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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Leviticus 3:3-5

Perhaps the significance of those things, in the inward fat, meaning the prime parts of the animal, was meant to show that all offerings to the LORD must be from the heart, including the best of our affections. Proverbs 23:26.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 3:3. _THE FAT THAT COVERETH THE INWARDS_] The _omentum_, caul or _web_, as some term it. _The fat that is upon the inwards_; probably the _mesentery_ or fatty part of the substance whi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    “The fat that covereth the inwards” refers to the caul or transparent membrane which has upon it a network of fatty tissue: “the fat upon the inwards” refers to the small lumps of suet found upon the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE PEACE OFFERING CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The ox (Leviticus 3:1)_ 2. The sheep or goat (Leviticus 3:6) This is the third “sweet savour offering,” and is closely linked with the burnt offering, but it di...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    III. PEACE OFFERINGS. This properly follows ch. 1, and describes the ritual of the next great class of sacrifices, the peace offerings. These are familiar in the narrative parts of the OT, and the Boo...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HE. the offerer, not the priest. OFFERING. Hebrew. _'ishsheh._ App-43....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The portions of the Peace-Offering taken for sacrifice are described in Leviticus 3:3_; Leviticus 3:9; Leviticus 3:14_in almost identical words. In the case of the lamb the _fat tail entire_was also b...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE FAT— i.e. What we call _the suet._ REFLECTIONS.—Peace-offerings were either to express their grateful acknowledgments for mercies received, or to second their prayers for some good which was desi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    d. THE PEACE OFFERING 3:1-17 (1) ITS VARIETIES AND RITUAL 3:1-17 TEXT 3:1-17 1 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace-offerings; if he offer of the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND HE SHALL OFFER OF THE SACRIFICE OF THE PEACE OFFERING AN OFFERING MADE BY FIRE UNTO THE LORD; THE FAT THAT COVERETH THE INWARDS, AND ALL THE FAT THAT IS UPON THE INWARDS,_ He shall offer of the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PEACE OFFERING This form of sacrifice takes its name from a Heb. word meaning a 'requital' or giving of thanks, and is therefore called by some the Thank Offering. It is an animal sacrifice, the c...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The internal fat, along with the blood, is regarded as the seat of life and possessing a peculiar sanctity. It must, therefore, never be eaten by man, but always offered to God by burning: see Exodus...

  • 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

    AND HE SHALL OFFER. — That is, he who brings the sacrifices, not the priest. THE FAT. — That is, the best or choicest part. Hence the expression is also used for the best produce of the ground (Genesi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הִקְרִיב֙ מִ זֶּ֣בַח הַ שְּׁלָמִ֔ים אִשֶּׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE PEACE OFFERING Leviticus 3:1; Leviticus 7:11; Leviticus 19:5; Leviticus 22:21 IN chapter 3 is given, though not

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    PEACE-OFFERINGS FROM THE HERD AND THE FLOCKS Leviticus 3:1 The Lord Jesus has been set forth in Leviticus 1:1 as the burned-offering in relation to God; and in Leviticus 2:1, as the meal-offering in...

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

    In the peace offering new elements are manifest Here one part was to be burned with fire and thus offered directly to God, while another part was returned from the altar to the worshiper for his own s...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And he shall (b) offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards, (b) One part was b...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fat. All the fat was carefully presented to the Lord. The Persians offered this alone. Omentum in flamma pingue liquefaciens. (Catul. Epig. de Magis.)_...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The peace-offering now presents itself to our notice. It is the offering which typifies to us the communion of saints, according to the efficacy of the sacrifice, with God, with the priest who has off...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE SHALL OFFER OF THE SACRIFICE OF THE PEACE OFFERING,.... That is, the priest, not all of it, but some of it, even what is after mentioned: AN OFFERING MADE BY FIRE UNTO THE LORD; for what was o...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that [is] upon the inwards, Ver. 3. _The fat that...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The meat offering of the herde, 6 of the flocke, 7 either a lambe, 12 or a goat. 1 AND if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if hee offer it of the herd, whether it be a male or fema...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace-offering an offering made by fire unto the Lord, certain parts of the animal offered for the purpose of establishing a closer fellowship with God were...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OF THE HERD...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PEACE OFFERING TAKEN FROM THE HERD (vv. 1-5) The peace offering was also a voluntary sacrifice. However, it could either be a male or female, but only an unblemished animal. Of course it speaks a...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FAT: Or, suet...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 The peace-offerings had regard to God as the giver of all good things. These were divided between the altar, the priest, and the owner. They were called peace-offering, because in them God and hi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The more closely we contemplate the offerings, the more fully do we see how that no one offering furnishes a complete view of Christ. It is only by putting all together, that anything like a just idea...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 3:3 offer H7126 (H8689) sacrifice H2077 offering H8002 fire H801 LORD H3068 fat H2459 covers H3680 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PEACE SACRIFICE FROM THE HERD (LEVITICUS 3:1). Leviticus 3:1 ‘And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace-offerings; if he offer of the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without b...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Peace offering laws. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron's sons. CONCLUSION: In Christ, God and the sinner meet in peace. God is propitiated and the sinner reconciled; both alike satisfied with...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 3:1. _Oblation,_ is variously rendered; sometimes an offering of any kind, sometimes, as here, a sacrifice of peace-offering. The LXX render it an offering of salutation; when a man had reco...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A sacrifice of peace-offering._ THE PEACE-OFFERING The word peace in the language of the Scriptures, has a shade of meaning not commonly attached to it in ordinary use. With most persons it signifie...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 3:1__ The PEACE OFFERING (see also Leviticus 7:11) expresses peace between an offerer and the

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    The Peace Offering of Thanksgiving SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 3:1.—A sacrifice of peace offering. Happy are the truths made evident in this peace sacrifice; delightful to God, blessed for man. Pea...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE PEACE OFFERING. The peace offering, though the instructions here given respecting it precede those relating to the sin offering (for a reason to be stated hereafter), is the last in ord...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 30:6; Exodus 29:13; Exodus 29:22; Ezekiel 36:26; Isaiah

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