The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you (for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled), that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
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“ ‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you (for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled), that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
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The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you
(for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled),
that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
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And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
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And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
Ye therefore shall keep My statutes and Mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you —
for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled —
that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
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- Leviticus 18:28 (v25) that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
- Leviticus 20:22-23 (v25) “ ‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not…
- Jeremiah 2:7 (v25) I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an…
- Leviticus 18:25 (v28) The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
- Leviticus 20:22 (v28) “ ‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not…
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- Psalms 106:38 (v25) They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was…
- Jeremiah 9:9 (v25) Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
- Revelation 3:16 (v28) So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.
- Numbers 35:33-34 (v25) “ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that…
- Ezekiel 36:17 (v28) “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as…
- Leviticus 18:5 (v26) You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 18:24 (v27) “ ‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
- Deuteronomy 18:12 (v25) For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.
- Deuteronomy 20:18 (v27) that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 23:18 (v27) You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of…
- Deuteronomy 25:16 (v27) For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 27:15 (v27) ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up…
- 1 Kings 14:24 (v27) There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children…
- 2 Kings 16:3 (v27) But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the…
- 2 Kings 21:2 (v27) He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 36:14 (v27) Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they…
- Isaiah 26:21 (v25) For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her…
- Jeremiah 5:9 (v25) Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Jeremiah 5:29 (v25) “Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Jeremiah 9:19 (v28) For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they…
- Jeremiah 14:10 (v25) Yahweh says to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them.…
- Jeremiah 16:18 (v25) First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable…
- Jeremiah 23:2 (v25) Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and…
- Ezekiel 16:50 (v27) They were arrogant, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.
- Ezekiel 22:11 (v27) One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his…
- Ezekiel 36:17-18 (v25) “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as…
- Hosea 2:13 (v25) I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went…
- Leviticus 17:8 (v26) “You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt…
- Leviticus 17:10 (v26) “ ‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face…
- Leviticus 18:30 (v26) Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and…
- Deuteronomy 4:1-2 (v26) Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land…
- Deuteronomy 4:40 (v26) You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you,…
- Deuteronomy 12:32 (v26) Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
- Psalms 89:32 (v25) then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
- Psalms 105:44-45 (v26) He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession, that they might keep his statutes, and observe his…
- Isaiah 24:5 (v25) The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the…
- Ezekiel 36:13 (v28) “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because they say to you, ‘You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;’
- Hosea 8:13 (v25) As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it; But Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity,…
- Hosea 9:9 (v25) They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
- Luke 8:15 (v26) Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with…
- Luke 11:28 (v26) But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
- John 14:15 (v26) If you love me, keep my commandments.
- John 14:21-23 (v26) One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love…
- John 15:14 (v26) You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
- Romans 8:22 (v28) For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
- Deuteronomy 9:5 (v25) Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations…
- Hosea 9:10 (v27) I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv25, 28 I will punish the land where such incestuous marriages…
I will punish the land where such incestuous marriages and pollutions are suffered.
He compareth the wicked to evil humors and surfeiting, which corrupt the stomach, and oppress nature, and therefore must be cast out by vomit.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv25–28 Lev 18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I…
Lev 18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Ver. 25. And the land is defiled.] From one end thereof to the other; {Ezr 9:11} as the face of the old world was grown so foul, that God was fain to wash it with a flood.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv25–26 I do visit; I am now visiting, or about…
I do visit; I am now visiting, or about to visit, i. e. to punish. See Isa 26:21.
The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants, as no less burdens to the earth than corrupted food is to the stomach. See Jer 9:19; Mic 2:10.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv25–28 And the land is defiled,.... The inhabitants of it,…
And the land is defiled,.... The inhabitants of it, with the immoralities and idolatries before mentioned:
therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it; or punish the inhabitants that are on it for their sins:
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and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants; as a stomach loaded with corrupt and bad food it has taken in, nauseates it, and cannot bear and retain it, but casts it up, and never receives it again; so the land of Canaan is represented as loathing its inhabitants, and as having an aversion to them, and indignation against them, and as not being able to bear them, but entirely willing to be rid of them and throw them out of their places in it, never to be admitted more, being as nauseous and as useless as the cast of a man's stomach; see Rev 3:16.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv25–26 I visit - I am about to visit, that…
I visit - I am about to visit, that is, to punish.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v25 Verse 25. The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.]…
Verse 25. The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.] This is a very nervous prosopopoeia or personification; a figure by which any part of inanimate nature may be represented as possessing the passions and reason of man. Here the land is represented as an intelligent being, with a deep and refined sense of moral good and evil: information concerning the abominations of the people is brought to this personified land, with which it is so deeply affected that a nausea is produced, and it vomits out its abominable and accursed inhabitants. It was natural for the inspired penman to make use of such a figure, as the description he was obliged to give of so many and enormous abominations must have affected him nearly in the same way in which he represents the land to be affected.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v26 Lev 18:26. Nor any stranger — In nation or…
Lev 18:26. Nor any stranger — In nation or religion, of what kind soever. For though they might not force them to submit to their religion, yet they might restrain them from the public contempt of the Jewish laws, and from the violation of natural laws, which, besides the offence against God and nature, were matters of evil example to the Israelites themselves.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v28 Vomited. Moses speaks of what would shortly happen, as…
Vomited. Moses speaks of what would shortly happen, as if it had already come to pass, which is familiar with the prophets. (Calmet) --- He represents the earth as sick and disgusted with the crimes of its inhabitants, in the same manner as the Book of Wisdom (v. 23,) says, the water of the sea shall rage (or foam, excandescet) against them. The strong expression used by Moses, shews to what a length the Chanaanites had carried their abominations; so that God, justly irritated, orders them all to be exterminated.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v25 therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it;…
therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it; and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants--The Canaanites, as enormous and incorrigible sinners, were to be exterminated; and this extermination was manifestly a judicial punishment inflicted by a ruler whose laws had been grossly and perseveringly outraged. But before a law can be disobeyed, it must have been previously in existence; and hence a law, prohibiting all the horrid crimes enumerated above--a law obligatory upon the Canaanites as well as other nations--was already known and in force before the Levitical law of incest was promulgated. Some general Iaw, then, prohibiting these crimes must have been published to mankind at a very early period of the world's history; and that law must either have been the moral law, originally written on the human heart, or a law on the institution of marriage revealed to Adam and known to the Canaanites and others by tradition or otherwise.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv25, 26, 28 25. The land itself — Canaan.
25. The land itself — Canaan.
Vomiteth — By a striking personification the very ground on which these abominations are enacted, like the stomach of a sick man, figuratively ejects the perpetrators of these filthy deeds.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv25–28 (25) The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.—From the…
(25) The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.—From the creation the earth shared in the punishment of man’s guilt (Gen_3:17), and at the restitution of all things she is to participate in his restoration (Rom_8:19-22). The physical condition of the land, therefore, depends upon the moral conduct of man. When he disobeys God’s commandments she is parched up and does not yield her fruit” (Deu_11:17). “The land is defiled” when he defiles himself. When he walks in the way of the Divine commands she is blessed (Lev_25:19; Lev_26:4); “God is merciful unto his land and to his people” (Deu_32:43). Hence, “the earth mourneth” when her inhabitants sin (Isa_24:4-5), and “the earth is glad” when God avenges the cause of His people (Psa_96:11-13). It is owing to this intimate connection between them that the land, which is here personified, is represented as loathing the wicked conduct of her children and being unable to restrain them. She nauseated them. The same figure is used in Lev_18:28; Lev_20:22; and in Rev_3:16.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v26 any of these detestable things
any of these detestable things
"any of these disgusting things"
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this is the wickedness
This refers to "these detestable things."
Therefore be careful
"Therefore be careful to obey me"
so that the land does not vomit you up ... as it vomited out the people
Yahweh forcibly removing the people from the land is spoken of as if the land were a person who vomited the people out. See how you translated this metaphor in Leviticus 18:25. AT: "so that I do forcibly remove you from the land ... as I forcibly removed the people" (See: Metaphor and Personification)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v28 18:28 Just as the land would vomit out the…
18:28 Just as the land would vomit out the Canaanites, it would also vomit out the Israelites if they acted like the Canaanites (see study note on 18:24-25). This came to pass with the destruction and exile of the northern kingdom by the Assyrians in 722 BC (2 Kgs 17:6) and when the Babylonians destroyed and exiled Judah in 586 BC (2 Kgs 25:8-21).
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