Leviticus 26:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: ”

Leviticus 26:19 - 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 26:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as (i) iron, and your earth as brass: (i) You shall have drought and barrenness.
Leviticus 26:19 - 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 26:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

of. Genitive of cause, the power being the cause of the pride. your great pride. Compare Ezekiel 30:6 . So Ezekiel 24:21 , where the sense is lost in Authorized Version by the rendering "the exce...
Leviticus 26:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
Leviticus 26:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: I will make your heaven as iron. No figures could have been employed to convey a better...
Leviticus 26:19 - 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 26:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And I will break the pride of your power. — That is, the strength which is the cause of your pride, the wealth which they derive from the abundant harvests mentioned in Leviticus 26:4-5 , as is ev...
Leviticus 26:19 - 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 26:19 - 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 26:19 - 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 26:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader, remark how graciously, even in punishment, the LORD deals with his people. He doth not give them up; but calls upon them with a louder call, and by more alarming providences. He makes all nat...
Leviticus 26:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I will break the pride of your power ,.... Which the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi interpret of the sanctuary, which they were proud of, trusted in, and boasted of; but was broke or destroyed, f...
Leviticus 26:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: Ver. 19. Your heaven as iron. ] Hard hearts make hard times. “ En quia iam nobis sint ferr...
Leviticus 26:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The pride of your power That is, your strength, of which you are proud, your numerous and united forces, your kingdom, yea, your ark and sanctuary. I will make your heaven as iron The heavens sha...
Leviticus 26:19 - 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 26:19 - 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 26:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The pride of your power, i.e. your strength, of which you are proud, your numerous and united forces, your kingdom, yea, your ark and sanctuary. Your earth as brass; the heavens shall yield you n...
Leviticus 26:19 - 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 26:19 - 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 26:19 - 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 26:19 - 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 26:19 - 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 26:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Curse upon the Disobedient
Leviticus 26:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 17:1 ; 1 Samuel 4:11 ; 1 Samuel 4:3 ; Daniel 4:37 ; Deuteronomy 28:23 ; Ezekiel 30:6 ; Ezekiel 7:24 ; Isaiah 2:12 ; Isaiah 25:11 ; Isaiah 26:5 ; Jeremiah 13:9 ; Jeremiah 14:1-6 ;...
Leviticus 26:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The pride of your power — That is, your strength of which you are proud, your numerous and united forces, your kingdom, yea, your ark and sanctuary. I will make your heaven as iron — The heavens sh...

Leviticus 26:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Leviticus 26:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Leviticus 26:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 26:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Leviticus 26:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Leviticus 26:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 26:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 26:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Leviticus 26:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Leviticus 26:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Leviticus 26:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 26:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Leviticus 26:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Leviticus 26:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Leviticus 26:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 26:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 26:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Leviticus 26:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 26:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 26:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Leviticus 26:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 26:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

Leviticus 26:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Leviticus 26:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Leviticus 26:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 26:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes