Leviticus 26:1
I am the Lord your God: you shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing, neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it: for I am the Lord your God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
Cross References
Exodus 20:23You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to yourselves gods of gold.
Exodus 34:17Thou shalt not make to thyself any molten gods.
Leviticus 19:4Turn ye not to idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 4:16Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven similitude, or image of male or female,
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God:
Judges 18:30And they set up to themselves the graven idol, and Jonathan the son of Gersam the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests in the tribe of Dan, until the day of their captivity.
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 →