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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 1:3-9

The Offering of a Bull-Ox (Leviticus 1:3-9 ). The bull-ox was the most costly of offerings, and would be made by the very wealthy offerer or when the offering was to be of supreme importance, e.g. when it was for a priest or for the community. But God in His goodness will later make provision for lesser offerings for those who could not afford the most costly. To the poor man two birds would have an equal ‘cost’ to him, in comparison with what he owned, as the bull ox to the wealthy man.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 1:1-9

Leviticus 1-7. The Law of Sacrifices: Burnt Offering (1), Meal Offering (2), Peace Offering (3), Sin Offering ( Leviticus 4:1 to Leviticus 5:13), Trespass Offering ( Leviticus 5:14-Psalms :), Directions chiefly for Priests ( Leviticus 6:8 to Leviticus 7:38). I. Burnt Offering or Whole Burnt Offering.— This is η constant element in the worship of the community; it is too solemn for the victim to be shared by the offerer. In the historical books, we find it practised before some great occasion... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 1:4

His hand, i.e. both his hands, Leviticus 8:14,Leviticus 8:18; Leviticus 16:21; a common enallage. Upon the head of the burnt-offering; whereby he signified, 1. That he willingly gave it to the Lord. 2. That he did legally unite himself with it, and judged himself worthy of that death which it suffered in his stead; and that he laid his sins upon it in a ceremonial way, and had an eye to him upon whom God would lay the iniquity of us all, Isaiah 53:6; and that together with it he did freely... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Leviticus 1:1-17

The Law of the Burnt SacrificesSUGGESTIVE READINGSLeviticus 1:1.—Lord called … and spake. From within the Tabernacle: God’s first habitation among men. Never before had He “dwelt with men on the earth”; He speaks now for the first time from His holy tent in Israel’s midst. It foreshadowed the “Word tabernacling among us” (John 1:14). “The Lord called” is a phrase specially used when important communications were to follow; as from the burning bush (Exodus 3:4), and from Sinai’s heights... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Leviticus 1:1-6

Leviticus 1:1-6 I. The very same voice which proclaimed the commandments on Sinai is here said to announce the nature of the sacrifices, and how, when, and by whom they are to be presented. The unseen King and Lawgiver is here, as everywhere, making known His will. Those sacrifices which it was supposed were to bend and determine His will themselves proceeded from it. II. These words were spoken to the children of Israel out of the tabernacle. The tabernacle was the witness of God's abiding... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Leviticus 1:3-4

DISCOURSE: 119THE BURNT-OFFERINGLeviticus 1:3-4. If his offering be a burnt-sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the Lord. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him, to make atonement for him.THE institution of sacrifices may be considered as nearly coeval with the world itself. As soon as man had fallen, he needed... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Leviticus 1:4

put his hand upon The laying of the offerer's hand signified acceptance and identification if himself with his offering. In type it answered to the believer's faith accepting and identifying himself with Christ Romans 4:5; Romans 6:3-11. The believer is justified by faith, and his faith is reckoned for righteousness, because his faith identifies him with Christ, who died as his sin-offering ; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24. atonement (See Scofield "1 Peter 2:24- :") . read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Leviticus 1:1-17

As we get into Leviticus we get into the various offerings and the method by which they were to be offered unto the Lord. It is getting into a system that is very foreign to us, because it is a covenant that has now been set aside, that God might establish a better covenant with us. This covenant of the sacrifice of the animals could never make anything perfect, but all it could do is to point ahead to that sacrifice that was to be offered, whereby we could be brought into full perfection... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 1:1-17

Leviticus 1:4. Make atonement for him, he having first laid his hand on the head of the bullock, and confessed his sin. A burnt-offering for sin is here mentioned as the first of all the sacrifices, because deliverance from guilt, and reconciliation with God, should ever be our great and principal concern. It must be offered at the door of the tabernacle, then slain and cut in pieces, and its parts conveyed to and burnt upon the altar, for there is no entrance into this holy habitation... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Leviticus 1:4

Leviticus 1:4He shall put his hand upon the head.Putting the hand upon the head of the sacrificeTwo matters were essential in the sacrifices of the ceremonial law; and you have them both in our text: “He shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering,” and “He shall kill the bullock before the Lord.” The appropriation by the offerer and the death of the offering are most fitly joined together, and must neither of them be overlooked. Let us on the present occasion look at the leading act... read more

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