Leviticus 26:1-11

Blessings of Obedience

1 'You shall not make for yourselves ¹idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves ²an image or ³a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a ⁴figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.

2 '⁵You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the LORD.

3 '⁶If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out,

4 then ⁷I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

5 '⁸Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your food to the full and ⁹live securely in your land.

6 '¹⁰I shall also grant peace in the land, so that ¹¹you may lie down with no one making you tremble. ¹²I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and ¹³no sword will pass through your land.

7 'But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword;

8 ¹⁴five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

9 'So I will turn toward you and ¹⁵make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will ¹⁶confirm My covenant with you.

10 '¹⁷You will eat the old supply and clear out the old because * of the new.

11 '¹⁸Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you.

Leviticus 26:1-11 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.

Cross References

• 1. Leviticus 19:4; Deuteronomy 5:8
• 2. Exodus 20:4; Deuteronomy 16:21
• 3. Exodus 23:24
• 4. Numbers 33:52
• 5. Leviticus 19:30
• 6. Deuteronomy 7:12-26; Deuteronomy 11:13; Deuteronomy 28:1-14
• 7. Deuteronomy 11:14
• 8. Deuteronomy 11:15; Joel 2:19, 26; Amos 9:13
• 9. Leviticus 25:18, 19; Ezekiel 34:25
• 10. Psalms 29:11; Psalms 85:8; Psalms 147:14
• 11. Zephaniah 3:13
• 12. Leviticus 26:22
• 13. Leviticus 26:25
• 14. Deuteronomy 32:30
• 15. Genesis 17:6; Genesis 22:17; Genesis 48:4
• 16. Genesis 17:7
• 17. Leviticus 25:22
• 18. Exodus 25:8; Exodus 29:45, 46; Ezekiel 37:26

Footnotes

• [a] Or "graven images"
• [b] Lit "over"
• [c] Lit "bread"
• [d] Or "tabernacle"
• [e] Lit "abhor"