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Leviticus 26:34-46
GOD’S FAITHFULNESS - Dec 20, 2021 -
Leviticus 26:14-33
PUNISHMENT FOR DISOBEDIENCE - Dec 19, 2021 -
Leviticus 26:1-13
REWARD FOR OBEDIENCE - Dec 18, 2021 -
Leviticus 26:34-46
BUT IF THEY WILL CONFESS THEIR SINS - Jul 17, 2016 -
Leviticus 26:1-13
BLESSINGS FOR OBEDIENCE - Jul 15, 2016 -
Leviticus 26:1-13
GOD WALKS AMONG HIS OBEDIENT PEOPLE - Jan 01, 2000 -
Leviticus 26:14-46
THE TERRIBLE COST OF DISOBEDIENCE - Jan 01, 2000
PUNISHMENTS FOR DISOBEDIENCE
Key verse: 26:18
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Punishment for Disobedience
14 “‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,(A) 15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws(B) and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,(C) 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever(D) that will destroy your sight and sap your strength.(E) You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.(F) 17 I will set my face(G) against you so that you will be defeated(H) by your enemies;(I) those who hate you will rule over you,(J) and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.(K)
18 “‘If after all this you will not listen to me,(L) I will punish(M) you for your sins seven times over.(N) 19 I will break down your stubborn pride(O) and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.(P) 20 Your strength will be spent in vain,(Q) because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.(R)
21 “‘If you remain hostile(S) toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over,(T) as your sins deserve. 22 I will send wild animals(U) against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few(V) in number that your roads will be deserted.(W)
23 “‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction(X) but continue to be hostile toward me, 24 I myself will be hostile(Y) toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. 25 And I will bring the sword(Z) on you to avenge(AA) the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague(AB) among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. 26 When I cut off your supply of bread,(AC) ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
27 “‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me(AD) but continue to be hostile toward me, 28 then in my anger(AE) I will be hostile(AF) toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.(AG) 29 You will eat(AH) the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.(AI) 30 I will destroy your high places,(AJ) cut down your incense altars(AK) and pile your dead bodies[a] on the lifeless forms of your idols,(AL) and I will abhor(AM) you. 31 I will turn your cities into ruins(AN) and lay waste(AO) your sanctuaries,(AP) and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.(AQ) 32 I myself will lay waste the land,(AR) so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.(AS) 33 I will scatter(AT) you among the nations(AU) and will draw out my sword(AV) and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste,(AW) and your cities will lie in ruins.(AX)
Footnotes
- Leviticus 26:30 Or your funeral offerings
Cross references
- Leviticus 26:14 : Dt 28:15-68; Mal 2:2
- Leviticus 26:15 : S ver 11
- Leviticus 26:15 : S Ge 17:7
- Leviticus 26:16 : Dt 28:22, 35; Ps 78:33
- Leviticus 26:16 : ver 39; 1Sa 2:33; Ps 107:17; Eze 4:17; 24:23; 33:10
- Leviticus 26:16 : Jdg 6:3-6; Job 31:8
- Leviticus 26:17 : Lev 17:10; Eze 15:7
