Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 18:4
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I [am] the LORD your God.
My judgments and mine ordinances; mine universally, Deu 27:26; Gal 3:10; for though the words be indefinite, the matter is necessary; and mine solely, Deu 6:13, compared with Mat 4:10, and therefore those that here follow, though you do not see the particular reason of some of them, and though they be contrary to the laws and usages of the nations.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Ye shall do my judgments,…. Which are just and right, and according to the rules of justice and equity; these are things, as Jarchi observes, which are said in the law with judgment, or are laws framed with the highest reason, even by the judgment of God himself, whose judgment is always according to truth: Aben Ezra thinks, these are the judicial laws in Ex 21:1; but though they may include them, they have more particular respect to the following laws:
and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: which he had ordained and appointed of his own will and pleasure, which Jarchi calls the decree of the king, or which he decreed and determined as a king, having absolute power over his subjects to enact and enjoin what he pleased; wherefore some think these refer to ceremonial laws, which depended upon the will of the lawgiver, and were not founded in any natural sense or reason, wherefore it follows:
I [am] the Lord your God: who had a right to make what laws he pleased, being their Sovereign, and which they in gratitude as well as in justice ought to obey, he being their God, their covenant God, who had done great and good things for them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
4. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments. Because it is no less difficult to correct vices, to which men have been long accustomed, than to cure diseases of long standing, especially because people in general so pertinaciously cleave to bad examples, God adduces His statutes, in order to recall the people from the errors of their evil habits into the right way. For nothing is more absurd than for us to fix our minds on the actions of men, and not on God’s word, in which is to be found the rule of a holy life. It is, therefore, just as if God would overthrow whatever had been received from long custom, and abolish the universal consent of the world by the authority of His doctrine. With this object He commands His Law to be regarded not once only, as we have already seen, lest the Israelites should abandon themselves to filthy lusts; but He diligently inculcates upon them, that they should turn away from all abuses, and keep themselves within the bounds and ordinances of His Law. And to this refers the expression, “I am the Lord your God;” containing a comparison between Himself and the heathen nations, between whom and His people He had interposed, as it were, a wall of partition.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(4) Ye shall do my judgments.The expression my judgments and mine ordinances is here used emphatically, in opposition to their ordinances, and has here the force of Mine only; just as the phrase Him shalt thou serve (Deu. 6:13) is explained by Christ Him only shalt thou serve (Mat. 4:10).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
4. Judgments Judicial utterances or legal precepts.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 18:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I [am] the LORD your God.
Ver. 4. To walk therein. ] Not to halt therein, nor to take a turn or two, or for a while, as Samson went with his parents till he met with a honeycomb; but indesinenter ambulabo, as David saith, Psa 116:9 “Walk, and not be weary; run, and not faint,” as those in Isa 40:31 . “So run, that ye may obtain,” saith the apostle. 1Co 9:24
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
judgments = regulations.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Lev 18:26, Lev 19:37, Lev 20:22, Deu 4:1, Deu 4:2, Deu 6:1, Psa 105:45, Psa 119:4, Eze 20:19, Eze 36:27, Eze 37:24, Luk 1:6, Joh 15:14
Reciprocal: Lev 18:30 – I am Lev 20:8 – And ye Lev 22:31 – General Lev 26:3 – General Eze 18:17 – that hath not Heb 9:1 – had
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 18:4. My judgments Though you do not see the particular reason of some of them, and though they be contrary to the laws and usages of the other nations.