Leviticus 18:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 18:2 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 6:7
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Leviticus 11:44
For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Ezekiel 20:5
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
Leviticus 20:7
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
Ezekiel 20:19-20
I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; …

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

After divers ceremonial institutions, God here returns to the enforcement of moral precepts. The former are still of use to us as types, the latter still binding as laws. We have here, 1. The sacred authority by which these laws are enacted: I am the Lord your God (Lev. 18:1, 4, 30), and I am the Lord, Lev. 18:5, 6, 21. “The Lord, who has a right to rule all; your God, who has a peculiar right to…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Le 18:1-30. Unlawful Marriages. 2-4. I am the Lord your God--This renewed mention of the divine sovereignty over the Israelites was intended to bear particularly on some laws that were widely different from the social customs that obtained both in Egypt and Canaan; for the enormities, which the laws enumerated in this chapter were intended to put down, were freely practised or publicly sanctioned…