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.

2Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

3If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

4Then 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.

5And 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.

6And 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.

7And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

8And 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.

9For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

10And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

11And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

12And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

13I 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.

14But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

15And 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:

16I 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.

17And 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.

18And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

19And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

20And 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.

21And 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.

22I 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.

23And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

24Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

25And 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.

26And 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.

27And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

28Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

30And 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.

31And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

32And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

33And 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.

34Then 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.

35As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

36And 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.

37And 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.

38And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

39And 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.

40If 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;

41And 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:

42Then 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.

43The 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.

44And 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.

45But 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.

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.

1 Yee shall make you no Idoles nor grauen Image, neither reare you vp a standing image, neither shall yee set vp any Image of stone in your land, to bow downe vnto it: For I am the Lord your God.

2Ye shal keepe my Sabbaths, and reuerence my Sanctuary: I am the Lord.

3 If ye walke in my Statutes, and keepe my Commandements, and doe them;

4Then I will giue you raine in due season, and the land shall yeeld her increase, and the trees of the field shall yeeld their fruit.

5And your threshing shall reach vnto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach vnto the sowing time: and yee shal eat your bread to the full, and dwel in your land safely.

6And I wil giue peace in the land, and ye shall lye downe, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid euill beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword goe through your land.

7And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

8And fiue of you shal chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9For I wil haue respect vnto you, and make you fruitfull, and multiply you, & establish my couenant with you.

10And yee shall eate old store, and bring forth the old, because of the new.

11And I will set my Tabernacle amongst you: and my soule shall not abhorre you.

12And I will walke among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

13I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that yee should not be their bondmen, & I haue broken the bandes of your yoke, and made you go vpright.

14 But if ye will not hearken vnto me, and will not doe all these Commandements:

15And if ye shall despise my Statutes, or if your soule abhorre my Iudgements, so that ye wil not doe all my Commandements, but that yee breake my Couenant:

16I also will doe this vnto you, I will euen appoint ouer you terrour, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seede in vaine, for your enemies shall eate it.

17And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slaine before your enemies: they that hate you shall reigne ouer you, and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

18And if ye will not yet for all this hearken vnto me, then I will punish you seuen times more for your sinnes.

19And I will breake the pride of your power, and I will make your heauen as yron, and your earth as brasse:

20And your strength shall be spent in vaine: for your land shall not yeeld her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yeeld their fruits.

21 And if ye walke contrary vnto me, and will not hearken vnto mee, I will bring seuen times moe plagues vpon you, according to your sinnes.

22I will also send wilde beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattell, and make you few in number, and your high wayes shall be desolate.

23And if ye will not be reformed by these things, but will walke contrary vnto me:

24Then will I also walke contrary vnto you, and will punish you yet seuen times for your sinnes.

25And I will bring a sword vpon you, that shall auenge the quarell of my couenant: and when yee are gathered together within your cities, I wil send the pestilence among you, and ye shalbe deliuered into the hand of the enemie.

26And when I haue broken the staffe of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one ouen, and they shall deliuer you your bread againe by weight: and ye shall eate, and not bee satisfied.

27And if ye wil not for all this hearken vnto me, but walke contrary vnto mee,

28Then I wil walke contrary vnto you also in fury, and I, euen I will chastise you seuen times for your sinnes.

29And ye shal eate the flesh of your sonnes, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eate.

30And I will destroy your high places, and cut downe your images, and cast your carkeises vpon the carkeises of your idoles, and my soule shall abhorre you.

31And I wil make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries vnto desolation, and I will not smell the sauour of your sweet odours.

32And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwel therein, shall be astonished at it.

33And 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.

34Then shall the lande enioy her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and yee be in your enemies land, euen then shall the land rest, and enioy her Sabbaths.

35As long as it lieth desolate, it shall rest: because it did not rest in your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt vpon it.

36And vpon them that are left aliue of you, I will send a faintnesse into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a shaken leafe shall chase them, and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword: and they shall fall, when none pursueth.

37And they shall fall one vpon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and yee shall haue no power to stand before your enemies.

38And yee shall perish among the Heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eate you vp.

39And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquitie in your enemies lands, and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

40If they shall confesse the iniquitie of their fathers, with their trespasse which they trespassed against me, and that also they haue walked contrary vnto me:

41And that I also haue walked contrary vnto them, and haue brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their vncircumcised hearts bee humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquitie:

42Then will I remember my couenant with Iacob, and also my couenant with Isaac, and also my couenant with Abraham will I remember, and I will remember the land.

43The land also shalbe left of them, and shall enioy her Sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquitie: because, euen because they despised my Iudgements, and because their soule abhorred my Statutes

44And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhorre them, to destroy them vtterly, and to breake my couenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.

45But I wil for their sakes remember the couenant of their Ancestours, 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.

