Tree of Life Version
Leviticus 26:9
9“I will turn toward you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm 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 chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword. 8Five of you will chase 100 and 100 of you will chase 10,000, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you. “I will turn toward you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you. 10You will eat the old harvest and clear out the old because of the new. 11I will set My Tabernacle among you, and My soul 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
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Cross-references for Leviticus 26:9
- Exodus 2:25God saw Bnei-Yisrael, and He was concerned about them.
- 2 Kings 13:23Yet Adonai was gracious to them, had compassion on them and turned to them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So He was not willing to destroy them or cast them from His presence up to now.
- Nehemiah 2:20I responded to them saying, “The God of heaven will bring us success. We His servants will arise and build. But you have no part, right, or historical claim in Jerusalem.”
- Psalms 89:3For I said, “Let your lovingkindness be built up forever! The heavens—let Your faithfulness be made firm there!”
- Psalms 138:6For though Adonai is exalted, yet He looks upon the lowly, but the haughty He knows from afar.
- Jeremiah 33:3“Call to Me, and I will answer you— I will tell you great and hidden things, which you do not know.”
- Hebrews 8:9It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not care for them, says Adonai.
- Genesis 17:6Yes, I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings will come forth from you.
- Genesis 26:4I will multiply your seed like the stars of the sky and I will give your seed all these lands. And in your seed all the nations of the earth will continually be blessed,
- Genesis 28:3Now may El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you will become an assembly of peoples.
- Exodus 1:7Yet Bnei-Yisrael were fruitful, increased abundantly, multiplied and grew extremely numerous—so the land was filled with them.
- Deuteronomy 28:4“Blessed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your soil, and the offspring of your livestock—the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
- Nehemiah 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven, and You brought them into the land that You told their ancestors to enter and inherit.
- Psalms 107:38He blesses them, they multiply greatly, and He does not let their herds diminish,
- Genesis 6:18But I will establish My covenant with you. So you shall come into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
- Genesis 17:7Yes, I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, in order to be your God and your seed’s God 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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