Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 26:37
And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
They shall fall one upon another, as soldiers use to do when their ranks are broken, and they forced to flee away hastily from their pursuers.
When non pursueth; your guilt and fear causing you to imagine that they do pursue you when indeed they do not.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And they shall fall one upon another,…. In their hurry and confusion, everyone making all the haste he can to escape the imaginary danger; or “a man upon his brother” z; his friend, as Aben Ezra interprets it, having no regard to relation and friendship, every one endeavouring to save himself. There is another sense which some Jewish writers a give of this phrase, and is observed by Jarchi, which is, that everyone shall fall for the iniquities of his brother; for all the Israelites say, they are sureties for one another; but the former sense is best:
as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: as if a sword was drawn and brandished at them, just ready to be thrust in them, filling them with the utmost dread and terror, and yet at the same time none in pursuit of them:
and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies; no heart to resist them, no strength nor spirit to oppose them, and defend themselves but be obliged to surrender their cities, themselves, their families and goods, into the hand of the enemy.
z “vir in fratrem suum”, Vatablus, Drusius, Piscator. a Torat Cohanim apud Yalkut, par. 1. fol. 197. 2.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Lev 26:37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
Ver. 37. And they shallfall. ] Through feebleness or prefestination.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
they shall: Jdg 7:22, 1Sa 14:15, 1Sa 14:16, Isa 10:4, Jer 37:10
and ye shall: Num 14:42, Jos 7:12, Jos 7:13, Jdg 2:14
Reciprocal: Deu 28:25 – cause thee Deu 32:25 – sword 1Sa 13:7 – the Hebrews 2Sa 24:13 – flee 1Ch 21:12 – to be destroyed 2Ch 6:24 – put to the worse 2Ch 24:24 – came Psa 44:10 – Thou Psa 89:43 – not made Isa 7:2 – And his heart Jer 46:16 – one Lam 1:6 – her princes Dan 8:7 – and there was no Rev 22:18 – God