LEVITICUS CHAPTER 23 The feasts or, the Lord, LEVITICUS 23:1,2. The sabbath, LEVITICUS 23:3. The passover, LEVITICUS 23:4. The sheaf of first-fruits, LEVITICUS 23:9. The feast of pentecost, LEVITICUS 23:15. Gleanings to be left for the poor, LEVITICUS 23:22. The feast of trumpets, LEVITICUS 23:23. [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL PROCLAIM, i.e. cause to be proclaimed by the priests. See NUMBERS 10:8. HOLY CONVOCATIONS; days for your assembling together to my worship and service in a special manner. THESE ARE MY FEASTS, which I have appointed, and the right observation whereof I will accept.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ No work_; so it runs in the general for the sabbath day, and for the day of expiation, LEVITICUS 23:28, excluding all works about earthly occasions or employments, whether of profit or pleasure; but on other feast days he forbids only servile works, as LEVITICUS 23:7,21,36, for surely this manifes... [ Continue Reading ]
In their appointed and proper times, as the word is used GENESIS 1:14 PSALMS 104:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Seven days, the matter and manner whereof, see NUMBERS 28:18, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
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WHEN YE BE COME INTO THE LAND; therefore this obliged them not in the desert, where they reaped no harvest, &c. SHALL REAP, i.e. begin to reap, as it is expounded DEUTERONOMY 16:9. _So, he begat_, i.e. began to beget, GENESIS 5:32, GENESIS 11:26; and, _he built_, 1 KINGS 6:1, i.e. he began to build,... [ Continue Reading ]
TO BE ACCEPTED FOR YOU; that God may accept of you, and bless you in the rest of your harvest. ON THE MORROW AFTER THE SABBATH, i.e. after the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, which was a sabbath, or day of rest, as appears from LEVITICUS 23:7, or upon the sixteenth day of the month. And... [ Continue Reading ]
AN HE LAMB, besides the daily morning and evening sacrifice, which it was needless to mention here, and besides one of those sacrifices to be offered every day of the seven, LEVITICUS 23:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO TENTH DEALS, or, _parts_, to wit, of an ephah, i. e. two omers, whereas in other sacrifices of lambs there was but one tenth deal prescribed, NUMBERS 15:4. The reason of which disproportion may be this, that one of the tenth deals was a necessary attendant upon the lamb, and the other was peculi... [ Continue Reading ]
BREAD, made of new wheat, as the nature and reason of the law showeth. NOR GREEN EARS, which were usual, not only for offerings to God, as LEVITICUS 2:14, but also for man's food. See JOSHUA 5:11 RUTH 2:14 1 SAMUEL 17:17 MATTHEW 12:1. UNTIL THE SELFSAME DAY: good reason God should be first served an... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THE MORROW AFTER THE SABBATH, i.e. from the sixteenth day of the month, and the second day of the feast of unleavened bread inclusively. See on LEVITICUS 23:11. SEVEN SABBATHS, i.e. weeks, which are so called, by a synecdoche, from the chief day of it, both here and LUKE 18:12 ACTS 20:7 1 CORIN... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. After seven weeks, or forty-nine days, the morrow after which was the fiftieth day, called also pentecost. A NEW MEAT OFFERING, to wit, of new corn made into loaves, as it follows.... [ Continue Reading ]
OUT OF YOUR HABITATIONS, i.e. out of the corn of your own land, for which and for the fruits of it you are now to offer praises unto God. And this also, as well as the former sacrifice, was brought out of the common charge, and in the name of the whole nation, whence it is said to be brought _out of... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO RAMS; in NUMBERS 28:11,19 it is _two young bullocks_ and one ram. Either therefore it was left to their liberty to choose which they would offer, or one of the bullocks there, and one of the rams here, were the peculiar sacrifices of the feast-day, and the other were attendants upon the two loav... [ Continue Reading ]
ONE KID: in LEVITICUS 4:14 the sin-offering for the sin of the people is a bullock, but here a _kid_, &c.; the reason of the difference may be this, because that was for some particular sin of the people, but this only in general for all their sins. If it be said, then this should have been the bett... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRIEST SHALL WAVE THEM, i.e. some part of them in the name of the whole, and so for the two lambs, otherwise they had been too big and too heavy to be waved. So it is a synecdochical expression. _For the priests_; who had to themselves not only the breast and shoulder, as in others, which belong... [ Continue Reading ]
