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| 1 'Ye do not make to yourselves idols; and graven image or standing image ye do not set up to yourselves; and a stone of imagery ye do not put in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I [am] Jehovah your God. |
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| 2 'My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I [am] Jehovah. |
Keep my sabbaths – Type of the Millennial age. B40
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| 3 'If in My statutes ye walk, and My commands ye keep, and have done 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 have given your rains in their season, and the land hath given her produce, and the tree of the field doth give its fruit; |
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| 5 and reached to you hath the threshing, the gathering, and the gathering doth reach the sowing-[time]; and ye have eaten your bread to satiety, and have dwelt confidently in your land. |
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| 6 'And I have given peace in the land, and ye have lain down, and there is none causing trembling; and I have caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, and the sword doth not pass over into your land. |
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| 7 'And ye have pursued your enemies, and they have fallen before you by the sword; |
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| 8 and five of you have pursued a hundred, and a hundred of you do pursue a myriad; and your enemies have fallen before you by the sword. |
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| 9 'And I have turned unto you, and have made you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and have established My covenant with you; |
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| 10 and ye have eaten old [store], and the old because of the new ye bring out. |
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| 11 'And I have given My tabernacle in your midst, and My soul doth not loathe you; |
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| 12 and I have walked habitually in your midst, and have become your God, and ye ye are become 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 have brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, from being their servants; and I break the bars of your yoke, and cause you to go erect. |
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| 14 'And if ye do not hearken to Me, and do not all these commands; |
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| 15 and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands to your breaking My covenant |
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| 16 I also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten 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 have set My face against you, and ye have been smitten before your enemies; and those hating you have ruled over you, and ye have fled, and there is none pursuing you. |
They that hate you – The Gentiles. HG49:4
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| 18 'And if unto these ye hearken not to Me, then I have added to chastise you seven times 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 have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass; |
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| 20 and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit. |
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| 21 'And if ye walk with Me [in] opposition, and are not willing to hearken to Me, then I have added to you a plague seven times, according to your sins, |
Seven times – See comments on "seven times," Lev.26:18.
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| 22 and sent against you the beast of the field, and it hath bereaved you; and I have cut off your cattle, and have made you few, and your ways have been desolate. |
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| 23 'And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me [in] opposition, |
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| 24 then I have walked I also with you in opposition, and have smitten 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 have brought in on you a sword, executing the vengeance of a covenant; and ye have been gathered unto your cities, and I have sent pestilence into your midst, and ye have been given into the hand of an enemy. |
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| 26 'In My breaking to you the staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and ye have eaten, and are not satisfied. |
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| 27 'And if for this ye hearken not to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition, |
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| 28 then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, 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 have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat. |
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| 30 And I have destroyed your high places, and cut down your images, and have put your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and My soul hath loathed you; |
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| 31 and I have made your cities a waste, and have made desolate your sanctuaries, and I smell not at your sweet fragrances; |
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| 32 and I have made desolate the land, and your enemies, who are dwelling in it, have been astonished at it. |
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| 33 And you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a waste. |
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| 34 'Then doth the land enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, and ye in the land of your enemies then doth the land rest, and hath enjoyed 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 all the days of the desolation it resteth that which it hath not rested in your sabbaths in your dwelling on 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 those who are left of you I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled flight from a sword and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing. |
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| 37 And they have stumbled one on another, as from the face of a sword, and there is none pursuing, and ye have no standing before your enemies, |
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| 38 and ye have perished among the nations, and the land of your enemies hath consumed you. |
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| 39 'And those who are left of you they consume away in their iniquity, in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers, with them they consume away. |
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| 40 'And they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition, |
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| 41 also I walk to them in opposition, and have brought them into the land of their enemies or then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity, |
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| 42 then I have remembered My covenant [with] Jacob, and also My covenant [with] Isaac, and also My covenant [with] Abraham I remember, and the land I remember. |
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| 43 'And the land is left of them, and doth enjoy its sabbaths, in the desolation without them, and they accept the punishment of their iniquity, because, even because, against My judgments they have kicked, and My statutes hath their soul loathed, |
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 also even this, in their being in the land of their enemies, I have not rejected them, nor have I loathed them, to consume them, to break My covenant with them; for I [am] Jehovah their God; |
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| 45 then I have remembered for them the covenant of the ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations to become 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 the judgments, and the laws, which Jehovah hath given between Him and the sons of Israel, in mount Sinai, by the hand of 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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