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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Numbers 28

Numbers 28:1

NUMBERS CHAPTER 28 Offerings to be observed at set times: the daily burnt-offering in the morning, together with its meat and drink offering; and at evening, NUMBERS 28:8. The sabbath offering, NUMBERS 28:9,10. The burnt-offering of the new moons, with, its meat, drink, and sin offering, NUMBERS 28:... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 28:2

God here repeats some of the former laws about sacrifices, not without great reason, partly, because they had been generally discontinued for thirty-eight years together; partly, because the generation to which the former laws had been given about these things was wholly dead, and it was fit the new... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 28:6

ORDAINED, or, _prescribed_, instituted by God. Or, made, i.e. offered at that place, though since omitted for thirty-eight years.... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 28:7

IN THE HOLY PLACE, i.e. upon the altar of burnt-offerings, which was in the court of the priests nigh to the entrance into the sanctuary. See EXODUS 29:42 2 CHRONICLES 29:7. STRONG WINE, Heb. _shecar_, which though it signify in the general all kinds of strong drink, yet is here put for the most fam... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 28:8

THOU SHALT OFFER IT, or, _thou shalt offer with it_. Or, with _the meat offering of the morning, and with the drink offering thereof thou shalt offer it_; the letter _caph_ being put for _beth_, which are alike in Hebrew, and the words are said to be read with _beth_ in some copies.... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 28:11

IN THE BEGINNINGS OF YOUR MONTHS, which though not reckoned among the solemn feasts, LE 23, yet were celebrated as such, by the sound of trumpets, NUMBERS 10:10, by extraordinary sacrifices, by abstinence from servile works, AMOS 8:5, and by attendance upon the ministry of God's word, 2 KINGS 4:23.... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 28:23

And that in the evening too, as is evident from the nature of the thing, and from other scriptures; but the morning sacrifice alone is mentioned, partly because the celebration of the feast began with it, and principally because this alone was doubtful, whether this might not be omitted when so many... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 28:24

i.e. The sacrifice made by fire, which is as it were my meat or food; for as God is said to smell the sacrifices, to wit, metaphorically, i.e. to accept of them; so is he said to eat them, i.e. to devour or consume them, and to be satisfied with them: such things spoken of God after the manner of me... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 28:26

IN THE DAY OF THE FIRST-FRUITS; in the feast of pentecost, ACTS 2:1. A NEW MEAT-OFFERING; new fruits, two loaves made of your new corn, LEVITICUS 23:16. YOUR WEEKS, i.e. the seven weeks which you are to number from the passover, LEVITICUS 23:15 Heb. _in the weeks, in_ being put for _after_, as it is... [ Continue Reading ]

Numbers 28:27

THE BURNT-OFFERING, for the celebration of the feast, over and besides that other offering which was joined with the first-fruits, LEVITICUS 23:18: so here is a new additional sacrifice prescribed, which doth not destroy the former.... [ Continue Reading ]

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