26:4 Then I will give you a rain in due season, and the land
shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall
yield their fruit.
(a) By promising abundance of earthly things, he stirs the
mind to consider the rich treasures of the spiritual
blessings.
26:6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down,
and none shall make [you] afraid: and I will rid evil
beasts out of the land, neither shall the b sword go
through your land.
(b) You shall have no war.
26:9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful,
and multiply you, and c establish my covenant with you.
(c) Perform that which I have promised.
26:11 And I will set my d tabernacle among you: and my soul
shall not abhor you.
(d) I will be daily present with you.
26:13 I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of
the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen;
and I have broken the e bands of your yoke, and made you
go upright.
(e) I have set you at full liberty, while before you were
as beasts tied in bands.
26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor
my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments,
[but] that ye break my f covenant:
(f) Which I made with you in choosing you to be my people.
26:17 And I will set g my face against you, and ye shall be
slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign
over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
26:18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then
I will punish you h seven times more for your sins.
(h) That is, more extremely.
26:19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make
your heaven as i iron, and your earth as brass:
(i) You shall have drought and barrenness.
26:21 And if ye walk k contrary unto me, and will not hearken
unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you
according to your sins.
(k) Or as some read, by fortune, imputing my plagues to
chance and fortune.
26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall l
rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and
make you few in number; and your m [high] ways shall be
desolate.
(l) Read (2Ki 17:25).
(m) Because no one dares to pass by it for fear of the
beasts.
26:26 [And] when I have broken the n staff of your bread, ten
women shall bake your bread in one o oven, and they
shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight: and ye
shall eat, and not be satisfied.
(n) That is, the strength by which life is sustained,
(Eze 4:16,5:16).
(o) One oven will be sufficient for ten families.
26:31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your
sanctuaries unto desolation, and I p will not smell the
savour of your sweet odours.
(p) I will not accept your sacrifices.
26:35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did
not rest in your r sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
(r) Which I commanded you to keep.
26:36 And upon them that are left [alive] of you I will send a
faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they
shall s flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall
fall when none pursueth.
(s) As if their enemies chased them.
26:39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their
iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the
iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with t
them.
(t) In that, as they are blameworthy of their fathers
faults, they shall be punished as well as their
fathers.
26:43u The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy
her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and
they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
because, even because they despised my judgments, and
because their soul abhorred my statutes.
(u) While they are captives, and without repentance.
26:45 But I will for their sakes remember the x covenant of
their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of
Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their
God: I [am] the LORD.
(x) Made to their forefathers.
26:46 These [are] the statutes and judgments and laws, which the
LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount
y Sinai by the hand of Moses.
