利未记 24:2 RCUVSS

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 24:2-4

The candlestick. To many the regulations of Leviticus seem a cryptograph to which they have no key. To others, an inscription of old date with no reference to present concerns. Yet, dull-eyed must we be if we can discern no lessons for ourselves in the construction of the tabernacle and its furniture. The Hebrew can be translated into modern English, the Law stated in terms of the gospel. The tabernacle was the meeting-place of God with his people. It was his house, where his servants... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 24:1-9

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 responsibility of keeping up the lights rested on the high priest, but the actual service might be performed, on ordinary occasions, by the common priests. Compare margin reference.Leviticus 24:5Each cake or loaf of unleavened bread Leviticus 2:11 was to contain about six pounds and a quarter (see Exodus... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 24:2

Leviticus 24:2. 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 4:0.) by seven lamps of fire before the throne. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:1-23

Reverence for God (24:1-23)Further instructions are given to remind the Israelites of their daily and weekly responsibilities in relation to the Holy Place. To begin with the people had to supply the oil so that the priests could keep the lamp burning continually (24:1-4). The priests also had to make sure that twelve cakes of ‘presence bread’, renewed weekly, were on the table before the Lord continually. This was possibly to symbolize that the nation Israel, which consisted of twelve tribes,... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 24:2

Command. Only twice, here and in Leviticus 6:9 , is the word "command" used for communicating. children. Hebrew sons. the light = the light-bearer or lamp-stand. Compare Exodus 27:20 , Exodus 27:21 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 24:2

2. Command the children of Israel—This is the repetition of a law previously given (Exodus 27:20; Exodus 27:21). pure oil olive beaten—or cold-drawn, which is always of great purity. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 24:1-9

D. The preparation of the holy lamps and showbread 24:1-9The connection of these instructions with what precedes is this. The Israelites were not only to offer themselves to Yahweh on special days of the year, but they were to worship and serve Him every day of the year. The daily refueling and burning of the lamps and the uninterrupted presentation of the showbread to Yahweh represented the daily sanctification of the people to their God. [Note: For other explanations of the placement of... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 24:1-23

Oil for the Lamps. The Shewbread. Laws on Blasphemy1-4. Oil for the Lamps in the Tabernacle.On the construction of the Lampstand see Exodus 25:31-40, and with the present passage cp. Exodus 27:20-21 and notes there.5-9. The Table of Shewbread is described in Exodus 25:23-30 (see notes there). On this table, which stood in the Holy Place, twelve new unleavened loaves were laid each sabbath day, and after lying for seven days were removed and eaten by the priests, fresh loaves being again... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 24:2

(2) Command the children of Israel.—This is the only other occasion in Leviticus on which God orders Moses to “command,” instead of imparting or communicating His will. (See Leviticus 6:1 in Hebrew, and 6:9 in English.) This command, however, occurs almost literally in Exodus 27:20-21. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:1-4

THE ORDERING OF THE LIGHT IN THE HOLY PLACELeviticus 24:1-4"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron order it from evening to morning before the Lord continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the Lord... read more