_THE PRIESTS THE LEVITES, AND ALL THE TRIBE OF LEVI, SHALL HAVE NO PART NOR INHERITANCE WITH ISRAEL: THEY SHALL EAT THE OFFERINGS OF THE LORD MADE BY FIRE, AND HIS INHERITANCE._ The priests and the Levites ... shall eat the offerings. Since the tribe of Levi had no inheritance allotted them like th... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE SHALL THEY HAVE NO INHERITANCE AMONG THEIR BRETHREN: THE LORD IS THEIR INHERITANCE, AS HE HATH SAID UNTO THEM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THIS SHALL BE THE PRIEST'S DUE FROM THE PEOPLE, FROM THEM THAT OFFER A SACRIFICE, WHETHER IT BE OX OR SHEEP; AND THEY SHALL GIVE UNTO THE PRIEST THE SHOULDER, AND THE TWO CHEEKS, AND THE MAW._ This shall be the priest's due from the people. All who offered sacrifices of thanksgiving or peace o... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE FIRSTFRUIT ALSO OF THY CORN, OF THY WINE, AND OF THINE OIL, AND THE FIRST OF THE FLEECE OF THY SHEEP, SHALT THOU GIVE HIM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF A LEVITE COME FROM ANY OF THY GATES OUT OF ALL ISRAEL, WHERE HE SOJOURNED, AND COME WITH ALL THE DESIRE OF HIS MIND UNTO THE PLACE WHICH THE LORD SHALL CHOOSE;_ If a Levite come ... with all the desire of his mind. It appears that the Levites served in rotation from the earliest times; but,... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN THOU ART COME INTO THE LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE, THOU SHALT NOT LEARN TO DO AFTER THE ABOMINATIONS OF THOSE NATIONS._ Thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations - [see the note at Leviticus 18:21, where the Septuagint renders, 'Let not any of thy seed pa... [ Continue Reading ]
_THERE SHALL NOT BE FOUND AMONG YOU ANY ONE THAT MAKETH HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE, OR THAT USETH DIVINATION, OR AN OBSERVER OF TIMES, OR AN ENCHANTER, OR A WITCH,_ That useth divination, х_ QOCEEM_ (H7081) _ QªCAAMIYM_ (H7080); Septuagint, manteuomenos manteian]. х_ QAACAM_ ... [ Continue Reading ]
_OR A CHARMER, OR A CONSULTER WITH FAMILIAR SPIRITS, OR A WIZARD, OR A NECROMANCER._ Or a charmer, х_ WªCHOBER_ (H2266) _ CHAABER_ (H2267)] - a binder with magic knots or spells (cf. Psalms 58:5). [Septuagint, kepaeidoon epaoideen, singing charms.] OR A CONSULTER WITH FAMILIAR SPIRITS, х_ WªSHO'E... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR ALL THAT DO THESE THINGS ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD: AND BECAUSE OF THESE ABOMINATIONS THE LORD THY GOD DOTH DRIVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE THEE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LORD THY GOD WILL RAISE UP UNTO THEE A PROPHET FROM THE MIDST OF THEE, OF THY BRETHREN, LIKE UNTO ME; UNTO HIM YE SHALL HEARKEN;_ The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet, х_ NAABIY'_ (H5030)] - (see the notes at Genesis 20:7; Exodus 7:1; Numbers 12:6, etc.) The insertion of this pro... [ Continue Reading ]
_ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THOU DESIREDST OF THE LORD THY GOD IN HOREB IN THE DAY OF THE ASSEMBLY, SAYING, LET ME NOT HEAR AGAIN THE VOICE OF THE LORD MY GOD, NEITHER LET ME SEE THIS GREAT FIRE ANY MORE, THAT I DIE NOT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I WILL RAISE THEM UP A PROPHET FROM AMONG THEIR BRETHREN, LIKE UNTO THEE, AND WILL PUT MY WORDS IN HIS MOUTH; AND HE SHALL SPEAK UNTO THEM ALL THAT I SHALL COMMAND HIM._ And will put my words in his mouth. It was necessary that one who was to sustain the character of a prophet like unto Moses shou... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT WHOSOEVER WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO MY WORDS WHICH HE SHALL SPEAK IN MY NAME, I WILL REQUIRE IT OF HIM._ Whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. Peter repeats it in a slightly altered form - "Him shall ye hear... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE PROPHET, WHICH SHALL PRESUME TO SPEAK A WORD IN MY NAME, WHICH I HAVE NOT COMMANDED HIM TO SPEAK, OR THAT SHALL SPEAK IN THE NAME OF OTHER GODS, EVEN THAT PROPHET SHALL DIE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF THOU SAY IN THINE HEART, HOW SHALL WE KNOW THE WORD WHICH THE LORD HATH NOT SPOKEN?_ If thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? - (see the notes at Deuteronomy 13:1)... [ Continue Reading ]