Leviticus 26:4-14

4 I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land.^[a]

6 I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten [you]. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.^[b]

7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.

8 Five of you will pursue 100, and 100 of you will pursue 10,000; your enemies will fall before you by the sword.^[c]

9 "I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm My covenant with you.^[d]

10 You will eat the old grain of the previous year and will clear out the old to make room for the new.

11 I will place My residence^[e] among you, and I will not reject you.^[f]

12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.^[g]

13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke^[h] and enabled you to live in freedom.^[i]

14 "But if you do not obey Me and observe all these commands-

Leviticus 26:4-14 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.

Footnotes

• [a] Lv 25:18-19; Dt 28:1-2,12; Isa 30:21-23; Am 9:13
• [b] Jr 30:10; Ezk 34:25,28; Mc 4:4
• [c] Dt 3:22; 32:30; Jos 10:19; 23:3,10
• [d] Gn 17:5-6
• [e] Or tabernacle
• [f] Lv 26:44; Ex 25:8; 29:45-46; 1 Kg 6:13
• [g] 2 Co 6:16; Rv 21:3
• [h] Ex 6:6-7; Isa 9:4; Jr 5:5; 28:10-11
• [i] Lit to walk uprightly