Additional Blessings of Obedience
“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God. Lev 19:4Deu 27:15Exo 23:24Num 33:52Exo 20:4-51Co 10:19-20Rev 13:14-15Deu 16:21-22
You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD. Lev 19:30
If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments, Deu 28:1-14Isa 1:19Deu 11:13-15Isa 48:18-19Psa 81:12-16Jdg 2:1-2Mat 7:24-25Rom 2:7-10 I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. Zec 8:12Psa 67:6Isa 30:23Deu 11:14Deu 28:12Ezk 34:26-27Ezk 36:30Job 5:10 Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land. Amo 9:13Jol 2:26Jol 2:19Lev 25:18-19Deu 11:151Ti 6:17Ezk 34:25-28Pro 1:33
And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land. Isa 35:9Zep 3:13Psa 147:14Hos 2:18Jer 30:10Ezk 34:25Hag 2:9Psa 29:11 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you. Jos 23:10Deu 28:7Deu 32:301Ch 11:20Jdg 7:19-21Num 14:91Sa 14:6-161Ch 11:11
I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you. Gen 17:6-7Neh 9:23Psa 107:38Ezk 16:62Isa 55:3Gen 28:3Psa 138:6-7Deu 28:11 You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new. Lev 25:222Ki 19:29Luk 12:17Jos 5:11
And I will make My dwelling place 1among you, and My soul will not despise 2you. Exo 25:8Rev 21:3Exo 29:45Psa 132:13-14Eph 2:22Psa 106:40Psa 76:2Ezk 37:26-28 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people. 3 2Co 6:16Jer 30:22Jer 7:23Exo 6:7Deu 23:14Jol 2:27Heb 11:16Exo 19:5-6 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness. Ezk 34:27Psa 116:161Co 6:19-20Exo 20:2Lev 25:38Jer 2:20Lev 25:55Psa 81:6-10
Punishments for Disobedience
(Leviticus 20:1–9; Deuteronomy 28:15–68)
If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, Deu 28:15-68Lam 2:17Lev 26:18Jer 17:27Mal 2:2Act 3:23Heb 12:25Lam 1:18 and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, 2Ki 17:15Deu 31:16Ezk 16:59Isa 24:5Jer 11:10Num 15:31Zec 7:11-131Th 4:8 then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. Job 31:8Jer 5:17Mic 6:151Sa 2:33Deu 28:21-22Deu 28:32-35Deu 28:51Hag 1:6 And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you. Lev 17:10Deu 28:25Lev 26:36-37Pro 28:1Psa 53:5Psa 106:41-421Sa 31:1Jdg 2:14
And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins. Lev 26:211Sa 2:5Lev 26:24Lev 26:28Dan 3:19Pro 24:16Psa 119:164 I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, Deu 28:231Ki 17:1Isa 25:111Sa 4:11Dan 4:37Ezk 30:6Jer 13:9Jer 14:1-6 and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. Deu 11:17Psa 127:1Isa 49:4Hab 2:13Lev 26:41Co 3:6Deu 28:18Deu 28:38-40
If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins. Lev 26:18Lev 26:27 I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate. Deu 32:24Ezk 14:15Jdg 5:6Zec 7:142Ch 15:52Ki 17:25Ezk 5:17Isa 33:8
And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, Jer 2:30Jer 5:3Amo 4:6-12Ezk 24:13-14Isa 1:16-20Lev 26:21 then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins. Psa 18:262Sa 22:27Isa 63:10Job 9:4 And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. Ezk 5:17Num 14:12Deu 28:21Deu 32:25Ezk 14:17Ezk 20:37Ezk 29:8Ezk 33:2 When I cut off your supply 4of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied. Mic 6:14Isa 3:1Psa 105:16Ezk 5:16Ezk 14:13Ezk 4:16Hag 1:6Isa 9:20
But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me, Lev 26:21Lev 26:24 then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins. Ezk 5:13Ezk 5:15Ezk 8:18Isa 59:18Jer 21:5Isa 63:3Isa 66:15Isa 27:4 You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters. Deu 28:53-57Ezk 5:10Lam 4:10Mat 24:192Ki 6:28-29Jer 19:9Lam 2:20Luk 23:29 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you. 2Ki 23:20Ezk 6:13Ezk 6:3-6Isa 27:92Ch 34:3-71Ki 13:22Ch 14:3-52Ch 23:17
I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. Neh 2:32Ki 25:4-10Amo 5:21-23Ezk 9:6Gen 8:21Heb 10:26Isa 1:11-14Jer 4:7 And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled. Jer 9:11Jer 18:16Jer 19:8Jer 25:111Ki 9:8Deu 28:37Ezk 5:15Jer 25:18 But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste. Deu 4:27Ezk 20:23Zec 7:14Deu 28:64-66Ezk 22:15Psa 44:11Ezk 12:14-16Jer 9:16
Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. 2Ch 36:21Lev 25:2-4Lev 26:43Lev 25:10 As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it. Isa 24:5-6Rom 8:22
As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them. Ezk 21:7Isa 30:17Lev 26:171Sa 17:242Ch 14:142Ki 7:6-7Deu 28:65-67Ezk 21:12 They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies. Jdg 2:14Jos 7:12-131Sa 14:15-16Isa 10:4Jdg 7:22Jer 37:10Num 14:42
You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you. Deu 28:48Deu 28:68Deu 4:26-27Isa 27:13Jer 42:17-18Jer 42:22Jer 44:12-14Jer 44:27-28 Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers. Ezk 4:17Ezk 24:23Ezk 33:10Deu 28:65Exo 20:5Ezk 6:9Mat 23:35-36Deu 30:1
God Remembers Those Who Repent
But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me— Pro 28:131Jn 1:8-10Neh 9:2-5Hos 5:15Num 5:71Ki 8:33-36Deu 30:1-31Ki 8:47 and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity, 2Ch 12:6-7Act 7:51Ezk 44:71Ki 21:29Jer 4:4Jer 9:25-262Ch 32:26Col 2:11 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. Exo 2:24Exo 6:5Ezk 16:60Psa 106:45Psa 136:23Deu 4:31Ezk 36:1-15Ezk 36:33-34
For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes. Lev 26:15Lev 26:34-35Rom 8:71Ki 8:46-482Ch 33:122Ch 36:14-162Ki 17:7-17Amo 5:10
Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. Rom 11:22Ki 13:23Deu 4:29-31Neh 9:31Psa 94:14Ezk 14:22-23Ezk 16:60Jer 14:21 But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.” Lev 25:38Ezk 20:22Ezk 20:9Lev 22:33Psa 98:2-3Ezk 20:14Rom 11:28-292Co 3:15-16
These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai. Lev 27:34Deu 12:1Deu 6:1Deu 13:4Lev 25:1Jhn 1:17Lev 7:38Lev 8:36