Lev 26:1-13. YOU SHALL make for yourselves no idols nor shall you erect a graven image, pillar, or obelisk, nor shall you place any figured stone in your land to which or on which to bow down; for I am the Lord your God.
You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary. I am the Lord.
If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments and do them,
I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase and the trees of the field yield their fruit.
And your threshing [time] shall reach to the vintage and the vintage [time] shall reach to the sowing time, and you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.
I will give peace in the land; you shall lie down and none shall fill you with dread or make you afraid; and I will clear ferocious (wild) beasts out of the land, and no sword shall go through your land.
And you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
For I will be leaning toward you with favor and regard for you, rendering you fruitful, multiplying you, and establishing and ratifying My covenant with you. [2Ki 13:23]
And you shall eat the [abundant] old store of produce long kept, and clear out the old [to make room] for the new.
I will set My dwelling in and among you, and My soul shall not despise or reject or separate itself from you.
And I will walk in and with and among you and will be your God, and you shall be My people.
I am the Lord your God, Who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should no more be slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect [as free men].
For I will have respect unto you,.... Look at them with delight and pleasure, and with a careful eye on them;
watch over them to do them good, and protect them from all evil; or turn Himself to them from all others, having a particular regard for them and special care of them:
and make you fruitful and multiply you; increase their number, as he did in Egypt, even amidst all their afflictions; and much more might they expect this blessing in the land of Canaan, when settled there, which is the original blessing of mankind;
see Gen 1:28,
and establish My covenant with you; not the new covenant spoken of in Jer 31:31; as Jarchi and other Jewish writers (l) suggest; for that was not to take place but in future time, under the Gospel dispensation; but rather the covenant made with them at Sinai, though perhaps it chiefly respects the covenant made with their ancestors concerning multiplication of their seed as the stars of heaven and the sand of the sea, Gen 15:5, since it follows upon the promise of an increase of them.
Establish my covenant - All material blessings were to be regarded in the light of seals of the “everlasting covenant.” Compare Gen 17:4-8; Neh 9:23.
RESULTS OF OBEDIENCE AND DISOBEDIENCE
There is a vast contrast between the ideal life of the first thirteen verses of this chapter and the remainder; just the distinction which God ever makes between a life of obedience and faith, and one of disobedience and disbelief. In our inner life we also may have that blessed rain of spiritual grace; the fruit-fullness and the peace, the safety and the victory, the old store reaching to the new, the breaking of our bars and the snapping of our yoke.
If these privileges are not yours, think back on your past to ascertain whether you are walking in all God’s commandments, or are in anything walking contrary to them. Confess your sins and return, and dare to believe that He will bring you again, if penitent and believing, into the old glad position. But if “ye will not,” Lev 26:14; Lev 26:18; Lev 26:21; Lev 26:23; Lev 26:27, heavy penalties must befall.
God loves us too well to allow us to drift, unwarned and unrestrained, to perdition.
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