Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make yourselves no idols, neither rear you up for yourselves carved image, or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am Jehovah your God.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2Ye shall observe my sabbaths, and my sanctuary shall ye reverence: I am Jehovah.
Cross References
Exodus 20:23Ye shall not make beside me gods of silver, and ye shall not make to you gods of gold.
Exodus 34:17Thou shalt make thyself no molten gods.
Leviticus 19:4Ye shall not turn unto idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 4:16lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the pattern of male or female,
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt not plant thyself an Asherah of any wood near unto the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
Judges 18:30And the children of Dan set up the graven image; and Jehonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses; he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan 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 →