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Leviticus 26:30

in Leviticus 26

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

KJV

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

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This verse in Leviticus 26

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The carcases of your idols - So he calls them, either to signify that their idols how specious soever or glorious in their eyes, were in truth but lifeless and contemptible carcases; or to shew that their idols should be so far from helping them, that they should be thrown down and broken with them, and both should lie together in a forlorn and loathsome state.

This site's exposition

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images

on Leviticus 26:30-31

The carcases of the worshippers are cast on the carcases of their idols, so the dead god and the dead man lie in one heap. Verse 31 closes the worship from the other end, cities waste, sanctuaries desolate, and the sweet savour that runs sixteen times through this book no longer smelled. My soul shall abhor you at the end of verse 30 answers my soul shall not abhor you at verse 11.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Those that will not be parted from their sins by the commands of God shall be parted from them by his judgments; since they would not destroy their high places, God would. And, to upbraid them with the unreasonable fondness they had shown for their idols, it is foretold that their carcases should be cast upon the carcases of their idols.
And I will destroy your high places,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

All God's sore judgments would be sent against them; for he hath many arrows in his quiver. The threatenings here are very particular, because really they were prophecies, and he that foresaw all their rebellions knew they would prove so; see Deut. xxxi. This long roll of threatening shows that evil pursues sinners.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֞יand I will destroy

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  • בָּמֹֽתֵיכֶ֗םhigh places your

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  • וְהִכְרַתִּי֙and I will cut down

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  • חַמָּ֣נֵיכֶ֔םincense altars your

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  • וְנָֽתַתִּי֙and I will put

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  • אֶת־<obj.>

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  • פִּגְרֵיכֶ֔םcorpses your

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  • עַל־on

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  • פִּגְרֵ֖י[the] corpses of

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  • גִּלּוּלֵיכֶ֑םidols your

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  • וְגָעֲלָ֥הand it will abhor

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  • נַפְשִׁ֖יself my

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  • אֶתְכֶֽם׃<obj.> you

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A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 78:58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.5 works2 Kings 23:20On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.4 worksEzekiel 6:3You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.4 works1 Kings 13:32for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”4 worksEzekiel 43:7and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.4 worksEzekiel 6:13Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Isaiah 27:9Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.3 worksEzekiel 6:4Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.3 worksHosea 9:15All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.3 worksEzekiel 6:6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.3 works2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.3 works1 Kings 3:2The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.3 works2 Chronicles 34:4Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.3 works2 Chronicles 34:3–7In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.2 worksJeremiah 17:3O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.2 worksJeremiah 7:32So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.2 worksLeviticus 26:43For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.2 worksMicah 1:7All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Ezekiel 6:13

    Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 20:28

      When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up…

    • Hosea 4:13

      They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

  • Through

    2 Kings 23:20

    On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 11:18

      So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in…

    • Exodus 22:20

      If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.

    • 2 Chronicles 34:5

      Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

    • 2 Kings 10:25

      When he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the…

  • Through

    Isaiah 27:9

    Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 48:10

      See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

    • Romans 11:27

      And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 26 →

This page draws on Andrew Bonar, A Commentary on Leviticus; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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