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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Leviticus 4:23-26

The same without much variety, only in an humbler offering, is here appointed for the ruler, as for the priest. Both evidently referring to the finished redemption which is in CHRIST, and to which all these services ministered. Hebrews 10:1.

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See also Leviticus 4:23-26 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    OR IF HIS SIN - Rather, And if his sin. COME TO HIS KNOWLEDGE - i. e. when he had become conscious of his sin. A KID OF THE GOATS - A shaggy he-goat, in distinction from a smooth-haired he-goat. It w...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. THE SIN OFFERING Chapter S 4-5:13 _ 1. The second utterance of Jehovah (Leviticus 4:1)_ 2. The sin offering for the high priest (Leviticus 4:3) 3. The sin offering for the congregation (Levitic...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIN OFFERING TOR A RULER, or tribal chief or representative. The word is also used of the one chief of the nation in post-exilic writers when the succession of kings had come to an end. It would a...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LEVITICUS 4:1 TO LEVITICUS 5:13. THE SIN OFFERING. This, and the guilt offering, whose ritual follows, are unknown before the Exile, save as fines (2 Kings 12:16;...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SIN. Hebrew. _chat'a._ App-44. MALE: for ruler, female for one of the people, Leviticus 4:28. Compare Leviticus 5:13....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _a goat_ lit. a shaggy one of goats, i.e. a hairy goat, an expression used of female goats (Leviticus 4:28) as well as males. The phrase occurs, with the exception of Genesis 37:31, exclusively in Lev...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _The Sin-Offering for the ruler, a he-goat_ The blood in this case is not brought into the tent of meeting but put upon the horns of the altar of Burnt-Offering, and poured out at the base of the alt...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. THE SIN OFFERING FOR THE RULER 4:22-26 TEXT 4:22-26 22 When a ruler sinneth, and doeth unwittingly any one of all the things which Jehovah his God hath commanded not to be done, and is guilty; 2...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _WHEN A RULER HATH SINNED, AND DONE SOMEWHAT THROUGH IGNORANCE AGAINST ANY OF THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD HIS GOD CONCERNING THINGS WHICH SHOULD NOT BE DONE, AND IS GUILTY;_ When a ruler hath sinned...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:23 offering, (c-16) ' _ Corban_ ,' see ch. 1.2....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIN OFFERING (4:1-5:13) AND THE GUILT OFFERING (5:14-6:7) These are later and specialised forms of the Burnt Offering. They presuppose a state of matters in which the good relationship between God...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֹֽו ־הֹודַ֤ע אֵלָיו֙ חַטָּאתֹ֔ו אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָטָ֖א...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE SIN OFFERING Leviticus 4:1 BOTH in the burnt offering and in the peace offering, Israel was taught, as we are, that all consecration and all fellowship with God must begin with, and ever depends...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE RITUAL OF THE SIN OFFERING Leviticus 4:4; Leviticus 5:1; Leviticus 6:24 ACCORDING to the Authorised Version, Leviticus 5:6

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Leviticus 4:13 GRADED RESPONSIBILITY Leviticus 4:3; Leviticus 4:13; Leviticus 4:22;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SIN-OFFERINGS FOR RULERS AND PEOPLE Leviticus 4:22 The character of the sin for which the sin-offering was presented is expressed by the words, repeated again and again, “through ignorance,” or “unwi...

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

    We come now to the consideration of the sin offering. In the light of the divine holiness sin is seen, whether it be willful or not, and provisions must be made for its expiation. In the instructions,...

  • 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 FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, 6, AND 7. We come now to the sacrifices which were not sacrifices of sweet savour-the sin and trespass-offerings, alike in the great principle, though d...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    OR IF HIS SIN WHEREIN HE HATH SINNED COME TO HIS KNOWLEDGE,.... Or rather, "and if his sin", c. m either by means of others informing him of it, or of himself calling to mind what he has done, and con...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish: Ver. 23. _Come to his knowledge._] As David's did, 2Sa 24:11 who...

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

    Leviticus 4:22 ; LEVITICUS 4:24. _A ruler_ Of the people, or a civil magistrate. _Where they kill the burnt-offering_ So called by way of eminence, to wit, the daily burnt-offering. _It is a sin-offer...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The sinne offering of ignorance, 3 for the Priest, 13 for the Congregation, 22 for the Ruler, 27 for any of the people. [OFFERINGS FOR SINNES OF IGNORANCE.] 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, sa...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    or if his sin wherein he hath sinned come to his knowledge, if someone point out to him his deviation from the exact line of God's will, HE SHALL BRING HIS OFFERING, A KID OF THE GOATS, A MALE WITHOUT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    FOR A RULER...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIN OFFERING FOR CASES OF IGNORANCE (vv. 1-2) The sin offering was for sins of ignorance, or inadvertence. These are things that we do not realize are sin and we easily fall into such things unin...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    22-26 Those who have power to call others to account, are themselves accountable to the Ruler of rulers. The sin of the ruler, committed through ignorance, must come to his knowledge, either by the c...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The disjunctive _or_ is here put for the copulative _and_, as it is 1 CORINTHIANS 12:13, 1 CORINTHIANS 13:8 15:11; for it is evident that he speaks of the same person, and of the same sin....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    Having Considered the "sweet savour" Offerings, We now approach the "sacrifices for sin." These were divided into two classes, namely, sin offerings and trespass offerings. Of the former, there were t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 4:23 his H2403 committed H2398 (H8804) knowledge H3045 (H8717) bring H935 (H8689) offering H7133 kid...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PURIFICATION FOR SIN OFFERING FOR A RULER OF THE PEOPLE (LEVITICUS 4:22). We now come a step down to a ruler of the people. The situation is now different. He does not represent the whole nation,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sin offering laws. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Even sins done in ignorance need to be atoned for by sacrifice. To plead ignorance when charged with sin will not deliver. Our only h...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 4:2. _Sin through ignorance._ Ignorance is itself a crime, for all men ought to know the scriptures; or in doubtful cases, they should ask advice. Error and negligence are therefore without...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _When a ruler hath sinned._ A LESSON FOR POLITICIANS While there are many in our parliaments and like governing bodies in Christendom who cast their every vote with the fear of God before their eyes,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _If a soul shall sin through ignorance._ THE SIN AND TRESPASS-OFFERINGS I. There are, then, some lingering defilements and trespasses adhering to man, even though he be justified, consecrated, and in...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 4:22 The PRIEST atones for the sin of a LEADER or an individual by what he does with the BLOOD at the ALTAR of the

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    Sacrifices for Sins SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 4:2.—If a soul shall sin. Be it noted that the foregoing sacrifices are specified as sacrifices already _familiar_ to the Hebrew people. In distincti...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE SIN OFFERING (Leviticus 4:1, Leviticus 5:1). At the time of the Mosaic legislation, burnt offerings and meat offerings were already in existence, and had existed from the time of the Fa...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now as we get into chapter four, we get in now to the sin offerings. First of all, God said, "if a soul should sin through ignorance against any of the commandments" (Leviticus 4:2)-It is interesting...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 22:10; Leviticus 23:19; Leviticus 9:3; Leviticus 4:14;...

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