Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 26:19
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
19. the pride of your power ] the pride with which ye rely upon your prosperity and the fruitfulness of your land. The expression is found elsewhere only in Ezekiel, where in Eze 7:24 LXX., Eze 24:21, Eze 33:28 it refers to the fall of the nation and the destruction of Jerusalem; in Eze 30:6; Eze 30:18, the phrase is applied to Egypt.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The pride of your power, i.e. your strength, of which you are proud, your numerous and united forces, your kingdom, yea, your ark and sanctuary.
Your earth as brass; the heavens shall yield you no rain, nor the earth fruits.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
19. I will make your heaven as iron,and your earth as brassNo figures could have been employed toconvey a better idea of severe and long-continued famine.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And I will break the pride of your power,…. Which the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi interpret of the sanctuary, which they were proud of, trusted in, and boasted of; but was broke or destroyed, first by Nebuchadnezzar, then by the Romans: but it may rather signify their country, the glory of all lands for its fruitfulness, which for their sins should become barren, as follows; or the multitude of their forces, and the strength of their mighty men of war, in which they put their confidence; it may take in everything, civil and ecclesiastical, they prided themselves with, and had their dependence on, thinking themselves safe on account of them, but should be broken to shivers, and be of no service to them:
and I will make your heaven as iron; so that neither dew nor rain shall descend from thence to make the earth fruitful; but, on the contrary, an heat should be reflected, which would parch it, and make it barren:
and your earth as brass; that the seed could not be cast into it, nor anything spring out of it, for the service of man and beast, so that a famine must unavoidably follow.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(19) And I will break the pride of your power.That is, the strength which is the cause of your pride, the wealth which they derive from the abundant harvests mentioned in Lev. 26:4-5, as is evident from what follows immediately, where the punishment is threatened against the resources of this power or wealth. Comp. Eze. 30:6; Eze. 33:28.) The authorities during the second Temple, however, took the phrase the pride of your power to denote the sanctuary, which is called the pride of your power in Eze. 24:21. the expression used here, but the identity of which is obliterated in the Authorised Version by rendering the phrase the excellency of your strength. Hence the Chaldee Versions paraphrase it, And I will break down the glory of the strength of your sanctuary.
I will make your heaven as iron.That is, the heaven which is over them shall yield no more rain than if it were of metal. In Deu. 28:23, where the same punishment is threatened, and the same figure is used, the metals are reversed, the heaven is brass, and the earth iron.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
19, 20. Pride of power The conceit of national puissance, which is so unlike the spirit of dependence and humility, must be eradicated by painful methods.
Heaven as iron The rain promised to the obedient shall be withheld from the disobedient. See Lev 26:4, note.
Earth as brass Through lack of water the fields will be as void of herbage as if metallic.
They shall yield no increase under the divine curse, in amazing contrast to the plethoric garners promised in Lev 26:4-5. In respect to spiritual good, the same contrast exists now between those who distrust and those who fully believe the promise of the Father respecting the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 26:19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
Ver. 19. Your heaven as iron. ] Hard hearts make hard times.
“ En quia iam nobis sint ferrea pectora, reddit
Coelum etiam nobis durius aere Deus.
Et quia iam nummos gignant pro faenore nummi:
Ante ferax tellus desinit esse ferax. ” a
a Bill. Anthol., lib. ii.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
of. Genitive of cause, the power being the cause of the pride = your great pride. Compare Eze 30:6. So Eze 24:21, where the sense is lost in Authorized Version by the rendering “the excellency of your strength”.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
will break: 1Sa 4:3, 1Sa 4:11, Isa 2:12, Isa 25:11, Isa 26:5, Jer 13:9, Eze 7:24, Eze 30:6, Dan 4:37, Zep 3:11
make: Deu 28:23, 1Ki 17:1, Jer 14:1-6, Luk 4:25
Reciprocal: Deu 28:18 – thy land Rth 1:1 – a famine 2Sa 21:1 – a famine 1Ki 8:35 – heaven 2Ki 8:1 – the Lord 2Ki 20:17 – shall be carried 2Ch 6:26 – the heaven Jer 3:3 – the showers Jer 14:4 – the ground Hag 1:10 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 26:19-20. The pride of your power That is, your strength, of which you are proud, your numerous and united forces, your kingdom, yea, your ark and sanctuary. I will make your heaven as iron The heavens shall yield you no rain, nor the earth, fruits. Your strength shall be spent in vain In ploughing, and sowing, and tilling the ground.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
26:19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as {i} iron, and your earth as brass:
(i) You shall have drought and barrenness.