Leviticus 26:1
“You do not make idols for yourselves; and you do not set up carved image or standing image for yourselves; and you do not put a stone of imagery in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I [am] your God YHWH.
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In Context
2You keep My Sabbaths and you revere My sanctuary; I [am] YHWH.
Cross References
Exodus 20:23you do not make gods of silver and gods of gold [to be] with Me—you do not make [any idol] for yourselves.
Exodus 34:17you do not make a molten god for yourself.
Leviticus 19:4You do not turn to the idols, and you do not make a molten god for yourselves; I [am] your God YHWH.
Deuteronomy 4:16lest you do corruptly, and have made for yourselves a carved image, a likeness of any figure: a form of male or female,
Deuteronomy 16:21You do not plant an Asherah of any trees for yourself near the altar of your God YHWH, which you make for yourself,
Judges 18:30And the sons of Dan raise up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Manasseh, he and his sons have been priests for the tribe of the Danite, until the day of the expulsion of [the people] 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 →