- Leviticus 26:17 : Dt 28:48; Jos 7:12; Jdg 2:15; 1Ki 8:33; 2Ch 6:24
- Leviticus 26:17 : Jos 7:4; Jer 19:7; 21:7
- Leviticus 26:17 : Ps 106:41
- Leviticus 26:17 : ver 36, 37; Dt 28:7, 25; Ps 53:5; Pr 28:1; Isa 30:17
- Leviticus 26:18 : ver 14
- Leviticus 26:18 : Ps 99:8; Jer 21:14; Am 3:14
- Leviticus 26:18 : ver 21
- Leviticus 26:19 : Ps 10:4; 73:6; Isa 16:6; 25:11; 28:1-3; Jer 13:9; 48:29; Eze 24:21; Am 6:8; Zep 3:11
- Leviticus 26:19 : Dt 28:23; Job 38:38
- Leviticus 26:20 : Dt 28:38; Ps 127:1; Isa 17:11; 49:4; Jer 12:13; Mic 6:15; Hag 1:6
- Leviticus 26:20 : Dt 11:17; 28:24
- Leviticus 26:21 : ver 41
- Leviticus 26:21 : ver 18; S Ge 4:15
- Leviticus 26:22 : S Ge 37:20
- Leviticus 26:22 : Dt 28:62; Jer 42:2
- Leviticus 26:22 : Jer 5:6; 14:16; 15:3; 16:4; Eze 14:15
- Leviticus 26:23 : Jer 2:30; 5:3; 7:28; 17:23; 32:33; Zep 3:2
- Leviticus 26:24 : 2Sa 22:27
- Leviticus 26:25 : Jer 5:17; 15:3; 47:6; Eze 11:8; 14:17; 21:4; 33:2
- Leviticus 26:25 : Jer 50:28; 51:6, 11
- Leviticus 26:25 : S Ex 5:3; S 9:3; Nu 16:46; 1Ki 8:37; Hab 3:5
- Leviticus 26:26 : 1Ki 8:37; 18:2; 2Ki 4:38; 6:25; 8:1; 25:3; Ps 105:16; Isa 3:1; 9:20; Jer 37:21; 52:6; Eze 4:16, 17; 5:16; 14:13; Hos 4:10; Mic 6:14
- Leviticus 26:27 : ver 14
- Leviticus 26:28 : Dt 32:19; Jdg 2:14; Ps 78:59; 106:40
- Leviticus 26:28 : Dt 7:10; Job 34:11; Isa 59:18; 65:6-7; 66:6; Jer 17:10; 25:29; Joel 3:4
- Leviticus 26:28 : ver 18
- Leviticus 26:29 : 2Ki 6:29; Jer 19:9; La 4:10; Eze 5:10
- Leviticus 26:29 : Dt 28:53
- Leviticus 26:30 : Dt 12:2; 1Sa 9:12; 10:5; 1Ki 3:2, 4; 12:31; 13:2, 32; 2Ki 17:29; 23:20; 2Ch 34:3; Ps 78:58; Eze 6:3; 16:16; Am 7:9
- Leviticus 26:30 : 2Ch 34:4; Isa 17:8; 27:9; Eze 6:6
- Leviticus 26:30 : Isa 21:9; Jer 50:2; Eze 6:13
- Leviticus 26:30 : Ps 106:40; Am 6:8
- Leviticus 26:31 : Ne 1:3; Isa 1:7; 3:8, 26; 6:11; 24:12; 61:4; Jer 4:7; 9:11; 25:11; 34:22; 44:2, 6, 22; Eze 36:33; Mic 2:4; 3:12; Zep 2:5; 3:6
- Leviticus 26:31 : 2Ki 22:19
- Leviticus 26:31 : Ps 74:3-7; Isa 63:18; 64:11; La 2:7; Eze 24:21; Am 7:9
- Leviticus 26:31 : Am 5:21, 22; 8:10
- Leviticus 26:32 : Isa 5:6; Jer 9:11; 12:11; 25:11; 26:9; 33:10; 34:22; 44:22
- Leviticus 26:32 : 1Ki 9:8; 2Ch 29:8; Isa 52:14; Jer 18:16; 19:8; 48:39; Eze 5:14; 26:16; 27:35; 28:19
- Leviticus 26:33 : Jer 40:15; 50:17; Eze 34:6; Joel 3:2
- Leviticus 26:33 : Dt 4:27; 28:64; Ne 1:8; Ps 44:11; 106:27; Jer 4:11; 9:16; 13:24; 31:10; Eze 5:10; 12:15; 17:21; 20:23; 22:15; Zec 7:14
- Leviticus 26:33 : Jer 42:16; Am 9:4
- Leviticus 26:33 : Isa 49:19; Jer 7:34
- Leviticus 26:33 : ver 31; 1Sa 15:22; Job 36:11; Jer 40:3
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Punishment for Disobedience
14 (A)“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but (B)break my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with (C)wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And (D)you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will (E)set my face against you, and (F)you shall be struck down before your enemies. (G)Those who hate you shall rule over you, and (H)you shall flee when none pursues you. 18 And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again (I)sevenfold for your sins, 19 and I will break (J)the pride of your power, and I (K)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And (L)your strength shall be spent in vain, for (M)your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
21 (N)“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 22 And (O)I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that (P)your roads shall be deserted.
