1 Of idolatry 2 Religiousness 3-13 A blessing to them that keep the commandments 14-39 A curse to them that break them 40-46 God promises to remember them that repent

Ye shall Le 19:4 Ex 20:4,5,23 23:24 34:17 De 4:16-19 5:8,9 16:21,22 27:15 Ps 97:7 115:4-8 Isa 2:20 44:9-20 48:5-8 Jer 10:3-8 Ac 17:29 Ro 2:22,23 1Co 10:19,20 Re 13:14,15 22:15

standing image. or, pillar
image of stone. or, figured stone [heb] a stone of picture

2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

Le 19:30

3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

Le 18:4,5 De 11:13-15 28:1-14 Jos 23:14,15 Jud 2:1,2 Ps 81:12-16 Isa 1:19 48:18,19 Mt 7:24,25 Ro 2:7-10 Re 22:14

4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Then I De 28:12 1Ki 17:1 Job 5:10 37:11-13 38:25-28 Ps 65:9-13 68:9 104:13 Isa 5:6 30:23 Jer 14:22 Eze 34:26,27 Joe 2:23,24 Am 4:7,8 Mt 5:45 Ac 14:17 Jas 5:7,17,18 Re 11:6

the land Le 25:21 Ps 67:6 85:12 Eze 34:27 36:30 Hag 2:18,19 Zec 8:12

5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

threshing Am 9:13 Mt 9:37,38 Joh 4:35,36

eat your Le 25:19 Ex 16:8 De 11:15 Joe 2:19,26 Ac 14:17 1Ti 6:17

dwell Le 25:18 Job 11:18,19 Ps 46:1-7 90:1 91:1-14 Pr 1:33 18:10 Jer 23:6 Eze 34:25-28 Mt 23:37 1Pe 1:5

6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

I will 1Ch 22:9 Ps 29:11 147:14 Isa 9:7 45:7 Jer 30:10 Ho 2:18 Mic 4:4 Hag 2:9 Zec 9:10 Joh 14:27 Ro 5:1 Php 4:7-9

ye shall Job 11:19 Ps 3:5 4:8 127:1 Pr 3:24 6:22 Isa 35:9 Jer 30:10 31:26 Eze 34:25 Zep 3:13 Ac 12:6

rid [heb] cause to cease Ex 23:29 2Ki 2:24 17:25,26 Job 5:23 Isa 35:9 Eze 5:17 14:15,21

shall the sword Eze 14:17

7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

Nu 14:9 De 28:7 32:30 Jos 23:10 Jud 7:19-21 1Sa 14:6-16 1Sa 14:6-16 17:45-52 1Ch 11:11,20 Ps 81:14,15

9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

for I Ex 2:25 2Ki 13:23 Ne 2:20 Ps 89:3 138:6,7 Jer 33:3 Heb 8:9

make you Ge 17:6,7,20 26:4 28:3,14 Ex 1:7 De 28:4,11 Ne 9:23 Ps 107:38

establish Ge 6:18 17:7 Ex 6:4 Isa 55:3 Eze 16:62 Lu 1:72

10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

Le 25:22 Jos 5:11 2Ki 19:29 Lu 12:17

11 And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

I will Ex 25:8 29:45 Jos 22:19 1Ki 8:13,27 Ps 76:2 78:68,69 132:13,14 Eze 37:26-28 Eph 2:22 Re 21:3

abhor Le 20:23 De 32:19 Ps 78:59 106:40 Jer 14:21 La 2:7 Zec 11:8

12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

I will Ge 3:8 5:22,24 6:9 De 23:14 2Co 6:16 Re 2:1

will be Ge 17:7 Ex 3:6 6:7 19:5,6 Ps 50:7 68:18-20 Isa 12:2 41:10 Jer 7:23 11:4 30:22 31:33 32:38 Eze 11:20 36:38 Joe 2:27 Zec 13:9 Mt 22:32 Heb 11:16 Re 21:7

13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

I am Le 25:38,42,55 Ex 20:2 Ps 81:6-10 1Co 6:19,20

and I have Ps 116:16 Isa 51:23 Jer 2:20 Eze 34:27

14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

Le 26:18 De 28:15-68 Jer 17:27 La 1:18 2:17 Mal 2:2 Ac 3:23 Heb 12:29

15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

despise Le 26:43 Nu 15:31 2Sa 12:9,10 2Ki 17:15 2Ch 36:16 Pr 1:7,30 Jer 6:19 Zec 7:11-13 Ac 13:41 1Th 4:8

