Leviticus
18:25
And the land is defiled: therefore I
do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her
inhabitants.
a. NLT: Because
the entire land has become defiled, I am punishing the people who live there. I
will cause the land to vomit them out.
b. NIV: Even the
land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its
inhabitants.
c. Amplified Bible:
And the land is defiled; therefore I visit the iniquity of it upon it, and the
land itself vomits out her inhabitants.
d. Septuagint: and
the land is polluted; and I have recompensed their iniquity to them because of
it, and the land is aggrieved with them that dwell upon it.
e. Stone Edition
Torah/Writings/Prophets: The land became contaminated and I recalled its
iniquity upon it; and the land disgorged its inhabitants.
1. “And the land is defiled…”
a. land [776 *
‘erets][Strong: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at
large, or partitively a land):--X common, country, earth, field, ground, land,
X natins, way, + wilderness, world.]
b. defiled [2930 *
tame’][Strong: a primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral
sense (contaminated):--defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self,
pronounce) unclean, X utterly.][Gesenius: To be or become unclean, to be
polluted]
2. “…therefore I do visit the
iniquity thereof upon it…”
a. visit [6485 *
paqad][Strong: a primitive root; to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by
analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.:--appoint, X
at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count,
deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up,
look, make, X by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the)
oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, X
surely, visit, want.]
b. iniquity [5771
* ‘avon][Strong: perversity, i.e. (moral) evil:--fault, iniquity, mischeif,
punishment (of iniquity), sin.]
3. “…and the land itself vomiteth
out her inhabitants.”
a. land [776 *
‘erets][Strong: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at
large, or partitively a land):--X common, country, earth, field, ground, land,
X natins, way, + wilderness, world.]
b. vomiteth [6958
* qow’][Strong: a primitive root; to vomit:--spue (out), vomit (out, up, up
again).]
c. inhabitants
[3427 * yashab][Strong: a primitive root; properly, to sit down (specifically
as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain;
causatively, to settle, to marry:--(make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to,
make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt,
(make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring
again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting
down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.]
d. Commentary
1). Gill’s
Exposition: “and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants; as a stomach
loaded with corrupt and bad food it has taken in, nauseates it, and cannot bear
and retain it, but casts it up, and never receives it again; so the land of
Canaan is represented as loathing its inhabitants, and as having an aversion to
them, and indignation against them, and as not being able to bear them, but
entirely willing to be rid of them and throw them out of their places in it,
never to be admitted more, being as nauseous and as useless as the cast of a
man's stomach.”
2). Clarke’s
Commentary: The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants - This is a very
nervous prosopopoeia or personification; a figure by which any part of
inanimate nature may be represented as possessing the passions and reason of
man. Here the land is represented as an intelligent being, with a deep and
refined sense of moral good and evil: information concerning the abominations
of the people is brought to this personified land, with which it is so deeply
affected that a nausea is produced, and it vomits out its abominable and
accursed inhabitants. It was natural for the inspired penman to make use of
such a figure, as the description he was obliged to give of so many and
enormous abominations must have affected him nearly in the same way in which he
represents the land to be affected.
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