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id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/26-1.htm" title="Leviticus 26:1">◄</a> Leviticus 26:2 <a href="../leviticus/26-3.htm" title="Leviticus 26:3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I <i>am</i> the LORD.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/leviticus/26.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/leviticus/26.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/leviticus/26.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/leviticus/26.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/leviticus/26.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/leviticus/26.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/leviticus/26.htm" 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The Israelite will effectually guard against idol-worship, by keeping the Sabbath holy, and reverencing God’s sanctuary.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/leviticus/26.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>26:1-13 This chapter contains a general enforcement of all the laws given by Moses; by promises of reward in case of obedience, on the one hand; and threatenings of punishment for disobedience, on the other. While Israel maintained a national regard to God's worship, sabbaths, and sanctuary, and did not turn aside to idolatry, the Lord engaged to continue to them temporal mercies and religious advantages. These great and precious promises, though they relate chiefly to the life which now is, were typical of the spiritual blessings made sure by the covenant of grace to all believers, through Christ. 1. Plenty and abundance of the fruits of the earth. Every good and perfect gift must be expected from above, from the Father of lights. 2. Peace under the Divine protection. Those dwell in safety, that dwell in God. 3. Victory and success in their wars. It is all one with the Lord to save by many or by few. 4. The increase of their people. The gospel church shall be fruitful. 5. The favour of God, which is the fountain of all Good. 6. Tokens of his presence in and by his ordinances. The way to have God's ordinances fixed among us, is to cleave closely to them. 7. The grace of the covenant. All covenant blessings are summed up in the covenant relation, I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and they are all grounded upon their redemption. Having purchased them, God would own them, and never cast them off till they cast him off.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/leviticus/26.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Idols - literally, "things of nought." Hebrew אלילים 'ĕlı̂ylı̂m. There appears to have been a play on the similarity in sound of this word to אלהים 'ĕlohı̂ym (God). Compare <a href="/1_corinthians/8-4.htm">1 Corinthians 8:4</a>.<p>Standing image - Either an upright statue, or a pillar, such as an obelisk or a Celtic menhir, set up for an idolatrous purpose (compare <a href="/exodus/34-13.htm">Exodus 34:13</a> note). The public worship of Yahweh required, first, the exclusion of all visible symbols of deity as well as of all idolatrous objects, and next <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2</a>, the keeping holy the times and the place appointed by the Law for His formal service. The word "sabbaths" must here include the whole of the set times. See <a href="/leviticus/23-3.htm">Leviticus 23:3</a> note. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/leviticus/26.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>2. 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.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/leviticus/26.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">Reverence my sanctuary, </span> by purging and preserving it from all uncleanness, by approaching to it, and managing all the services of it, with reverence, and in such manner only as God hath appointed. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/leviticus/26.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>Ye shall keep my sabbaths,.... The seventh day sabbaths, and the seventh year sabbaths; especially the former are meant, in which religious worship was given to the one true and living God, and therefore the observance of them is strictly enjoined; and hence this law follows closely upon the former, though Aben Ezra restrains it to the sabbatical years, or seventh year sabbaths, as he applies the sanctuary in the following clause to the jubilee year, which is said to be holy, <a href="/leviticus/26-12.htm">Leviticus 26:12</a>; supposing that this refers unto and stands in strict connection with the laws of the preceding chapter, concerning the sabbatical, <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-1.htm">Leviticus 25:1</a>, and jubilee years, <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-8.htm">Leviticus 25:8</a>, <p>and reverence my sanctuary; by attending in it, and on the worship in it, with reverence and godly fear, see <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-30.htm">Leviticus 19:30</a>, <p>I am the Lord; who had a right to such religious worship, and to command such things, in which he ought to be obeyed, his sabbaths kept, and sanctuary reverenced. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/leviticus/26.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/leviticus/26.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 2.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.</span> These words are repeated textually from chapter Leviticus 19:30. Leviticus 26:2<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/leviticus/26.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div><a href="/leviticus/26-1.htm">Leviticus 26:1</a> and <a href="/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2</a> form the introduction; and the essence of the whole law, the observance of which will bring a rich blessing, and the transgression of it severe judgments, is summed up in two leading commandments, and placed at the head of the blessing and curse which were to be proclaimed. Ye shall not make to you elilim, nugatory gods, and set up carved images and standing images for worship, but worship Jehovah your God with the observance of His Sabbaths, and fear before His sanctuary. The prohibition of elilim, according to <a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/19-4.htm">Leviticus 19:4</a>, calls to mind the fundamental law of the decalogue (<a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3-4</a>, cf. <a href="/leviticus/21-23.htm">Leviticus 21:23</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/23-24.htm">Exodus 23:24-25</a>). To pesel (cf. <a href="/exodus/20-4.htm">Exodus 20:4</a>) and mazzebah (cf. <a href="/exodus/23-24.htm">Exodus 23:24</a>), which were not to be set up, there is added the command not to put משׂכּית אבן, "figure-stones," in the land, to worship over (by) them. The "figure-stone" is a stone formed into a figure, and idol of stone, not merely a stone with an inscription or with hieroglyphical figures; it is synonymous with משׂכּית in <a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/33-52.htm">Numbers 33:52</a>, and consequently we are to understand by pesel the wooden idol as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/44-15.htm">Isaiah 44:15</a>, etc. The construction of השׁתּחוה with על may be explained on the ground that the worshipper of a stone image placed upon the ground rises above it (for על in this sense, see <a href="/genesis/18-2.htm">Genesis 18:2</a>). - In <a href="/leviticus/26-3.htm">Leviticus 26:3</a> the true way to serve God is urged upon the Israelites once more, in words copied verbally from <a href="/leviticus/19-30.htm">Leviticus 19:30</a>. <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/leviticus/26-2.htm">Leviticus 26:2 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../leviticus/26-1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 26:1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 26:1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../leviticus/26-3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 26:3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 26:3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>