23 “And (Q)if by this discipline you are not turned to me (R)but walk contrary to me, 24 (S)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25 And (T)I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, (U)I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 (V)When I break your supply[a] of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and (W)you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27 “But (X)if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you (Y)in fury, and I myself will discipline you (Z)sevenfold for your sins. 29 (AA)You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 And (AB)I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and (AC)cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31 And I will (AD)lay your cities waste and will (AE)make your sanctuaries desolate, and (AF)I will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And (AG)I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be (AH)appalled at it. 33 And (AI)I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
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- Leviticus 26:26 Hebrew staff
Cross references
- Leviticus 26:14 : [Lam. 2:17; Mal. 2:2]; See Deut. 28:15-68
- Leviticus 26:15 : ver. 44; Deut. 31:20
- Leviticus 26:16 : Deut. 28:21
- Leviticus 26:16 : Deut. 28:33, 51; Job 31:8; Jer. 5:17; Mic. 6:15
- Leviticus 26:17 : See ch. 17:10
- Leviticus 26:17 : Deut. 28:25; Judg. 2:14; Jer. 19:7
- Leviticus 26:17 : Ps. 106:41
- Leviticus 26:17 : Prov. 28:1; [ver. 36; Ps. 53:5]
- Leviticus 26:18 : ver. 21, 24, 28; 1 Sam. 2:5; Ps. 119:164; Prov. 24:16
- Leviticus 26:19 : Ezek. 30:6; [Jer. 13:9]
- Leviticus 26:19 : Deut. 28:23
- Leviticus 26:20 : [Ps. 127:1; Isa. 49:4]
- Leviticus 26:20 : [Hag. 1:10]; See ver. 4
- Leviticus 26:21 : ver. 27
- Leviticus 26:22 : Deut. 32:24; See ver. 6
- Leviticus 26:22 : Judg. 5:6; Isa. 33:8; Lam. 1:4; Zech. 7:14
- Leviticus 26:23 : Jer. 2:30; 5:3; See Amos 4:6-12
- Leviticus 26:23 : [See ver. 21 above]; ver. 27
- Leviticus 26:24 : 2 Sam. 22:27; Ps. 18:26
- Leviticus 26:25 : Deut. 32:25; Jer. 14:12; 24:10; 29:17, 18; Ezek. 5:17; 6:3; 14:17; 29:8; 33:2
- Leviticus 26:25 : Num. 14:12; Deut. 28:21
- Leviticus 26:26 : Ps. 105:16; Isa. 3:1; Ezek. 4:16; 5:16; 14:13
- Leviticus 26:26 : Isa. 9:20; Mic. 6:14; Hag. 1:6
- Leviticus 26:27 : ver. 21, 24
- Leviticus 26:28 : Isa. 59:18; 63:3; 66:15; Jer. 21:5; Ezek. 5:13, 15; 8:18
- Leviticus 26:28 : [See ver. 18 above]; ver. 21, 24, 28; 1 Sam. 2:5; Ps. 119:164; Prov. 24:16
- Leviticus 26:29 : Deut. 28:53; Ezek. 5:10; [2 Kgs. 6:29; Lam. 4:10]
- Leviticus 26:30 : 2 Chr. 14:5; 34:3, 4, 7; See Ezek. 6:3-6
- Leviticus 26:30 : [2 Kgs. 23:20; 2 Chr. 34:5; Ezek. 6:5]
- Leviticus 26:31 : Neh. 2:3; Jer. 4:7; See 2 Kgs. 25:4-10
- Leviticus 26:31 : Ps. 74:7; Lam. 1:10; Ezek. 9:6; 21:2
- Leviticus 26:31 : Jer. 6:20; See Isa. 1:11-15; Amos 5:21-23
- Leviticus 26:32 : Jer. 9:11; 25:11, 18
- Leviticus 26:32 : Deut. 28:37; 1 Kgs. 9:8; Jer. 18:16; 19:8; Ezek. 5:15
- Leviticus 26:33 : Deut. 4:27; 28:64; Neh. 1:8; Ps. 44:11; Jer. 9:16; Ezek. 12:15; 20:23; 22:15; Zech. 7:14; [Luke 21:24]
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First, 'if you will not listen to me' (14-22). The warnings of punishment are many more than the promises of blessing (just like Dt 28), perhaps because our fear of God is weak. Disobedience and rebellion against God's laws would result in terror, wasting diseases, theft, defeat, oppressive rule and fearful flight. If they still won't listen but remain hostile toward God, they would suffer seven times over with drought, famine and wild beasts. Second, 'if you don't accept my correction' (23-33). All this trouble is intended as 'correction' (23), or God's disciplinary love (Heb 12:6-10). Further stubbornness would lead to conquest and plague, even cannibalism to survive (29). God is not pleased with idolatry (30) or pretend worship (31). This would lead to exile and deserted towns (33).
Prayer: Lord, forgive my lack of fear of God and obedience to your holy word. Help me not abhor or ignore your word but delight in it. Help me to accept hardship as your disciplinary love that leads me to love and fear you.
One Word: Love and fear God, accept his correction