Leviticus 24:1-23 NIV

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 24:1

And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... After he had delivered to him the laws concerning the purity of the priests, and the perfection of the sacrifices they were to offer, and concerning the feasts the people were to keep, he spoke to Moses of some other things which concerned both people and priests: saying ; as follows. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:2

Command the children of Israel ,.... Moses was the chief magistrate under God, and being clothed with authority from him, had power to command the children of Israel to do what the Lord required of them: that they bring unto thee pure oil olive, beaten, for the light ; this was to be at the public expense, and it belonged to the community to supply the priests with oil for the light of the candlestick in the temple, Exodus 25:6 ; and this oil was not to be any sort of oil, as train... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:3

Without the vail of the testimony ,.... That is, on the outside of the vail which divided between the holy and holy of holies, and which was before the ark in which the testimony or law was: in the tabernacle of the congregation ; which the apostle calls the first, namely, the holy place in which the candlestick, with its lamps, stood, Hebrews 9:2 , shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning, before the Lord continually , that is, the lamp or lamps, or candlestick, in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:4

He shall order the lamps on the pure candlestick ,.... So called, as Jarchi suggests, for these two reasons, partly because it was made of pure gold, and partly because it was to be kept pure and clean, and free from ashes, by the priest; see Exodus 25:31 , before the Lord continually ; which both respects the situation of the candlestick, and the work about it, which Aaron was to do continually before and in the presence of the Lord. Jarchi thinks this ordering respects the measure of... 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

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 24:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 24:4

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

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