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¹Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.[ † ]Exodus 20:4-5Deuteronomy 4:15-18Deuteronomy 5:8

Promises

²Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord .[ † ]Leviticus 19:30

³If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:1-14 ⁴then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.[ † ]Isaiah 30:23Psalms 67:6 ⁵And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.[ † ]Deuteronomy 11:15Joel 2:19-26Amos 9:13Leviticus 25:18-19Ezekiel 34:25 ⁶And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.[ † ]Isaiah 45:7Job 11:19Psalms 4:8Zephaniah 3:132 Kings 17:25Hosea 2:18Ezekiel 14:17 ⁷And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. ⁸And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.[ † ]Deuteronomy 32:30Judges 7:7-12 ⁹For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.[ † ]Exodus 2:252 Kings 13:23Genesis 17:6-7Psalms 107:38Genesis 17:1-7 ¹⁰And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.[ † ]Leviticus 25:22 ¹¹And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.[ † ]Exodus 25:8Exodus 29:45-46Joshua 22:19Psalms 76:2Ezekiel 37:26Revelation 21:3 ¹²And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.[ † ]Deuteronomy 23:142 Corinthians 6:16

Warnings

¹³I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.[ † ]Genesis 27:40

¹⁴But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; ¹⁵and if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: ¹⁶I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:221 Samuel 2:33Ezekiel 24:23Ezekiel 33:10Judges 6:3-6Job 31:8Micah 6:15 ¹⁷And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.[ † ]Psalms 34:16Deuteronomy 28:251 Samuel 4:101 Samuel 31:1Psalms 106:41Proverbs 28:1 ¹⁸And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.[ † ]1 Samuel 2:5 ¹⁹And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:[ † ]Isaiah 25:11Deuteronomy 28:23 ²⁰and your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.[ † ]Psalms 127:1Isaiah 17:10-11Isaiah 49:4Jeremiah 12:13Genesis 4:12Deuteronomy 11:17

²¹And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. ²²I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.[ † ]Deuteronomy 32:24Ezekiel 14:21Judges 5:62 Chronicles 15:5Zechariah 7:14 ²³And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;[ † ]Jeremiah 2:30Amos 4:6-12 ²⁴then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.[ † ]Leviticus 26:28-41Psalms 18:26 ²⁵And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.[ † ]Ezekiel 5:17Numbers 16:49Deuteronomy 28:212 Samuel 24:15 ²⁶And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.[ † ]Psalms 105:16Isaiah 3:1Ezekiel 4:16-17Ezekiel 5:16Micah 6:14Haggai 1:6 ²⁷And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; ²⁸then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. ²⁹And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:532 Kings 6:28-29 ³⁰And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.[ † ]1 Kings 13:22 Chronicles 34:3Isaiah 27:9Ezekiel 6:3-6, 13 ³¹And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.[ † ]2 Kings 25:4-102 Chronicles 36:19Psalms 74:7Isaiah 1:11-15 ³²And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.[ † ]Jeremiah 9:11Jeremiah 18:16 ³³And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:27Psalms 44:11Ezekiel 12:15Ezekiel 20:23Ezekiel 22:15Zechariah 7:14 ³⁴Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.[ † ]Leviticus 26:432 Chronicles 36:21 ³⁵As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.[ † ]Leviticus 25:2 ³⁶And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.[ † ]Isaiah 30:17Lamentations 1:3-6Lamentations 4:19Ezekiel 21:7-12, 15 ³⁷And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.[ † ]Judges 7:221 Samuel 14:15-16Isaiah 10:4Joshua 7:12-13Judges 2:14 ³⁸And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:26 ³⁹And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:65Ezekiel 4:17Ezekiel 33:10Zechariah 10:9Exodus 34:7 ⁴⁰If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;[ † ]Numbers 5:71 Kings 8:33-34Nehemiah 9:2Luke 15:181 John 1:9 ⁴¹and that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:[ † ]Acts 7:51Romans 2:292 Chronicles 12:6-7, 121 Peter 5:5-6Psalms 39:9Psalms 51:3-4Daniel 9:7 ⁴²then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.[ † ]Exodus 2:24Exodus 6:5Psalms 106:45Ezekiel 16:60Psalms 136:23 ⁴³The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.[ † ]Leviticus 26:34-35Leviticus 26:15

⁴⁴And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:312 Kings 13:23Jeremiah 30:11Romans 11:1-36 ⁴⁵But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord .[ † ]Romans 11:28Leviticus 22:33Leviticus 25:38Psalms 98:2Ezekiel 20:9-14, 22

⁴⁶These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.[ † ]Leviticus 27:34Deuteronomy 6:1Deuteronomy 12:1John 1:17Leviticus 25:1