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Keil & Delitzsch on Leviticus 26:31

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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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Their towns and their sanctuaries He would destroy, because He took no pleasure in their sacrificial worship. מקדּשׁים are the holy things of the worship of Jehovah, the tabernacle and temple, with their altars and the rest of their holy furniture, as in Ps. 68:36; Psa 74:7. ניחח ריח ( Lev 1:9) is the odour of the sacrifice; and ריח, to smell, an anthropomorphic designation of divine satisfaction (cf. Amo 5:21; Isa 11:3). Leviticus 26:32
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