Leviticus 26:30 KJV
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
Words Then and Now
- carcases a dead body Still heard today: a carcass, the same word Webster’s 1828 · Carcass
What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.
Thou and Ye
- your, you more than one
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Matthew Henry
- Threatenings against disobedienceAfter God has set the blessing before them which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse before them, the evils...
Thompson Chains
- High Places (2)Starts here · next Numbers 33:52 · 4 links
- UnburiedSee the chain from Deuteronomy 28:26 · 7 links
- ReprobationSee the chain from Leviticus 26:17 · 7 links
Parallel Passages
- Psalms 78:59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- 2 Kings 23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
- Ezekiel 6:3–6 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. …
- Ezekiel 6:13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
- Leviticus 20:23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
- Leviticus 26:11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
- Leviticus 26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
- 1 Kings 13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
- 2 Kings 23:8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
- 2 Kings 23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
- 2 Chronicles 14:3–5 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: …
- 2 Chronicles 23:17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
- 2 Chronicles 31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3–7 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. …
- Psalms 78:58–59 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. …
- Psalms 89:38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
- Jeremiah 8:1–3 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: …
- Jeremiah 14:19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
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Topics
- Backsliders General scriptures concerning
- Blessing Contingent upon obedience
- Covenant Binding
- Disobedience to God Denunciations against
- High places The idolatrous, to be destroyed
- Idolatry Denunciations against
- Israel The law delivered to
- Judgments Denounced against disobedience
- Punishment To secure obedience
- Reward A motive to faithfulness
- Sin National, punishment of
- Wicked (people) Punishment of
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible1491–1451 BC · Israel in the Wilderness
Hebrew and Strong’s
- And I will destroy וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּי wĕhišmadtî שָׁמַד Verb · hiphil sequential perfect, first person common singular · with and
- your high places אֶת ʾet Object marker בָּמֹתֵיכֶם bāmōtêkem בָּמָה Noun · feminine plural construct · with suffix: second person masculine plural
- and cut down וְהִכְרַתִּי wĕhikrattî כָּרַת Verb · hiphil sequential perfect, first person common singular · with and
- your images אֶת ʾet Object marker חַמָּנֵיכֶם ḥammānêkem חַמָּן Noun · masculine plural construct · with suffix: second person masculine plural
- and cast וְנָתַתִּי wĕnātattî נָתַן Verb · qal sequential perfect, first person common singular · with and
- your carcases אֶת ʾet Object marker פִּגְרֵיכֶם pigrêkem פֶּגֶר Noun · masculine plural construct · with suffix: second person masculine plural
- upon the carcases עַל ʿal Preposition פִּגְרֵי pigrê פֶּגֶר Noun · masculine plural construct
- of your idols גִּלּוּלֵיכֶם gillûlêkem גִּלּוּל Noun · masculine plural construct · with suffix: second person masculine plural
- and my soul נַפְשִׁי napšî נֶפֶשׁ Noun · masculine or feminine singular construct · with suffix: first person common singular אֶתְכֶם ʾetkem Object marker · with suffix: second person masculine plural
- shall abhor וְגָעֲלָה wĕgāʿălâ גָּעַל Verb · qal sequential perfect, third person feminine singular · with and
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