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The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:13
And I have broken the bands of your yoke. This expression, used also in the parallel passage of Ezekiel above referred to (Ezekiel 34:27), and Jeremiah 27:2 receives an illustration from the ancient method of harnessing…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:14-39
Prophetic maledictions. The promises of God are prophecies of good; so are his threatening prophecies of evil. Prophecy, therefore, gives no countenance to fatalism, since it is made to depend upon conditions. God may,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:14-17
Punishment in its first degree. Terror, consumption,?봳hat is, wasting?봞nd the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart:?봞 proverbial expression for great distress (see 1혻Samuel 2:33)?봞nd ye s…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:14-39
Divine retribution. The Divine Legislator of Israel knew well that he must contemplate disobedience as well as obedience to his laws. When he had intimated the fullness of the reward he would bestow on the faithful, he…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:18-20
Punishment in its second degree. I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass; the result of no rain in a land scorched by the fiery Eastern sun. Your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the tre…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:21
Threatenings. I. Actually fulfilled in history of the Jews, especially at siege of Jerusalem, A.D. 70. II. Illustrating the moral nature of man as connected with a moral government. III. Taken in order of announcement a…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:23-26
Punishment in its fourth degree. I will bring a sword upon yon, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant:??I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy?봳hat is, ye shall…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:27-33
Punishment in the fifth degree. Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. We find that this threat was fulfilled in Samaria (2혻Kings 6:28), and in Jerusalem at the time both of t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:36-39
The final punishment. Upon them that are left, that is, the surviving captives and exiles, I will send a faintness into their hearts,?봲o Ezekiel 21:7, "And every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and ever…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:40-45
Sorrow unto salvation. The chastisements of God, like the gospel of Jesus Christ, are either a savour of life unto life or of death unto death; they either make or mar; they may sanctify and save or they may leave the s…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:40-46
The gracious invitation to repentance. The covenant may be restored. Even in the midst of the declarations of Divine sovereignty and government, long-suffering mercy meets "the earliest and faintest breathings of a brok…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:40-45
God's pardon will, even yet, as always, follow upon confession of sin and genuine repentance. They must recognize not only that they have sinned, but that their sufferings have been a punishment for those sins at God's…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:40-46
Hope for Israel. The curses of this chapter have proved prophetic. So, may we infer, will the blessings prove. We may therefore hope to see the conversion of the Hebrews to Christ, their restoration to their ancient inh…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:46
This is the closing paragraph of the Book of Leviticus; to which another chapter has been added, in the form of an appendix, on the subject of vows. HOMILETICS
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 1:1
In the tabernacle of the congregation—where the Lord spake with Moses "face to face" (Exodus 33:11), and where all the laws of Leviticus had been given (Leviticus 1:1). On the first day of the second month, in the secon…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 1:1-16
THE CENSUS OF SINAI (Numbers 1:1-54). EXPOSITION THE CENSUS DIVINELY COMMANDED (Numbers 1:1-16).
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 1:1-16
THE NUMBERING OF GOD'S PEOPLE We have here, spiritually, the Church of God militant here on earth, "drawn up unto eternal life (Acts 13:48), numbered and counted and ordered by the Great Captain of the Lord's host; man…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 1:1-3
GOD COMMANDS A CENSUS I. THE PLACE AND TIME OF THE COMMAND. God spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai. Many wildernesses, though uncultivated, were fertile and well watered, but the wilderness of Sinai was a desolat…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 1:2
Take ye the sum of all the congregation. The census here ordered had clearly been anticipated, as far as the numbers were concerned, by the results of the half-shekel poll-tax for the service of the sanctuary levied som…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 1:3
FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD. By this census all the young men of Israel were urged to the consideration of a possible claim upon them. It is to the young men that a country looks when her integrity and liberties ar…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 1:3
By their armies. Every citizen was a soldier. The military monarchies of mediaeval or of modern days, with their universal obligation to service in the ranks, have (so far) but followed the example of ancient Israel.
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 1:4
A man of every tribe. The former census, which was for religious purposes only, was made with the assistance of the Levites. This, which was rather for political and military purposes, was supervised by the lay heads of…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 1:5
These are the names of the men. The tribes are here mentioned (through their princes) very nearly in the order of their subsequent encampment—south, east, west, and north. Gad alone is displaced, in order that he may be…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 1:5-16
THE MEN OF RENOWN WHO MANAGED THE CENSUS I. THEY ARE MERE NAMES TO US. Were we asked who Eliab was, we should say the eldest, envious, angry brother of David, not the census-taker for Zebulun; or Gamaliel, he who stood…