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Leviticus 26:9
9I will do good things for your people and I will give many children to them. Their number will grow. I will do everything that I have promised to do for them.
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
7Israel's enemies will run away from them. They will kill their enemies. 8Five of you will run after 100 of them. And 100 of you will run after 1,000 enemies. You will kill all your enemies. I will do good things for your people and I will give many children to them. Their number will grow. I will do everything that I have promised to do for them. 10They will have so much food that some will remain after the next harvest. 11I will have my home among you, my people. I will never turn away from them.
Read all of Leviticus 26Leviticus 26:9 word by word
וּפָנִ֣יתִי אֲלֵיכֶ֔ם וְהִפְרֵיתִ֣י אֶתְכֶ֔ם וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֖י אֶתְכֶ֑ם וַהֲקִימֹתִ֥י אֶת־בְּרִיתִ֖י אִתְּכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Leviticus 26:9
- Exodus 2:25God saw what was happening to the Israelites. He knew that he must help them.
- 2 Kings 13:23But the Lord was kind to them and he helped them. He loved them because of his covenant with their ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So he has never wanted to destroy them or to send them away from him, even until now.
- Nehemiah 2:20I replied to them, ‘Our God who rules from heaven will help us. We are his servants and we will start to build. But you have never been true citizens of Jerusalem.’
- Psalms 89:3The Lord has said, ‘I have made a covenant with the king that I chose. I have made this strong promise to my servant David:
- Psalms 138:6Yes, the Lord is high above the earth. But he takes care of humble people. He also knows what proud people are doing, even if they try to hide.
- Jeremiah 33:3“Call out to me and I will answer you. I will tell you about great things. They are secret things that you do not yet know.”
- Hebrews 8:9It will not be like the old agreement that I made with their ancestors. At that time, I brought my people safely out of Egypt. I led them like a father who takes his child's hand. But they did not continue to obey my agreement with them. So I turned away from them. That is what the Lord says.
- Genesis 17:6I will give you many descendants. These will make many nations of people. Some of your descendants will become kings.
- Genesis 26:4I will give you many descendants. They will be as many as the stars in the sky. And I will give these lands to them. Because of your descendants, I will bless everyone on the earth.
- Genesis 28:3I pray that God Almighty will bless you. I pray that he will give you many children, so that your descendants become a large nation of people.
- Exodus 1:7But the Israelites had many children, so they grew into a very large family. They became very powerful. They were everywhere in the whole country.
- Deuteronomy 28:4God will bless your children and the crops that you grow. Your cows and your sheep will have many babies.
- Nehemiah 9:23You caused your people to have many descendants, as many as the stars in the sky. You brought them to the land that you had promised to their ancestors. You had told them to go and live in it.
- Psalms 107:38He blesses them, so that they have many children. Their animals also grow in number.
- Genesis 6:18But I will make a covenant with you, Noah. You will go into the ship. You will take your wife with you, and also your three sons and their wives.
- Genesis 17:7My covenant with you is very strong. I am making it with you and with your descendants. It will continue for generation after generation of your descendants, for all time. I will be your God. I will also be the God of all your descendants.
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
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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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