Leviticus 26:1
I am the Lord your God: ye shall not make to yourselves gods made with hands, or graven; neither shall ye rear up a pillar for yourselves, neither shall ye set up a stone for an object in your land to worship it: I am the Lord your God.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
2Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord.
Cross References
Exodus 20:23Ye shall not make to yourselves gods of silver, and gods of gold ye shall not make to yourselves.
Exodus 34:17And thou shalt not make to thyself molten gods.
Leviticus 19:4Ye shall not follow idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 4:16lest ye transgress, and make to yourselves a carved image, any kind of figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt not plant for thyself a grove; thou shalt not plant for thyself any tree near the altar of thy God.
Judges 18:30And the children of Dan set up the graven image for themselves; and Jonathan son of Gershom son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan till the time of the carrying away of the nation.
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 →