◄ Leviticus 26:34 ►
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New Revised Standard Version
Then the land shall enjoy its sabbath years as long as it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its sabbath years.

New American Bible
Then shall the land, during the time it lies waste, make up its lost sabbaths, while you are in the land of your enemies; then shall the land have rest and make up for its sabbaths

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation. When you shall be

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation. When you shall be

490 years, during which period there were

70 sabbaths of years neglected by the Hebrews. Now the Babylonish captivity lasted

70 years, and during that time the land of Israel rested.

Leviticus 25:2-4,10 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, observe the rest of the sabbath of the Lord. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:21 That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.

Context
Punishments for Disobedience
…33And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out the sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed. 34Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation. When you shall be35In the enemy's land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation: because she did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt therein.…
Cross References
Leviticus 26:35
In the enemy's land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation: because she did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt therein.

Leviticus 26:43
Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because they rejected my judgments, and despised my laws.

1 Kings 8:46
But if they sin against thee, (for there is no man who sinneth not) and thou being angry, deliver them up to their enemies, so that they be led away captives into the land of their enemies, far or near;

2 Chronicles 36:21
That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.

Jeremiah 34:17
Therefore thus saith the Lord: You have not hearkened to me, in proclaiming liberty every man to his brother and every man to his friend: behold I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine: and I will cause you to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Leviticus 26:33
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