Leviticus 26:1
Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.
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In Context
2Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.
Cross References
Exodus 20:23Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.
Exodus 34:17Make for yourselves no gods of metal.
Leviticus 19:4Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 4:16So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,
Deuteronomy 16:21Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.
Judges 18:30(And the children of Dan put up the pictured image for themselves; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of the Danites till the day when the ark was taken prisoner.)
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 →