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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 24:15-23

Instructions Arising From The Incident (Leviticus 24:15-23 ). The incident, and the execution, followed by these instructions, are intended to bring out the sacredness of life and the awfulness of the crime. It was true that life was sacred, but for one who had cursed or blasphemed God, or who took human life, it was forfeit. The instructions cover all forms of assault moving downwards: cursing God (spiritual weapons against a spiritual God), blaspheming the Name (ditto), deliberate murder,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 24:10-16

Leviticus 24:10-Nehemiah : ; Leviticus 24:23 . The punishment for blasphemy connected, as in Leviticus 10:1-Judges : and Sabbath breaking, with an actual example. Language and literary manner suggest that the section is later than H, as also the new beginning in Leviticus 24:15 and the position of Leviticus 24:23. The guilty man, the offspring of a mixed marriage (forbidden in Deuteronomy 7:3, Exodus 34:16), is a proselyte or “ stranger” ( Leviticus 24:16). “ The Name” (for the name of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 24:14

By laying their hands upon his head they gave public testimony that they heard this person speak such words, and did in their own and in all the people’s names desire and demand justice to be executed upon him, that by this sacrifice God might be appeased, and his judgments turned away from the people, upon whom they would certainly fall if he were unpunished. Stone him; the same punishment which was before appointed for those who cursed their parents, whereas it deserved a far more grievous... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 24:15

i. e. Speaketh of him reproachfully, and with contempt. They therefore are greatly mistaken that understand this of the heathen gods, whom their worshippers are forbidden to reproach or curse. But Moses is not here giving laws to heathens, but to the Israelites; nor would he concern himself so much to vindicate the honour of idols; nor doth this agree either with the design of the holy Scriptures, which is to beget a contempt and detestation of all idols and idolatry, or with the practice of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 24:16

He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord: this some make a distinct sin from cursing his God, mentioned Leviticus 24:15, but the difference they make seems arbitrary, and without evidence from reason, or the use of the words. And therefore this may be a repetition of the same sin in other words, which is common. And as this law is laid down in more general terms, Leviticus 24:15, so both the sin and the punishment are more particularly expressed, Leviticus 24:16. Or the first part of Leviticus... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Leviticus 24:1-23

Sanctuary Light; The Shewbread; Blasphemy PunishedSUGGESTIVE READINGSLeviticus 24:1-4.—Cause the lamps to burn continually. There is a Light whose radiance never dims, whose glow never pales—self-luminous and eternally lustrous; “that is the True Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world” (John 1:9). But our illumined lives, made by grace to shine even amid the beauty of God’s sanctuary, these need constant fostering and care, or their glory would wane. Because the virgins... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Leviticus 24:13-15

DISCOURSE: 140THE BLASPHEMER STONEDLeviticus 24:13-15. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, Whosoever cursed his God shall bear his sin.SPIRITUAL subjects are generally most relished by a spiritual mind: and hence it is that in some places of worship they are exclusively brought forward for public... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:1-23

Chapter 24Now the beginning of chapter twenty-four, God commands them to bring olive oil so that they might keep the lamps burning continually in the tabernacle.Then God explains the shew bread. He gives the formula by which it should be made, and how it should be laid out in two rows of six upon the golden table there in the tabernacle. How it was to be changed once a week. The bread that was then being removed was to be eaten only by the priest. It was a holy bread because it had stood there... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Leviticus 24:1-23

Leviticus 24:2. Cause the lamps to burn continually. The heathens also had lamps in their temples. In France it is amusing to see a dim light glimmering through the church windows; and truly it is hardly decent to leave such good company as Mary and Peter without a candle. Leviticus 24:10. Whose father was an Egyptian. Exodus 12:38. We read that a mixed multitude emigrated from Egypt with the Israelites, and left the yoke of their oppressors behind. These mixed marriages produced an ill-... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Leviticus 24:10-16

Leviticus 24:10-16Blasphemed the name of the Lord.Blaspheming against God’s holy name“Swearing is a sin that hath more malignancy in it against God, by how much the less is the temptation to it,” says Burroughs; and adds, “I verily believe that if God had never made the Third Commandment, there could never have been so many oaths in the world; but it springs from a mere malignancy of spirit in man against God because He has forbidden, for no profit can arise from the practice.” Yet, while “no... read more

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