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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

Leviticus 7

Leviticus 7:1

LEVITICUS CHAPTER 7 The law of the trespass-offering, and what fell to the priests, both of this and some other sacrifices, LEVITICUS 7:1. The law of the sacrifices of peace-offerings; of thanksgiving, LEVITICUS 7:11; of vows and free-will-offerings: the unclean person eating thereof to die, LEVITIC... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:4

WHICH IS BY THE FLANKS; or, and that _which is_, &c. So this is another fat, as may seem probable from the mention of the several parts, the KIDNEYS and the FLANKS. For it seems preposterous after a plain and exact description of the very particular place of the fat, the kidneys, to add another more... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:7

SO IS THE TRESPASS-OFFERING, to wit, in the matter here following, for in other things they differed. SHALL HAVE IT, i.e. by a synecdoche, that part of it which was by God allowed to the priest. See LEVITICUS 6:26.... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:9

ALL THE MEAT-OFFERING, except the part reserved by God, LEVITICUS 2:2,9. Shall be the priest's that offereth it, because these were ready drest and hot, and not to be presently eaten; and because the priest who offered it was in reason to expect and have something more than his brethren who laboured... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:10

DRY, without oil, or drink-offering, as those LEVITICUS 5:1 NUMBERS 5:15. ONE AS MUCH AS ANOTHER: the sense may be either, 1. That every priest shall have equal right to this, when the course of his ministration comes. But then there was no reason to make so great an alteration of the phrase, nor t... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:13

LEAVENED BREAD; partly, because this was a sacrifice of another kind than those in which leaven was forbidden, this being a sacrifice of thanksgiving for God's blessings, among which leavened bread was one; partly, to show that leaven was not so strictly forbidden in other sacrifices, as if it were... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:14

OF IT, i.e. either of the loaves of leavened bread mentioned LEVITICUS 7:13, or of the offering, one of each part of the _whole oblation_, as it follows; it being most probable, and agreeable to the rules and laws laid down before and afterward that the priest should have a share in the unleavened c... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:16

BE A VOW; offered in performance of a vow, the man having desired some special favour from God, and vowed the sacrifice to God if he would grant it. A VOLUNTARY OFFERING, which a malt freely offered to God, in testimony of his faith and love to God, without any particular injunction from God, or des... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:17

That it might neither putrefy, and thereby be exposed to contempt; nor yet be reserved either for superstitious abuse, or for the priest's domestic use, which would savour of covetousness, and of distrust of God's care for their future provisions.... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:19

THE FLESH, to wit, of the holy offering, of which he is here treating; and therefore the general word is to be so limited; for other flesh one might eat in this case, DEUTERONOMY 12:15,22. THAT TOUCHETH ANY UNCLEAN THING, after its oblation; which might easily happen, as it was conveyed from the alt... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:20

THE SOUL THAT EATETH KNOWINGLY; for if it were done ignorantly, a sacrifice was accepted for it, LEVITICUS 5:2. HAVING HIS UNCLEANNESS UPON HIM, i.e. not being cleansed from his uncleanness according to the appointment, LEVITICUS 11:24, &c. This verse speaks of uncleanness from an internal cause, as... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:21

THE UNCLEANNESS OF MAN, or, OF WOMEN, for the word signifies both; and that there were such things coming from men or women, the touch whereof did pollute men and things, may be seen LE 15, and elsewhere. Others make it an hypallage _uncleanness of man_, for _a man of uncleanness_, or, _an unclean m... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:23

The general prohibition of eating fat, LEVITICUS 3:17, is here explained of, and restrained to, those kinds of creatures which were sacrificed to God.... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:24

He speaketh still of the same kinds of beasts, and showeth that this prohibition reacheth not only to the fat of those beasts which were offered to God, but also of those that died, or were killed at home. And if this seems a superfluous prohibition concerning the fat, since the lean as well as the... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:29

Not by another, but by himself, as it is explained LEVITICUS 7:30. His oblation, i.e. those parts of the peace-offering which are in a special manner offered to God, to wit, the fat, and breast, and shoulder, as it follows. Unto the Lord, i.e. to the tabernacle, where the Lord was present in a speci... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:30

After the beast was killed, and the parts of it divided, the priest was to put the parts mentioned into the hands of the offerer. See EXODUS 29:22. MADE BY FIRE; so called not strictly, as burnt-offerings are, because some parts of these were left for the priest, LEVITICUS 7:31; but more largely, be... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:34

The _breast_ or heart is the seat of wisdom, and the SHOULDER of strength for action, and these two may denote that wisdom and virtue or power which was in Christ our High Priest, 1 CORINTHIANS 1:24, and which ought to be in every priest.... [ Continue Reading ]

Leviticus 7:35

OF THE ANOINTING, i.e. of the priesthood; the sign put for the thing signified; and the _anointing_ by a like figure is put for the right, or part of the sacrifices belonging to the priest by virtue of his anointing, as plainly appears from the words here following, OUT OF THE OFFERING, & c. IN THE... [ Continue Reading ]

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