Clarke's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 26:46
Verse 46. These are the statutes, and judgments, &c.] See on ver. 15. This verse appears to be the proper concluding verse of the whole book; and I rather think that the 27th chapter originally followed the 25th. As the law was anciently written upon skins of parchment, sheep or goat skins, pasted or stitched together, and all rolled up in one roll, the matter being written in columns, one of those columns might have been very easily displaced, and thus whole chapters might have been readily interchanged. - It is likely that this might have been the case in the present instance. Others endeavour to solve this difficulty, by supposing that the 27th chapter was added after the book had been finished; and therefore there is apparently a double conclusion, one at the end of the 26th and the other at the end of the 27th chapter. However the above may have been, all the ancient versions agree in concluding both the chapters in nearly the same way; yet the 26th chapter must be allowed to be by far the most natural conclusion of the book. THE most important points in this chapter have already been particularly noticed in the notes; and to those on the 15th, 34th, and 44th verses, the reader is especially referred.
How unwilling is God to cast off his people! and yet how sure is their rejection if they refuse to obey and live to him! No nation has ever been so signally elected as the Jews; and yet no nation has ever been so signally and so awfully reprobated. O Britain, be not high-minded, but fear! Behold here the goodness and severity of God!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 46. These [are] the statutes, and judgments, and laws , etc.] Which refer not only to those in this chapter, but in all the preceding chapters in this book, and respect them all, whether ceremonial, moral, or judicial, which may be signified by these three words: which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel ; the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan are, “between his Word and the children of Israel:” in Mount Sinai ; or near it, in the wilderness of it, while the children of Israel lay encamped about it: by the hand of Moses ; they were first delivered to him, and by means of him to the people.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 40-46 - Among the Israelites, persons were not always prosperous or afflicte according to their obedience or disobedience. But national prosperit was the effect of national obedience, and national judgments wer brought on by national wickedness. Israel was under a peculia covenant. National wickedness will end in the ruin of any people especially where the word of God and the light of the gospel ar enjoyed. Sooner or later, sin will be the ruin, as well as the reproach, of every people. Oh that, being humbled for our sins, we might avert the rising storm before it bursts upon us! God grant tha we may, in this our day, consider the things which belong to ou eternal peace __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
אלה 428 החקים 2706 והמשׁפטים 4941 והתורת 8451 אשׁר 834 נתן 5414 יהוה 3068 בינו 996 ובין 996 בני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 בהר 2022 סיני 5514 ביד 3027 משׁה׃ 4872
