John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 16:18
And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the Lord ,.... The golden altar, the altar of incense, which stood in the holy place without the vail, over against the most holy place, where Jehovah dwelt, and so is said to be before him; of this altar the Misnah F18 Yoma, c. 5. Sect. 5. understands it, and so do Jarchi and Ben Gersom; and, according to Exodus 30:10 ; once a year Aaron was to make an atonement on the horns of it, with the blood of the sin offering, which plainly... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 16:15-19
When the priest had come out from the sprinkling the blood of the bullock before the mercy-seat, 1. He must next kill the goat which was the sin-offering for the people (Lev. 16:15) and go the third time into the holy of holies, to sprinkle the blood of the goat, as he had done that of the bullock; and thus he was to make atonement for the holy place (Lev. 16:16); that is, whereas the people by their sins had provoked God to take away those tokens of his favourable presence with them, and... read more