31<\/strong>. I will not smell<\/em>, etc.] Cp. Isa 1:11<\/span> ff.; Amo 5:21<\/span> f.<\/p>\n Your sanctuaries; <\/B>either, <\/P> 1. Gods sanctuary, called sanctuaries here, as also Psa 73:17<\/span>; 74:7<\/span>; Jer 51:51<\/span>; Eze 28:18<\/span>, because there were divers apartments in it, each of which was a sanctuary, or, which is all one, a holy place, as they are severally called. And your<\/I> emphatically, not mine, for I disown and abhor it, and all the services you do in it, because you have defiled it. Or, <\/P> 2. The temples built by you to idols, therefore called <\/P> their sanctuaries, <\/B>in opposition to Gods. Or, <\/P> 3. Your synagogues. But the first is most probable, because he speaks of the place where they used to offer their sweet odours here following. <\/P> I will not smell, <\/B>i.e. not own or accept them. See Gen 8:21<\/span>; Isa 1:11<\/span>, &c. <\/P> Of your sweet odours; <\/B>either of the incense, or of your sacrifices, which when offered with faith and obedience, are very sweet and acceptable to me. <\/P> <\/p>\n 31. I will make your citieswaste<\/B>This destruction of its numerous and flourishing cities,which was brought upon Judea through the sins of Israel, took placeby the forced removal of the people during, and long after, thecaptivity. But it is realized to a far greater extent now. <\/P> bring your sanctuaries untodesolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours<\/B>thetabernacle and temple, as is evident from the tenor of the subsequentclause, in which God announces that He will not accept or regardtheir sacrifices.<\/P><\/p>\n I will make your cities waste<\/strong>,…. By suffering the enemy to besiege them, enter into them, and plunder them, and destroy the houses in them, and reduce them to the most desolate condition, as Jerusalem, their metropolis, was more than once:<\/p>\n and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation<\/strong>; the temple, so called from the several apartments in it, the court, the holy place, and the most holy; or rather both sanctuaries or temples are intended, the first built by Solomon, and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar; the second rebuilt by Zerubbabel, and adorned by Herod, and reduced to ashes by Titus Vespasian: the Jews understand this of their synagogues, which were many both in Jerusalem, and in other parts of their country, but cannot be intended, since it follows:<\/p>\n and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours<\/strong>: of their incense offered on the altar of incense; or the savour of their offerings, as the Targum of Jonathan, of their burnt offerings, and the fat of their other offerings burnt on the altar of burnt offering; signifying, that these would not be acceptable to him, or he smell a savour of rest in them; see Ge 8:21<\/span>; now these were only offered in the temple, not in synagogues.<\/p>\n Their towns and their sanctuaries He would destroy, because He took no pleasure in their sacrificial worship. are the holy things of the worship of Jehovah, the tabernacle and temple, with their altars and the rest of their holy furniture, as in Ps. 68:36; Psa 74:7<\/span>. (Lev 1:9<\/span>) is the odour of the sacrifice; and , to smell, an anthropomorphic designation of divine satisfaction (cf. Amo 5:21<\/span>; Isa 11:3<\/span>).<\/p>\n (31) I will make your cities waste.<\/strong>Not only will the elevated spots outside the cities with their idols be destroyed, and the carcases of the deluded worshippers be scattered among their remains, but the cities themselves will be converted into ruins and desolations (Jer. 4:7<\/span>; Jer. 9:11<\/span>; Eze. 6:6<\/span>; Eze. 12:20<\/span>; Neh. 2:17<\/span>, &c.).<\/p>\n And bring your sanctuaries unto desolation.<\/strong>Even the sanctuary with all its holy places (Jer. 51:51<\/span>; Eze. 21:7<\/span>; Amo. 7:9<\/span>; Pss. 68:36, Psa. 74:7<\/span>. &c.), sacred edifices, synagogues, &c. (Lev. 21:23<\/span>), will not be spared, God thus reversing the promise which He made to the Israelites, that He will set up His dwelling place in the midst of them (see Lev. 26:11<\/span>) if they will walk according to His commandments.<\/p>\n I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.<\/strong>When this awful destruction of the sanctuary is to take place God will not regard the fact that the odour of sweet sacrifices is there being offered up. (See Lev. 1:9<\/span>.) The service which may then be performed to Him will not hinder Him from executing this judgment.