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Leviticus 26:11“‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 19:4Deut 27:15Exod 23:24Num 33:52Exod 20:4-51 Cor 10:19-20Rev 13:14-15Deut 16:21-22Exod 20:23Jer 10:3-8
Leviticus 26:22You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 19:30
Leviticus 26:33“‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Isa 1:19Deut 11:13-15Deut 28:1-14Isa 48:18-19Ps 81:12-16Judg 2:1-2Matt 7:24-25Rom 2:7-10Deut 7:12Josh 23:14-15
Leviticus 26:44I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Zech 8:12Ps 67:6Deut 11:14Deut 28:12Ezek 34:26-27Ezek 36:30Isa 30:23Job 5:10Joel 2:23-24Lev 25:21
Leviticus 26:55Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Amos 9:13Joel 2:26Joel 2:19Lev 25:18-19Deut 11:151 Tim 6:17Ezek 34:25-28Prov 1:33Ps 91:1-141 Pet 1:5
Leviticus 26:66I will grant peace in the land so that you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword of war will pass through your land.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Isa 35:9Zeph 3:13Ps 147:14Jer 30:10Ezek 34:25Hag 2:9Hos 2:18Ps 29:11Ezek 14:15Exod 23:29
Leviticus 26:77You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchart
Leviticus 26:88Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Josh 23:10Deut 28:7Deut 32:301 Chr 11:20Judg 7:19-21Num 14:91 Sam 14:6-161 Chr 11:11Ps 81:14-151 Sam 17:45-52
Leviticus 26:99I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Gen 17:6-7Neh 9:23Ezek 16:62Ps 107:38Isa 55:3Gen 28:3Ps 138:6-7Deut 28:11Jer 33:3Deut 28:4
Leviticus 26:1010You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 25:222 Kgs 19:29Luke 12:17
Leviticus 26:1111“‘I will put my tabernacle in your midst and I will not abhor you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 25:8Rev 21:3Exod 29:45Ps 132:13-14Eph 2:22Ps 106:40Ezek 37:26-28Lev 20:23Ps 76:21 Kgs 8:13
Leviticus 26:1212I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:2 Cor 6:16Jer 30:22Jer 7:23Exod 6:7Deut 23:14Heb 11:16Joel 2:27Exod 19:5-6Isa 41:10Zech 13:9
Leviticus 26:1313I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ezek 34:27Exod 20:2Lev 25:38Ps 116:161 Cor 6:19-20Jer 2:20Lev 25:55Ps 81:6-10Isa 51:23Lev 25:42
Leviticus 26:1414“‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments—Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Deut 28:15-68Lev 26:18Jer 17:27Lam 2:17Acts 3:23Heb 12:25Lam 1:18Mal 2:2
Leviticus 26:1515if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant—Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:2 Kgs 17:15Deut 31:16Ezek 16:59Isa 24:5Jer 11:10Num 15:31Zech 7:11-131 Thess 4:82 Chr 36:162 Sam 12:9-10
Leviticus 26:1616I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Job 31:8Jer 5:17Mic 6:151 Sam 2:33Hag 1:6Deut 28:21-22Deut 28:32-35Deut 28:51Judg 6:3-6Ps 78:33
Leviticus 26:1717I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 17:10Prov 28:1Deut 28:25Lev 26:36-37Ps 53:51 Sam 31:1Jer 19:7Judg 2:14Ps 106:41-421 Sam 4:10
Leviticus 26:1818“‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 26:21Lev 26:24Lev 26:281 Sam 2:5Dan 3:19Prov 24:16Ps 119:164
Leviticus 26:1919I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Deut 28:231 Kgs 17:11 Sam 4:11Dan 4:37Ezek 30:6Isa 25:11Jer 13:9Jer 14:1-6Luke 4:25Zeph 3:11
Leviticus 26:2020Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Deut 11:17Isa 49:4Ps 127:1Hab 2:13Lev 26:41 Cor 3:6Deut 28:18Deut 28:38-40Deut 28:42Gal 4:11
Leviticus 26:2121“‘If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 26:18Lev 26:27
Leviticus 26:2222I will send the wild animals against you and they will bereave you of your children, annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population so that your roads will become deserted.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ezek 14:15Deut 32:24Judg 5:62 Kgs 17:25Ezek 5:17Isa 33:8Lam 1:4Lev 26:6Zech 7:142 Chr 15:5
Leviticus 26:2323“‘If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Jer 5:3Jer 2:30Amos 4:6-12Ezek 24:13-14Isa 1:16-20Lev 26:21
Leviticus 26:2424then I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:2 Sam 22:27Ps 18:26Isa 63:10Job 9:4
Leviticus 26:2525I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. Although you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Num 14:12Ezek 5:17Deut 28:21Deut 32:25Ezek 14:17Ezek 20:37Ezek 29:8Ezek 33:2Ezek 6:3Jer 24:10
Leviticus 26:2626When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Isa 3:1Mic 6:14Ezek 5:16Ps 105:16Ezek 14:13Ezek 4:16Hag 1:6Isa 9:20Ezek 4:10Hos 4:10
Leviticus 26:2727“‘If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 26:21Lev 26:24
Leviticus 26:2828I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Isa 59:18Ezek 5:13Ezek 5:15Ezek 8:18Isa 63:3Isa 66:15Jer 21:5Isa 27:4Nah 1:2Nah 1:6
Leviticus 26:2929You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ezek 5:10Lam 4:10Matt 24:192 Kgs 6:28-29Deut 28:53-57Jer 19:9Lam 2:20Luke 23:29
Leviticus 26:3030I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:2 Kgs 23:20Isa 27:9Ezek 6:13Ezek 6:3-61 Kgs 13:22 Chr 14:3-52 Chr 23:172 Chr 31:12 Chr 34:3-72 Kgs 23:16
Leviticus 26:3131I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Neh 2:32 Kgs 25:4-10Amos 5:21-23Ezek 9:6Gen 8:21Heb 10:26Isa 1:11-14Jer 4:7Lam 1:10Lam 2:7
Leviticus 26:3232I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Jer 9:11Jer 18:16Jer 19:8Jer 25:111 Kgs 9:8Deut 28:37Ezek 5:15Jer 25:18Dan 9:18Dan 9:2
Leviticus 26:3333I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Deut 28:64-66Deut 4:27Ezek 20:23Zech 7:14Ezek 22:15Ps 44:11Jer 9:16Lam 4:15Luke 21:24Ezek 12:14-16
Leviticus 26:3434“‘Then the land will make up for its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:2 Chr 36:21Lev 25:2-4Lev 26:43Lev 25:10
Leviticus 26:3535All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Isa 24:5-6Rom 8:22
Leviticus 26:3636“‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and will fall down even though there is no pursuer.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ezek 21:7Isa 30:17Lev 26:171 Sam 17:242 Chr 14:142 Kgs 7:6-7Deut 28:65-67Ezek 21:12Ezek 21:15Isa 7:2
Leviticus 26:3737They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand for you before your enemies.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Josh 7:12-13Judg 2:141 Sam 14:15-16Isa 10:4Jer 37:10Judg 7:22Num 14:42
Leviticus 26:3838You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Deut 28:48Deut 28:68Deut 4:26-27Isa 27:13Jer 42:17-18Jer 42:22Jer 44:12-14Jer 44:27-28
Leviticus 26:3939“‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ iniquities which are with them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ezek 4:17Ezek 24:23Ezek 33:10Deut 28:65Exod 20:5Ezek 6:9Matt 23:35-36Deut 30:1Deut 5:9Exod 34:7
Leviticus 26:4040However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquities which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against meCopy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Prov 28:131 John 1:8-10Neh 9:2-5Hos 5:15-6:21 Kgs 8:33-36Deut 30:1-3Num 5:71 Kgs 8:47Deut 4:29-31Ezek 36:31
Leviticus 26:4141(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquities,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Ezek 44:71 Kgs 21:292 Chr 12:6-72 Chr 32:26Acts 7:51Jer 4:4Jer 9:25-262 Chr 33:12-13Col 2:11Deut 30:6
Leviticus 26:4242I will remember my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Exod 2:24Exod 6:5Ezek 16:60Ps 106:45Deut 4:31Ezek 36:1-15Ezek 36:33-34Gen 22:15-18Gen 26:5Gen 28:15
Leviticus 26:4343The land will be abandoned by them in order that it may make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them, and they will make up for their iniquity because they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred my statutes.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 26:15Rom 8:71 Kgs 8:46-482 Chr 33:122 Chr 36:14-162 Kgs 17:7-17Amos 5:10Dan 9:14Dan 9:7-9Heb 12:5-11
Leviticus 26:4444In spite of this, however, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them and abhor them to make a complete end of them, to break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Neh 9:31Rom 11:22 Kgs 13:23Deut 4:29-31Ps 94:14Ezek 14:22-23Ezek 16:60Jer 14:21Jer 30:11Jer 33:20-21
Leviticus 26:4545I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AIFlowchartCross Refs:Lev 25:38Ezek 20:22Ezek 20:9Lev 22:33Ps 98:2-32 Cor 3:15-16Exod 19:5-6Exod 2:24Exod 20:2Exod 6:8
Leviticus 26:4646These are the statutes, regulations, and instructions which the Lord established between himself and the Israelites at Mount Sinai through Moses.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 27:34Deut 12:1Deut 6:1Deut 13:4Lev 25:1John 1:17Lev 7:38Lev 8:36Num 4:37Ps 77:20
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