Leviticus 26:34 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. ”

• Leviticus 26:34 - 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 26:34 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:34 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  enjoy. Figure of speech Prosopopatheia. App-6. Compare Leviticus 18:25 .

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• Leviticus 26:34 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  34. Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbaths. In order that the observance of the Sabbath should be the more honored, God in a manner associated the land in it together with man; for whereas th...

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• Leviticus 26:34 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbath...

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• Leviticus 26:34 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths— See 2 Chronicles 36:21 . There can be no need to point out to the attentive reader the striking energy of many of the expressions in this chapter.

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• Leviticus 26:34 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. Then shall the land ... A long ar...

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• Leviticus 26:34 - 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 26:34 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths. — The land, which participates both in the happiness and misery of the Israelites (see Leviticus 18:25 ), and which through their disobedience of the Divine...

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• Leviticus 26:34 - 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 26:34 - 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....

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• Leviticus 26:34 - 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 26:34 - 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,...

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• Leviticus 26:34 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths ,.... The sabbatical years, or seventh year sabbaths, when, according to the law in the preceding chapter, it was to rest from tillage, Leviticus 25:2 : as...

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• Leviticus 26:34 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye [be] in your enemies' land; [even] then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. Ver. 34. Then shall the land rest,...

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• Leviticus 26:34 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The land shall enjoy her sabbaths It shall enjoy those sabbatical years of rest from tillage, which you, through covetousness, would not give it: a most seasonable warning this. Jeremiah complains,...

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• Leviticus 26:34 - 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 26:34 - 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 26:34 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Either, 1. Because it shall be rid of you, who were the unprofitable and heavy burdens thereof, under whom it in a manner groaned. Or rather, 2. Because it shall now enjoy those sabbatical years...

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• Leviticus 26:34 - 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 26:34 - 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 26:34 - 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 26:34 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:34 - 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 26:34 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest and enjoy her Sabbaths. It is here implied that Israel, in its rev...

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• Leviticus 26:34 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 36:21 ; Leviticus 25:10 ; Leviticus 25:2-4

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• Leviticus 26:34 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The land shall enjoy her sabbaths — It shall enjoy those sabbatical years of rest from tillage, which you through covetousness would not give it.

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