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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 19:26

Nor observe times— This should certainly be read, nor augur or divine by clouds; which is well known to have been a general practice among the heathens. That this is the precise meaning of the original word, see Parkhurst on עונן.

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See also Leviticus 19:26 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 19:26. _NEITHER SHALL YE USE ENCHANTMENT_] לא תנחשו _lo_ _thenachashu_. Conjecture itself can do little towards a proper explanation of the terms used in this verse. נחש _nachash_; Ge...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Certain pagan customs, several of them connected with magic, are here grouped together. The prohibition to eat anything with the blood may indeed refer to the eating of meat which had not been properl...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. DIFFERENT DUTIES CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Honoring parents and fearing God (Leviticus 19:1)_ 2. The care of the poor (Leviticus 19:9) 3. Against stealing and lying (Leviticus 19:11) 4

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    MISCELLANEOUS PRECEPTS, all found elsewhere, except the last. Most of the forbidden actions have some magical significance, _e.g._ cutting the hair in a special fashion, or maiming oneself (originally...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OBSERVE TIMES: i.e. watch clouds, or days, for good or ill luck, e.g. not commencing. journey on. Friday. See note on Leviticus 19:31 below....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _with the blood_ The LXX. has here instead -upon the mountains," probably influenced by the phrase in Ezekiel 18:6; Ezekiel 22:9, which, however, according to Rob.-Sm. (_Kinship_, p. 312), should be a...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Miscellaneous precepts in reference to the various circumstances of every-day life....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    VARIOUS ORDINANCES 19:19-29 TEXT 19:19-29 19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed: neither shall t...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _YE SHALL NOT EAT ANY THING WITH THE BLOOD: NEITHER SHALL YE USE ENCHANTMENT, NOR OBSERVE TIMES._ Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood, х_ `AL_ (H5921) _ HADAAM_ (H1818)] - upon the blood. This...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    USE ENCHANTMENT] charms or incantations. OBSERVE TIMES] RV 'practise augury,' perhaps by watching the clouds or the flight of birds: see on Deuteronomy 18:10....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    VARIOUS LAWS, MAINLY OF A MORAL AND HUMANE CHARACTER This chapter was very naturally regarded by Jewish authorities as an embodiment of the Decalogue. It will be observed that in general the precepts...

  • 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

    YE SHALL NOT EAT ANY THING WITH THE BLOOD. — According to the administrators of the law during the second Temple, there are no less than five different things forbidden here. It prohibits (1) eating t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹ֥א תֹאכְל֖וּ עַל ־הַ דָּ֑ם לֹ֥א תְנַחֲשׁ֖וּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE LAW OF HOLINESS (CONCLUDED) Leviticus 19:1 WE have in this chapter a series of precepts and prohibitions which from internal evidence appear to have been selected by an inspired redactor of the c...

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

    The more positive habits of separation are insisted on by the repetition of laws already given, with one reiterated emphasis, namely, the fact that the God of this people is Jehovah. There was, first,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor (i) observe times. (i) To measure lucky or unlucky days....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Blood. The flesh of any animal. The blood must belong to God. The members of the Sanhedrim eat nothing on the day that a criminal is executed, supposing that this is the meaning of the precept. The Se...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These precepts are rather obscure. It is probable, that they refer to the heathenish practices of the idolatrous neighbours around Israel. And if so, they serve to teach, that everything which hath th...

  • 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 FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20. Chapter s 19, 20, carry us somewhat farther. They were to be holy, for Jehovah was holy. Chapter 19 takes up rather the side of good, though keepin...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    YE SHALL NOT EAT [ANYTHING] WITH THE BLOOD,.... Or upon, over, or by the blood s, for this law seems different from that in Genesis 9:4, and from those in Leviticus 3:17; and is variously interpreted...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ye shall not eat [any thing] with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. Ver. 26. _Neither shall ye use enchantment._] Or, observe fortunes, conjecture by signs of good or ev...

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

    _Any thing with the blood_ Any flesh out of which the blood is not first poured. _Neither shall ye use enchantments_ It was unpardonable in them, to whom _were committed the oracles of God_, to ask co...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 A repetition of sundry Lawes. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and say vnto them, [NOTE: Leviticus 11:44; Leviticus 20:7; 1 Pet...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    MANY LAWS GROUPED TOGETHER (VV. 1-37) We have seen at the beginning and end of chapter 18 God's announcement, “I am the Lord your God.” In chapter 19 the expression “I am the Lord” occurs 15 times. Bu...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WITH THE BLOOD, i. e. any flesh out of which the blood is not first poured. See 1 SAMUEL 14:32. The Jews write, that the Egyptians and other nations, when they offered sacrifices to the devils, did ea...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 19:26 eat H398 (H8799) blood H1818 divination H5172 (H8762) soothsaying H6049 (H8779) with the bloo

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    BANS IN RELIGIOUS MATTERS: WARNINGS AGAINST PAGAN PRACTISES (LEVITICUS 19:26). There now follow in the name of Yahweh a number of provisions banning various aspects connected with ‘other-worldly' pra...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Further laws concerning proper relationships. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God's people being distinguished from all other people by a peculiar relationship with Him through Christ,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The leading precepts of the law are here repeated to give them new force, and with many additions and illustrations, that they might be better understood. Most of these having already been explained,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 19:1__ The Lord strongly commands the people (including the priests) to become holy in their practice, as he is holy (v. Leviticus 19:2). They do this by observi

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 19:26 These are all practices of the Canaanites. Holiness requires Israel not to act like the ungodly in any area of life. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    Practical Piety: Religion in all Relationships SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 19:2.—Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say: Nowhere else in the whole of Leviticus does this...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION From the prohibition of moral uncleanness exhibiting itself in the form of incest and licentiousness, the legislator proceeds to a series of laws and commandments against other kinds of imm...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now God continues in this same vein, as He moves into chapter nineteen. Speak unto all of the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am ho...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 15:23; 2 Chronicles 33:6; 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 21:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Any thing with the blood — Any flesh out of which the blood is poured. Neither shall ye use enchantments — It was unpardonable in them, to whom were committed the oracles of God, to ask counsel of the...

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