Leviticus 26:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. ”

• Leviticus 26:5 - 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 26:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The blessings of obedience: fertility, freedom from wild beasts, victory over enemies, and the presence of Yahweh Himself in the midst. For the first reward, cf. Amos 9:13 ; for the thought in gen...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. Your threshing shall reach u...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, &c.— This is a nervous and beautiful promise of such entire plenty of corn and wine, that, before they could have reaped and threshed out their corn...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. Your threshing shall...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - 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 26:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage. — That is, the corn crop shall be so plentiful that those who shall be employed in threshing about the month of March will not complete it before th...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - 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 26:5 - 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...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - 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 26:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Secondly, the blessed effects of it in the extent of the mercy from harvest to harvest. Amos 9:13 . But surely the gracious Reader will not overlook gospel mercies, as veiled under those promised ea...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time ,.... Signifying that there should be such plentiful harvests of barley and wheat, the first of whic...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. Ver. 5. Dwell in your lan...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Threshing shall reach unto the vintage , &c. That is, you shall have such plenty of corn, that before you shall have reaped and threshed it out, the vintage will be ready; and before you shall h...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - 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 26:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Promises. B. C. 1490.       1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, i.e. you shall have so plentiful a harvest, that you shall not be able to thresh out your corn in a little time, but that work will last till the vintag...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Blessings ( Leviticus 26:3-13 ). Here follow all the blessings that would be theirs if only they would walk in His statutes and keep His commandments in their hearts and do them. Leviticus...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - 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 26:5 - 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 26:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

  If ye walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them. The advantages of religion in a nation’s life I. Wherein a nation’s religious life consists. The recognised presence of God in...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - 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 26:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Blessings Promised to the Obedient

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• Leviticus 26:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:5 ; 1 Timothy 6:17 ; Acts 14:17 ; Amos 9:13 ; Deuteronomy 11:15 ; Exodus 16:8 ; Ezekiel 34:25-28 ; Jeremiah 23:6 ; Job 11:18 ; Job 11:19 ; Joel 2:19 ; Joel 2:26 ; John 4:35 ;...

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• Leviticus 26:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The vintage — That is, you shall have so plentiful an harvest, that you shall not be able to thresh out your corn in a little time, but that work will last till the vintage.

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