Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make for you no idols. Neither shall ye rear up for you a graven image, or a pillar. Neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it. For I am LORD your God.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am LORD.
Cross References
Exodus 20:23Ye shall not make [other gods] with me; gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make to you.
Exodus 34:17Thou shall make thee no molten gods.
Leviticus 19:4Turn ye not to idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 4:16Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make for you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shall not plant for thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of LORD thy God, which thou shall make for thee.
Judges 18:30And the sons of Dan set up for themselves the graven image. And Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 26:1
This chapter is a solemn conclusion of the main body of the levitical law. The precepts that follow in this and the following book either relate to some particular matters or are repetitions and explications of the foregoing institutions. Now this chapter contains a general enforcement of all those laws by promises of reward in case of obedience on the one hand, and threatenings of punishment for disobedience on the other hand, the former to work upon hope, the latter on fear, those two handles of the soul, by… Read the whole commentary →