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Leviticus 26:21
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19 I will abreak the pride of your power;
I bwill make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 
20 And your astrength shall be spent in vain;
for your bland shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit. 
21 ‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.
22 aI will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;
and byour highways shall be desolate. 
23 ‘And if aby these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me, 
24 athen I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 
25 And aI will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
when you are gathered together within your cities bI will send pestilence among you;
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 
26 aWhen I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, band you shall eat and not be satisfied. 
27 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
28 then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;
and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 aYou1 shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 
30 aI will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;
and My soul shall abhor you. 
31 I will lay your acities waste and bbring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not csmell the fragrance of your sweet aromas. 
32 aI will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it. 
33 aI will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;
your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. 
34 aThen the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 
35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—
for the time it did not rest on your asabbaths when you dwelt in it. 
36 ‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send afaintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;
they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues. 
37 aThey shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;
and byou shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 
38 You shall aperish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 
39 And those of you who are left ashall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;
also in their bfathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away. 
40 ‘But aif they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, 
41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if their auncircumcised hearts are bhumbled, and they caccept their guilt— 
Commentaries:


No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Leviticus 26:21.

Leviticus 26:21-41

Any word repeated exactly seven times in a passage is the crucial word in that section. Leviticus 26 contains horrifying details of the consequences when God’s covenant with Israel is shattered. In Leviticus 26:21-41, the word repeated seven times is keri. It means casual, random and mindless. These verses indicate that of all the damaging results of relating to God with unthinking casualness, the worst is that He subsequently relates to us in exactly the same way. This is the principle of reciprocity!

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