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Leviticus 26:11
11I will place my residence among you, and I will not reject you.
Leviticus 26:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
- New International Version (NIV)I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.
Context of Leviticus 26:11
9“I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm my covenant with you. 10You will eat the old grain of the previous year and will clear out the old to make room for the new. I will place my residence among you, and I will not reject you. 12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. 13I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom.
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וְנָתַתִּ֥י מִשְׁכָּנִ֖י בְּתוֹכְכֶ֑ם וְלֹֽא־תִגְעַ֥ל נַפְשִׁ֖י אֶתְכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 26:11
- Exodus 25:8“They are to make a sanctuary for me so that I may dwell among them.
- Exodus 29:45I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
- Joshua 22:19But if the land you possess is defiled, cross over to the land the Lord possesses where the Lord’s tabernacle stands, and take possession of it among us. But don’t rebel against the Lord or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the Lord our God.
- 1 Kings 8:13I have indeed built an exalted temple for you, a place for your dwelling forever.
- Psalms 76:2His tent is in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.
- Psalms 78:68He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
- Psalms 132:13For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his home:
- Ezekiel 37:26I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a permanent covenant with them. I will establish and multiply them and will set my sanctuary among them forever.
- Ephesians 2:22In him you are also being built together for God’s dwelling in the Spirit.
- Revelation 21:3Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: Look, God’s dwelling is with humanity, and he will live with them. They will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and will be their God.
- Leviticus 20:23You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them.
- Deuteronomy 32:19When the Lord saw this, he despised them, angered by his sons and daughters.
- Psalms 78:59God heard and became furious; he completely rejected Israel.
- Psalms 106:40Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his own inheritance.
- Jeremiah 14:21For your name’s sake, don’t despise us. Don’t disdain your glorious throne. Remember your covenant with us; do not break it.
- Lamentations 2:7The Lord has rejected his altar, repudiated his sanctuary; he has handed the walls of her palaces over to the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the Lord as on the day of an appointed festival.
Commentaries on Leviticus 26:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11I will set my tabernacle among you - This and the following verse contain the grand promise of the Gospel dispensation, viz. the presence, manifestation, and indwelling of God in human nature, and his constant in dwelling in the souls of his followers. So John 1:14; the Word was made flesh, ̔, and Made His Tabernacle among us. And to this promise of the law St. Paul evidently refers, 2 Corinthians 6:16-18; and 2 Corinthians 7:1;Read the comment
- 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. 3-39These blessings and curses are similar to a key part of ancient Near Eastern treaties between a suzerain (a powerful king) and a vassal (a lesser king). In these treaties, the suzerain king promised to protect the vassal king and his land. In return, the vassal swore loyalty to the suzerain. Blessings and curses followed, with curses usually being longer (compare Leviticus 26:3–13 with 26:14–39; see also Deuteronomy 27:15–28:68). These treaties often…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
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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
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