soul Ps 50:17 Pr 5:12 Ro 8:7

break Ge 17:14 Ex 19:5 24:7 De 31:16 Isa 24:5 Jer 11:10 31:32 Eze 16:59 Heb 8:9

16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

appoint Ps 109:6

over you [heb] upon you
terror De 28:65-67 32:25 Job 15:20,21 18:11 20:25 Ps 73:19 Isa 7:2 Jer 15:8 20:4 Heb 10:31

consumption Ex 15:26 De 28:21,22,35

consume De 28:32,34,67 1Sa 2:33 Ps 78:33 Eze 33:10 Zec 14:12

and ye shall De 28:33,51 Jud 6:3-6,11 Job 31:8 Isa 65:22-24 Jer 5:17 12:13 Mic 6:15 Hag 1:6

for your Isa 10:4

17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

set Le 17:10 20:5,6 Ps 68:1,2

ye shall be De 28:25 Jud 2:14 1Sa 4:10 31:1 Ne 9:27-30 Ps 106:41,42 Jer 19:7 La 1:5

shall flee Le 26:36 Ps 53:5 Pr 28:1

18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

seven times Le 26:21,24,28 1Sa 2:5 Ps 119:164 Pr 24:16 Da 3:19

19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

will break 1Sa 4:3,11 Isa 2:12 25:11 26:5 Jer 13:9 Eze 7:24 30:6 Da 4:37 Zep 3:11

make De 28:23 1Ki 17:1 Jer 14:1-6 Lu 4:25

20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

your strength Ps 127:1 Isa 49:4 Hab 2:13 Ga 4:11

for your land Le 26:4 De 11:17 28:18,38-40,42 Job 31:40 Ps 107:34 Hag 1:9-11 2:16 1Co 3:6

21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

contrary unto me. or, at all adventures with me: and so Le 26:24

22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

wild Le 26:6 De 32:24 2Ki 17:25 Jer 15:3 Eze 5:17 14:15,21

rob you 2Ki 2:24

your high Jud 5:6 2Ch 15:5 Isa 24:6 33:8 La 1:4 Eze 14:15 33:28 Mic 3:12 Zec 7:14

23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

Isa 1:16-20 Jer 2:30 5:3 Eze 24:13,14 Am 4:6-12

24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

2Sa 22:27 Job 9:4 Ps 18:26 Isa 63:10

25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

will bring De 32:25,41 Jud 2:14-16 Ps 78:62-64 Isa 34:5,6 Jer 9:16 14:12,13 15:2-4 La 2:21 Eze 5:17 6:3 14:17 21:4-17 29:8 33:2

avenge De 32:35 Ps 94:1 Eze 20:37 Heb 10:28-30

I will send Nu 14:12 16:49 De 28:21 2Sa 24:15 Jer 14:12 24:10 29:17,18 Am 4:10 Lu 21:11

26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Ps 105:16 Isa 3:1 9:20 Jer 14:12 La 4:3-9 Eze 4:10,16 5:16 14:13 Ho 4:10 Mic 6:14 Hag 1:6

27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

Le 26:21,24

28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

in fury Isa 27:4 59:18 63:3 66:15 Jer 21:5 Eze 5:13,15 8:18 Na 1:2,6

29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

This was literally fulfilled at the siege of Jerusalem. Josephus gives a dreadful detail respecting a woman named Mary, who, in the extremity of the famine, during the seige, killed her sucking child, roasted, and had eaten part of it, when discovered by the soldiers. De 28:53-57 2Ki 6:28,29 Jer 19:9 La 2:20 4:10 Eze 5:10 Mt 24:19 Lu 23:29

30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

I will destroy 1Ki 13:2 2Ki 23:8,16,20 2Ch 14:3-5 23:17 31:1 34:3-7 Isa 27:9 Jer 8:1-3 Eze 6:3-6,13

my soul Le 26:11,15 20:23 Ps 78:58,59 89:38 Jer 14:19

31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.

And I will make 2Ki 25:4-10 2Ch 36:19 Ne 2:3,17 Isa 1:7 24:10-12 Jer 4:7 9:11 La 1:1 2:7 Eze 6:6 21:15 Mic 3:12

and bring Ps 74:3-8 Jer 22:5 26:6,9 52:13 La 1:10 Eze 9:6 21:7 24:21 Mt 24:1,2 Lu 21:5,6,24 Ac 6:14

I will not smell Ge 8:21 Isa 1:11-14 66:3 Am 5:21-23 Heb 10:26

32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

And I De 29:23 Isa 1:7,8 5:6,9 6:11 24:1 32:13,14 64:10 Jer 9:11 25:11,18,38 44:2,22 La 5:18 Eze 33:28,29 Da 9:2,18 Hab 3:17 Lu 21:20

and your De 28:37 29:24-28 1Ki 9:8 Jer 18:16 19:8 La 4:12 Eze 5:15

33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

De 4:27 28:64-66 Ps 44:11 Jer 9:16 La 1:3 4:15 Eze 12:14-16 20:23 22:15 Zec 7:14 Lu 21:24 Jas 1:1

34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

This was fulfilled during the Babylonish captivity: for, from Saul to the captivity are about 490 years, during which period there were 70 sabbaths of years neglected by the Hebrews. Now the Babylonish captivity lasted 70 years, and during that time the land of Israel rested. Le 25:2-4,10 2Ch 36:21

35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

Isa 24:5,6 Ro 8:22

36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

I will send Ge 35:5 De 28:65-67 Jos 2:9-11 5:1 1Sa 17:24 2Ki 7:6,7 2Ch 14:14 Job 15:21,22 Isa 7:2,4 Eze 21:7,12,15

and the Le 26:7,8,17 De 1:33 Job 15:21 Pr 28:1 Isa 30:17

shaken [heb] driven

37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

they shall Jud 7:22 1Sa 14:15,16 Isa 10:4 Jer 37:10

and ye shall Nu 14:42 Jos 7:12,13 Jud 2:14

38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

De 4:27 28:48,68 Isa 27:13 Jer 42:17,18,22 44:12-14,27,28

39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

shall pine De 28:65 30:1 Ne 1:9 Ps 32:3,4 Jer 3:25 29:12 La 4:9 Eze 4:17 6:9 20:43 24:23 33:10 36:31 Ho 5:15 Zec 10:9

and also Ex 20:5 34:7 Nu 14:18 De 5:9 Jer 31:29 Eze 18:2,3,19 Mt 23:35,36 Ro 11:8-10

40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

confess Nu 5:7 De 4:29-31 30:1-3 Jos 7:19 1Ki 8:33-36,47 Ne 9:2 Job 33:27 33:28 Ps 32:5 Pr 28:13 Jer 31:18-20 Eze 36:31 Da 9:3-20 Ho 5:15 6:1,2 Lu 15:18,19 1Jo 1:8-10

and that Le 26:21,24,27,28

41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

their uncircumcised De 30:6 Jer 4:4 6:10 9:25,26 Eze 44:7 Ac 7:51 Ro 2:28,29 Ga 5:6 Php 3:3 Col 2:11

humbled Ex 10:3 1Ki 21:29 2Ch 12:6,7,12 32:26 23:12,13,19 Eze 6:9 Eze 20:43 Mt 23:12 Lu 14:11 18:14 Jas 4:6-9 1Pe 5:5,6

and they Ezr 9:13,15 Ne 9:33 Ps 39:9 51:3,4 Da 9:7-14,18,19

42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

will I Ge 9:16 Ex 2:24 6:5 De 4:31 Ps 106:45 Eze 16:60 Lu 1:72

and I will Ps 85:1,2 136:23 Eze 36:1-15,33,34 Joe 2:18

43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

shall enjoy Le 26:34,35

and they Le 26:41 1Ki 8:46-48 2Ch 33:12 Job 5:17 34:31,32 Ps 50:15 119:67,71,75 Isa 26:16 Jer 31:19 Da 9:7-9,14 Heb 12:5-11

they despised Le 26:15 2Ki 17:7-17 2Ch 36:14-16

their soul Le 26:15,30 Ps 50:17 Am 5:10 Zec 11:8 Joh 7:7 15:23,24 Ro 8:7

44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

I will De 4:29-31 2Ki 13:23 Ne 9:31 Ps 94:14 Eze 14:22,23 Ro 11:2,26

abhor Le 26:11

break Ps 89:33 Jer 14:21 33:20,21 Eze 16:60

45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

for their Ge 12:2 15:18 17:7,8 Ex 2:24 19:5,6 Lu 1:72,73 Ro 11:12,23-26,28,29 2Co 3:15,16

whom I Le 22:33 25:38 Ex 20:2

in the sight Ps 98:2,3 Eze 20:9,14,22

46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

As this verse appears to be the proper concluding verse of the whole book, Dr. A. Clarke thinks that the 27th chapter originally followed the 25th. Others suppose that the 27th chapter was added after the book was finished; and, therefore, there is apparently a double conclusion, one at the end of this, and another at the end of the 27th chapter. All the ancient versions agree in concluding both chapters in nearly the same way.

the statues Le 27:34 De 6:1 12:1 13:4 Joh 1:17

in mount Sinai Le 25:1

by the hand Le 8:36 Nu 4:37 Ps 77:20