Leviticus 26:1
“Don't make yourselves idols anywhere in your land and bow down to worship them, whether they are images or sacred pillars or stone sculptures. For I am the Lord your God.
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2Keep my Sabbaths and show respect for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
Cross References
Exodus 20:23You must not make any idols of silver or gold to worship in addition to me.
Exodus 34:17Don't make any idols for yourselves.
Leviticus 19:4Don't turn to idols for help or make metal images of gods. I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 4:16that you don't spoil your relationship with the Lord by making an idol for yourselves in any shape or form, whether it looks like a male or female,
Deuteronomy 16:21Don't ever set up a wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you build for the Lord your God,
Judges 18:30The Danites erected the carved idol to worship, and Jonathan, son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons became priests for the tribe of Dan until the time when the people went into captivity from 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 →