Leviticus 26:1
'Ye do not make to yourselves idols; and graven image or standing image ye do not set up to yourselves; and a stone of imagery ye do not put in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I [am] Jehovah your God.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2'My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I [am] Jehovah.
Cross References
Exodus 20:23ye do not make with Me gods of silver, even gods of gold ye do not make to yourselves.
Exodus 34:17a molten god thou dost not make to thyself.
Leviticus 19:4'Ye do not turn unto the idols, and a molten god ye do not make to yourselves; I [am] Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 4:16lest ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image, a similitude of any figure, a form of male or female —
Deuteronomy 16:21'Thou dost not plant for thee a shrine of any trees near the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou makest for thyself,
Judges 18:30And the sons of Dan raise up for themselves the graven image, and Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Manasseh, he and his sons have been priests to the tribe of the Danite, till the day of the removal 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 →