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    Leviticus 26

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    A windblown leaf becomes enough to rout the survivors: they flee as though pursued by a sword, stumble over one another, and fall when nobody is after them.

    Rain, peace, and a remarkably confident ratiovv. 1–13

    The LORD sets out the arrangement plainly: keep the commandments, and the land will produce, the bread will multiply, dangerous animals will be removed, and peace will make lying down an uneventful business. The military figures, however, acquire a curious life of their own: five pursue a hundred, while a hundred pursue ten thousand. The old grain will still be in the cupboard when the new arrives, and the LORD will walk among Israel as their God.

    When the land keeps Sabbath by losing its inhabitantsvv. 14–39

    The neglected covenant brings a steadily enlarging catalogue of trouble: failed crops, wild animals, plague, sword, hunger, ruined cities, and scattering among the nations. At the centre of this grim procession stands the land itself, which finally receives the Sabbaths it did not receive while Israel lived in it. The survivors need not even meet an enemy to be defeated; the sound of a leaf will do, which is a remarkably economical army.

    The covenant remembersvv. 40–46

    Confession changes the direction of the passage. The people acknowledge their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers; the LORD remembers the covenants with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and remembers the land. Even in the land of their enemies, Israel is not rejected so as to be destroyed. The chapter ends where its laws were established: between the LORD and the Israelites, through Moses, on Mount Sinai.

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    1. Lev 26:1“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.

    2. Lev 26:2You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

    3. Lev 26:3If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,

    4. Lev 26:4I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

    5. Lev 26:5Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.

    6. Lev 26:6And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.

    7. Lev 26:7You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.

    8. Lev 26:8Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

    9. Lev 26:9I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

    10. Lev 26:10You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.

    11. Lev 26:11And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.

    12. Lev 26:12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.

    13. Lev 26:13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.

    14. Lev 26:14If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,

    15. Lev 26:15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

    16. Lev 26:16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

    17. Lev 26:17And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.

    18. Lev 26:18And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

    19. Lev 26:19I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

    20. Lev 26:20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

    21. Lev 26:21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.

    22. Lev 26:22I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.

    23. Lev 26:23And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

    24. Lev 26:24then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

    25. Lev 26:25And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

    26. Lev 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

    27. Lev 26:27But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

    28. Lev 26:28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.

    29. Lev 26:29You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

    30. Lev 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

    31. Lev 26:31I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

    32. Lev 26:32And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.

    33. Lev 26:33But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

    34. Lev 26:34Then 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.

    35. Lev 26:35As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

    36. Lev 26:36As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

    37. Lev 26:37They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.

    38. Lev 26:38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

    39. Lev 26:39Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

    40. Lev 26:40But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

    41. Lev 26:41and 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,

    42. Lev 26:42then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

    43. Lev 26:43For 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.

    44. Lev 26:44Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

    45. Lev 26:45But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”

    46. Lev 26:46These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.

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    • 122 Corinthians 6:16What 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 I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
    • 8Joshua 23:10One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.
    • 8Deuteronomy 28:7The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.
    • 12Jeremiah 30:22“And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”
    • 8Deuteronomy 32:30How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
    • 12Jeremiah 7:23but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
    • 6Isaiah 35:9No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
    • 11Exodus 25:8And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
    • 12Exodus 6:7I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
    • 9Genesis 17:6–7I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
    • 6Zephaniah 3:13The remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they will feed and lie down, with no one to make them tremble.”
    • 11Revelation 21:3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.
    • 12Joel 2:27Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.
    • 12Deuteronomy 23:14For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.
    • 6Psalms 147:14He makes peace at your borders; He fills you with the finest wheat.
    • 12Hebrews 11:16Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

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