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Leviticus 26:35

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As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

KJV

As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

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This verse in Leviticus 26

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Then the land shall enjoy its 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, and 2 Chronicles 36:21 reads the seventy years of Babylon as exactly that.

This site's exposition

the rest it did not receive

Adam Clarke cites Houbigant's count of about four hundred and ninety years from Saul to the Babylonian captivity, which holds seventy sabbath years. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that Assyrian conquerors usually sent colonists to farm a taken province. The land's rest ran against that custom.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 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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The words behind it

11 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.

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • יְמֵ֥י[the] days of

    yemeiH3117 →2304 times

  • הָשַּׁמָּ֖הbeing made desolate it

    hashamahH8074 →86 times

  • תִּשְׁבֹּ֑תit will cease

    tishbotH7673 →71 times

  • אֵ֣ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֧רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • שָׁבְתָ֛הit ceased

    shavtahH7673 →71 times

  • בְּשַׁבְּתֹתֵיכֶ֖םin sabbaths your

    beshabetoteikhemH7676 →110 times

  • בְּשִׁבְתְּכֶ֥םwhen dwelt you

    beshivtekhemH3427 →1079 times

  • עָלֶֽיהָ׃on it

    ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 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 8:22

    We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 12:4

      How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said,…

    • Jeremiah 12:11

      They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.

    • John 16:21

      A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the…

    • Colossians 1:23

      if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul,…

    • Romans 8:20

      For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 26 →

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.

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