Lectionary Calendar
Sunday, July 20th, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
Attention!
Tired of seeing ads while studying? Now you can enjoy an "Ads Free" version of the site for as little as 10¢ a day and support a great cause!
Click here to learn more!

Read the Bible

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Imamat 26:1

"Janganlah kamu membuat berhala bagimu, dan patung atau tugu berhala janganlah kamu dirikan bagimu; juga batu berukir janganlah kamu tempatkan di negerimu untuk sujud menyembah kepadanya, sebab Akulah TUHAN, Allahmu.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Idol;   Idolatry;   Picture;   Scofield Reference Index - Covenant;   Law of Moses;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Idolatry;   Worship, False;   Worship, True and False;   The Topic Concordance - Abhorrence;   Bowing;   Covenant;   Idolatry;   Obedience;   Safety;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Pillars;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Education in Bible Times;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Stones;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Figured Stone;   Leviticus;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Sanctification, Sanctify;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Figure;   Imagery;   Images;   Leviticus;   Obelisk;   Pillar;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adoration, Forms of;   Commandments, the 613;   Pillar;   Stone and Stone-Worship;   Yudan ben Manasseh;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
"Janganlah kamu membuat berhala bagimu, dan patung atau tugu berhala janganlah kamu dirikan bagimu; juga batu berukir janganlah kamu tempatkan di negerimu untuk sujud menyembah kepadanya, sebab Akulah TUHAN, Allahmu.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka jangan kamu memperbuat berhala atau patung akan dirimu dan jangan kamu mendirikan dia bagi dirimu, dan batu yang terukirpun jangan kamu taruh dalam negerimu akan menyembah sujud di hadapannya, karena Akulah Tuhan, Allahmu!

Contextual Overview

1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graue image, neither reare you vp any piller, neither shall ye set vp any image of stone in your lande to bowe downe vnto it: for I am the Lorde your God. 2 Ye shall kepe my Sabbathes, and reuerence my sanctuarie: for I am the Lorde. 3 If ye walke in my ordinaunces, and kepe my commaundementes, & do the: 4 I wyll sende you rayne in due season, and the lande shall yeelde her increase, and the trees of the fielde shall geue their fruite: 5 And your thresshyng shal reache vnto the vintage, & the vintage shall reache vnto sowyng tyme: and ye shall eate your bread in plenteousnesse, and dwell in your lande safely. 6 And I wyll sende peace in the lande, and ye shall lye downe without any man to make you afrayde: And I wyll ridde euyll beastes out of the lande, and there shall no sworde go throughout your lande. 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shal fall before you vpon ye sworde. 8 And fiue of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousande to flight: & your enemies shall fall before you vpon the sworde. 9 For I wyll haue respect vnto you, and make you increase, and multiplie you, and set vp my couenaunt with you. 10 And ye shall eate olde store, and cary out olde, because of the newe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ye shall: Leviticus 19:4, Exodus 20:4, Exodus 20:5, Exodus 20:23, Exodus 23:24, Exodus 34:17, Deuteronomy 4:16-19, Deuteronomy 5:8, Deuteronomy 5:9, Deuteronomy 16:21, Deuteronomy 16:22, Deuteronomy 27:15, Psalms 97:7, Psalms 115:4-8, Isaiah 2:20, Isaiah 44:9-20, Isaiah 48:5-8, Jeremiah 10:3-8, Acts 17:29, Romans 2:22, Romans 2:23, 1 Corinthians 10:19, 1 Corinthians 10:20, Revelation 13:14, Revelation 13:15, Revelation 22:15

standing image: or, pillar

image of stone: or, figured stone, Heb. a stone of picture

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:33 - that offereth Deuteronomy 4:40 - keep Deuteronomy 5:6 - I am the Deuteronomy 7:5 - images Deuteronomy 30:1 - the blessing Joshua 8:34 - blessings Judges 18:30 - set up 1 Kings 14:23 - images 2 Kings 17:10 - they set 2 Kings 17:12 - whereof Isaiah 44:8 - have declared Hosea 10:1 - images

