“ ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me, I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity, then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land. The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God. But I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’ ”
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“ ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,
I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.
The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.
But I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’ ”
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If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
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And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their treachery which they committed against Me, and also that they have walked contrary unto Me.
I also will walk contrary unto them, and bring them into the land of their enemies; if then perchance their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then be paid the punishment of their iniquity;
then will I remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
For the land shall lie forsaken without them, and shall be paid her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them; and they shall be paid the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected Mine ordinances, and their soul abhorred My statutes.
And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
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- Proverbs 28:13 (v40) He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
- Nehemiah 9:2-5 (v40) The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.…
- 1 John 1:8-10 (v40) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to…
- Ezekiel 44:7 (v41) in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my…
- Hosea 5:15–6:2 (v40) I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”…
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- Exodus 2:24 (vv42, 45) God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- Ezekiel 16:60 (vv42, 44) Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
- Exodus 6:5 (v42) Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
- Leviticus 25:38 (v45) I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
- Numbers 5:7 (v40) then he shall confess his sin which he has done; and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, add to it the fifth part of it, and…
- Deuteronomy 30:1-3 (v40) It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them…
- 1 Kings 8:33-36 (v40) “When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess…
- 1 Kings 21:29 (v41) “See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the…
- 2 Chronicles 12:6-7 (v41) Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.” When Yahweh saw that they humbled…
- 2 Chronicles 32:26 (v41) Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath…
- Nehemiah 9:31 (v44) “Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
- Psalms 106:45 (v42) He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- Jeremiah 4:4 (v41) Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go…
- Jeremiah 9:25-26 (v41) “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh: Egypt, Judah, Edom, the…
- Acts 7:51 (v41) “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
- Romans 11:2 (v44) God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against…
- Deuteronomy 4:29-31 (vv40, 44) But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.…
- Leviticus 22:33 (v45) who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Yahweh.”
- Leviticus 26:15 (v43) and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my…
- Leviticus 26:21 (v40) “ ‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
- Leviticus 26:24 (v40) then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:27-28 (v40) “ ‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me, then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you…
- Deuteronomy 30:6 (v41) Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your…
- Joshua 7:19 (v40) Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done!…
- 1 Kings 8:47 (v40) yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who…
- 2 Kings 13:23 (v44) But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and…
- 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 (v41) When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. He prayed to him; and he was…
- Job 33:27-28 (v40) He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me. He has redeemed my soul from…
- Psalms 32:5 (v40) I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity…
- Psalms 94:14 (v44) For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
- Psalms 98:2-3 (v45) Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations. He has remembered his loving…
- Jeremiah 6:10 (v41) To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word…
- Jeremiah 31:18-20 (v40) “I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be…
- Ezekiel 20:9 (v45) But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made…
- Ezekiel 20:22 (v45) Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight…
- Ezekiel 20:43 (v41) There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own…
- Ezekiel 36:31 (v40) “ ‘ “Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your…
- Romans 8:7 (v43) because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
- Philippians 3:3 (v41) For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
- Colossians 2:11 (v41) In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the…
- Genesis 9:16 (v42) The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of…
- Genesis 12:2 (v45) I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
- Genesis 15:18 (v45) In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great…
- Genesis 17:7-8 (v45) I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to…
- Genesis 22:15-18 (v42) Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky, and said, “ ‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done…
- Genesis 26:5 (v42) because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
- Genesis 28:15 (v42) Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have…
- Exodus 6:8 (v45) I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am…
- Exodus 19:5-6 (v45) Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all…
- Exodus 20:2 (v45) “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Leviticus 26:30 (v43) I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul…
- Leviticus 26:34-35 (v43) Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy…
- Leviticus 26:41 (v43) I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they…
- Deuteronomy 4:31 (v42) For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
- 1 Kings 8:46-48 (v43) If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they…
- 2 Kings 17:7-17 (v43) It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the…
- 2 Chronicles 12:12 (v41) When he humbled himself, Yahweh’s wrath turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether. Moreover, there were good things found in…
- 2 Chronicles 33:12 (v43) When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 33:19 (v41) His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set…
- 2 Chronicles 33:23 (v41) He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
- 2 Chronicles 36:14-16 (v43) Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they…
- Ezra 9:13 (v41) “After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities…
- Ezra 9:15 (v41) Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our…
- Nehemiah 9:33 (v41) However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
- Job 5:17 (v43) “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
- Job 34:31-32 (v43) “For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more. Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do…
- Psalms 39:9 (v41) I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
- Psalms 50:15 (v43) Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- Psalms 50:17 (v43) since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
- Psalms 51:3-4 (v41) For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me. Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your…
- Psalms 85:1-2 (v42) Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob. You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You…
- Psalms 89:33 (v44) But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
- Psalms 119:67 (v43) Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
- Psalms 119:71 (v43) It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
- Psalms 119:75 (v43) Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
- Psalms 136:23 (v42) who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;
- Isaiah 26:16 (v43) Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
- Jeremiah 3:12-15 (v40) Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you;…
- Jeremiah 14:21 (v44) Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.
- Jeremiah 30:11 (v44) For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make…
- Jeremiah 31:19 (v43) Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I…
- Jeremiah 33:20-21 (v44) “Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time;…
- Jeremiah 33:26 (v44) then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the…
- Ezekiel 6:9 (v41) Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart,…
- Ezekiel 14:22-23 (v44) Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it that will be carried out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they will come out to you, and…
- Ezekiel 20:14 (v45) But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
- Ezekiel 36:1-15 (v42) You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, “You mountains of Israel, hear Yahweh’s word. The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because…
- Ezekiel 36:33-34 (v42) “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste…
- Ezekiel 44:9 (v41) The Lord Yahweh says, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners…
- Daniel 9:3-20 (v40) I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made…
- Daniel 9:7-9 (v43) “Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,…
- Daniel 9:7-14 (v41) “Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,…
- Daniel 9:14 (v43) Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we…
- Daniel 9:18-19 (v41) My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present…
- Joel 2:18 (v42) Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv41, 43, 45 Or, pray for their sin.
Or, pray for their sin.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv40, 41, 43 Lev 26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and…
Lev 26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
Ver. 40. A special text touching the rejection and conversion of the Jews.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv40, 41, 42, 44, 45 If they shall confess, Heb. And they shall confess,…
If they shall confess, Heb. And they shall confess, where our translation and many others understand the particle if, which is also wanting and understood, Exo 4:23; Mal 1:2; 3:8. So here, And if they shall confess, &c.
But there seems no necessity of any such supplement, but these and the following words may be taken as they lie in their plain and proper signification, to this purpose, Lev 26:40, And through the heaviness and extraordinariness of their affliction, their consciences will force them to confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they have trespassed against me, i.e. with their prevarication with me and defection from me to idolatry, which by way of eminency he calls their trespass;
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and that also they have walked contrary to me, Lev 26:41, and that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; i.e. that they are not come into these calamities by chance, nor by the misfortune of war, but by my just judgment upon them. All which confession is no more than Pharaoh made in his distresses, and than hypocrites in their affliction use to make. And therefore he adds, if then their uncircumcised, i.e. impure, carnal, profane, and impenitent hearts be humbled, i.e. subdued, purged, reformed; if to this confession they add sincere humiliation and reformation, I will do what follows.
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Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain On v40 Here the chapter concludes with gracious promises of the…
Here the chapter concludes with gracious promises of the return of God's favour to them upon their repentance, that they might not (unless it were their own fault) pine away in their iniquity. Behold, with wonder, the riches of God's mercy to a people that had obstinately stood it out against the judgments of God, and would never think of surrendering till they were reduced to the last extremity. Yet turn to strong-hold, you prisoners of hope, Zac 9:12. As bad as things are, they may be mended. Yet there is hope in Israel. Observe,
I. How the repentance which would qualify them for this mercy is described, Lev 26:40, Lev 26:41. The instances of it are three: - 1. Confession, by which they must give glory to God, and take shame to themselves. There must be a confession of sin, their own and their fathers', which they must lament the guilt of because they feel the smart of it; that thus they may cut off the entail of wrath. They must in their confession put sin under its worst character, as walking contrary to God; this is the sinfulness of sin, the worst thing in it, and which in our repentance we should especially bewail. There must also be a confession of wrath; they must overlook the instruments of their trouble and the second causes, and confess that God has walked contrary to them, and so dealt with them according to their sins. Such a confession as this we find made by Daniel just before the dawning of the day of their deliverance (ch. 9), and the like, Ezr 9:1-15 and Neh 9:2. Remorse and godly sorrow for sin: If their uncircumcised heart be humbled. An impenitent, unbelieving, unhumbled heart, is called an uncircumcised heart, the heart of a Gentile that is a stranger to God, rather than the heart of an Israelite in covenant with him. True circumcision is of the heart (Rom 2:29), without which the circumcision of the flesh avails nothing, Jer 9:26. Now in repentance this uncircumcised heart was humbled, that is, it was truly broken and contrite for sin. Note, A humble heart under humbling providences prepares for deliverance and true comfort. 3. Submission to the justice of God in all his dealings; if they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity (Lev 26:41 and again Lev 26:43), that is, if they justify God and condemn themselves, patiently bear the punishment as that which they have well deserved, and carefully answer the ends o it as that which God has well designed, accept it as a kindness, take it as physic, and improve it, then they are penitents indeed.
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II. How the mercy which they should obtain upon their repentance is described. 1. They should not be abandoned: Though they have despised my judgments, yet, for all that, I will not cast them away, Lev 26:43, Lev 26:44. He speaks as a tender Father that cannot find in his heart to disinherit a son that has been very provoking. How shall I do it? Hos 11:8, Hos 11:9. Till he had laid the foundations of a church for himself in the Gentile world, the Jewish church was not quite forsaken, nor cast away. 2. They should be remembered: I will remember the land with favour, which is grounded upon the promise before, I will remember my covenant (Lev 26:42), which is repeated, Lev 26:45. God is said to remember the covenant when he performs the promises of it, purely for his faithfulness' sake; not because there is any thing in us to recommend us to his favour, but because he will be as good as his word. This is the church's plea. Psa 74:20, Have respect unto the covenant. He will remember the constitution of the covenant, which is such as leaves room for repentance, and promises pardon upon repentance; and the Mediator of the covenant, who was promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and was sent, when the fulness of time came, in remembrance of that holy covenant. The word covenant is thrice repeated, to intimate that God is ever mindful of it and would have us to be so. The persons also with whom the covenant was made are mentioned in an unusual manner, per modum ascensus - in the ascending line, beginning with Jacob, to lead them gradually to the most ancient promise, which was made to the father of the faithful: thus (Mic 7:20) he is said to perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham. He will for their sakes (Lev 26:45), not their merit's sake, but their benefit's sake, remember the covenant of their ancestors, and upon that score show kindness to them, though most unworthy; they are therefore said to be, as touching the election, beloved for the fathers' sake, Rom 11:28. Note, When those that have walked contrary to God in a way of sin return to him by sincere repentance, though he has walked contrary to them in a way of judgment he will return to them in a way of special mercy, pursuant to the covenant of redemption and grace. None are so ready to repent as God is to forgive upon repentance, through Christ, who is given for a covenant.
Lastly, These are said to be the laws which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel, Lev 26:46. His communion with his church is kept up by his law. He manifests not only his dominion over them, but his favour to them, by giving them his law; and they manifest not only their holy fear, but their holy love, by the observance of it; and thus it is made between them, rather as a covenant than a law; for he draws with the cords of a man.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv40–45 And that I also have walked contrary unto them,....…
And that I also have walked contrary unto them,.... Showed no regard unto them, as if he took no care of them, or in a providential way concerned himself for them, but let what would befall them; yea, came out in the way of his judgments against them, as if he was an enemy to them; see Gill on Lev 26:24,
and have brought them into the land of their enemies; should acknowledge the hand of God in it, that he himself brought them out of their own country into an enemy's land, as Assyria, Babylon, and other nations: and that this was not the chance of war, or owing to the superior power or skill of their enemies, but to the just judgment of God upon them for their sins, who on that account delivered them up into the hands of their enemies:
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if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled; their foolish proud heart, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; it signifies a sinful, wicked, hard, and impenitent heart, brought to a sense of sin, to repentance and humiliation for it. Jarchi interprets it, "or if their uncircumcised heart", &c. as in Exo 2:23; and observes another sense of the word, "perhaps their uncircumcised heart", &c. not only would in words confess their sins, but be truly humbled at heart for them:
and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity; take it well at the hand of God, bear it patiently without murmuring, or thinking themselves hardly dealt by, but freely owning it is less than their iniquities deserve; or complete and finish the punishment of their sins, as Aben Ezra, which upon their humiliation should be put an end to, and cease. Jarchi takes the word in the sense of atonement and pacification, as if by their chastisement their sins were expiated (d), and God was pacified toward them: but rather it denotes the free and full pardon of their sins, manifested to them upon their repentance and humiliation for sin.
(d) Siphri apud Yalkut, ut supra. (par. 1. fol. 197. 2.)
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv40, 41, 42, 44 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity…
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they have trespassed against me - That is, with their prevarication with me and defection from me to idolatry, which by way of eminency he calls their trespass: and that also they have walked contrary to me, ver. 41, and that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies - That is, that they are not come into these calamities by chance, nor by the misfortune of war, but by my just judgment upon them. And, if then their uncircumcised, that is, impure, carnal, profane, and impenitent hearts be humbled, that is, subdued, purged, reformed: if to this confession they add sincere humiliation and reformation, I will do what follows.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v44 Verse 44. Neither will I abhor them to destroy…
Verse 44. Neither will I abhor them to destroy them utterly] Though God has literally fulfilled all his threatenings upon this people in dispossessing them of their land, destroying their polity, overturning their city, demolishing their temple, and scattering themselves over the face of the whole earth; yet he has, in his providence, strangely preserved them as a distinct people, and in very considerable numbers also. He still remembers the covenant of their ancestors, and in his providence and grace he has some very important design in their favour. All Israel shall yet be saved, and, with the Gentiles, they shall all be restored to his favour; and under Christ Jesus, the great Shepherd; become, with them, one grand everlasting fold.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv41, 42, 44 Lev 26:41. If they accept of — The meaning…
Lev 26:41. If they accept of — The meaning is, if they sincerely acknowledge the righteousness of God and their own wickedness, and patiently submit to his correcting hand; if, with David, they are ready to say, It is good for us that we are afflicted, that we may learn God’s statutes — And yield obedience to them for the future, which is a good evidence of true repentance.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv41, 42, 44, 45 Mind. Hebrew, "heart," wicked, rebellious, and unclean. (Menochius) ---…
Mind. Hebrew, "heart," wicked, rebellious, and unclean. (Menochius) --- Pray for. Hebrew and Syriac, "please themselves in," &c. They shall see what advantage they have derived from their sins. (Calmet) --- Then they shall enter into themselves, like the prodigal son. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v40 If they shall confess their iniquity, &c.--This passage holds…
If they shall confess their iniquity, &c.--This passage holds out the gracious promise of divine forgiveness and favor on their repentance, and their happy restoration to their land, in memory of the covenant made with their fathers (Rom. 2:1-29).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv40, 41, 42, 44, 45 MERCY AFTER JUDGMENTS — ISRAEL NOT UTTERLY DESTROYED, Lev_26:40-46.
MERCY AFTER JUDGMENTS — ISRAEL NOT UTTERLY DESTROYED, Lev_26:40-46.
40. If they shall confess — Confession implies conviction of sin and sincere repentance. David said, “I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.”
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And the iniquity of their fathers — So far as they had endorsed the iniquity of their fathers, by approving and imitating it, they were in a modified sense guilty. Thus must we reprint not only of our actual sins but abhor their source, the poison stung into our nature by the transgression of our first parents. By so doing we obtain, through faith in Jesus Christ, not only justification from our personal sins, but the still greater blessing of entire sanctification from that corrupt state of heart which is technically called sin.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv40, 41, 43 40–45. Repentance shall bring restoration
40–45. Repentance shall bring restoration
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv40–45 (40) If they shall confess their iniquity.—Better, And they…
(40) If they shall confess their iniquity.—Better, And they shall confess, that is, when their sufferings have reached this terrible point, the Israelites will realise and confess their iniquities and those of their fathers who have perished in these terrible punishments, on account of their sins, and who are no longer alive to confess their sins themselves. The whole description is present to the Lawgiver’s mind; hence the different degrees of the sins, the various stages of the sufferings, and the ultimate penitence of the people are described as passing before our eyes, as if exhibited in a kaleidoscope.
With their trespass which they trespassed against me.—Better, because of their trespass that they have, &c., as this phrase is rendered in the Authorised Version in Dan_9:7.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On v40 Vers. 40-45. God"s pardon will, even yet, as always,…
Vers. 40-45. God"s pardon will, even yet, as always, follow upon confession of sin and genuine repentance. They must recognize not only that they have sinned, but that their sufferings have been a punishment for those sins at God"s hand. This will work in them humble acquiescence in God"s doings, and then he will remember his covenant with Jacob, and also his covenant with Isaac, and also his covenant with Abraham, and for the sake of the covenant of their ancestors, he will not east them away, neither will he abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break his covenant with them. Whether Jewish repentance has been or ever will be so full as to obtain this blessing, cannot be decided now. Perhaps it may be the case that all the blessings promised by Moses and by future prophets to repentant and restored Israel are to find their accomplishment in the spiritual Israel, the children of Abraham who is "the father of all them that believe", (Rom_4:11) seeing that "God is able of stones to raise up children unto Abraham". (Mat_3:9)
Vers. 40-46. Hope for Israel.
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The curses of this chapter have proved prophetic. So, may we infer, will the blessings prove. We may therefore hope to see the conversion of the Hebrews to Christ, their restoration to their ancient inheritance, and the sun of prosperity shining brightly upon them.
I THEY WILL CONFESS THEIR SIN.
1. Their personal iniquity.
(1) They will have many things to confess, as all sinners have. They will "humble their uncircumcised heart". (see Jer_9:26 Rom_2:29)
(2) In particular they will confess their capital sin in rejecting Christ. This crime filled up the measure of their fathers.
2. The iniquity of their fathers.
(1) This was the same as their own. They will acknowledge themselves, not in pride, but in penitence, to be the children of their fathers.
(2) Instead of attempting to extenuate their sin because of the example of their fathers, they will repent for the sin of their fathers as well as for their own. This is in accordance with the principle of the visitation of the iniquities of the fathers upon the children.
3. The justice of God in their punishment.
(1) They acknowledge that they walked contrary to God. (see Ezr 9 Neh_1:4 Neh_9:1, Neh_9:2, 29 Dan_9:3, Dan_9:4)
(2) That he has therefore walked contrary to them. Afflictions do not spring out of the dust.
II THEN GOD WILL REMEMBER HIS COVENANT. Therefore:
1. He will not destroy them utterly.
(1) His providence will be over them. What else could have preserved them now for nineteen centuries amidst untoward circumstances? They are, notwithstanding their sufferings, as numerous today as they were in the zenith of their prosperity in the days of Solomon.
(2) The remnant of them shall be saved.
(3) How tender is the compassion of God! (Hos_11:8, Hos_11:9)
2. He will reinstate them in their land.
(1) He will remember his land. For in the covenant they are promised the land "forever.
(2) Remembering the land also implies that it will recover its ancient fruitfulness (see promises, verses 4, 5, 10).
(3) In that condition it will be the appropriate type and pledge of the heavenly country. (see Isa_62:4)
3. He will make them a blessing in the earth.
(1) They will grow into a multitude.
(2) They will rejoice in spiritual blessings.
(3) The miracles of the Exodus from Egypt will be repeated.
(4) The heathen will be startled into thoughtfulness (verse 45).
(5) The heathen will once more learn the way of salvation from the lips of Hebrews.
4. In all this they are beloved for the fathers" sakes.
(1) This is distinctly stated. (verse 42; comp. Rom_11:28)
(2) The patriarchs of the covenant are referred to in the order of ascent, viz. Jacob, Isaac, Abraham. Note: when the Jews in humility confess themselves the children of their more recent sinful fathers, God will acknowledge them as the children of their earlier faithful ancestors.
(3) It is an encouragement to faith that the memory of Divine mercy is far-reaching everlasting. J.A.M.
Vers. 40-45. Sorrow unto salvation.
The chastisements of God, like the gospel of Jesus Christ, are either a savour of life unto life or of death unto death; they either make or mar; they may sanctify and save or they may leave the soul more bound in the bonds of sin than ever. It is only godly sorrow sorrow regarded in a true light and treated in the way that God intended that works repentance unto salvation; otherwise it works death. (2Co_7:10) The right use of affliction is indicated in the text; there must be
I A SENSE OF ILL DESERT. The uncircumcised heart must be humbled (verse 41). God seeks by his chastisements to break our pride, our haughtiness of heart, our sinful self-complacency. Until this is done nothing is done. When the soul is at ease in its iniquity, it is in a very "far country," a long way from God, truth, salvation. When trouble touches and pierces our complacency, filling the soul with a sense of its rebelliousness, as soon as the heart says, "I have sinned," a large part of the work of the correcting hand is wrought. Then necessarily and readily follows
II THE LANGUAGE. OF CONFESSION. Directly the heart feels the lip speaks. Too often men use the language of penitence when the feeling is entirely absent. But he that searcheth the hearts makes due distinction between the words which are true and those which are false. There is nothing gained with God by adopting the language which we ought to be disposed to use, but which does not express our actual condition; everything unreal is offensive in his sight. But there is much gained by the simple, natural, heartfelt utterance of penitential feeling. "If they shall confess their iniquity," etc. (verses 40-42). "With the mouth confession is made unto salvation". (Rom_10:10) The spirit thus taught of God through his servant, sorrow, has now
III THE SUBJECT WILL. It "accepts of the punishment of its iniquity" (verse 41). It says, "Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: that which I see not teach thou me," etc. (Job_34:31, Job_34:32) It is "in subjection unto the Father of spirits". (Heb_12:9) It submits to his guidance and surrenders itself to his will. And then comes
IV DIVINE RESTORATION. God "remembers his covenant" (verses 42, 45). As he remembered the covenant he made with the ancestors of the children of Israel, and "did not abhor them" (verse 44), but withdrew his anger from them, so he remembers his promise with us, sealed with a Saviour"s blood, to pardon our sins and to restore our souls to his Divine favour. Yet there are
V LINGERING CONSEQUENCES OF SIN. With penitent Israel, toward whom God was extending his mercy, "the land also was to be left of them, and was to enjoy her sabbaths, while she lay desolate without them" (verse 43). With us, when penitent and restored, when taken back into the family and kingdom of God, there are lingering consequences of sin which even Divine mercy does not, cannot remove consequences in:
(1) miserable memories which will visit the mind;
(2) enfeebled faculty that must work in a lesser sphere with smaller influence;
(3) diminished reputation among men;
(4) abiding results in those who have been injured, and who are beyond the reach of our restoration, etc. While facing this solemn fact a fact which makes sin seem to us the stern, sad, hurtful thing it is we may nevertheless find a glad relief in recalling
VI THE BLESSED HOPE OF THE HOLY. There is a country where the penal consequences of sin will be so removed from sight and sense that to our consciousness they will exist no more. Sin and sorrow shall never cross the stream that "divides that heavenly land from ours;" they must always remain on this side of it. What will remain to us there is a remembrance that will enhance our joy a recollection of sin that has been forgiven, and of sorrow that has been endured, both the one and the other magnifying the mercy of our crowned and exalted King. C.
Vers. 40-46. The gracious invitation to repentance.
The covenant may be restored. Even in the midst of the declarations of Divine sovereignty and government, long-suffering mercy meets "the earliest and faintest breathings of a broken and penitent spirit.
I Confirm by history (see Judges and Kings). The restoration from Babylon. All consummated in Messiah.
II The free grace of God is the foundation of hope; "I am the Lord their God;" "I will remember;" "for all that I will not cast them away" "of faith, that it might be by grace.
III The forgiveness of God dependent on the fulfillment of declared conditions. "If they shall confess;" "if their uncircumcised heart be humbled.
1. Spirituality of religion maintained from the beginning.
2. The purpose and. end of all Divine chastisements to produce an acceptable state of heart.
3. The true penitence was the true circumcision, in other words, it was a renewal of the covenant, therefore included faith and acceptance of the Divine revelation and ordinances, Repentance and faith are one in the higher light of the gospel, for they are both "toward" the covenant in Christ Jesus. R.
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The Expositor's Bible 1887 · Public Domain On v40 "And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity…
THE PROMISED RESTORATION
Lev_26:40-45
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"And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against Me, and also that because they have walked contrary unto Me, I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity; then will I remember My covenant with Jacob; and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them; and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they rejected My judgments, and their soul abhorred My statutes. And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly. and to break My covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God: but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord."
This closing section of this extraordinary chapter yet remains to be considered. It is the most remarkable of all, whether from a historical or a religious point of view. It declares that even under so extreme visitations of Divine wrath, and howsoever long Israels stubborn rebellion and impenitence should continue, yet the nation should never become extinct and pass away. Very impressive are the words (Lev_26:43-45) which emphasise this prediction: "The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them; and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they rejected My judgments, and their soul abhorred My statutes. And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break My covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God: but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord."
As to what is included in this promise of everlasting covenant mercy, we are told explicitly (Lev_26:40) that as the final result of these repeated and long-continued judgments, the children of Israel "shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed" against the Lord. Also they will acknowledge (Lev_26:41) that all these calamities have been sent upon them by the Lord; that it is because they have walked contrary unto Him that He has also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. And then follows the great promise (Lev_26:41-42): "If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity; then will I remember My covenant with Jacob; and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land."
These words are very full and explicit. That they have had already a partial and inadequate fulfilment in the restoration from Babylon, and the spiritual quickening by which it was accompanied, is not to be denied. But one only needs to refer to the covenants to which reference is made, and especially the covenant with Abraham, as recorded in the book of Genesis, to see that by no possibility can that Babylonian reatoration be said to have exhausted this prophecy. Since those earlier days Israel has again forsaken the Lord, and committed the greatest of all their national sins in the rejection and crucifixion of the promised Messiah; and therefore, again, according to the threat of the earlier part of this chapter, they have been cast out of their land and scattered among the nations, and the land, again, for centuries has been left a desolation. But for all this, Gods covenant with Israel has not lapsed, nor, as we are here formally assured, can it ever lapse. To imagine, with some, that because of the new dispensation of grace to the Gentiles which has come in, therefore the promises of this covenant have become void, is a mistake which is fatal to all right understanding of the prophetic word. As for the spiritual blessing of true repentance and a national turning unto God, Zechariah, after the Babylonian captivity, represents the prediction as yet to have a larger and far more blessed fulfilment, in a day which, beyond all controversy, has never yet risen on the world. For it is written: {Zec_12:8-14, Zec_13:1} "In that day I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto Me whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn; all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness." And that this great promise, which implies by its very terms the previous "piercing" of the Messiah, is still valid for the nation in the new dispensation, is expressly testified by the Apostle Paul, who formally teaches, with regard to Israel, that "God did not cast off His people which He foreknew"; that "the gifts and calling of God are without repentance"; and that therefore the days are surely coming when "all Israel shall be saved". {Rom_11:2; Rom_11:29; Rom_11:26}
And while nothing is said in this chapter of Leviticus as to the relation of this future repentance of Israel to the establishment of the kingdom of God, we only speak according to the express teaching both of the later prophets and of the apostles, when we add that we are not to think of this covenant of God concerning Israel as of little consequence to our faith and hope as Christians. For we are plainly taught, with regard to the present exclusion and impenitence of Israel, {Rom_11:15} that "the receiving of them" again shall be as "life from the dead"; which, again, is only what long before had been declared in the Old Testament; {Psa_102:13-16} that when God shall arise and have mercy upon Zion, and the set time to have pity upon her shall come, the nations shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth His glory.
And while we may grant that the matter is in itself of less moment, it is yet of importance to observe that the very covenant which promises spiritual mercy to the people, as explicitly assures us (ver. 42) that, when Israel confesses its sin, God "will remember the land" as well as the people. All that has been said for the present and unchangeable validity of the former part of this promise, is of necessity true for this latter part also. To affirm the former, and on that ground maintain the faith and expectation of the future repentance of Israel, and yet deny the latter part of this promise, which is no less verbally explicit, regarding the land of Israel, is an inconsistency of interpretation which is as astonishing as it is common. For the restoration of the scattered nation to their land is repeatedly promised, as here, in connection with, and yet in clear distinction from, their conversion, by both the pre- and post-exilian prophets. And if, for reasons not hard to discover, the promise concerning the land is not in so many words repeated in the New Testament. its future fulfilment is yet, to say the least, distinctly assumed in the prediction of Christ, {Luk_21:24} that Israel, because of their rejection of Him, should be "led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem be trodden down of the Gentiles,"-not forever, but only-"until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." Surely these words of our Lord imply that, whenever these "times of the Gentiles" shall have run their course, their present domination over the Holy City and the Holy Land shall end.
Nor is such a restoration of Israel to their land, with all that it implies, inconsistent, as some have urged, with the spirit and principles of the Gospel. Many a Gentile nation is greatly favoured of the Lord, and, as one mark of that favour, is permitted to abide in peace and prosperity in their own land. Why should it be any more alien to the spirit of the Gospel that penitent Israel should be blessed in like manner, and, upon their turning unto the Lord, also, like many other nations, be permitted to dwell in peace and safety in that land which lies almost empty and desolate for them until this day? And if it be urged that, admitting this interpretation, we shall also be obliged to admit that Israel is in the future to be exalted to a position of preeminence among the nations, which, again, is inconsistent, it is said, with the principles of the Gospel dispensation, we must again deny this last assertion, and for a similar reason. If not inconsistent with the Gospel that the British nation, for example, should today hold a position of exceptional eminence and world wide influence among the nations, how can it be inconsistent with the Gospel that Israel, when repentant before God, should be in like manner exalted of Him to national eminence and glory?
While in itself this question may be of little consequence, yet in another aspect it is of no small moment that we steadfastly affirm the permanent validity of this part of the promise of the covenant with Israel as given in this chapter. For it is not too much to say that the logic and the exegesis which make the promise to have become void with regard to Israels land, if accepted, would equally justify one in affirming the abrogation of the promise of Israels final repentance, if the exigencies of any eschatological theory should seem to require it. Either both parts of this promise in Lev_26:42 are still valid, or neither is now valid; and if either is still in force, the other is in force also. These two, the promise concerning the people, and the promise concerning the land, stand or fall together.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv40, 43, 44 their fathers' sin
their fathers' sin
The word "fathers" represents their ancestors. (See: Metonymy)
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their treason by which they were unfaithful to me
"the way that they were unfaithful to me and tuned against me after I had been so good to them"
walking against me
Walking represents behavior. Walking against God represents opposing him or rebelling against him. AT: "opposing me" or "rebelling against me" (See: Metaphor)
to turn against them
This represents opposing them. AT: "to oppose them" (See: Metaphor)
if their uncircumcised hearts become humbled
Here the term "uncircumcised hearts" refers to the whole person. AT: "if they will be humble instead of stubbornly disobedient" (See: Synecdoche)
then will I call to mind my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham
"Call to mind" here is an idiom meaning "intentionally remember." Here it represents fulfilling his covenant. AT: "then I will fulfill the covenant I made with Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham" (See: Idiom and Metonymy)
I will call the land to mind
"Call to mind" here is an idiom meaning "intentionally remember." Here it represents fulfilling his promise concerning the land. AT: "I will fulfill my promise about the land" (See: Idiom and Metonymy)
translationWords
confess
faithful
walk
turn
circumcise
heart
humble
punish
call
mind
covenant
Jacob
Isaac
Abraham
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv40–42 26:40-45 The chapter ends with a message of hope:…
26:40-45 The chapter ends with a message of hope: Even after Israel violated the covenant and experienced judgment, reconciliation and restoration remained possible if the people confessed and repented (see study note on 4:20). God’s grace had not been taken away. God did not want to destroy his people; he would restore them if they would only humble themselves and repent (see also 2 Chr 7:14).
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