_A.M. 2514. B.C. 1490._ Laws concerning the lamps, Leviticus 24:1. The show-bread, Leviticus 24:5. Blasphemy occasioned by that of Shelomith's son, Leviticus 24:10. The laws of retaliation, Leviticus 24:17. The blasphemer stoned, Leviticus 24:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
After the foregoing particulars relating to the annual festivals and assemblies, and all things prepared for the tabernacle service, he proceeds to remind the Israelites of executing the orders before given, about providing at the public charge all materials for the daily service; and in particular... [ Continue Reading ]
To _cause the lamps to burn_ Hebrew, _the lamp:_ yet, Leviticus 24:4, it is _the lamps:_ the _seven_ lamps made all _one_ lamp. In allusion to which the blessed Spirit is represented (Revelation 4.) by _seven_ lamps of fire before the throne.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The pure candlestick_ So called, either because of its resplendent brightness, or because it was of pure gold; _before the Lord_ Because it was before the _ark_ and _mercy-seat_, where God was peculiarly present.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt take_ By the priests or Levites, whose work it was to prepare them, 1 Chronicles 9:32. _Twelve cakes_ Representing the twelve tribes. _Two tenth-deals shall be in one cake_ That is, two omers, or two tenth parts of an ephah, consisting of about six quarts of English measure, Exodus 16:36... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 upon the altar at the week's end, instead of the bread, in honour of God, or to commemorate his name.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Being taken from the children of Israel_ At whose charge they were provided, Nehemiah 10:32; _by an everlasting covenant_ By a law which they had all agreed to observe, (Exodus 24:3,) and which was to continue as long as that dispensation remained.... [ Continue Reading ]
_It_ (the old bread, now to be taken away) _shall be Aaron's of the offerings made by fire_ The frankincense and the bread were but one offering, and the frankincense being burned instead of the bread, hence the bread too is reckoned among the offerings made by fire.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Whose father was an Egyptian_ This circumstance seems noted, partly to show the danger of marriages with persons of wicked principles, and partly by this severity against him who was a stranger by the father, and an Israelite by the mother, to show that God would not have this sin go unpunished amo... [ Continue Reading ]
_The name of the Lord_ The words _of the Lord_, or _of Jehovah_, are supplied out of Leviticus 24:16, where they are expressed; here they are omitted, perhaps for the aggravation of his crime. He _blasphemed the name_ So called by way of eminence; that name which is above every name; that name which... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 punished by men.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lay their hands upon his head_ Whereby they gave public testimony that they heard this person speak such words, and did in their own and all the people's names demand justice to be executed upon him, that by this sacrifice God might be appeased, and his judgments turned away from the people, upon w... [ Continue Reading ]
_Whosoever curseth his God_ Speaketh of him reproachfully. _Shall bear his sin_ That is, the punishment of it; shall not go unpunished, _He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord_ This is a repetition of the same sin in other words, which is common. As this law is laid down in general terms, Leviticu... [ Continue Reading ]
_He that killeth_ This law is repeated here, to prevent the mischievous effects of men's striving together, which as here it caused blasphemy, so it might in others lead to murder.... [ Continue Reading ]
_One law_ That is, in matters of common right, but not as to church privileges. _Stone him with stones_ This blasphemer was the first that died by the law of Moses. Stephen, the first that died for the gospel, died by the abuse of the law. The martyr and the malefactor suffered the same death; but h... [ Continue Reading ]