Lev. 26 is full of blessings and curses for following God's plan. Interestingly, the curses are 2.5 times as must text as the blessings. The blessings really forecast what happens in the reigns of David/Solomon while the curses foreshadow what will happen with the nation of Israel after that. The end of the text on curses ties it back to the land sabbath and in summary says that if the people are destroyed, the land will finally the Sabbath it needed. The curses end with God remembering the Covenant with Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham, in that order. After God remembers this, the people can return to the land after being in exile.
Looking ahead, perhaps the years of the Babylonian Captivity were calculated by God according to the amount of time the land needed its Sabbath rest.
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