Leviticus 26:19
in Leviticus 26I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
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ASV
And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass;
KJV
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
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This verse in Leviticus 26
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass--No figures could have been employed to convey a better idea of severe and long-continued famine.
This site's exposition
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me
on Leviticus 26:18-20
Here the shape of the passage appears. The sentence is raised four times by the same phrase, seven times, at verses 18, 21, 24 and 28, and each round follows a fresh refusal to hear. Heaven as iron over earth as brass is a sky that gives no rain above ground that gives no crop, which reverses verse 4 clause for clause.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
And I will break the pride of your power,....
If you will not learn obedience by the things which you suffer, but be as deaf to the loud alarms of God's judgments as you have been to the close reasonings of his word and the secret whispers of your own consciences, you are obstinate indeed." (2.) " If you walk contrary to me,
God had given them power over the nations; but when they, instead of being thankful for that power, and improving it for the service of God's kingdom, grew proud of it, and perverted the intentions of it, it was just with God to break it. Thus God would bring a sword upon them to avenge the quarrel of his covenant,
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְשָׁבַרְתִּ֖י | veshavarti | and I will break | H7665 → | 147 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| גְּא֣וֹן | geon | [the] pride of | H1347 → | |
| עֻזְּכֶ֑ם | ʾuzekhem | strength your | H5797 → | |
| וְנָתַתִּ֤י | venatati | and I will make | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| שְׁמֵיכֶם֙ | shemeikhem | heavens your | H8064 → | |
| כַּבַּרְזֶ֔ל | kabarzel | like <the> iron | H1270 → | |
| וְאֶֽת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אַרְצְכֶ֖ם | ʾartzekhem | land your | H776 → | 2504 times |
| כַּנְּחֻשָֽׁה׃ | kanechushah | like <the> bronze | H5154 → |
וְשָׁבַרְתִּ֖יand I will break
veshavartiH7665 →147 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
גְּא֣וֹן[the] pride of
geonH1347 →
עֻזְּכֶ֑םstrength your
ʾuzekhemH5797 →
וְנָתַתִּ֤יand I will make
venatatiH5414 →2011 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
שְׁמֵיכֶם֙heavens your
shemeikhemH8064 →
כַּבַּרְזֶ֔לlike <the> iron
kabarzelH1270 →
וְאֶֽת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
אַרְצְכֶ֖םland your
ʾartzekhemH776 →2504 times
כַּנְּחֻשָֽׁה׃like <the> bronze
kanechushahH5154 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in…
it leads to
- James 5:17
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Luke 4:25–26
But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all…
- Luke 1:17
And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to…
- 1 Kings 22:14
But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I will speak whatever the LORD tells me.”
- 2 Kings 3:14
Then Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not for my regard for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not look at…
- James 5:17
Through
Luke 4:25But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all…
it leads to
- 1 Kings 17:1
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Kings 17:1
Through
Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in…
it leads to
- James 4:6–7
But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Psalms 33:4–5
For the word of the LORD is upright, and all His work is trustworthy.
- James 4:6–7
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.