“ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. ”
Leviticus 26:1 f. Idols forbidden ( cf. Leviticus 19:4 , Exodus 20:4 *). Images of both stone and metal are forbidden, as well as pillars ( masseboth pp. 98f.).
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. Ye shall keep my sabbaths. Very frequently, in this book of the law, the Sabbath and the sanctuary are mentioned as antid...
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...
Ye shall keep my sabbaths... — This is exactly the same precept laid down in chap 19:30, and is here repeated because of the danger of desecrating the Sabbath to which the Israelite is exposed who...
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...
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...
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...
Here again it is precious to the believer to remark how a gracious GOD hath secured his people, in the observance of those precepts. Ezekiel 38:23 . From Leviticus 26:2-12 , let the Reader observe...
Ye shall keep my sabbaths ,.... The seventh day sabbaths, and the seventh year sabbaths; especially the former are meant, in which religious worship was given to the one true and living God, and the...
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD. Ver. 2. Ye shall keep. ] See Trapp on " Lev 19:30 "
The substance of their religious laws are here recapitulated in two chief articles, on which all the rest very much depended; and God, by Moses, inculcates upon them, 1st, A careful abhorrence of all...
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...
Promises. B. C. 1490. 1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a...
Reverence my sanctuary, by purging and preserving it from all uncleanness, by approaching to it, and managing all the services of it, with reverence, and in such manner only as God hath appointed.
Chapter 26 Final Recognition of His Authority, Blessings and Cursings. The Book now virtually closes with the recognition that Israel were bound to Him, and only Him, by the covenant. Yahweh reaff...
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 26:1 . 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...
Ye shall keep My Sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary. Of the stated times of God’s worship, particularly the Lord’s Day I. What were the reasons upon which God might be supposed, under the law...
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;...
Blessings Promised to the Obedient
Leviticus 19:30
My sanctuary — By purging and preserving it from all uncleanness, by approaching to it and managing all the services of it with reverence, and in such manner only as God hath appointed.