Leviticus 26:9

Leviticus 26:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
• New International Version (NIV)“ ‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you.

Context of Leviticus 26:9

7You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. 8Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you. I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you. 10You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new. 11And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.

Leviticus 26:9 word by word

וּפָנִ֣יתִי אֲלֵיכֶ֔ם וְהִפְרֵיתִ֣י אֶתְכֶ֔ם וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֖י אֶתְכֶ֑ם וַהֲקִימֹתִ֥י אֶת־בְּרִיתִ֖י אִתְּכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

• I will turnפָּנָהpânâh · to turnH6437
• toward youאֶל'êl 'el · to(wards)H413
• and make you fruitfulפָּרָהpârâh · be fruitfulH6509
• ·אֵת'êth · [Obj.]H853
• and multiplyרָבָהrâbâh · to multiplyH7235
• and I will establishקוּםqûm · to arise: establishH6965
• My covenantבְּרִיתberîyth · covenantH1285
• with youאֵת'êth · withH854

Cross-references for Leviticus 26:9

• Exodus 2:25God saw the Israelites and took notice.
• 2 Kings 13:23But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.
• Nehemiah 2:20So I answered them and said, “The God of heaven is the One who will grant us success. We, His servants, will start rebuilding, but you have no portion, right, or claim in Jerusalem.”
• Psalms 89:3You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
• Psalms 138:6Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.
• Jeremiah 33:3Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
• Hebrews 8:9It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord.
• Genesis 17:6I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
• Genesis 26:4I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
• Genesis 28:3May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
• Exodus 1:7but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
• Deuteronomy 28:4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock— the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
• Nehemiah 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
• Psalms 107:38He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
• Genesis 6:18But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
• Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Commentaries on Leviticus 26:9

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3-45Verses 3-45 As “the book of the covenant” Exodus 23:20-33, so does this collection of laws contained in the Book of Leviticus. But the former passage relates to the conquest of the land of promise, this one to the subsequent history of the nation. The longer similar passage in Deuteronomy Leviticus 26:4 Rain in due season - The periodical rains, on which the fertility of the holy land so much depends, are here spoken of. There are two wet seasons, called…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9establish My covenant: The fulfillment is in the "rest" mentioned in Hebrews (Hebrews 3:11–4:11). The promised land was meant to provide security and prosperity, a state of "rest," to the Israelites (Exodus 33:14; Deuteronomy 12:10; 25:19; Joshua 1:13, 15). Israel entered the promised land. But their rebellion prevented them from experiencing the covenant being fulfilled.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-133. If ye walk in my statutes--In that covenant into which God graciously entered with the people of Israel, He promised to bestow upon them a variety of blessings, so long as they continued obedient to Him as their Almighty Ruler; and in their subsequent history that people found every promise amply fulfilled, in the enjoyment of plenty, peace, a populous country, and victory over all enemies.Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 26:9

• Blessing
• Contingencies
• Obedience
• Reward

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Commentaries on Leviticus 26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings