“ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
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“ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
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For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
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And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you; and will establish My covenant with you.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 26:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 17:6-7 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you. I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
- Nehemiah 9:23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
- Psalms 107:38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
- Ezekiel 16:62 I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh;
- Isaiah 55:3 Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Genesis 28:3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
- Psalms 138:6-7 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar. Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
- Deuteronomy 28:11 Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
- Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
- Genesis 6:18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
- Genesis 17:20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
- Genesis 26:4 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,
- Genesis 28:14 Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.
- Exodus 1:7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
- Exodus 2:25 God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.
- Exodus 6:4 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.
- Deuteronomy 28:4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
- Psalms 89:3 “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
- Luke 1:72 to show mercy toward our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,
- 2 Kings 13:23 But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.
- Nehemiah 2:20 Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”
- Hebrews 8:9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Perform that which I have promised.
Perform that which I have promised.
Hebrew, I will turn unto you.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 26:9 For I will have respect unto you,…
Lev 26:9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
Ver. 9. And establish my covenant with you.] This is more than all the rest. So Gen 17:20-21, "I have blessed Ishmael; twelve princes shall he beget, but my covenant will I establish with Isaac."
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. Actually perform all that I have promised you…
i.e. Actually perform all that I have promised you in my covenant made with you,
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And ye shall eat old store,.... What is very…
And ye shall eat old store,.... What is very old, corn of three years old, as Jarchi and Kimchi (m) interpret it; such plenty should they have that it would be so long consuming:
and bring forth the old because of the new; out of their barns and granaries, to make room for the new, which they should have great quantities of, and scarce know where to bestow them; and therefore should empty their treasures and garners of the old, and fill them with new; or they should bring them forth out of their barns into their houses, to make use of themselves, or into their markets to expose to sale, being under no temptation to withhold against a time of scarcity in order to make more of it, see Pro 11:26; now all these temporal blessings promised may be emblems of spiritual things, and might be so understood by such who were spiritually enlightened; as of the rain of divine grace, and the blessings of it, and of the doctrines of the Gospel, sometimes compared thereunto, Deu 32:2; and of great fruitfulness in grace and good works, and of internal peace in the minds of good men, and of their safety and security from spiritual enemies; of fulness of spiritual provisions, even of things new and old, and which are laid up for them, Sol 7:13; thus promises of a spiritual nature more manifestly follow.
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(m) Sepher Shorash. rad.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Establish my covenant - That is, actually perform all…
Establish my covenant - That is, actually perform all that I have promised in my covenant made with you.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. I will have respect — I will favourably…
9. I will have respect — I will favourably regard you.
Multiply — Rapid increase in population, especially with Oriental nations, is a manifest proof of the divine favour. Virtue promotes health and wealth. These conduce to a multiplication of the people, so long as luxury and its attendant vices are avoided. It is a sign of national decay when marriages and births relatively diminish.
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Establish my covenant — Confirm the covenant already made with Abraham.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. will establish] rather, will carry out. The Heb.…
9. will establish] rather, will carry out. The Heb. expression means, to fulfil the promises of an older covenant. Cp. Gen_26:3, ‘I will establish [to Isaac] the oath which I sware unto Abraham’; Deu_9:5, to ‘establish the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers.’ So Jer_34:18 of the inhabitants of Jerusalem who did not carry out the words of the covenant which they had made.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (9) For I will have respect unto you.—Better, And…
(9) For I will have respect unto you.—Better, And I will turn unto you, as it is rendered in the Authorised Version in Eze_46:9, the only other passage where this phrase occurs; that is, be merciful to them and bless them. (Comp. 2Ki_13:23; Psa_25:16; Psa_69:17, &c.)
And multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.—That is, by multiplying them as the stars of heaven and the sand of the sea, God fulfil the covenant which He made with their fathers (Gen_12:2; Gen_13:16; Gen_15:5; Gen_22:17; Exo_23:26).
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 I will look at you with favor
I will look at you with favor
"I will show you favor" or "I will bless you"
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make you fruitful and multiply you
These two phrases refer to God causing them to have many descendants so they become a large group. (See: Doublet)
make you fruitful
God speaks of them having many children as if they were trees that bear a lot of fruit. AT: "cause you to have many children" (See: Metaphor)
You will eat food stored a long time
"You will have enough food stored to eat for a long time" or "you will have enough food to store and eat it for a long time"
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 26:9 fulfill my covenant: The fulfillment is seen in…
26:9 fulfill my covenant: The fulfillment is seen in the “rest” spoken of in Hebrews (Heb 3:11–4:11). The Promised Land should have brought a state of security and prosperity, a state of “rest” to the Israelites (Exod 33:14; Deut 12:10; 25:19; Josh 1:13, 15). Israel succeeded in entering the Promised Land, but their rebellion kept them from seeing the covenant fulfilled.
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