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| 1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. |
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| 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. |
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 you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her 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 rid evil beasts 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 an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. |
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| 9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. |
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| 10 And ye shall eat old store, and 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 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 bands 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 despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: |
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| 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: 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 slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign 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 all this hearken unto me, then I will punish 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 brass: |
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| 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. |
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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 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate. |
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| 23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; |
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| 24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet 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 avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. |
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| 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you 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 also in fury; and I, even I, 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 images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. |
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| 31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. |
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| 32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. |
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| 33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. |
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| 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her 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 rest; because it did not rest 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 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 flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. |
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| 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a 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 heathen, 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 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
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| 41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts 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 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. |
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 be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD 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 heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD. |
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 judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children 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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