Leviticus 26:26

Hebrew Bible

25 I 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. 26 When 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. 27 “‘If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,

Ezekiel 14:13

Hebrew Bible

12 The Lord’s message came to me: 13 “Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals. 14 Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign Lord.

 Notes and References

"... With the declarations of woe in Leviticus 26:14 we mare compare Ezekiel 14:8, 15:7; for the sending of wild animals in Leviticus 26:22 compare Ezekiel 5:17, 14:15; for pestilence in Leviticus 26:25 compare Ezekiel 14:19; the breaking of the staff of bread in Leviticus 26:26 compare Ezekiel 4:16, 5:16, 14:13; eating bread by weight in Leviticus 26:27 compare Ezekiel 4:16; cannibalism in the besieged city in Leviticus 26:29 compare Ezekiel 5:10 but also Deuteronomy 2:53, Lamentations 2:4; destruction of the high places and the altars of incense in Leviticus 26:30 compare Ezekiel 6:3-6; Yahweh's turning graciously 'to remember' in Leviticus 26:42 with Ezekiel 16:60 ... Beside this, however, there are striking differences, which are found immediately beside the element of the stylizing of the groups of plagues ... The absence of the sabbath year in Ezekiel has already been mentioned in connection with Leviticus 25:1-7. Similarly there is lacking in Ezekiel any counterpart to the threat which appears in Leviticus 26:34, 43 that the land (after the removal of the people into exile) will be left to enjoy the neglected sabbaths ... Above all, however, one does not find anywhere in Ezekiel the conception of a covenant of Yahweh with Jacob, Isaac and Abraham (in this order Leviticus 26:42), with which Leviticus 26 ended and which is expanded in Leviticus 26:45 into the statement of the 'covenant with the ancestors' ..."

Zimmerli, Walther Ezekiel: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel (p. 51) Fortress Press, 1979

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