Leviticus 26:34

Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

Cross-reference

Leviticus 26:43 repeats this same promise of land rest during exile within the same chapter.

Leviticus 25:2-4 institutes the sabbath-year law whose neglect the exile here enforces as punishment.

Leviticus 25:4 restates the seventh-year sabbath command that Israel failed to keep, prompting the exile judgment here.

2 Chronicles 36:21 Prophetic fulfillment

2 Chronicles 36:21 recounts the exact fulfillment of this promise — the land resting seventy years during exile.

Exodus 23:11 gives an earlier version of the sabbath-year command whose neglect leads to the exile punishment here.