Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall not make unto you idols,—neither image nor pillar, shall ye set up for yourselves, nor sculptured stone, shall ye place in your land, to bow yourselves down thereunto,-For, I Yahweh, am your God.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2My sabbaths, shall ye observe, And, my sanctuary, shall ye revere,—I, am Yahweh.
Cross References
Exodus 20:23Ye shall not make [aught] beside me,—neither gods of silver, nor gods of gold, shall ye make to yourselves.
Exodus 34:17Molten gods, shalt thou not make to thee.
Leviticus 19:4Do not turn unto things of nought, And, molten gods, shall ye not make to yourselves,—I—Yahweh, am your God.
Deuteronomy 4:16lest ye should break faith, and make you an image, a form of any likeness,—a model of male or female;
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt not plant thee, as a sacred stem, any tree,—near unto the altar of Yahweh thy God which thou shalt make for thyself;
Judges 18:30And the sons of Dan set up for themselves the graven image,—and, Jonathan, son of Gershom, son of Moses, he and his sons, became 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 →