Teks -- Leviticus 26:22 (NET)

26:22 I will send the wild animals against you and they will bereave you of your children, annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population so that your roads will become deserted.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Lev 26:22 - I will also send wild beasts among you

This was one of the four judgments threatened (Eze 14:21; see also 2Ki 2:4).

JFB: Lev 26:22 - your highways shall be desolate

Trade and commerce will be destroyed--freedom and safety will be gone--neither stranger nor native will be found on the roads (Isa 33:8). This is an exact picture of the present state of the Holy Land, which has long lain in a state of desolation, brought on by the sins of the ancient Jews.

Clarke: Lev 26:22 - I will also send wild beasts among you

I will also send wild beasts among you - God fulfilled these threatenings at different times. He sent fiery Serpents among them, Num 21:6; Lions, 2Ki 17:25; Bears, 2Ki 2:24, and threatened them with total desolation, so that their land should be overrun with wild beasts, etc., see Eze 5:17. "Spiritually,"says Mr. Ainsworth, "these are wicked rulers and tyrants that kill and spoil, Pro 28:15; Dan 7:3-6; Psa 80:13; and false prophets that devour souls, Mat 7:15; Rev 13:1, etc. So the prophet, speaking of their punishment by tyrants, says: A Lion out of the forest shall slay them; a Wolf of the evening shall spoil them; a Leopard shall watch over their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn to pieces, because their transgressions be many. And of their prophets it is said: O Israel, thy prophets are like Foxes in the deserts, Eze 13:4; Jer 8:17; Jer 15:3."

TSK: Lev 26:22 - wild // rob you // your high

wild : Lev 26:6; Deu 32:24; 2Ki 17:25; Jer 15:3; Eze 5:17, Eze 14:15, Eze 14:21

rob you : 2Ki 2:24

your high : Jdg 5:6; 2Ch 15:5; Isa 24:6, Isa 33:8; Lam 1:4; Eze 14:15, Eze 33:28; Mic 3:12; Zec 7:14

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Lev 26:22

By reason of the fewness of travellers and people, and the terror of wild beasts growing more numerous thereby.

Haydock: Lev 26:22 - Desolate

Desolate, none being left to frequent them; or the few who remain, shall keep within doors, lest the wild beasts should meet and devour them, Isaias xxxiii. 8.

Gill: Lev 26:22 - I will also send wild beasts among you // which shall rob you of your children // and destroy your cattle // and make you few in number // and your high ways shall be desolate

I will also send wild beasts among you,.... Either in a literal sense, as lions, bears, wolves, &c. and so is the reverse of what is promised to them on their doing well, Lev 26:6; or figuratively, mighty monarchs and cruel oppressors, such as were the kings of Assyria and Babylon, Jer 50:17,

which shall rob you of your children; as the bears, in a literal sense, destroyed the children of them in the times of Elisha, 2Ki 2:24,

and destroy your cattle; the tame beasts, who often become a prey to the wild ones, as both those of the flock, and of the herd, sheep and oxen, do to lions, wolves, &c.

and make you few in number; or diminish them, their number, by bereaving them of their children, and their wealth and substance, by destroying their cattle:

and your high ways shall be desolate; or ways, the word high not being in the text, and may signify both their public and private ones, which would be all forsaken, none caring to venture to walk in them for fear of beasts of prey.