Leviticus 24:1
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THEY BRING UNTO THEE PURE OIL OLIVE BEATEN FOR THE LIGHT, TO CAUSE THE LAMPS TO BURN CONTINUALLY._ Command the children of Israel. This is the repetition of a law given, Exodus 27:20. PURE OIL OLIVE BEATEN - or cold-drawn, which is always of great purity.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WITHOUT THE VAIL OF THE TESTIMONY, IN THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION, SHALL AARON ORDER IT FROM THE EVENING UNTO THE MORNING BEFORE THE LORD CONTINUALLY: IT SHALL BE A STATUTE FOR EVER IN YOUR GENERATIONS._ Shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning. The daily presence of the pries... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE SHALL ORDER THE LAMPS UPON THE PURE CANDLESTICK BEFORE THE LORD CONTINUALLY._ UPON THE PURE CANDLESTICK - so called because of pure gold. This was symbolical of the light which ministers are to diffuse through the Church.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT TAKE FINE FLOUR, AND BAKE TWELVE CAKES THEREOF: TWO TENTH DEALS SHALL BE IN ONE CAKE._ Take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes - for the showbread, as previously appointed (Exodus 25:30). Those cakes were baked by the Levites, the flour being furnished by the people (1 Chronicles 9:3... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SON OF AN ISRAELITISH WOMAN, WHOSE FATHER WAS AN EGYPTIAN, WENT OUT AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: AND THIS SON OF THE ISRAELITISH WOMAN AND A MAN OF ISRAEL STROVE TOGETHER IN THE CAMP;_ The son of an Israelitish woman ... This passage narrates the enactment of a new law, with a detail of t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE ISRAELITISH WOMAN'S SON BLASPHEMED THE NAME OF THE LORD, AND CURSED. AND THEY BROUGHT HIM UNTO MOSES: (AND HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS SHELOMITH, THE DAUGHTER OF DIBRI, OF THE TRIBE OF DAN:)_ Blasphemed the name of the LORD. A youth of this half-blood, having quarrelled with a native Israelite,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY PUT HIM IN WARD, THAT THE MIND OF THE LORD MIGHT BE SHEWED THEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Bring forth him ... without the camp. All executions took place without the camp; and this arrangement probably originated in the idea that, as the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING, WHOSOEVER CURSETH HIS GOD SHALL BEAR HIS SIN._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE THAT BLASPHEMETH THE NAME OF THE LORD, HE SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH, AND ALL THE CONGREGATION SHALL CERTAINLY STONE HIM: AS WELL THE STRANGER, AS HE THAT IS BORN IN THE LAND, WHEN HE BLASPHEMETH THE NAME OF THE LORD, SHALL BE PUT TO DEATH._ As well the stranger, as he that is born in the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE THAT KILLETH ANY MAN SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH._ He that killeth any man. These verses contain a repetition of some other laws relating to offences of a social nature, the penalties for which were to be inflicted, not by the hand of private parties, but through the medium of the judges b... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES SPAKE TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THEY SHOULD BRING FORTH HIM THAT HAD CURSED OUT OF THE CAMP, AND STONE HIM WITH STONES. AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES._ The children of Israel did as the Lord commanded. The chapter closes with the execution of Shelomith'... [ Continue Reading ]