Leviticus 26:34
in Leviticus 26Then 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.
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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.
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This verse in Leviticus 26
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThen 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
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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 & Brown1802–1910
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אָז֩ | ʾaz | then | H227 → | 141 times |
| תִּרְצֶ֨ה | tirtzeh | it will accept | H7521 → | 56 times |
| הָאָ֜רֶץ | haaretz | the land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| שַׁבְּתֹתֶ֗יהָ | shabetoteiha | sabbaths its | H7676 → | 110 times |
| כֹּ֚ל | kol | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| יְמֵ֣י | yemei | [the] days of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הֳשַׁמָּ֔ה | hoshamah | being made desolate it | H8074 → | 86 times |
| וְאַתֶּ֖ם | veatem | and you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| בְּאֶ֣רֶץ | beeretz | [will be] in [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| אֹיְבֵיכֶ֑ם | ʾoyeveikhem | enemies your | H341 → | 282 times |
| אָ֚ז | ʾaz | then | H227 → | 141 times |
| תִּשְׁבַּ֣ת | tishbat | it will cease | H7673 → | 71 times |
| הָאָ֔רֶץ | haaretz | the land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| וְהִרְצָ֖ת | vehirtzat | and it will accept | H7521 → | 56 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| שַׁבְּתֹתֶֽיהָ׃ | shabetoteiha | sabbaths its | H7676 → | 110 times |
אָז֩then
ʾazH227 →141 times
תִּרְצֶ֨הit will accept
tirtzehH7521 →56 times
הָאָ֜רֶץthe land
haaretzH776 →2504 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
שַׁבְּתֹתֶ֗יהָsabbaths its
shabetoteihaH7676 →110 times
כֹּ֚לall
kolH3605 →5413 times
יְמֵ֣י[the] days of
yemeiH3117 →2304 times
הֳשַׁמָּ֔הbeing made desolate it
hoshamahH8074 →86 times
וְאַתֶּ֖םand you
veatemH859 →1094 times
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ[will be] in [the] land of
beeretzH776 →2504 times
אֹיְבֵיכֶ֑םenemies your
ʾoyeveikhemH341 →282 times
אָ֚זthen
ʾazH227 →141 times
תִּשְׁבַּ֣תit will cease
tishbatH7673 →71 times
הָאָ֔רֶץthe land
haaretzH776 →2504 times
וְהִרְצָ֖תand it will accept
vehirtzatH7521 →56 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
שַׁבְּתֹתֶֽיהָ׃sabbaths its
shabetoteihaH7676 →110 times
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
2 Chronicles 36:21So 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.
- Leviticus 26:34–35
Through
Leviticus 25:10So 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.
- Jeremiah 34:8
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About Leviticus

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.
