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Leviticus 26:43
For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through Moses to Israel during the covenant stipulations in the wilderness. He pronounces the exile consequence after detailing the blessings for obedience and the curses for disobedience.
The words — The Hebrew verb תֵּעָזֵב (teʿāzēḇ) means "it will be forsaken," describing the land's abandoned state. The verb יִרְצוּ (yirṣû) literally means "they will accept," indicating the people will acknowledge the penalty for their iniquity.
The thread — The land receiving its Sabbaths while desolate appears in Leviticus 26:34, while the rejection of statutes and ordinances echoes Leviticus 26:15. The pattern of human hostility to divine law is later referenced in Romans 8:7.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that disobedience severs the people from the land and forces them to confront the consequences of rejecting divine law. It requires a reader to acknowledge that covenant violation carries inevitable, unalterable penalties.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Leviticus 26:15 and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
- Leviticus 26:34 Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
- Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
- Leviticus 26:41 and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,
- 1 Kings 8:46 When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,
- 2 Kings 17:7 All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods
- 2 Chronicles 33:12 And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 36:14 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
- Job 5:17 Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.