Levítico 24:5-23 NTV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 24:1-9

Care is here taken, and orders are given, for the decent furnishing of the candlestick and table in God's house. I. The lamps must always be kept burning. The law for this we had before, Exod. 27:20, 21. It is here repeated, probably because it now began to be put in execution, when other things were settled. 1. The people were to provide oil (Lev. 24:2), and this, as every thing else that was to be used in God's service, must be of the best, pure olive-oil, beaten, probably it was... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 24:10-23

Evil manners, we say, beget good laws. We have here an account of the evil manners of a certain nameless mongrel Israelite, and the good laws occasioned thereby. I. The offender was the son of an Egyptian father and an Israelitish mother (Lev. 24:10); his mother was of the tribe of Dan, Lev. 24:11. Neither he nor his father is named, but his mother only, who was an Israelite. This notice is taken of his parentage either, 1. To intimate what occasioned the quarrel he was engaged in. The Jews... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:5

And thou shalt take fine flour ,.... Of wheat, and the finest of it: and bake twelve cakes thereof ; answerable to the twelve tribes, as the Targum of Jonathan, which were typical of the spiritual Israel of God: two tenth deals shall be in one cake ; that is, two tenth parts of an ephah, which were two omers, one of which was as much as a man could eat in one day of the manna: so that one of these cakes was as much as two men could eat of bread in one day; each cake was ten hands'... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:6

And thou shalt set them in two rows ,.... The twelve cakes: six on a row ; not by the side of each other, but six upon one another: upon the pure table ; the shewbread table, so called because overlaid with pure gold, and kept clean and bright, Exodus 25:24 , before the Lord ; for this stood in the holy place, in the same place as the candlestick did, which has the same position, Leviticus 24:4 ; of the mystical and typical sense of these cakes; see Gill on Exodus 25:30 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:7

And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row ,.... Two cups of frankincense, in each of which was an handful of it, and which were set by each row of the cakes, as Jarchi observes: that it may be on the bread for a memorial ; or "for the bread", instead of it, for a memorial of it; that being to be eaten by the priests, and this to be burned on the altar to the Lord, as follows: even an offering made by fire unto the Lord ; not the bread that was after a time taken away,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:8

Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually ,.... That is, the priest or priests then ministering, who should bring new cakes and place them in the above order, having removed the old ones, which was done in this manner; four priests went in, two had in their hands the two rows (of bread), and two had in their hands two cups (of frankincense); four went before these, two to take away the two rows (of the old bread), and two to take away the two cups (of frankincense);... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:9

And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' ,.... The twelve cakes of the old bread, when taken off the shewbread table; these were divided between the courses of the priests that carried in and brought out; and the high priest had half from each course, so that the half was for Aaron or the high priest, and the other half for his sons, or the priests that ministered F9 Maimon. Hilchot Tamidin, c. 4. sect. 12,14. : and they shall eat it in the holy place ; in the tabernacle or some court... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:10

And the son of an Israelitish woman ,.... Whose name, and the name of his mother, are afterwards given: whose father was an Egyptian ; Jarchi says, this is the Egyptian whom Moses slew, Exodus 2:12 ; and so others in Abendana: went out among the children of Israel ; went out of Egypt with them, according to the Targum of Jonathan, and so was one of the mixed multitude, which came from thence with them, which is not improbable; some say he went out of Moses's court of judicature;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:11

And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord , and cursed ,.... As they were striving together, or when the trial was over, he being cast, fell into outrageous blasphemies against God, who made such laws for the civil polity of Israel, and cursed the judges that had given sentence against him; so the Targum of Jonathan; and so the Jews generally understand by the "name" blasphemed, the name Jehovah, which he spake out plainly, and which, they say, is ineffable, and ought... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:12

And they put him in ward ,.... In some prison, a place known in the camp, as Aben Ezra observes: that the mind of the Lord might be shewed them ; for, though this was a breach of the third command, in which God declares he would not hold such an one guiltless, Exodus 20:7 ; yet no particular punishment being expressed, it was not a clear case whether the Lord would punish for it himself, by an immediate stroke of his hand, or whether by the civil magistrate; and if by the latter, in... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 24:1-9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 24:10-23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:12

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