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Leviticus 26:34

in Leviticus 26

Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.

KJV

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 verse in Leviticus 26

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbaths - This Houbigant observes to be a historical truth - “From Saul to the Babylonish captivity are numbered about four hundred and ninety years, during which period there were seventy Sabbaths of years; for 7, multiplied by 70, make 490. Now the Babylonish captivity lasted seventy years, and during that time the land of Israel rested.

This site's exposition

Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths

on Leviticus 26:34-35

The sabbath years commanded in Leviticus 25 are the reason the exile is given a length. The land takes the rest it was owed while the people are away, and 2 Chronicles 36:21 reads the seventy years of Babylon as exactly that, the land keeping sabbath until threescore and ten years were fulfilled. Jeremiah 25:11-12 supplies the number and Chronicles supplies the reason.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

21 ) with reference to this. [7.] The destruction of their idols, though rather a mercy than a judgment, yet, being a necessary piece of justice, is here mentioned, to show what would be the sin that would bring all these miseries upon them: I will destroy your high places,

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Never were any people so incorporated and united among themselves as they were; but for their sin God would scatter them, so that they should be lost among the heathen, from whom God had graciously distinguished them, but with whom they had wickedly mingled themselves.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The number of those sabbatic years seems to have been seventy, as determined by the duration of the captivity. This early prediction is very remarkable, considering that the usual policy of the Assyrian conquerors was to send colonies to cultivate and inhabit their newly acquired provinces.

The words behind it

17 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.

  • אָז֩then

    ʾazH227141 times

  • תִּרְצֶ֨הit will accept

    tirtzehH752156 times

  • הָאָ֜רֶץthe land

    haaretzH7762504 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • שַׁבְּתֹתֶ֗יהָsabbaths its

    shabetoteihaH7676110 times

  • כֹּ֚לall

    kolH36055413 times

  • יְמֵ֣י[the] days of

    yemeiH31172304 times

  • הֳשַׁמָּ֔הbeing made desolate it

    hoshamahH807486 times

  • וְאַתֶּ֖םand you

    veatemH8591094 times

  • בְּאֶ֣רֶץ[will be] in [the] land of

    beeretzH7762504 times

  • אֹיְבֵיכֶ֑םenemies your

    ʾoyeveikhemH341282 times

  • אָ֚זthen

    ʾazH227141 times

  • תִּשְׁבַּ֣תit will cease

    tishbatH767371 times

  • הָאָ֔רֶץthe land

    haaretzH7762504 times

  • וְהִרְצָ֖תand it will accept

    vehirtzatH752156 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • שַׁבְּתֹתֶֽיהָ׃sabbaths its

    shabetoteihaH7676110 times

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

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

    2 Chronicles 36:21

    So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 26:34–35

      Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Jeremiah 29:10

      For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

    • Zechariah 1:12

      Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”

    • Jeremiah 25:11–12

      And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

    • Daniel 9:2

      in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.

  • Through

    Leviticus 25:10

    So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 34:8

      After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD

    • Isaiah 63:4

      For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.

    • Leviticus 25:13

      In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.

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.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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.