46These are the Statutes, and Iudgements, and Lawes which the Lord made betweene him and the children of Israel, in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

I == Ex 20:4-5 ; Deut 5:8 ; 16:22 ; 27:15 ; Ps 97:7

 

 

 

II == Lev 19:30

III == Deut 11:13 ; 14:15 ; 28:1-14

 

IV == Ps 67:7 ; 85:12 ; Isa 30:23 ; Zech 8:12

V == Deut 11:15 ; Ezek 34:25 , 27-28

 

 

VI == 2nd Kings 10:25 ; Ps 3:5 ; 4:6 ; 147:14 Isa 35:9 ; 45:7 ; Ezek 5:17

 

 

 

VIII == Deut 32:30 ; Josh 23:10

 

 

IX == Gen 17:6-7 ; Ex 2:25 ; 2nd Kings 13:23 ; Neh 9:23 ; Ps 10:38

X == Lev 25:22

 

XI == Ex 25:8 ; Lev 20:23 ; Deut 32:19 ; Ps 76:2

XII == Jer 7:23 ; 11:4 ; 30:22 ; Ezek 11:20

XIII == Lev 25:38 , 42

 

 

XIV == Deut 28:15

 

 

 

 

 

XVI == Deut 28:22 , 33 ; Mic 6:15

 

 

 

XVII == Deut 28:25 ; Ps 53:5

 

 

XVIII == 1st Sam 2:5 ' Ps 119:164

XIX == Deut 28:23 ; Ezek 7:24

 

XX == Deut 11:17 ; Isa 49:4

 

 

 

 

XXII == Deut 32:24 ; 2nd Kings 17:25XXIV == 2nd Sam 22:27 ; Ps 18:26

 

 

 

 

 

 

XXV == Num 14:12 ; Jer 14:12 ; Ezek 5:17 ; 6:3 ; 14:17

 

 

 

XXVI == Isa 3:1

 

 

 

 

 

 

XXVIII == Isa 59:18

 

XXIX == Deut 28:53 ; 2nd Kings 6:29 ; Lam 4:10

XXX == 2nd Kings 23:20 ; Jer 14:19 ; Ezek 6:3-6 , 13

XXXI == Neh 2:3 ; Jer 4:7

 

 

XXXII == Deut 28:37 ; 1st Kings 9:8 ; Jer 9:11 ; 18:16 ; 19:8 ; 25:11 , 18 ; Ezek 5:15

XXXIII == Deut 4:27 ; 28:64 ; Jer 9:16

XXXIV == 2nd Chr 36:21

 

 

XXXV == Lev 25:2

 

XXXVI == Lev 26:17

 

 

 

 

XXXVII == Judg 2:14 ; 7:22 ; 1st Sam 14:15-16

 

 

 

 

XXXIX == Deut 4:27 ; 28:65 ; Jer 3:25

 

XL == Num 5:7 ; Neh 9:2 ; Luke 15:18 ; 1st John 1:9

 

 

XLI == 2nd Chr 12:6-7 , 12 ; Jer 6:10 ; 9:25-26 ; Rom 2:29

 

 

XLII == Ps 106:45 ; 136:23

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XLIV == Deut 4:31 ; 2nd Kings 13:23 ; Rom

 

 

 

XLV == Ps 98:2 ; Rom 11:28:

 

 

 

XLVI == Lev 25:1 ; 27:34 ; Deut 6:1

 

1 "Do not make false gods for yourselves. You shall not erect an idol or a sacred pillar for yourselves, nor shall you set up a stone figure for worship in your land; for I, the LORD, am your God.

2 Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

3 "If you live in accordance with my precepts and are careful to observe my commandments,

4 I will give you rain in due season, so that the land will bear its crops, and the trees their fruit;

5 your threshing will last till vintage time, and your vintage till the time for sowing, and you will have food to eat in abundance, so that you may dwell securely in your land.

6 I will establish peace in the land, that you may lie down to rest without anxiety. I will rid the country of ravenous beasts, and keep the sword of war from sweeping across your land.

7 You will rout your enemies and lay them low with your sword.

8 Five of you will put a hundred of your foes to flight, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand of them, till they are cut down by your sword.

9 I will look with favor upon you, and make you fruitful and numerous, as I carry out my covenant with you.

10 So much of the old crops will you have stored up for food that you will have to discard them to make room for the new.

11 I will set my Dwelling among you, and will not disdain you.

12 Ever present in your midst, I will be your God, and you will be my people;

13 for it is I, the LORD, your God, who brought you out of the land of the Egyptians and freed you from their slavery, breaking the yoke they had laid upon you and letting you walk erect.

14 "But if you do not heed me and do not keep all these commandments,

15 if you reject my precepts and spurn my decrees, refusing to obey all my commandments and breaking my covenant,

16 then I, in turn, will give you your deserts. I will punish you with terrible woes - with wasting and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will consume the crop.

17 I will turn against you, till you are beaten down before your enemies and lorded over by your foes. You will take to flight though no one pursues you.

18 "If even after this you do not obey me, I will increase the chastisement for your sins sevenfold,

19 to break your haughty confidence. I will make the sky above you as hard as iron, and your soil as hard as bronze,

20 so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no fruit.

21 "If then you become defiant in your unwillingness to obey me, I will multiply my blows another sevenfold, as your sins deserve.

