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make against them: Five of you shall have courage to attack, and strength to chase and defeat, a hundred, as Jonathan did (1Sa 14:12), experiencing the truth of his own maxim (Le 26:6), that it is all one with the Lord to save by many or by few.
4. The increase of their people: I will make you fruitful and multiply you, Le 26:9. Thus the promise made to Abraham must be fulfilled, that his seed should be as the dust of the earth; and much more numerous they would have been if they had by their sin cut themselves short. It is promised to the gospel church that it shall be fruitful, Joh 15:16.
5. The favour of God, which is the fountain of all good: I will have respect unto you, Le 26:9. If the eye of our faith be unto God, the eye of his favour will be unto us. More is implied than is expressed in that promise, My soul shall not abhor you (Le 26:11), as there is in that threatening, My soul shall have no pleasure in him, Heb 10:38. Though there was that among them which might justly have alienated him from them, yet, if they would closely adhere to his institutions, he would not abhor them.
6. Tokens of his presence in and by his ordinances: I will set my tabernacle among you, Le 26:11. It was their honour and advantage that God's tabernacle was lately erected among them; but here he lets them know that the continuance and establishment of it depended upon their good behaviour. The tabernacle that was now set should be settled if they would be obedient, else not. Note, The way to have God's ordinances fixed among us, as a nail in a sure place, is to cleave closely to the institution of them. It is added (Le 26:12), "I will walk among you, with delight and satisfaction, as a man in his garden; I will keep up communion with you as a man walking with his friend." This seems to be alluded to, Re 2:1, where Christ is said to walk in the midst of the golden candlesticks.