Leviticus 26:1
“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
Cross References
Exodus 20:23You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.
Exodus 34:17You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.
Leviticus 19:4Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 4:16that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
Deuteronomy 16:21Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
Judges 18:30The Danites set up idols for themselves, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for 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 →