Leviticus 26:42

Hebrew Bible

41 (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, 42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43 The 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.

Ezekiel 16:60

Hebrew Bible

59 “‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant. 60 Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you. 61 Then you will remember your conduct and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.

 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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