AN HOLY CONVOCATION, a sabbath or day of rest, called pentecost, which was instituted, partly in remembrance of the consummation of their deliverance out of Egypt, by bringing them thence to the mount of God, or Sinai, as God had promised, and of that admirable blessing of giving the law to them at... [ Continue Reading ]
From the plural ye he comes to the singular thou, because he would press this duty upon every person who hath a harvest to reap, that none might plead exemption from it. And it is observable, that though the present business is only concerning the worship of God, yet he makes a kind of excursion to... [ Continue Reading ]
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A MEMORIAL OF BLOWING OF TRUMPETS, i.e. solemnized with the blowing of trumpets by the priests; not in a common way, as they did every first day of every month, NUMBERS 10:10, but in an extraordinary manner, not only in Jerusalem, but in all the cities of Israel. This seems to have been instituted,... [ Continue Reading ]
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YE SHALL AFFLICT YOUR SOULS, with fasting, and bitter repentance for all, especially their national sins, among which no doubt God would have them remember their sin of the golden calf. For as God had threatened to remember it in after-times to punish them for it, EXODUS 32:34, so there was great re... [ Continue Reading ]
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WHATSOEVER SOUL, either of the Jewish nation or religion. Hereby God would signify the absolute necessity which every man had of repentance and forgiveness of sin, and the desperate condition of all impenitent persons.... [ Continue Reading ]
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This clause seems to be added to answer an objection, how this day of atonement could be both on the tenth day LEVITICUS 23:27, and on the ninth day here. The answer is, it began at the evening or close of the ninth day, and continued till the evening or close of the tenth day; and so both were true... [ Continue Reading ]
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OF TABERNACLES, i.e. of tents, or booths, or arbours. This feast was appointed principally to remind them of that time when they had no other dwellings in the wilderness, as it is expressed LEVITICUS 23:43, and to stir them up to bless God as well for the gracious conduct and protection then afforde... [ Continue Reading ]
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SEVEN DAYS YE SHALL OFFER AN OFFERING; a several offering each day, which is particularly described NUMBERS 29:13, &c. ON THE EIGHTH DAY; which though it was not one of the days of this feast strictly taken, nor is it here affirmed to be so, but on the contrary is expressly said to consist of seven... [ Continue Reading ]
A SACRIFICE, i.e. another sacrifice, to wit, for a sin-offering, as we shall find it NUMBERS 29:16,19,22, &c., called by the general name, a sacrifice, because it was designed for that which was the principal end of all sacrifices, to wit, for the expiation of sin.... [ Continue Reading ]
BESIDE THE SABBATHS, i.e. the offerings of the weekly sabbaths, by a metonymy, as the _day_ is sometimes put for the actions done in it, as PROVERBS 27:1 1 CORINTHIANS 3:13. God will not have any sabbath sacrifice diminished, because of the addition of others proper to any, other feast. And it is he... [ Continue Reading ]
ALSO, or rather, _surely_, as this particle is oft used; for this is no addition of a new, but only a repetition of the former injunction, with a more particular explication both of the manner and reason of the feast. THE FRUIT, not the corn, which was gathered long before, but of their trees, as vi... [ Continue Reading ]
BOUGHS, Heb. _the fruit_, i.e. fruit-bearing boughs, or branches with the fruit on them, as the word _fruit_ seems to be taken, 2 KINGS 19:30 EZEKIEL 19:12. _Goodly trees_, to wit, the olive, myrtle, and pine, as they are mentioned, NEHEMIAH 8:15,16, which were most plentiful there, and which would... [ Continue Reading ]
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BOOTHS were erected in their cities or towns, either in their streets or gardens, or the tops of their houses, NEHEMIAH 8:16, which were made flat, and therefore were proper and fit for that use.... [ Continue Reading ]
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