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Leviticus 26:43

in Leviticus 26

For 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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected mine ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

KJV

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.

This verse in Leviticus 26

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

If they shall confess their iniquity, &c.--This passage holds out the gracious promise of divine forgiveness and favor on their repentance, and their happy restoration to their land, in memory of the covenant made with their fathers (Ro 2:1-29).

This site's exposition

The land also shall be left of them

on Leviticus 26:43-45

Verse 43 restates the desolation straight after the promise of verse 42, so the record of what caused the exile stands unsoftened beside the mercy. Verse 44 then sets the limit on the whole passage, that in the land of their enemies God will not cast them away nor break his covenant with them. Paul asks whether God has cast away his people at Romans 11:1-2 and answers on the same ground, that God foreknew them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Till he had laid the foundations of a church for himself in the Gentile world, the Jewish church was not quite forsaken, nor cast away. They should be remembered: I will remember the land with favour, which is grounded upon the promise before, I will remember my covenant (

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), that is, if they justify God and condemn themselves, patiently bear the punishment as that which they have well deserved, and carefully answer the ends o it as that which God has well designed, accept it as a kindness, take it as physic, and improve it, then they are penitents indeed. How the mercy which they should obtain upon their repentance is described.

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The words behind it

20 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.

  • וְהָאָרֶץ֩and the land

    vehaaretzH7762504 times

  • תֵּעָזֵ֨בit will be forsaken

    teazevH5800215 times

  • מֵהֶ֜םfrom <the> them

    mehem

  • וְתִ֣רֶץand it may accept

    vetiretzH752156 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • שַׁבְּתֹתֶ֗יהָsabbaths its

    shabetoteihaH7676110 times

  • בָּהְשַׁמָּה֙when is made desolate it

    bahshamahH807486 times

  • מֵהֶ֔םfrom <the> them

    mehem

  • וְהֵ֖םand they

    vehemH1992553 times

  • יִרְצ֣וּthey will accept

    yirtzuH752156 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • עֲוֹנָ֑םiniquity their

    ʾavonamH5771233 times

  • יַ֣עַןbecause

    yaanH3282

  • וּבְיַ֔עַןand by cause

    uveyaanH3282

  • בְּמִשְׁפָּטַ֣י<in> judgments my

    bemishpataiH4941422 times

  • מָאָ֔סוּthey rejected

    maasuH398876 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • חֻקֹּתַ֖יstatutes my

    chukotaiH2708104 times

  • גָּעֲלָ֥הit abhorred

    gaalahH160210 times

  • נַפְשָֽׁם׃self their

    nafshamH5315754 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

    Romans 8:7

    because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

    it leads to

    • 1 Corinthians 2:14

      The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

    • 1 John 2:15–16

      Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

    • James 4:4

      You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

    • Ephesians 4:18–19

      They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

    • 2 Timothy 3:4

      traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

  • Through

    Leviticus 26:41

    and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 44:7

      In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood;…

    • 2 Chronicles 12:6–7

      So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”

    • Acts 7:51

      You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

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 Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.