<\/p>\n 31<\/strong>. <\/strong> I will make your cities waste <\/strong> Palestine is filled with ruined cities. Says Porter, in his Giant Cities of Bashan: <\/em> “Every opening to the right and left revealed ruins; now a tomb in a quiet nook; now a temple in a lonely forest glade; now a shapeless and nameless heap of stones and fallen columns; and now, through a long green vista, the shattered walls and towers of an ancient city. The country is filled with ruins. In every direction to which the eye turns, in every spot on which it rests, ruins are visible so truly, so wonderfully, have the prophecies been fulfilled. Every view we got in Bashan was an ocular demonstration of the literal fulfilment of the curse pronounced on the land by Moses more than three thousand years ago. One day I climbed a peak which commands the sea of Galilee and the Jordan valley up to the waters of Merom. I was able to distinguish, by the aid of a glass, in a region thirty miles long by ten wide, every spot celebrated in sacred history. My eye swept the sea from north to south, from east to west; not a single sail, not a solitary boat, was there. My eye swept the great Jordan valley, the little plains, the glens, the mountain sides from base to summit not a city, not a village, not a house, not a sign of settled habitation was there, except a few huts at Magdala and the shattered houses of Tiberias. Desolation keeps unbroken sabbath in Galilee now. Nature has lavished on the country some of her choicest gifts a rich soil, a genial climate but the curse of Heaven has come upon it because of the sin of man.” Keith, after enumerating a large number of celebrated cities in the Holy Land lying in utter desolation, exclaims: “How marvellously are the predictions of their desolation verified, when, in general, nothing but ruined ruins form the most distinguished remnants of the cities of Israel; and when the multitude of its towns are almost all left, with many a vestige to testify of their number, but without a mark to tell their name.” <\/p>\n Your sanctuaries <\/strong> By the use of the plural number there may be an implied reference to idolatrous temples, but it is more probable that the future sanctuary cities, Bethel, Shiloh, and Jerusalem, are proleptically referred to, including the numerous synagogues scattered over the land. <\/p>\n I will not smell the savour <\/strong> In other words, “I will not smell with pleasure, 1 will not enjoy, <\/em> the savour of your sweet odours.” Only the penitent, obedient, and devout heart can please God or appropriate spiritual good. The mere mechanical performance of sacrifice and burning of incense, dissevered from the appropriate state of the moral and religious sensibilities, is a solemn mockery and abomination. See Introductory notes 7 and 8. Isa 1:11-15<\/span>.<\/p>\n Lev 26:31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.<\/p>\n Ver. 31. I will not smell.<\/strong> ] I will show myself implacable, inexorable.<\/p>\n sanctuaries, or holy places. Some codices, with one printed edition, Samaritan Pentateuch, and Syriac, read the singular “sanctuary”. <\/p>\n smell. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. <\/p>\n odours. Compare Isa 11:3 (margin). <\/p>\n And I will make: 2Ki 25:4-10, 2Ch 36:19, Neh 2:3, Neh 2:17, Isa 1:7, Isa 24:10-12, Jer 4:7, Jer 9:11, Lam 1:1, Lam 2:7, Eze 6:6, Eze 21:15, Mic 3:12 <\/p>\n and bring: Psa 74:3-8, Jer 22:5, Jer 26:6, Jer 26:9, Jer 52:13, Lam 1:10, Eze 9:6, Eze 21:7, Eze 24:21, Mat 24:1, Mat 24:2, Luk 21:5, Luk 21:6, Luk 21:24, Act 6:14 <\/p>\n I will not smell: Gen 8:21, Isa 1:11-14, Isa 66:3, Amo 5:21-23, Heb 10:26 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Deu 4:26 – ye shall Deu 28:20 – until thou be Jos 23:13 – until ye perish 1Sa 26:19 – accept 2Ki 22:19 – a desolation 1Ch 10:7 – then they Isa 5:5 – I will take Jer 13:19 – Judah Jer 17:4 – shalt Eze 5:14 – I will Dan 2:46 – and sweet Hos 11:6 – the sword Amo 7:9 – the high Luk 13:35 – your<\/p>\n Lev 26:31. Your sanctuaries into desolation The sanctuary of God, though but one, is expressed in the plural number here, as it is also Psa 73:17; and Psa 84:7; Jer 51:51; and Eze 28:18; because there were divers apartments in it, each of which was a sanctuary, or holy place. God vouchsafes not to call it his own, but theirs, to show that by their wickedness it would be polluted and rendered unworthy of him, and that therefore he would disown and abhor it, and all the services which they should perform in it; which was most awfully fulfilled. The savour of your sweet odours The incense made of several sweet spices, which was daily offered to God in the sanctuary. These, though when offered to God with faith and obedience they were sweet and acceptable to him, he here threatens he will not smell, or accept, as being presented in hypocrisy and unbelief. The expression is metaphorical, and signifies that neither their prayers nor sacrifices should be accepted.<\/p>\n 26:31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I {p} will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.<\/p>\n (p) I will not accept your sacrifices.<\/p>\n And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors. 31. I will not smell, etc.] Cp. Isa 1:11 ff.; Amo 5:21 f. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Your sanctuaries; either, 1. 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