Leviticus 26:31 KJV
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
Thou and Ye
- your 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
- Temple DestroyedSee the chain from 2 Kings 25:9 · 5 links
- Unacceptable OfferingsSee the chain from Genesis 4:5 · 9 links
Parallel Passages
- Nehemiah 2:3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
- Jeremiah 5:10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Nehemiah 2:3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
- 2 Kings 25:4–10 And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain. …
- Isaiah 1:11–14 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. …
- Jeremiah 4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
- Lamentations 1:10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
- Lamentations 2:7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
- Ezekiel 9:6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
- Amos 5:21–23 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. …
- Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
- Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
- 2 Chronicles 36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
- Nehemiah 2:17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
- Psalms 74:3–8 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. …
- Isaiah 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
- Isaiah 24:10–12 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. …
- Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
- Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
- Jeremiah 26:6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
- Jeremiah 26:9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
- Lamentations 1:1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
- Ezekiel 6:6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
- Ezekiel 21:7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 21:15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
- Ezekiel 24:21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
- Micah 3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
- Matthew 24:1–2 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. …
- Luke 21:5–6 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, …
- Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
- Acts 6:14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
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Topics
- Backsliders General scriptures concerning
- Blessing Contingent upon obedience
- Covenant Binding
- Disobedience to God Denunciations against
- Israel The law delivered to
- Judgments Denounced against disobedience
- Punishment To secure obedience
- Reward A motive to faithfulness
- Sin National, punishment of
- War God uses, as a judgment
- Wicked (people) Punishment of
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible1491–1451 BC · Israel in the Wilderness
Hebrew and Strong’s
- And I will make וְנָתַתִּי wĕnātattî נָתַן Verb · qal sequential perfect, first person common singular · with and
- your cities אֶת ʾet Object marker עָרֵיכֶם ʿārêkem עִיר Noun · feminine plural construct · with suffix: second person masculine plural
- waste חָרְבָּה ḥorbâ חׇרְבָּה Noun · feminine singular
- and bring וַהֲשִׁמּוֹתִי wahăšimmôtî שָׁמֵם Verb · hiphil sequential perfect, first person common singular · with and
- your sanctuaries אֶת ʾet Object marker מִקְדְּשֵׁיכֶם miqdĕšêkem מִקְדָּשׁ Noun · masculine plural construct · with suffix: second person masculine plural
- unto desolation שָׁמֵם shâmêm
- and I will not smell וְלֹא wĕlōʾ Negative · with and אָרִיחַ ʾārîaḥ רוּחַ Verb · hiphil imperfect, first person common singular
- the savour בְּרֵיחַ bĕrêaḥ רֵיחַ Noun · masculine singular construct · with preposition
- of your sweet odours נִיחֹחֲכֶם nîḥōḥăkem נִיחוֹחַ Noun · masculine singular construct · with suffix: second person masculine plural
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