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Leviticus 26:31-41

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31 I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your [sacrifices].[a]
32 I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.
33 But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword [to chase] after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.
34 "Then the land will make up for its Sabbath [years] during the time it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and make up for its Sabbaths.[b]
35 As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths when you lived there.
36 "I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing [them].
37 They will stumble over one another as if [fleeing] from a sword though no one is pursuing [them]. You will not be able to stand against your enemies.
38 You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.
39 Those[c] who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away because of their sin; they will also waste away because of their fathers' sins along with theirs.
40 "But if they will confess their sin and the sin of their fathers-their unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, and how they acted with hostility toward Me,
41 and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies-and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled,[d] and if they will pay the penalty for their sin,
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Leviticus 26:31-41 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 26

In this chapter, after a repetition of some laws against idolatry, and concerning keeping sabbaths, and reverencing the sanctuary of God, Le 26:1,2; in order to encourage the Israelites to keep the various statutes and commandments in this book, and in the preceding, many promises are made of plenty, and peace, and safety from enemies, and of the presence of God with them, Le 26:3-13; and on the contrary, to such as should despise and break his commandments, the most grievous things are threatened, as diseases of body, destruction by their enemies, barrenness and unfruitfulness of land, the sore judgments of wild beasts, famine, sword, and pestilence, Le 26:14-39; and yet after all, when they should confess their sins, and were humbled for them, the Lord promises to remember the covenant he made with their ancestors, and would deal kindly with them, and not cast them away, and utterly destroy them, Le 26:40-46.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Footnotes 4

  • [a] Gn 8:21; 1 Sm 26:19; Am 5:21-22
  • [b] Lv 25:2-4; 2 Ch 36:21
  • [c] Lit Those of you
  • [d] Dt 30:6; Jr 4:4; 9:25; Ezk 44:7,9
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