Leviticus 26

Rewards for Obedience

1 # Ex 20.4, 5; Lev 19.4; Deut 5.8 “You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved images or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to worship at them, for I am the Lord your God. 2#Lev 19.30You shall keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

3 # Deut 28.1 “If you follow my statutes and keep my commandments and observe them faithfully, 4I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5#Lev 25.18, 19; Am 9.13Your threshing shall overlap the vintage, and the vintage shall overlap the sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full and live securely in your land. 6#Ps 29.11; 147.14; Zeph 3.13And I will grant peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one shall make you afraid; I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword shall go through your land. 7You shall give chase to your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8#Deut 32.30; Josh 23.10Five of you shall give chase to a hundred, and a hundred of you shall give chase to ten thousand; your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9#Gen 17.6, 7; 22.17; Neh 9.23I will look with favor upon you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will maintain my covenant with you. 10#Lev 25.22You shall eat old grain long stored, and you shall have to clear out the old to make way for the new. 11#Ex 25.8; Ps 76.2I will place my dwelling in your midst, and I shall not abhor you. 12#2 Cor 6.16I#26.12 Q ms: MT adds I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. 13I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be their slaves no more; I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

Penalties for Disobedience

14 # Deut 28.15; Mal 2.2 “But if you will not obey me and do not observe all these commandments, 15if you spurn my statutes and abhor my ordinances, so that you will not observe all my commandments and you break my covenant, 16#Deut 28.22, 35, 51; 1 Sam 2.33I in turn will do this to you: I will bring terror on you, consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17#Lev 17.10; Deut 28.25; Ps 53.5; 106.41I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down by your enemies; your foes shall rule over you, and you shall flee though no one pursues you. 18And if in spite of this you will not obey me, I will continue to punish you sevenfold for your sins. 19#Deut 28.23; Isa 25.11I will break your proud glory, and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like copper. 20#Deut 11.17; Isa 17.10, 11Your strength shall be spent to no purpose: your land shall not yield its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

21“If you continue hostile to me and will not obey me, I will continue to plague you sevenfold for your sins. 22#Deut 32.24I will let loose wild animals against you, and they shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock; they shall make you few in number, and your roads shall be deserted.

23 # Jer 2.30; 5.3 “If in spite of these punishments you have not turned back to me but continue hostile to me, 24#vv 21, 28, 41then I, too, will continue hostile to you: I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25#Num 14.12; Ezek 5.17I will bring the sword against you, executing vengeance for the covenant, and if you withdraw into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into enemy hands. 26#Ps 105.16; Isa 3.1; Mic 6.14When I cut off your supply of bread,#26.26 Heb staff of bread ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight, and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.

27“But if, despite this, you disobey me and continue hostile to me, 28I will continue hostile to you in fury; I in turn will punish you myself sevenfold for your sins. 29#Deut 28.53You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30#2 Chr 34.3; Ezek 6.3–6, 13I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars; I will heap your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. I will abhor you. 31#Ps 74.7; Isa 63.18I will lay your cities waste, will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors. 32#Jer 9.11I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to settle in it shall be appalled at it. 33#Deut 4.27; Ezek 12.15And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation and your cities a waste.

34 # v 43 ; 2 Chr 36.21“Then the land shall enjoy#26.34 Or make up for its Sabbath years as long as it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest and enjoy#26.34 Or make up for its Sabbath years. 35As long as it lies desolate, it shall have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were living on it. 36#Ezek 21.7And as for those of you who survive, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall though no one pursues. 37#Josh 7.12, 13They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though no one pursues, and you shall have no power to stand against your enemies. 38#Deut 4.26, 27You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall devour you. 39#Deut 4.27; Ezek 4.17And those of you who survive shall languish in the land of your enemies because of their iniquities; they shall also languish because of the iniquities of their ancestors.

40 # Jer 3.12–15; Lk 15.18; 1 Jn 1.9 “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors—their treachery against me and also their continued hostility to me, 41#2 Chr 12.6, 7; Ezek 44.9so that I in turn was hostile to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if, then, their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42#Gen 22.15–18; 26.2–5; 28.13–15then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; I will remember also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43#vv 15, 34, 35For the land shall be deserted by them and enjoy#26.43 Or make up for its Sabbath years by lying desolate without them, while they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they dared to spurn my ordinances, and they abhorred my statutes. 44#Deut 4.31; Rom 11.2Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them or abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God, 45#Gen 17.7; Ex 6.6–8; Lev 25.38but I will remember in their favor the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, to be their God: I am the Lord.”

46 # Lev 7.38; 25.1; 27.34 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws that the Lord established between himself and the Israelites on Mount Sinai through Moses.

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