Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 26:22
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your [high] ways shall be desolate.
22. the beast of the field ] savage animals. Cp. 2Ki 17:25.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 22. I will also send wild beasts among you] God fulfilled these threatenings at different times. He sent fiery SERPENTS among them, Nu 21:6; LIONS, 2Kg 17:25; BEARS, 2Kg 2:24, and threatened them with total desolation, so that their land should be overrun with wild beasts, c., see Eze 5:17. “Spiritually,” says Mr. Ainsworth, “these are wicked rulers and tyrants that kill and spoil, Pr 28:15; Da 7:3-6; Ps 80:13; and false prophets that devour souls, Mt 7:15; Re 13:1, c. So the prophet, speaking of their punishment by tyrants, says: A LION out of the forest shall slay them a WOLF of the evening shall spoil them; a LEOPARD shall watch over their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn to pieces, because their transgressions be many. And of their prophets it is said: O Israel, thy prophets are like FOXES in the deserts, Eze 13:4; Jer 8:17; Jer 15:3.”
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
By reason of the fewness of travellers and people, and the terror of wild beasts growing more numerous thereby.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
22. I will also send wild beastsamong youThis was one of the four judgments threatened (Eze14:21; see also 2Ki 2:4).
your highways shall bedesolateTrade and commerce will be destroyedfreedom andsafety will be goneneither stranger nor native will be found onthe roads (Isa 33:8). This isan exact picture of the present state of the Holy Land, which haslong lain in a state of desolation, brought on by the sins of theancient Jews.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
I will also send wild beasts among you,…. Either in a literal sense, as lions, bears, wolves, c. and so is the reverse of what is promised to them on their doing well, Le 26:6 or figuratively, mighty monarchs and cruel oppressors, such as were the kings of Assyria and Babylon, Jer 50:17;
which shall rob you of your children; as the bears, in a literal sense, destroyed the children of them in the times of Elisha, 2Ki 2:24;
and destroy your cattle; the tame beasts, who often become a prey to the wild ones, as both those of the flock, and of the herd, sheep and oxen, do to lions, wolves, c.
and make you few in number or diminish them, their number, by bereaving them of their children, and their wealth and substance, by destroying their cattle:
and your [high] ways shall be desolate; or ways, the word high not being in the text, and may signify both their public and private ones, which would be all forsaken, none caring to venture to walk in them for fear of beasts of prey.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(22) I will also send wild beasts.Better, and I will send wild beasts. Wild beasts, which abounded in Palestine (Exo. 23:29), are used as a punishment for sin (Deu. 32:24; 2Ki. 17:25; Isa. 13:21-22; Eze. 14:15, &c.).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
22. Wild beasts As the promise includes the extinction of destructive beasts out of the land, so the threatening includes their multiplication and their importation from surrounding countries, as the following words imply.
I will send Before the invention of fire arms wild beasts frequently became a great scourge by their enormous increase.
Rob you of your children So frequently are children destroyed by wild beasts in India that the English government in their mortality reports in the census tables have a column for the enumeration of the “wolf-eaten” children. A disturbance of “the balance of the power,” by a diminution of men and an increase of wolves, would become a calamity of gigantic dimensions.
Your highways shall be desolate There can be no more impressive description of national decay than the disuse and desolation of the thoroughfares through which commerce and social intercourse have ceased to move their busy feet, by reason of the decrease of population, the decline of business, the perils of travel, (see Jdg 5:6, note,) and the absence of worshippers going up to the place of worship. Lam 1:4.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your [high] ways shall be desolate.
Ver. 22. I will also send wild beasts. ] As he did. Num 21:6 , 2Ki 17:25 ; 2Ki 2:24 Isa 13:21 Jer 5:6
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
wild beasts. These abounded in Palestine. (Deu 32:24. 2Ki 17:25. Isa 13:21, Isa 13:22. Eze 14:10, &c.)
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
wild: Lev 26:6, Deu 32:24, 2Ki 17:25, Jer 15:3, Eze 5:17, Eze 14:15, Eze 14:21
rob you: 2Ki 2:24
your high: Jdg 5:6, 2Ch 15:5, Isa 24:6, Isa 33:8, Lam 1:4, Eze 14:15, Eze 33:28, Mic 3:12, Zec 7:14
Reciprocal: Gen 9:2 – General Deu 28:62 – few in number Isa 15:9 – lions Isa 24:17 – and the pit Isa 65:23 – shall Jer 42:2 – left Rev 6:8 – kill
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall {l} rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your {m} [high] ways shall be desolate.
(l) Read 2Ki 17:25.
(m) Because no one dares to pass by it for fear of the beasts.