Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Leviticus 24:12
For God had only said in general, that he would not hold such guiltless, i.e. he would punish them, but had not declared how he would have them punished by men.
For God had only said in general, that he would not hold such guiltless, i.e. he would punish them, but had not declared how he would have them punished by men.
The offender may already have been pronounced guilty by the rulers (see Exodus 18:21), and the case was referred to Moses in order that the punishment might be awarded by the divine decree. No law had...
3. BLASPHEMY AND ISRAEL'S SIN FORESHADOWED CHAPTER 24:10-23 _ 1. The blasphemy (Leviticus 24:10)_ 2. The penalty executed (Leviticus 24:23) The blasphemer who blasphemed the Name and cursed, foresh...
LEVITICUS 24:10; LEVITICUS 24:23. The punishment for blasphemy connected, as in Leviticus 10:1 and Sabbath breaking, with an actual example. Language and literary manner suggest that the section is la...
_that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of theLord_ more exact than the A.V. -that the mind of the Lord might be shewn them....
Incident of the blasphemer, and laws arising out of that occurrence or suggested by it. This section closely resembles Numbers 15:32-36, which relates the punishment of the man found gathering sticks...
3. HISTORICAL: THE PUNISHMENT OF A BLASPHEMER 24:10-23 TEXT 24:10-23 10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the I...
_AND THEY PUT HIM IN WARD, THAT THE MIND OF THE LORD MIGHT BE SHEWED THEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
OIL FOR THE LAMPS. THE SHEWBREAD. LAWS ON BLASPHEMY 1-4. Oil for the Lamps in the Tabernacle. On the construction of the Lampstand see Exodus 25:31, and with the present passage cp. Exodus 27:20 and...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
AND THEY PUT HIM IN WARD. — That is, to keep him in safe custody till he had been tried. In the Mosaic legislation confinement in a prison for a certain period as a punishment for an offence is nowher...
וַ יַּנִּיחֻ֖הוּ בַּ † מִּשְׁמָ֑ר לִ פְרֹ֥שׁ...
THE PENALTY OF BLASPHEMY Leviticus 24:10 "And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of I...
THE HOLY LIGHT AND THE SHEW BREAD: THE BLASPHEMER'S END Leviticus 24:1 IT is not easy to determine with confidence the association of thought which occasioned the interposition of this chapter, with...
LIGHT AND BREAD AND THE HOLY NAME Leviticus 24:1 The words “Before the Lord” are twice repeated in the opening paragraph. The pure lamplight, emblematic of the influence of a religious life; and the...
As this chapter is read, it seems at first to be out of place or out of order. Yet undoubtedly it is not so. The fact that we may not be able clearly to see the connection does not warrant its omissio...
But observe, though the crime was so enormous, yet we find there is no haste in the punishment. What a sweet lesson ought men, in their little provocations with each other to learn from hence. Oh! tha...
We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
The remaining Chapter s of this book appear to me to have a special bearing. The Spirit of God has presented, in chapter 23, the history of the ways of God towards His people upon earth from beginning...
AND THEY PUT HIM IN WARD,.... In some prison, a place known in the camp, as Aben Ezra observes: THAT THE MIND OF THE LORD MIGHT BE SHEWED THEM; for, though this was a breach of the third command, in...
And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them. Ver. 12. _That the mind._] God had not yet made a particular law against blasphemy. Solon made no law against parricide, Lycu...
_That the mind of the Lord might be showed_ For God had only said in general, that _he would not hold_ such _guiltless_, that is, he would punish them, but had not declared how he would have them puni...
1 The oyle for the lampes. 5 The Shewbread. 10 Shelomiths sonne blasphemeth. 13 The Law of Blasphemie. 17 Of Murther. 18 Of Damage. 23 The blasphemer is stoned. [THE SHEWBREAD.] 1 AND the LORD...
A BLASPHEMER STONED...
and they put him in ward, they secured or imprisoned him, THAT THE MIND OF THE LORD MIGHT BE SHOWED THEM, for the measure of punishment and the form of death in such a case had not yet been expressly...
CONTINUAL LIGHT (VV. 1-4) Here Moses is told to command the children of Israel that they bring pure olive oil for the seven lamps, never allowing the supply of oil to lapse, so that the lamps would bu...
THAT THE MIND OF THE LORD MIGHT BE SHEWED THEM: _ Heb._ to expound unto them according to the mouth of the LORD...
10-23 This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blaspheme...
There is very much to interest the spiritual mind in this brief section. We have seen in chapter 23. the history of the dealings of God with Israel, from the offering up of the Pascal Lamb, until the...
Leviticus 24:12 put H3240 (H8686) custody H4929 mind H6310 LORD H3068 shown H6567 (H8800) that the mind of the Lord might be showed
BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE NAME (LEVITICUS 24:10). In the midst of all the ritual instructions in the first part of the book came the practical example as a warning of the sons of Aaron who offered strange...
CONTENTS: Penalty of blasphemy. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, son of Israelitish woman. CONCLUSION: If those who profane the name of God escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not suffer th...
Leviticus 24:2. _Cause the lamps to burn continually._ The heathens also had lamps in their temples. In France it is amusing to see a dim light glimmering through the church windows; and truly it is h...
_Blasphemed the name of the Lord._ BLASPHEMING AGAINST GOD’S HOLY NAME “Swearing is a sin that hath more malignancy in it against God, by how much the less is the temptation to it,” says Burroughs; a...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 24:10__ These verses are an example of the laws in Israel that arose in response to specific situations. ⇐...
Sanctuary Light; The Shewbread; Blasphemy Punished SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 24:1.—Cause the lamps to burn continually. There is a Light whose radiance never dims, whose glow never pales—self-lum...
EXPOSITION The reason why the narrative of the blasphemer's death (Leviticus 24:10-3) is introduced in its present connection, is simply that it took place at the point of time which followed the prom...
Now the beginning of chapter twenty-four, God commands them to bring olive oil so that they might keep the lamps burning continually in the tabernacle. Then God explains the shew bread. He gives the f...
Exodus 18:15; Exodus 18:16; Exodus 18:23; Numbers 27:5; Numbers 36:5;...
That the mind of the Lord might be shewed — For God had only said in general, that he would not hold such guiltless, that is, he would punish them, but had not declared how he would have them punished...