Leviticus 26:38 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. ”

• Leviticus 26:38 - 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 26:38 - 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 26:38 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. The land of your enemies shall eat you up - Does this refer to the total loss of the ten tribes? These are so com...

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• Leviticus 26:38 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The land of your enemies shall eat you up— This was literally fulfilled in the captivity of the ten tribes, as well as in the sufferings and oppressions, which the rest of the family of Israel have...

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• Leviticus 26:38 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. The land of your enemies ... On the removal of the ten tribes into captivity, they never returned, and al...

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• Leviticus 26:38 - 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 26:38 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And ye shall perish among the heathen. — Better, And ye shall be lost among the heathen, as the word here rendered “perish” is often translated. (See Deuteronomy 22:3 ; 1 Samuel 9:3 ; 1 Samuel...

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• Leviticus 26:38 - 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 26:38 - 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 26:38 - 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 26:38 - 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 26:38 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And ye shall perish among the Heathen ,.... Not utterly, but great numbers of them, through change of air, and different diet, as Aben Ezra, and through the cruel usage of their enemies; for there i...

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• Leviticus 26:38 - 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 26:38 - 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 26:38 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Leviticus 26:38 - 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 26:38 - 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 26:38 - 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 26:38 - 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 26:38 - 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 26:38 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Effects of these Visitations and the Restoration of the Covenant

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• Leviticus 26:38 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 28:48 ; Deuteronomy 28:68 ; Deuteronomy 4:27 ; Isaiah 27:13 ; Jeremiah 42:17 ; Jeremiah 42:18 ; Jeremiah 42:22 ; Jeremiah 44:12-14 ; Jeremiah 44:27 ; Jeremiah 44:28

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