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Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Exodus 30:37-38

Incense of this composition to be used exclusively in the service of Jehovah. Cf. v.32 f.

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See also Exodus 30:37-38 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Exodus 37:29. The incense, like the anointing oil, consisted of four aromatic ingredients. STACTE - supposed to be either the gum of the Storax tree (Styrax officinale) found in Syria and the neighbor...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 30 THE ALTAR OF INCENSE AND THE WORSHIPPERS _ 1. The altar (Exodus 30:1)_ 2. The atonement money (Exodus 30:11) 3. The brazen laver and the unction of the Spirit (Exodus 30:22) 4. The ince...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 30-31. P S. PRIESTLY SUPPLEMENTS. These two Chapter s form an appendix to Exodus 25-29. The golden incense altar finds no place in Exodus 25 or Exodus 26:33 or Leviticus 16 (where the annual ri...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TAKE UNTO THEE SWEET SPICES— The composition of the _perfume_ for the golden altar of incense is next prescribed; concerning which the same prohibition is made, Exodus 30:37 as concerning the holy oin...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 30 And thou shalt make an altar to bum incense upon: of acacia wood shalt thou make it. (2) A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursqu...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, TAKE UNTO THEE SWEET SPICES, STACTE, AND ONYCHA, AND GALBANUM; THESE SWEET SPICES WITH PURE FRANKINCENSE: OF EACH SHALL THERE BE A LIKE WEIGHT:_ Take unto thee sweet sp...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. THE RANSOM MONEY. THE LAVER. THE ANOINTING OIL. THE INCENSE 1-10. The Altar of Incense. The use of incense in worship was probably due to the worshipper's desire to honour God by...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This particular compound is not to be used for any profane purpose: cp. the similar direction in the case of the holy anointing oil (Exodus 30:32)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 30 THE *ALTAR WHERE THE PRIESTS BURNT POWDER THAT HAS A SWEET SMELL...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    These instructions are similar to those given with respect to the holy oil (Exodus 30:32). Neither of the two holy compounds were to be applied to any profane use....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הַ קְּטֹ֨רֶת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה בְּ מַ֨תְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE ANOINTING OIL AND THE INCENSE. Exodus 30:22. We have already seen the meaning of the anointing oil and of the incense. But we have further to remark that their ingredients were accurately presc...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE ANOINTING OIL AND THE INCENSE Exodus 30:22 _ The anointing oil_ was extremely rich and costly. Pure myrrh; sweet cinnamon, imported probably from Sumatra or China; sweet calamus, the product of I...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We may come to the description of the altar of incense. It is significant that in the earlier description of the Holy Place, with its furnishing, this altar was not named. It was specifically the alta...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The same precept as in Exodus 30:32 and Exodus 30:33 : the setting it apart as holy, implies the importance of the thing itself....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 30 AND 31. Having thus established the priesthood, and the relationship of the people with God who dwelt in the midst of them, the intercession of Christ in g...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND [AS] FOR THE PERFUME WHICH THOU SHALT MAKE,.... As above directed: YE SHALL NOT MAKE TO YOURSELVES ACCORDING TO THE COMPOSITION THEREOF; that is, for their own use, for the scenting of their room...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Altar of incense. 11 The ransome of soules. 17 The brasen lauer. 22 The holy anoynting oyle. 34 The composition of the perfume. 1 AND thou shalt make an Altar to burne incense vpon: of Shit...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE HOLY INCENSE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And as for the perfume, this holy incense, WHICH THOU SHALT MAKE, YE SHALL NOT MAKE TO YOURSELVES ACCORDING TO THE COMPOSITION THEREOF; IT SHALL BE UNTO THEE HOLY FOR THE LORD....

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    5. _The Altar of Incense_. Exodus 30:1-10 The reason why the directions concerning the altar of incense are given so late is seen in the design of it, which puts it among the things directly connected...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    H. THE VISION OR THE IDEAL OF THE TABERNACLE. THE ORDERING OF THE ARK AND OF THE HOUSE OF THE COVENANT; OF THE LIVING PRESENCE OF THE LAW AND OF THE DWELLING-PLACE OF THE LAW-GIVER Exodus 25-31 I. C...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GOLDEN ALTAR OF INCENSE (vs.1-10) Before this chapter the Lord has given instructions concerning the tabernacle, its court and all the furniture both outside and inside, except the altar of incen...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    22-38 Directions are here given for making the holy anointing oil, and the incense to be used in the service of the tabernacle. To show the excellency of holiness, there was this spiced oil in the ta...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The priesthood being instituted, as in the two preceding Chapter s, we are here introduced to the position of true priestly worship and communion. The order is marked and instructive; and, moreover, p...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 30:37 incense H7004 make H6213 (H8799) make H6213 (H8799) composition H4971 holy H6944 LORD H3068...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE INCENSE (EXODUS 30:34). a The constituents of the incense to be taken (Exodus 30:34). b They are to be made into incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer. c Seasoned with salt, pure and...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The altar of incense and the brazen laver. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: (See Psalms 141:2). The prayer of a contrite believer ascends as a fragrant cloud to God. (Proverbs 15...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 30:6. _Before the veil._ This altar, formed like the ark, of the incorruptible wood covered over with pure gold, represented the Son of God in human nature; and the incense typified his interce...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Sweet spices._ THE INCENSE The incense employed in the service of the Tabernacle was compounded of four ingredients: stacte, onycha, galbanum, and frankincense. It might only be used in the worship...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 30:22 This section gives instructions for making the ANOINTING OIL and INCENSE. Since the oil is to consecrate the elements of the tabernacle and the priests, and the incense is...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 30:33 SHALL BE CUT OFF FROM HIS PEOPLE. See note on 12:15. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 30:34_ SPIRITUAL WORSHIP Notice here— I. THE ELEMENTS OF TRUE WORSHIP. 1. There must be nothing in prayer but what is _sweet_. “Sweet spices.” No _anger_....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE HOLY INCENSE. It remained to give directions concerning the composition of the incense, which, according to Exodus 30:7, was to be burnt upon the altar of gold. That it was to be of one...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of acacia wood shalt thou make it. It's to be eighteen by eighteen, and forty-five inches high (Exodus 30:1). This is a little altar that was set in...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    ye shall Exodus 30:32 Exodus 30:33 it shall Exodus 29:37 Leviticus 2:3...

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