Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 26:46
These [are] the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
46. the statutes and judgements and laws ] This wording shews that the v. forms the conclusion not merely of this ch. but of the whole ‘Law of Holiness’ (Lev 26:17-26).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 46. These are the statutes, and judgments, c.] See Clarke on Le 26:15. This verse appears to be the proper concluding verse of the whole book and I rather think that the 27th chapter originally followed the 25th. As the law was anciently written upon skins of parchment, sheep or goat skins, pasted or stitched together, and all rolled up in one roll, the matter being written in columns, one of those columns might have been very easily displaced, and thus whole chapters might have been readily interchanged. – It is likely that this might have been the case in the present instance. Others endeavour to solve this difficulty, by supposing that the 27th chapter was added after the book had been finished; and therefore there is apparently a double conclusion, one at the end of the 26th and the other at the end of the 27th chapter. However the above may have been, all the ancient versions agree in concluding both the chapters in nearly the same way; yet the 26th chapter must be allowed to be by far the most natural conclusion of the book.
THE most important points in this chapter have already been particularly noticed in the notes; and to those on the 15th, 34th, and 44th verses, the reader is especially referred. How unwilling is God to cast off his people! and yet how sure is their rejection if they refuse to obey and live to him! No nation has ever been so signally elected as the Jews; and yet no nation has ever been so signally and so awfully reprobated. O Britain, be not high-minded, but fear! Behold here the goodness and severity of God!
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
46. These are the statutes andjudgments and lawsIt has been thought by some that the lastchapter was originally placed after the twenty-fifth [ADAMCLARKE], while othersconsider that the next chapter was added as an appendix, inconsequence of many people being influenced by the promises andthreats of the preceding one, to resolve that they would dedicatethemselves and their possessions to the service of God [CALMET].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
These [are] the statutes, and judgments, and laws,…. Which refer not only to those in this chapter, but in all the preceding chapters in this book, and respect them all, whether ceremonial, moral, or judicial, which may be signified by these three words:
which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel; the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan are,
“between his Word and the children of Israel:”
in Mount Sinai; or near it, in the wilderness of it, while the children of Israel lay encamped about it:
by the hand of Moses; they were first delivered to him, and by means of him to the people.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Lev 26:46 contains the close of the entire book, or rather of the whole of the covenant legislation from Ex 25 onwards, although the expression “in Mount Sinai” points back primarily to Lev 25:1.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(46) These are the statutes and judgments.That is, the statutes and judgments contained in Lev. 25:1 to Lev. 26:45.
In Mount Sinai.That is, in the mountainous district of Sinai. This group of statutes therefore concludes with the very phrase with which it began (see Lev. 25:1), thus showing that it forms a section by itself.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
46. In mount Sinai The whole Sinaitic peninsula is thus designated. It is not necessary to suppose that the whole of the ceremonial law was delivered on the summit of the mount where the decalogue was received.
By the hand of Moses Says Dr. Green, in his reply to W. Robertson Smith: “The Mosaic origin of the Levitical laws is abundantly declared by the formulas with which they are introduced, and which occur over and over again: The LORD spake unto Moses, or the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron; and the formulas by which they are often followed, for example, Lev 7:37-38; Lev 23:44; Lev 27:34.”
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 26:46. These are the statutes, &c. See the note on the first verse of the next chapter.
REFLECTIONS.While there is life there is hope. It is never too late to return to God. The greatness of our provocations, or the length of our rebellions, prevent not his compassions towards us. May such patience and goodness of God lead us to repentance!
1. Their repentance is here described. They must confess their sins, and acknowledge God’s hand in their visitation. Deep humiliation of heart must accompany these penitent acknowledgments, in the view of their baseness and ingratitude to their gracious God, with humble acquiescence in their punishment, glorifying God in the justice of it. Note; (1.) The great evil of sin is the opposition of the heart to God. This carnal mind is the heaviest burden to the awakened soul. (2.) When God’s grace joins with his afflictive providences, then the convinced soul is softened to sensibility, and bowed into the dust of humiliation. (3.) The humble soul will ever bear the miseries that sin has brought upon it with patience, and be more solicitous to have the end of the visitation answered, than the burden of it removed.
2. Mercy promised to them on returning to their God: not indeed for their sake, but because of that covenant which God had established with their fathers. He will remember mercy in the midst of judgment, and, as a tender father, extend to them that favour which they had so justly forfeited. Note; It is for Jesus’s sake, not our own, that the least regard can be shewed us; and in him there is such fulness of merit, and freedom of promise, that none need despair.
Thus Moses concludes his message from God, and Israel are to prove their obedience. While they do so, God will be in the midst of them, and they shall experience the blessings of fidelity.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
REFLECTIONS
OH! what a gracious merciful GOD is the GOD with whom we have to do, of whom it may be truly said, he punisheth us less than our sins deserve. May it be my mercy, O LORD, through thy sovereign grace, to walk with thee in all thy statutes and in all thine ordinances, with a jealous eye to thy glory; that the LORD may give me all these blessings both in a temporal sense and in a spiritual; that my heaven may never be iron, nor my earth brass. But chiefly, while a bountiful GOD and Saviour gives me all things richly to enjoy, neither the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, nor the precious things put forth by the moon, may be half so precious to my soul as the good will of him that dwelt in the bush. And, dearest LORD, in all thy rebukes, for the manifold departures of my soul from thee; oh, give me grace, that the most gentle of thy chastisements may call my heart home from its rebellions. LORD! evermore give me to hear the rod, and who hath appointed it. May it never be my case to seek comfort by hiding or lessening my transgression; but in confessing and forsaking it: and so to seek peace with GOD through our LORD JESUS CHRIST. And blessed JESUS, let me add, may the precious teachings of thine HOLY SPIRIT continually lead me to this sure conclusion; that all my pardon and peace is obtained, not for anything that I have done or can do; but from the covenant righteousness of GOD in CHRIST; what thou hast done and suffered; and what the FATHER of mercies hath engaged to perform, for his own sake, and for his righteousness sake, to whose holy name be all the glory!
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
children. Hebrew sons.
in mount Sinai: thus concluding with the words with which this section began in Lev 25:1.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
As this verse appears to be the proper concluding verse of the whole book, Dr. A. Clarke thinks that the Lev 27:1, originally followed Lev 25:1. Others suppose that the 27th chapter was added after the book was finished; and, therefore, there is apparently a double conclusion, one at the end of this, and another at the end of the 27th chapter. All the ancient versions agree in concluding both chapters in nearly the same way.
the statutes: Lev 27:34, Deu 6:1, Deu 12:1, Deu 13:4, Joh 1:17
in mount Sinai: Lev 25:1
by the hand: Lev 8:36, Num 4:37, Psa 77:20
Reciprocal: 2Ch 34:14 – Moses
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 26:46. These are the statutes, &c. This may reasonably refer to the whole body of laws contained in the preceding history from Exodus 20. And then the sense will be, that from that period to this, we have a complete detail of all the laws, with the promises and threatenings annexed to them, that were at that time delivered from God to the Israelites, at mount Sinai, by the ministry of Moses. Between him and the children of Israel Hereby his communion with his church is kept up. He manifests not only his dominion over them, but his favour to them, by giving them his law. And they manifest not only their holy fear, but their holy love, by the observance of it. And thus it is made between them rather as a covenant than as a law: for he draws them with the cords of a man.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 26:46. Conclusion of the whole H code.
Fuente: Peake’s Commentary on the Bible
26:46 These [are] the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount {y} Sinai by the hand of Moses.
(y) Fifty days after they came out of Egypt.