Leviticus 26:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. ”

• Leviticus 26:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And I will set (g) my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. (g) Read ( Leviticus 17:10 ).

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• Leviticus 26:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  face. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. reign . rule.

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• Leviticus 26:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

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• Leviticus 26:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. No JFB commentary on this ver...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And I will set my face against you. — That is, make them feel his anger. (See Note on Leviticus 17:10 .) Be slain before your enemies. — Better, be smitten before your enemies, as this phrase...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  If the FATHER'S rod will not do, GOD will try what the enemies' sword will accomplish. David's prayer is instructive on this point. 2 Samuel 24:14 .

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• Leviticus 26:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And I will set my face against you ,.... Exert his power, and stir up his wrath and indignation against them, as enemies of his, to cut them off; see Psalms 34:16 ; which is the reverse of having r...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. Ver. 17. They that hate you. ] A h...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Leviticus 26:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - 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;...

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• Leviticus 26:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Curse upon the Disobedient

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• Leviticus 26:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 31:1 ; 1 Samuel 4:10 ; Deuteronomy 28:25 ; Jeremiah 19:7 ; Judges 2:14 ; Lamentations 1:5 ; Leviticus 17:10 ; Leviticus 20:5 ; Leviticus 20:6 ; Leviticus 26:36 ; Nehemiah 9:27-30...

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