Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 26:44
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I [am] the LORD their God.
Verse 44. Neither will I abhor them to destroy them utterly] Though God has literally fulfilled all his threatenings upon this people in dispossessing them of their land, destroying their polity, overturning their city, demolishing their temple, and scattering themselves over the face of the whole earth; yet he has, in his providence, strangely preserved them as a distinct people, and in very considerable numbers also. He still remembers the covenant of their ancestors, and in his providence and grace he has some very important design in their favour. All Israel shall yet be saved, and, with the Gentiles, they shall all be restored to his favour; and under Christ Jesus, the great Shepherd; become, with them, one grand everlasting fold.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Neither the desperateness of their condition, nor the greatness of their sins, shall make me wholly make void my covenant with them and their ancestors, but I will in due time remember them for good, and for my covenants sake return to them in mercy. From this place the Jews take great comfort, and assure themselves of deliverance out of their present servitude and misery. And from this, and such other places, St. Paul concludes that the Israelitish nation, though then rejected and ruined, should be gathered again and restored.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And yet for all that,…. I will have on them, in or through my Word, as the Targum of Jonathan; notwithstanding their many and great sins and transgressions, and the sad and miserable condition they were brought into by them, the Lord would have mercy on them and be gracious to them, through Christ and for his sake, and convert and save them, see Ro 11:26; the Jews, as Fagius tells us, wonderfully delight themselves with this passage, and read it with the greatest joy and pleasure, and with an elevated voice; concluding from hence that they shall certainly return to their own land; and because the first word in this verse is in sound the same as the Germans use for an “ape”, they call this paragraph “the golden ape”, and say, when this shall be fulfilled the golden age will take place with them: a very learned man f has wrote a dissertation upon it: when
they shall be in the land of their enemies; of the Romans and other nations, among whom they have been disposed ever since the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus:
I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly; for though they have been cast away by the Lord out of their land, and from being his people, and enjoying either the civil or religious privileges they formerly did; and though they have been cast off with abhorrence, and had in great detestation by him, for their sin of rejecting the Messiah, as appears by the punishment inflicted on them; yet not so as to make an utter end of them as a body of people, for, notwithstanding their dispersion everywhere, and their long captivity, they remain a distinct people from all others, which seems to forebode something favourable to them:
and to break my covenant with them; which he will not do, even his promise of the future call and conversion of them, and of their return to their own land:
for I [am] the Lord their God; their covenant God, and a covenant keeping God, Ro 11:27.
f Carpzovius de aurea Judaeorum Simia, in Thesaur. Theolog. Philolog. vol. 1. p. 344. vid. Pfeiffer. dubia vexata cent. 2. loc. 17. p. 145.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
“And yet, even with regard to this, when they shall be in the land of their enemies, have I not despised them.” That is to say, if it shall have come even so far as that they are in the land of their enemies (the words stand first in an absolute sense, and are strengthened or intensified by and more fully explained by ), I have not rejected them, to destroy them and break My covenant with them. For I am Jehovah their God, who, as the absolutely existing and unchangeably faithful One, keeps His promises and does not repent of His calling (Rom 11:29).
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(44) And yet for all that.Better, And yet even so, that is, even if it be so that they remain exiles in foreign lands for a long time, this is no proof that God has finally cast them off, has given them over to destruction, and abrogated His covenant with them. He is always their God, and will keep His covenant for ever.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
44. Neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly The purpose of Jehovah embraced the ultimate conversion to the Lord Jesus of that generation of Jews who should be on the earth when the fulness of the Gentiles has been brought to Christ. Towards this end the marvellous continuance of the Jews in their world-wide dispersion manifestly looks. See Luk 21:24; Rom 11:25-26, notes. After the fulness of the Gentiles has been brought into the kingdom of Christ, so strong will be the faith of the Church that an era of great spiritual illumination will come, in which the seed of Abraham will be as powerfully converted as was Saul of Tarsus.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
when, &c. Compare Deu 4:31. 2Ki 13:23. Rom 11:1, Rom 11:2, Rom 11:28, Rom 11:29.
I am the LORD. Compare Psa 144:15; Psa 33:12.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
I will: Deu 4:29-31, 2Ki 13:23, Neh 9:31, Psa 94:14, Eze 14:22, Eze 14:23, Rom 11:2, Rom 11:26
abhor: Lev 26:11
break: Psa 89:33, Jer 14:21, Jer 33:20, Jer 33:21, Eze 16:60
Reciprocal: Deu 29:1 – the words Jos 10:35 – utterly Jdg 16:22 – the hair Psa 78:59 – greatly Psa 89:34 – covenant Jer 4:27 – yet Lam 2:7 – cast off Eze 11:16 – Thus saith Eze 28:25 – When Zec 11:8 – and my Zec 13:9 – It is my people
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 26:44. For I am the Lord their God Therefore neither the desperateness of their condition, nor the greatness of their sins, shall cause me wholly to make void my covenant with them and their ancestors, but I will in due time remember them for good, and for my covenants sake return to them in mercy. From this place the Jews take great comfort, and assure themselves of deliverance out of their present servitude and misery. And from this, and such other places, St. Paul concludes that the Israelitish nation, though then rejected and ruined, should be gathered again and restored.