Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am the LORD your God.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
2Ye shall keep My sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Cross References
Exodus 20:23(20-20) Ye shall not make with Me — gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you.
Exodus 34:17Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Leviticus 19:4Turn ye not unto the idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 4:16lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
Judges 18:30And the children of Dan set up for themselves the graven image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites 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 →