Leviticus 26:2
in Leviticus 26You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
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ASV
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah.
KJV
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
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This verse in Leviticus 26
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary--Very frequently, in this Book of the Law, the Sabbath and the sanctuary are mentioned as antidotes to idolatry.
This site's exposition
You must not make idols for yourselves
on Leviticus 26:1-2
The chapter opens by repeating two commands before it names a single blessing, no idols and keep my sabbaths. Both come back in the curses, images cut down at verse 30 and the land taking its sabbaths at verse 34.
This site's exposition
have reverence for My sanctuary
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that this book often names the Sabbath and the sanctuary as the remedy for idolatry. Verse 1 forbids the idol, and verse 2 sets the worship of God in its place. Verse 31 lays the sanctuaries waste.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
They are the abstract of the second and fourth commandments, which, as they are by much the largest in the decalogue, so they are most frequently insisted on in other parts of the law.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths,....
Let us take a view of these great and precious promises, which, though they relate chiefly to the life which now is, and to the public national concerns of that people, were typical of the spiritual blessings entailed by the covenant of grace upon all believers through Christ.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| שַׁבְּתֹתַ֣י | shabetotai | sabbaths my | H7676 → | 110 times |
| תִּשְׁמֹ֔רוּ | tishmoru | you will keep | H8104 → | 468 times |
| וּמִקְדָּשִׁ֖י | umikdashi | and sanctuary my | H4720 → | 75 times |
| תִּירָ֑אוּ | tirau | you will fear | H3372 → | 315 times |
| אֲנִ֖י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ ס | yahweh | [am] Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
שַׁבְּתֹתַ֣יsabbaths my
shabetotaiH7676 →110 times
תִּשְׁמֹ֔רוּyou will keep
tishmoruH8104 →468 times
וּמִקְדָּשִׁ֖יand sanctuary my
umikdashiH4720 →75 times
תִּירָ֑אוּyou will fear
tirauH3372 →315 times
אֲנִ֖יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
יְהוָֽה׃ ס[am] Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 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
Leviticus 19:30You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
it leads to
- Leviticus 19:3
Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
- Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
- Psalms 89:7
In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.
- Matthew 21:13
And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- 2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and…
- Leviticus 19:3
Where this verse is studied
About Leviticus
This page draws on Andrew Bonar, A Commentary on Leviticus; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.