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| 1 Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God. |
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| 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah. |
Keep my sabbaths – Type of the Millennial age. B40
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| 3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; |
If ye walk – This and the following verses typify the conditions which will prevail in the Millennial age. F631
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| 4 then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. |
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| 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. |
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| 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. |
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| 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. |
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| 8 And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. |
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| 9 And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you. |
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| 10 And ye shall eat old store long kept, and ye shall bring forth the old because of the new. |
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| 11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. |
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| 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. |
Be my people – By their obedience to the Ten Commandments and the spirit of their covenant they would become God's people. R5083:2
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| 13 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright. |
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| 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; |
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| 15 and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant; |
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| 16 I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. |
Do this unto you – Bring these calamities or evils upon you as chastisements. A125
Inflict the national torments described in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. R2604:5
I will even appoint – Only with the Israelites was consumption specially stated to be the penalty for sin. HG720:1
Consumption – The white plague. HG719:2
Consumption (tuberculosis) is a disease of the blood which afflicts more or less every part of the body. HG721:5
This disease, which literally burns up the vitality of the patient, is highly contagious through the excrement. HG721:1
Sin, like this disease, is highly contagious and every sinner must strive against contaminating others. HG721:2
Cleanliness, pure air and pure, nourishing food are the most prominent factors for the relief of consumption. HG721:1
That shall consume the eyes – That which consumeth before the eyes. HG719:2
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| 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be smitten before your enemies: they that hate you shall rule over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. |
They that hate you – The Gentiles. HG49:4
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| 18 And if ye will not yet for these things hearken unto me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. |
For all this – For all these previous chastisements. B88
I will punish you – The fulfillment of the prophecy shows that the Law covenant is still in force upon fleshly Israel. R1730:1
With the "torments" of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. (Luke 16:19-31) HG386:4
Seven times – "The times of the Gentiles" (Luke 21:24) In Bible chronology a "time" is a symbolic year, and each year is composed of 360 days; each year would mean 360 years; seven years would be 2520 literal years. R5721:1; SM416:2
Seven prophetic years, a day for a year, representing 2520 years. HG49:4
Beginning 606 BC, ending 1914 AD. B79; R5047:4
Symbolic, not literal years. R4867:1; SM478:1; OV80:4; Q84:1
A prophetic year of 360 days, used to symbolize 360 years, is an arbitrary arrangement peculiar to its symbolic use. It is neither a Lunar year of 354 1/3 days nor a Solar year of 365 1/4 days. A prophetic year would mean 360 actual or Solar years. R1979:6
Illustrated by Nebuchadnezzar's seven literal years of insanity. B90
Also, a period of disfavor to Israel. R5142:1; OV80:1,3, OV79:2; Q356:1
Both in Dan. 4 and Lev. 26 this period of "seven times" is four times repeated, though it refers to but one period of seven prophetic years. HG49:3
More – Further or additional, as a final and conclusive punishment. B88; R4497:3
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| 19 And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as copper; |
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| 20 and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit. |
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| 21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. |
Seven times – See comments on "seven times," Lev.26:18.
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| 22 And I will send the beast of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate. |
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| 23 And if by these things ye will not be reformed unto me, but will walk contrary unto me; |
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| 24 then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins. |
Yet seven times – See comments on "seven times," Lev.26:18.
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| 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. |
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| 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. |
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| 27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; |
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| 28 then I will walk contrary unto you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins. |
Chastise you – Under God's disfavor. R5564:3
Seven times – See comments on "seven times," Lev.26:18.
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| 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. |
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| 30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you. |
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| 31 And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors. |
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| 32 And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it. |
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| 33 And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. |
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| 34 Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths. |
Enjoy her sabbaths – "For as long as she lay desolate, she kept sabbath to fulfill three score and ten years; (2 Chron. 36:21) representing 19 Jubilees imperfectly observed, and 51 additional Jubilees of 49 years each, or 2499 years, from the observance of the last Jubilee (625 BC) to earth's Great Jubilee, the Times of Restitution, October, 1874 AD. B192-195
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| 35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. |
Did not rest – So the Lord provided the "rest" feature of the Jubilee for the land when Israel went into captivity for seventy years. R4779:4*
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| 36 And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. |
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| 37 And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. |
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| 38 And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. |
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| 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 them. |
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| 40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary unto me, |
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| 41 I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity; |
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| 42 then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. |
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| 43 The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected mine ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. |
Enjoy her sabbaths – 70 years--one for each jubilee period from the time of entering Canaan to 1874 AD. B192-195
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| 44 And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God; |
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| 45 but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah. |
But I will – After the "seven times" of chastisement, which cannot therefore have been literal years, but must have been symbolic "times" of 360 years each. B90, B92
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| 46 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws, which Jehovah made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by Moses. |
By the hand of Moses – The whole law was the law of God, because it came from Him, and it is also all the law of Moses in that it came through him. HG583:6
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