New English Translation
Leviticus 26:9
9I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.
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 before you by the sword. 8Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you. 10You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new. 11“‘I will put my tabernacle in your midst and I will not abhor you.
Read all of Leviticus 26Leviticus 26:9 word by word
וּפָנִ֣יתִי אֲלֵיכֶ֔ם וְהִפְרֵיתִ֣י אֶתְכֶ֔ם וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֖י אֶתְכֶ֑ם וַהֲקִימֹתִ֥י אֶת־בְּרִיתִ֖י אִתְּכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 26:9
- Exodus 2:25God saw the Israelites, and God understood….
- 2 Kings 13:23But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them. He extended his favor to them because of the promise he had made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.
- Nehemiah 2:20I responded to them by saying, “The God of heaven will prosper us. We his servants will start the rebuilding. But you have no just or ancient right in Jerusalem.”
- Psalms 89:3The Lord said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise on oath to David, my servant:
- Psalms 138:6Though the Lord is exalted, he takes note of the lowly, and recognizes the proud from far away.
- Jeremiah 33:3‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.’
- Hebrews 8:9“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.
- Genesis 17:6I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
- Genesis 26:4I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.
- Genesis 28:3May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.
- Exodus 1:7The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.
- Deuteronomy 28:4Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, 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 the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.
- Psalms 107:38He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.
- Genesis 6:18but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark – you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
- Genesis 17:7I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will 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
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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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