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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Leviticus 24:8

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.

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See also Leviticus 24:8 in other biblical comments:

  • 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

    EVERY SABBATH. Hebrew "on the day of the sabbath, on the day of the sabbath", Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._ App-6. = on the holy sabbath day. Compare 1 Chronicles 9:32....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _The ordering of the shewbread_ Cp. Exodus 25:30; Exodus 37:10 ff.; Numbers 4:7. The -twelve cakes" are not here given this name. For its origin and for parallels to the custom in other religions, se...

  • 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

    b. THE SHOWBREAD 24:5-9 TEXT 24:5-9 5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts _of an ephah_ shall be in one cake. 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six...

  • 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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    24:8 arrange (a-6) As 'set in order,' Exodus 40:4 ,Exodus 40:23 ; 'rank,' 1 Chronicles 12:38 ....

  • 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

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    EVERY SABBATH HE SHALL SET IT IN ORDER. — That is, Aaron is to carry out these instructions in the first instance, as we are told in Leviticus 24:3, and after him, or together with him, the priests ar...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בְּ יֹ֨ום הַ שַּׁבָּ֜ת בְּ יֹ֣ום הַ

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Of the, &c. The Israelites gave a sufficient maintenance to the ministers of religion, out of which these provided the loaves; as St. Jerome testifies, Malachias i._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The constant supply of new loaves every sabbath, and the removal of those which had been brought before, was a delightful type of gospel mercies, in the supply of the LORD'S family from Sabbath to Sab...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • 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

    EVERY SABBATH HE SHALL SET IT IN ORDER BEFORE THE LORD CONTINUALLY,.... That is, the priest or priests then ministering, who should bring new cakes and place them in the above order, having removed th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, [being taken] from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. Ver. 8. _Every Sabbath._] So must the bread of life be every...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Every Sabbath he, the priest on duty, SHALL SET IT IN ORDER BEFORE THE LORD CONTINUALLY, BEING TAKEN FROM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BY AN EVERLASTING COVENANT. In this unbloody sacrifice the congregation...

  • 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

    BEFORE THE LORD, whence it was called the shew-bread, Heb. _the bread of faces_, or _of presence_, i.e. the bread which was put upon the table in the Lord's presence. BEING TAKEN; such supplements are...

  • 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 24:8 Sabbath H7676 set H3117 order H6186 (H8799) before H6440 LORD H3068 continually H8548 children H1121

  • 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

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 24:1 These verses may have been a reminder not to forget the daily tabernacle activities in between the annual festivals described in ch. Leviticus 23:1....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 24:5 The TWELVE LOAVES symbolize the 12 tribes of Israel as they stand in God’s presence. In Exodus 25:30 the loaves are called “the b

  • 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

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 23:29; 1 Chronicles 9:32; 2 Chronicles 2:4; Matthew 12:3;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    From the children of Israel — And these cakes are said to be received from or offered by the children of Israel, bought with the money which they contributed. By an everlasting covenant — By virtue of...

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