Leviticus 26:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. ”

Leviticus 26:31 - 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 26:31 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I (p) will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. (p) I will not accept your sacrifices.
Leviticus 26:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The results of neglect of the third warning: the extremities of famine and captivity; siege; desolation of the country, destruction of the cities, uselessness of all religious observances; dispersion...
Leviticus 26:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

sanctuaries , or holy places. Some codices, with one printed edition, Samaritan Pentateuch, and Syriac, read the singular "sanctuary". smell. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. odours....
Leviticus 26:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
Leviticus 26:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. I will make your cities waste. This destruction of its num...
Leviticus 26:31 - 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 26:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I will make your cities waste. — Not only will the elevated spots outside the cities with their idols be destroyed, and the carcases of the deluded worshippers be scattered among their remains, but...
Leviticus 26:31 - 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 26:31 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Desolation and Captivity for the Stubborn Leviticus 26:21-46 Notwithstanding the solemn and appalling pictures placed before Israel in these verses, they forsook the Lord and served other gods....
Leviticus 26:31 - 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 26:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! still keep your mind in contemplation on the process of divine judgments. From temporal punishments the LORD proceeds to spiritual. And when it comes to this, that the sanctuary is desolate,...
Leviticus 26:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I will make your cities waste ,.... By suffering the enemy to besiege them, enter into them, and plunder them, and destroy the houses in them, and reduce them to the most desolate condition, as Jeru...
Leviticus 26:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. Ver. 31. I will not smell. ] I will show myself implacable, ine...
Leviticus 26:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Your sanctuaries into desolation The sanctuary of God, though but one, is expressed in the plural number here, as it is also Psalms 73:17 ; and Psalms 84:7 ; Jeremiah 51:51 ; and Ezekiel 28:18...
Leviticus 26:31 - 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 26:31 - 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 26:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Your sanctuaries; either, 1. God's sanctuary, called sanctuaries here, as also Psalms 73:17 , Psalms 74:7 Jeremiah 51:51 Ezekiel 28:18 , because there were divers apartments in it, each o...
Leviticus 26:31 - 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 26:31 - 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 26:31 - 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 26:31 - The Biblical Illustrator

Then I will walk contrary unto you. God’s determination to punish sinners I. As affecting supposition stated. “If ye will not,” &c. The Lord here supposes that His people may commit three g...
Leviticus 26:31 - 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 26:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Curse upon the Disobedient
Leviticus 26:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 36:19 ; 2 Kings 25:4-10 ; Acts 6:14 ; Amos 5:21-23 ; Ezekiel 21:15 ; Ezekiel 21:7 ; Ezekiel 24:21 ; Ezekiel 6:6 ; Ezekiel 9:6 ; Genesis 8:21 ; Hebrews 10:26 ; Isaiah 1:11-14...
Leviticus 26:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sanctuaries — God's sanctuary, called sanctuaries here, as also Psalms 73:17 , Psalms 74:7 ; Jeremiah 51:51 ; Ezekiel 28:18 , because there were divers apartments in it, each of which was a san...

Leviticus 26:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Leviticus 26:31 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Leviticus 26:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 26:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Leviticus 26:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Leviticus 26:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 26:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 26:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Leviticus 26:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Leviticus 26:31 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Leviticus 26:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 26:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Leviticus 26:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Leviticus 26:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Leviticus 26:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 26:31 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 26:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Leviticus 26:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 26:31 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 26:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Leviticus 26:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 26:31 - The Biblical Illustrator

Leviticus 26:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Leviticus 26:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Leviticus 26:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 26:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes