses of this chapter and the remainder; just the distinction whic...
Leviticus 26:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In these brief repetitions of laws two gracious promises and solemn warnings were set forth. The laws reiterated were fundamental. There must be no idolatry. There must be perpetual observance of the...
Leviticus 26:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here the subject changeth, and an awful but comes in. I would request the Reader to remark with me the progress of sin. First it begins in refusing to hearken to GOD. Malachi 2:2 Secondly, after r...
Leviticus 26:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And if ye shall despise my statutes ,.... Which is an aggravated sin; to be negligent hearers of the commands of God is bad, not to be doers of them worse, but to treat them with contempt is worse s...
Leviticus 26:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, [but] that ye break my covenant: Ver. 15. Or if your soul abhor my judgments. ]...
Leviticus 26:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Break my covenant That is, your part of the covenant made between me and you, and thereby discharge me from giving you the blessings promised on my part.
Leviticus 26:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

This chapter is more or less a summary of the moral lessons of the book of Leviticus, a chapter that presses home the seriousness of having to do with a God of absolute holiness and truth. It is divi...
Leviticus 26:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings. B. C. 1490. 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all thes...
Leviticus 26:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. Break your part or conditions of that covenant made between me and you, and thereby discharge me from the blessings promised on my part.
Leviticus 26:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Cursings ( Leviticus 26:14-38 ). In the ancient second millennium covenants the cursings were regularly more than the blessings, and so it is here. The devastating consequence of disobedience...
Leviticus 26:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Religion as determining a Nation’s Destiny SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 26:1-13 .—If ye walk in My statutes, etc. The Lord engaged to enrich them as a nation with temporal blessings and religio...
Leviticus 26:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 26:1 . Neither set up any image of stone, any large sightly stone. The druids were apt to bring or roll large stones from afar, as at Stone-henge, at Shap in Westmoreland; at Stanton Dre...
Leviticus 26:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

But if ye will not hearken. National transgression and disaster I. A nation’s progressive apostasy. 1. Passive indifference to Divine teachings and appeals: “Not hearken.” 2. Non-complian...
Leviticus 26:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

PART V. CONCLUDING EXHORTATION . EXPOSITION THE first two verses of this chapter contain a prohibition of idolatry, and a command to observe the sabbath and to reverence God's sanctuary;...
Leviticus 26:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Curse upon the Disobedient
Leviticus 26:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 4:8 ; 2 Chronicles 36:16 ; 2 Kings 17:15 ; 2 Samuel 12:10 ; 2 Samuel 12:9 ; Acts 13:41 ; Deuteronomy 31:16 ; Exodus 19:5 ; Exodus 24:7 ; Ezekiel 16:59 ; Genesis 17:14 ; He...
Leviticus 26:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Break my covenant — Break your part of that covenant made between me and you, and thereby discharge me from the blessings promised on my part.

Leviticus 26:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Leviticus 26:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Leviticus 26:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 26:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Leviticus 26:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 26:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Leviticus 26:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 26:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 26:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Leviticus 26:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Leviticus 26:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Leviticus 26:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 26:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Leviticus 26:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Leviticus 26:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Leviticus 26:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 26:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 26:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Leviticus 26:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 26:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 26:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Leviticus 26:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 26:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Leviticus 26:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Leviticus 26:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Leviticus 26:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 26:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes