Levitikus 26:40

40 Da werden sie denn bekennen ihre Missetat und ihrer Väter Missetat, womit sie sich an mir versündigt und mir entgegen gewandelt haben.

Levitikus 26:40 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 26:40

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of
their fathers
The Targum of Jonathan adds,

``in the time of their distress;''

which might serve to bring their sins to remembrance, and them to a confession of them, not only of their own sins, but of their fathers' also; acknowledging thereby that they had been guilty of sinning against God for a long course of years past; and that God had been long suffering towards them, and bore much with them before he brought his judgments on them, which were just, and what they righteously deserved; and such a confession Daniel made, ( Daniel 9:4-8 ) ; and the words may as well be rendered absolute as conditional, or better, and as a prediction of what would be done by them when in captivity and distress, "and they shall confess their iniquity" ^F3; with shame and sorrow, with repentance for it, and abhorrence of it; or otherwise, if the confession was only verbal and hypocritical, it would not be acceptable:

with their trespass which they trespassed against me;
along with their own iniquities, and those of their fathers, they should confess, their trespass against the Lord would be acknowledged by them; which seems to design some particular and grievous sin committed by them, by which perhaps is meant their idolatry, a capital sin, directly against God, and what those people were prone unto:

and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
to his mind and will, to his laws, commands, statutes, and ordinances, disregarding him and them, as if enemies to him; or "by chance"; (See Gill on Leviticus 26:21).

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (wdwthw) "et confitebuntur", Pagninus, Montanus.

Levitikus 26:40 In-Context

38 Und ihr sollt umkommen unter den Heiden, und eurer Feinde Land soll euch fressen.

39 Welche aber von euch übrigbleiben, die sollen in ihrer Missetat verschmachten in der Feinde Land; auch in ihrer Väter Missetat sollen sie mit ihnen verschmachten.

40 Da werden sie denn bekennen ihre Missetat und ihrer Väter Missetat, womit sie sich an mir versündigt und mir entgegen gewandelt haben.

41 Darum will ich auch ihnen entgegen wandeln und will sie in ihrer Feinde Land wegtreiben; da wird sich ja ihr unbeschnittenes Herz demütigen, und dann werden sie sich die Strafe ihrer Missetat gefallen lassen.

42 Und ich werde gedenken an meinen Bund mit Jakob und an meinen Bund mit Isaak und an meinen Bund mit Abraham und werde an das Land gedenken, {~}