レビ記 2:11-16 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 2:11-16

Here, I. Leaven and honey are forbidden to be put in any of their meat-offerings: No leaven, nor any honey, in any offering made by fire, Lev. 2:11. 1. The leaven was forbidden in remembrance of the unleavened bread they ate when they came out of Egypt. So much despatch was required in the offerings they made that it was not convenient they should stay for the leavening of them. The New Testament comparing pride and hypocrisy to leaven because they swell like leaven, comparing also malice and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:11

No meat offering which ye shall bring unto the Lord shall be made with leaven ,.... It might be used in peace offerings, and in the wave loaves, Leviticus 7:13 but not in meat offerings; not only in the handful that was burnt, but in the rest that was eaten by Aaron and his sons; for so is the rule F16 Misn. Menachot, c. 5. sect. 2. ,"all meat offerings are kneaded in hot water, and are kept that they might not be leavened; and if what is left of them be leavened, a negative precept... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:12

As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the Lord ,.... Or "in" or "with the oblation", as some render it; that is, along with the oblation of the firstfruits leaven and honey might be offered: the Arabic version is very express, "but for a sacrifice of firstfruits ye" shall offer both to God; as they might be, as before observed; so the Targum of Jonathan,"for the leavened bread of the firstfruits shall be offered, and dates in the time of the firstfruits; the fruits... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:13

And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt ,.... Which makes food savoury, and preserves from putrefaction; denoting the savouriness and acceptableness of Christ as a meat offering to his people, he being savoury food, such as their souls love, as well as to God the Father, who is well pleased with his sacrifice; and also the perpetuity of his sacrifice, which always has the same virtue in it, and of him as a meat offering, who is that meat which endures to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:14

And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the Lord ,.... This, according to Aben Ezra, was not any of the offerings of the firstfruits, which they were obliged to, as at the passover or pentecost, or feast of tabernacles, but a free will offering; but Jarchi thinks it is to be understood of the meat offering of the Omer, Leviticus 23:13 and so Gersom, which was offered up on the sixteenth of Nisan; and this is the general sense of the Jewish writers F2 Maimon. &... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:15

And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon ,.... Either on the ears of corn dried, or on the fine flour of them when ground; in like manner as the oil and frankincense were put upon the fine flour of wheat, and upon the cakes and wafers baked, Leviticus 2:1 . it is a meat offering ; one sort of it, and like the rest. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:16

The priest shall burn the memorial of it ,.... That which is taken out of it for a memorial, the same with the handful of fine flour and cakes of the meat offering: part of the beaten corn thereof ; or that which was ground in a mill: and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof ; as was done in the other meat offerings: it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord , see Leviticus 2:2 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 2:11

No meat-offering - shall be made with leaven - See the reason of this prohibition in the note on Exodus 12:8 ; (note). Nor any honey - Because it was apt to produce acidity, as some think, when wrought up with flour paste; or rather because it was apt to gripe and prove purgative. On this latter account the College of Physicians have totally left it out of all medicinal preparations. This effect which it has in most constitutions was a sufficient reason why it should be prohibited... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 2:13

With all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt - Salt was the opposite to leaven, for it preserved from putrefaction and corruption, and signified the purity and persevering fidelity that were necessary in the worship of God. Every thing was seasoned with it, to signify the purity and perfection that should be extended through every part of the Divine service, and through the hearts and lives of God's worshippers. It was called the salt of the covenant of God, because as salt is... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 2:14

Green ears of corn dried by the fire - Green or half-ripe ears of wheat parched with fire is a species of food in use among the poor people of Palestine and Egypt to the present day. As God is represented as keeping a table among his people, (for the tabernacle was his house, where he had the golden table, shewbread, etc)., so he represents himself as partaking with them of all the aliments that were in use, and even sitting down with the poor to a repast on parched corn! We have already... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 2:11-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 2:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 2:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 2:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 2:14

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