Leviticus 26: Blessings and Warnings

God promises blessings if Israel walks in His statutes: rain, harvest, peace, and His presence among them. He warns of increasing discipline if they reject Him, even exile. Yet if they confess their sin, God will remember His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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¹ “‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ “‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ “‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ “‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ “‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ “‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ “‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ “‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁶ When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁷ “‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁸ then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁹ You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁰ I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³¹ I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³² I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it will be astonished at it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³³ I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁴ Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁵ As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁶ “‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁷ They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁸ You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁹ Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁰ “‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴¹ I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴² then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴³ The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁴ Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁵ But I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁶ These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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Leviticus 26 · Preschool

God Walks with Us

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Color the rain and the growing plants! God promised to bless His people.

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“I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.”

Leviticus 26:12 (WEB)

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Thank You, God, for making me!

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A Covenant Promise

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Read and Think

Leviticus 26 is near the end of the book and sums up the covenant. God promised that if Israel walked in His statutes, He would give rain, abundant harvests, peace, and victory. Most of all, He would set His tent among them and walk among them.

God also warned of what would happen if they rejected Him. The warnings grow stronger in steps, like a father's discipline meant to turn a child back. Disease, drought, enemies, and finally exile would come. Even the land would get the Sabbath rests they had refused to give it.

Yet the chapter ends with hope. If they confess their iniquity, God will remember His covenant. He said, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly. Paul quotes verse 12 in 2 Corinthians 6:16. In Christ, God dwells among His people.

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Leviticus 26 is near the end of the book and sums up the .
God promised that if Israel walked in His statutes, He would give rain, abundant harvests, , and victory.
Most of all, He would set His tent among them and among them.
also warned of what would happen if they rejected Him.
If they confess their iniquity, God will His covenant.

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How is God's discipline a sign of His love?
What does it mean to you that God promises to walk with His people?

Memory Verse

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.”

Leviticus 26:13 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for Your blessings. Help me . Amen.

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How is God's discipline different from punishment out of anger?
How does God keep His promises even when His people fail?

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Leviticus 26 · Grade 5

If They Confess

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Leviticus 26 serves as the covenant's blessings and warnings, much like the end of a treaty. It opens with the core of loyalty: no idols, keep Sabbaths, reverence the sanctuary. If you walk in my statutes, God promised rain in season, harvests lasting until the next sowing, peace in the land, and victory over enemies. The greatest blessing was relational: I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

The warnings describe a series of disciplines, each introduced by the words if you will not listen. Each stage was meant to lead Israel back. God said He would break the pride of their power and send drought, wild animals, war, and famine. Finally, Israel would be scattered among the nations, and the land would enjoy its neglected Sabbaths. Israel's later history, including exile to Babylon, shows these warnings were real (2 Chronicles 36:21).

The chapter ends with grace. If they confess their iniquity and humble their hearts, God says, then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and with Isaac, and with Abraham. Even in exile He would not utterly reject them. In 2 Corinthians 6:16 Paul applies verse 12 to the church: God dwells among His people through Christ. The covenant God is both holy and faithful.

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What was the greatest blessing in Leviticus 26?
What was each stage of discipline meant to do?
What part of Israel's later history shows the warnings were real?
What would God remember if they confessed?
How does Paul apply verse 12 in 2 Corinthians 6:16?

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If they ____ their sin, God will remember.
I will ____ among you.
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____ in the land.
God promised ____ in its season.
God will remember His ____.

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When you have done wrong, what helps you turn back to God?
How does God's faithfulness to Israel give you confidence in His promises to you?

Memory Verse

“I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.”

Leviticus 26:12 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for Your blessings. Help me . Amen.

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Which blessing in this chapter would you most want for your church, and why?
What does it look like to take God's warnings seriously in daily life?
What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?

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