Leviticus 2:5 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 2:4-16

The various kinds of meat offerings. Without dwelling on every minute regulation, the following main points may be distinguished as representative. I. OFFERED FOOD . Acknowledgment of dependence. Praise for life and its gifts. Joys and pleasures should be consecrated. The will of God in them and over them. Family worship a duty. Recognition of God in common life. Firstfruits are God's, not the remnant or gleanings of our faculties and opportunities, but all. II. OFFERING ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 2:4-10

The four kinds of bread and the three cooking utensils which are mentioned in this section were probably such as were in common use in the daily life of the Israelites; and there appears no reason to doubt that they were such as are still used in the East. The variety of the offerings was most likely permitted to suit the different circumstances of the worshippers.Leviticus 2:4Oven - This was probably a portable vessel of earthenware; in shape a cone about 3 ft. 6 in. high, and 1 ft. 6 in. in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 2:3-6

Leviticus 2:3-6. Shall be Aaron’s and his sons’ To be eaten by them, Leviticus 6:16. Most holy Or such as were to be eaten only by the priests, and that only in the holy place near the altar. In the oven Made in the sanctuary for that use. In pieces Because part of it was offered to God, and part given to the priests. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:1-16

The cereal offering (2:1-16)Products offered in the cereal offering (GNB: grain offering) came from the common food of the people. These offerings were the people’s acknowledgment to God that they received their daily provisions from him. The products offered were therefore both a gift and a thanksgiving. The wine offering, sometimes called the drink offering, had similar significance (see 23:13,18,37).It seems that cereal offerings and wine offerings were never offered alone, but always with... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Leviticus 2:5

pan = a flat plate or griddle. Compare Ezekiel 4:3 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 2:5

5. baken in a pan—a thin plate, generally of copper or iron, placed on a slow fire, similar to what the country people in Scotland called a "girdle" for baking oatmeal cakes. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Leviticus 2:1-16

[See the Chapter Comments for Leviticus Chapter 1 for introductory information]2. The meal offering ch. 2The meal (grain, cereal) offering was also an offering of worship that brought God pleasure. It evidently symbolized the sacrifice and commitment of one’s person and works to God as well as the worshiper’s willingness to keep the law (cf. Romans 12:1-2; Hebrews 13:15-16). A meal offering always followed the official daily burnt offering (cf. Numbers 28), and it often accompanied a peace... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 2:1-16

The Meal OfferingThe rendering of AV meat offering is liable to misunderstanding, as meat now suggests flesh meat. But this is a vegetable, or bloodless, sacrifice, a consecration to God of the produce of the field. Its principal constituent is fine flour, which may be presented either raw (Leviticus 2:1-3), or baked into cakes in the oven (Leviticus 2:4), or in a pan (Leviticus 2:5-6), or boiled in a pot (Leviticus 2:7). The meal is mixed with oil and salt, as when used for food, but no leaven... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 2:5

(5) Baken in a pan.—Better, a flat plate. This is probably the iron fire-plate (Ezekiel 5:3), with a convex surface, which is placed horizontally upon stones about nine inches from the ground, and underneath which the fire is kindled, used by the Arabs to this day. The large thin cakes, and the thin wafer bread, are laid upon the convex surface, where they are baked in comparatively few minutes. These baking operations took place in the court of the sanctuary, where the vessels of ministration... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:1-16

THE MEAL OFFERINGLeviticus 2:1-16; Leviticus 6:14-23THE word which in the original uniformly stands for the English "meal offering" (A.V "meat offering," i.e., " food offering") primarily means simply "a present," and is often properly so translated in the Old Testament. It is, for example, the word which is used {; Genesis 32:13} when we are told how Jacob sent a present to Esau his brother; or, later, of the gift sent by Israel to his son Joseph in Egypt; {Genesis 43:11} and, {; 2 Samuel 8:2}... read more