22 I will unleash the wild beasts against you, to rob you of your children and wipe out your livestock, till your population dwindles away and your roads become deserted.

23 "If, with all this, you still refuse to be chastened by me and continue to defy me,

24 I, too, will defy you and will smite you for your sins seven times harder than before.

25 I will make the sword, the avenger of my covenant, sweep over you. Though you then huddle together in your walled cities, I will send in pestilence among you, till you are forced to surrender to the enemy.

26 And as I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will need but one oven for baking all the bread they dole out to you in rations - not enough food to still your hunger.

27 "If, despite all this, you still persist in disobeying and defying me,

28 I, also, will meet you with fiery defiance and will chastise you with sevenfold fiercer punishment for your sins,

29 till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

30 I will demolish your high places, overthrow your incense stands, and cast your corpses on those of your idols. In my abhorrence of you,

31 I will lay waste your cities and devastate your sanctuaries, refusing to accept your sweet-smelling offerings.

32 So devastated will I leave the land that your very enemies who come to live there will stand aghast at the sight of it.

33 You yourselves I will scatter among the nations at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted.

34 Then shall the land retrieve its lost sabbaths during all the time it lies waste, while you are in the land of your enemies; then shall the land have rest and make up for its sabbaths

35 during all the time that it lies desolate, enjoying the rest that you would not let it have on the sabbaths when you lived there.

36 "Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies I will make so fainthearted that, if leaves rustle behind them, they will flee headlong, as if from the sword, though no one pursues them;

37 stumbling over one another as if to escape a weapon, while no one is after them - so helpless will you be to take a stand against your foes!

38 You will be lost among the Gentiles, swallowed up in your enemies' country.

39 Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies will waste away for their own and their fathers' guilt.

40 "Thus they will have to confess that they and their fathers were guilty of having rebelled against me and of having defied me,

41 so that I, too, had to defy them and bring them into their enemies' land. Then, when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their guilt,

42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham; and of the land, too, I will be mindful.

43 But the land must first be rid of them, that in its desolation it may make up its lost sabbaths, and that they, too, may make good the debt of their guilt for having spurned my precepts and abhorred my statutes.

44 Yet even so, even while they are in their enemies' land, I will not reject or spurn them, lest, by wiping them out, I make void my covenant with them; for I, the LORD, am their God.

45 I will remember them because of the covenant I made with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt under the very eyes of the Gentiles, that I, the LORD, might be their God."

46 These are the precepts, decrees and laws which the LORD had Moses promulgate on Mount Sinai in the pact between himself and the Israelites.

v 1,2. Here are two important commands, to abstain from idols and to keep the Sabbaths, along with reverencing the tabernacle. This chapter should be studied for greater detail along with Deut. 28-30.

 

v 3-13. Conditions for blessing. If they kept all of God’s commandments, He would send rain so that bountiful harvesting and sowing would overlap.

 

 

 

v 6. They would have peace from enemies or beasts in the land.

 

v 7,8. Though outnumbered 10 or 20  to 1, they would put their enemies to flight.  

 

 

v 9,10. They would be prolific, have abundant food and enjoy God’s covenant.

 

v 11,13. God would dwell among them and they would be His people.

 

 

 

 

v 14,15. Warning of chastening if they disobeyed and dishonored His covenant.

 

v 16,17. 1 Distress.  Sickness, sorrow and enemies to reign over them. 1 Sam. 4:10 and 31:1. 

 

 

 

 

v 18-20. 2 Drouth. Sevenfold punishment in lack of crops and fruit. 1 Ki. 17:1

 

 

 

v 21,22. 3 Beasts. Sevenfold plagues and wild animals killing children and animals. 2 Ki. 17:25,26.

 

 

v 23-26. 4 Disease. Sevenfold sword, pestilence, defeat and hunger. Num. 16:49; 2 Sam. 24:15.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

v 27-31. 5 Famine. Sevenfold starvation, eating own children, cities destroyed and sanctuaries desolate with no incense offered. 2 Ki. 25:4-10; 2 Chron. 36:19.

 

 

 

 

 

v 32-39. 6 Dispersion. See especially Deut. 28: 63-67. They failed to do keep the Sabbatic year for 490 years, so the Lord took His 70 years all at once by sending them in captivity to Babylon for seventy years, Lev. 26, 34,35; Jer. 25:11 and Dan. 9:2. The people will have excessive fear and flee, even when not being pursued. Many of them would be killed, others would simply pine away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

v 40-46. There is a bright spot connected with all these chastening for sin. If the people would confess their sins to God, humbling themselves and accepting their punishment, God would remember His covenant with Abraham. He would not cast them away and utterly destroy them, but would keep the covenant made with their forefathers. Meanwhile, the land would be keeping it’s Sabbaths. The Babylonian captivity is history, but the Jews have been scattered throughout the world for 25 centuries and still exist as a people. In May of 1948 they again became a nation and many are returning to their homeland, but as a group, are still in unbelief. Neighbor countries are trying to obliterate them, but in the tribulation period they will finally turn to God, and in the Millennium receive the blessings of the covenant.