Leviticus 26:30

Hebrew Bible

28 I will walk in hostile rage against you, and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins. 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. 30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you. 31 I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas. 32 I myself will make the land desolate, and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

Ezekiel 6:4

Hebrew Bible

2 “Son of man, turn toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them. 3 Say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am bringing a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. 5 I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars. 6 In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out.

 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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