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Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 26:31

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Leviticus26:31

31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours .

Either 1. Gods Sanctuary, called Sanctuaries here, as also Psal. 73. 17. and 74. 7. Ier. 51. 51. Ezek. 28. 18. because there were divers appartiments in it, each of which was a Sanctuary or, which is all one, an holy place, as they are severally called. And your emphatically, not mine, for I disown and abhor it and all the services you do in it, because you have defiled it. Or 2. The Temples built by you to Idols, therefore called their Sanctuaries, in opposition to Gods. Or 3. Your Synagogues. But the first is most probable, because he speaks of the place where they used to offer their sweet odours here following.

(i. e.) Not own or accept them. See Gen. 8. 21. Isa. 1. 11, &c.

Either of the incense, or of your other sacrifices, which, when offered with faith and obedience are very sweet and acceptable to me.

Marginal references: Lam. 1. 10. Ezek. 9. 6. and 21. 7.

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