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Leviticus 24:7

frankincense The LXX. add -and salt," apparently in view of the rule in Leviticus 2:13. According to a tradition preserved by Josephus (Ant.iii. 10. 7) the frankincense was not poured on the bread, but placed beside it in two golden bowls.

an offering made by fire The frankincense was burnt on the altar of Burnt-Offering. See Jos. Ant. l.c.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The oil for the lamps of the tabernacle and the meal for the showbread were to be offerings from the Congregation, like the meal for the Pentecostal loaves, Leviticus 23:17. It appears that the respon...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. PRIESTLY DUTIES: THE LIGHT AND THE SHEWBREAD CHAPTER 24:1-9 _ 1. The light (Leviticus 24:1)_ 2. The shewbread (Leviticus 24:5) This chapter is not disconnected from the preceding one as some cla...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SHEWBREAD (P). First mentioned in 1 Samuel 21:1 (_cf._ Mark 2:25 ff.), also 1 Kings 7:48 (_cf._ Exodus 25:30 *,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OFFERING. Hebrew. _'ishsheh._ App-43....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 139 THE SHEW-BREAD Leviticus 24:5. And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth-deals shall be in one cake. And thou shalt set them in two rows. six on a row, up...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THOU SHALT TAKE FINE FLOUR, AND BAKE TWELVE CAKES THEREOF: TWO TENTH DEALS SHALL BE IN ONE CAKE._ Take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes - for the showbread, as previously appointed (Exodus 25:3...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SHALT PUT PURE FRANKINCENSE UPON EACH ROW. — Better, _shalt place pure frankincense by each pile._ As the two piles of six cakes each measured together ten handbreadths in width, and as the length of...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ נָתַתָּ֥ עַל ־הַֽ מַּעֲרֶ֖כֶת לְבֹנָ֣ה זַכ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE "BREAD OF THE PRESENCE" Leviticus 24:5 "And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. And thou shalt set them in two rows, six o...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon [each] row, that (d) it may be on the bread for a memorial, [even] an offering made by fire unto the LORD. (d) For it was burnt every sabbath, when the bread...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THOU SHALT PUT PURE FRANKINCENSE UPON [EACH] ROW,.... Two cups of frankincense, in each of which was an handful of it, and which were set by each row of the cakes, as Jarchi observes: THAT IT MAY...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon [each] row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, [even] an offering made by fire unto the LORD. Ver. 7. _On the bread._] Or, Instead of the bread....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _In two rows_ One piled above another; and on the top of each row was set a golden dish, with a handful of the best frankincense therein. _On the bread for a memorial_ That is, in order to be burned u...

  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, the pure natural gum, as a gift from the people, the twelve tribes of Israel being represented by the twelve cakes of the showbread. The frankincens...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OF THE OIL AND THE SHOWBREAD...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 The loaves of bread typify Christ as the Bread of life, and the food of the souls of his people. He is the Light of his church, the Light of the world; in and through his word this light shines. B...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PURE FRANKINCENSE, unmixed and uncorrupted, or of the best sort. THAT IT MAY BE ON THE BREAD, or _to the bread_, or _for the bread_, to wit, to be burnt before the Lord instead of the bread, which cou...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 24:7 put H5414 (H8804) pure H2134 frankincense H3828 row H4635 bread H3899 memorial H234 fire H801 LORD...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SHOWBREAD (LEVITICUS 24:5). The showbread consisted of twelve large cakes placed on the table in the Holy Place. It was the responsibility of the sons of Kohath (1 Chronicles 9:32). The number twe...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Pure oil-olive beaten for the light._ DIRECTIONS FOR FURNISHING OF THE SANCTUARY Care is here taken, and orders given, for the decent furnishing of the candlestick and table in God’s house. I. The...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION A connection between Leviticus 23:1, and Le Leviticus 24:1 is found by Keil in the fact that the oil for the holy lamps and the shewbread were offerings of the people, a sacrificial gift wi...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Pure frankincense — Unmixed and uncorrupted, or of the best sort, to be burnt before the Lord. On the bread — And this was done every time that the bread was changed. For a memorial — For that part wh...

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