Cross-References

Genesis 25:11
And it came to passe after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his sonne Isahac, and Isahac dwelled by the well of liuing and seeing me.
Genesis 26:1
And there fell a famine in the land, besides the first that was in the dayes of Abraham: And Isahac went vnto Abimelech, king of the Philistines, vnto Gerar.
Genesis 26:2
And the Lorde appeared vnto hym, and sayde: Go not downe into Egypt, [but] abyde in the lande whiche I shall shewe vnto thee.
Genesis 26:22
And then he departed thence, & digged another well, for the which they stroue not. Therfore called he it roomth, saying: the Lorde hath made vs nowe roome that we may encrease vpon the earth.
Genesis 26:32
And the same daye Isahacs seruauntes came and tolde hym of a well which they had dygged, and sayde vnto hym, we haue founde water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall have no idols, or graven image,.... Some of the Jewish writers, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra, think this law against idolatry is mentioned on account of the Israelite sold to a stranger, spoken of in the latter part of the preceding chapter, lest he should be drawn into idolatry; :-; but this is rather mentioned as being a principal law, respecting the honour and glory of God, and the foundation of all religion and godliness, and the breach of it a capital crime, and which led on to other sins, and exposed to the displeasure and resentment of God, and brought on all the calamities after mentioned in this chapter. "Idols" here signify "things of nought", as an idol is nothing in the world, 1 Corinthians 8:4; and a "graven image", any likeness of man or beast cut out of wood, or stone; and may include any molten image of gold, silver, or brass, and then engraven with a tool, as the golden calf was, Exodus 32:4:

neither rear you up a standing image; or pillar g; an heap of rude stones, set up pillar, not bearing the likeness of any creature; otherwise graven and molten images were standing ones, but these were statues without any figure; such as the Arabians used to worship; the god Mars, worshipped in Arabia Petraea, was no other than a black stone four square, unformed, four feet high, and two broad, and was placed on a basis of gold h;

neither shall ye set up [any] image of stone in your land, to bow down unto; any "figured stone", as the Targum and Aben Ezra interpret it, which had figures and representations of creatures cut in it, in order to bow down unto and worship: the word has the signification of covering, as they cover a floor with a pavement of stones:

for I [am] the Lord your God; who is the alone object of religious worship and adoration.

g מצבה στηλην Sept. "titulos", V. L. "titulum", Samar. Ar. "pillar", Ainsworth. h "Suidas in voce" θευς αρης Vid. Arnob. adv. Gentes, l. 6. p. 232.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Idols - literally, “things of nought.” Hebrew אלילים 'ĕlı̂ylı̂m. There appears to have been a play on the similarity in sound of this word to אלהים 'ĕlohı̂ym (God). Compare 1 Corinthians 8:4.

Standing image - Either an upright statue, or a pillar, such as an obelisk or a Celtic menhir, set up for an idolatrous purpose (compare Exodus 34:13 note). The public worship of Yahweh required, first, the exclusion of all visible symbols of deity as well as of all idolatrous objects, and next Leviticus 26:2, the keeping holy the times and the place appointed by the Law for His formal service. The word “sabbaths” must here include the whole of the set times. See Leviticus 23:3 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXVI

Idolatry forbidden, 1.

The Saobath to be sanctified, 2, 3.

Promises to obedience, of fruitful fields, plentiful harvests,

and vintage, 4, 5.

Of peace and security, 6.

Discomfiture of their enemies, 7-9.

Of abundance, 10.

Of the Divine presence, 11-13.

Threatenings against the disobedient, 14, 15.

Of terror and dismay, 16.

Their enemies shall prevail against them, 17, 18.

Of barrenness, 19, 20.

Of desolation by wild beasts, 21, 22.

And if not humbled and reformed, worse evils shall be inflicted

upon them, 23, 24.

Their enemies shall prevail, and they shall be wasted by the

pestilence, 25, 26.

If they should still continue refractory they shall be yet more

sorely punished, 27, 28.

The famine shall so increase that they shall be obliged to eat

their own children, 29.

Their carcasses shall be cast upon the carcasses of their idols,

30.

Their cities shall be wasted, and the sanctuary desolated, 31;

the land destroyed, 32,

themselves scattered among their enemies, and pursued with utter

confusion and distress, 33-39.

If under these judgments they confess their sin and return to

God, he will remember them in mercy, 40-43;

Visit them even in the land of their enemies, 44;

and remember his covenant with their fathers, 45.

The conclusion, stating these to be the judgments and laws which

the Lord made between himself and the children of Israel in

Mount Sinai, 46.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXVI

Verse Leviticus 26:1. Ye shall make you no idolsExodus 20:4; Exodus 20:4, and Genesis 28:18; Genesis 28:18; "Genesis 28:19", concerning consecrated stones. Not only idolatry in general is forbidden here, but also the superstitious use of innocent and lawful things. Probably the stones or pillars which were first set up, and anointed by holy men in commemoration of signal interpositions of God in their behalf, were afterward abused to idolatrous and superstitious purposes, and therefore prohibited. This we know was the case with the brazen serpent, 2 Kings 18:4.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile