Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall not make yourselves any idols, and a graven image, or a standing image shall ye not rear up unto you, and any carved stone shall you not place in your land, to bow down upon it; for I am the Eternal your God.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
2My sabbaths shall ye keep, and my sanctuary shall ye reverence: I am the Lord.
Cross References
Exodus 20:23Ye shall not make any thing with me; gods of silver, and gods of gold ye shall not make unto yourselves.
Exodus 34:17Thou shalt not make unto thyself any molten gods.
Leviticus 19:4Ye shall not turn unto the idols, and molten gods shall ye not make to yourselves: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 4:16That ye become not corrupt, and make yourselves a graven image, the similitude of any idol-figure, the likeness of a male or of a female,
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt not plant unto thyself a grove, any tree, near the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make unto thyself.
Judges 18:30And the children of Dan erected for themselves the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Menasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the exile 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 →