Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments,
and
do them
These and all others he enjoined; by which tenure, even obedience
to all his commands, moral, ritual, and judicial, they were to
hold the land of Canaan, and their possessions in it, which is
intended in the next clause: and ye shall dwell in the land
in safety;
without any fear of enemies, or of the neighbouring nations about
them seizing upon them, and distressing them; and Jarchi
observes, that it was for transgressing the sabbatical year that
Israel was carried captive, which he thinks is intimated in (
2
Chronicles 36:21 ) ; and that the seventy years' captivity in
Babylon were for the seventy sabbatical years that had been
neglected.