Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Leviticus 23:2
Ye shall proclaim — Cause to be proclaimed, by the priests. Holy convocations — Days for your assembling together to my worship in a special manner.
Ye shall proclaim — Cause to be proclaimed, by the priests. Holy convocations — Days for your assembling together to my worship in a special manner.
Verse Leviticus 23:2. _THESE ARE MY FEASTS._] The original word מועד _moad_ is properly applied to any solemn anniversary, by which great and important ecclesiastical, political, or providential fact...
THE FEASTS - literally, the appointed times. So in Leviticus 23:4, Leviticus 23:37, etc. This section Leviticus 23:1 sets forth for practical guidance the relation in which the appointed tim
VI. THE HOLY FEASTS AND SET TIMES 1. The Holy Feasts and Set Times CHAPTER 23 _ 1. The Sabbath (Leviticus 23:1)_ 2. The feast of Passover and feast of unleavened bread (Leviticus 23:4) 3. The fir...
THE SABBATH, which is to be kept holy, _i.e._ unprofaned by any kind of work for individual profit, and marked by a religious gathering, apparently at a synagogue. The term set feast (RV) means an ass...
CHILDREN. Hebrew sons. FEASTS OF THE LORD. This was their primal name; but in the day of Christ _'_. rejection they had become "feasts of the Jews". John 5:1; John 2:13; John 6:4;...
If we pass from -say unto them" (Leviticus 23:2) to -These are," etc. (Leviticus 23:4), we perceive that the intermediate words have the air of an insertion by a reviser, writing in the spirit of P, a...
CONCERNING THE FEASTS OF THE LORD, &C.— These words might be rendered more unexceptionably thus: _the solemnities of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim, with holy proclamations, are these my solemnitie...
C. SANCTIFICATION OF FEASTS 23:1-25:55 1. SABBATHS AND ANNUAL FEASTS 23:1-44 a. THE SABBATH 23:1-3 TEXT 23:1-3 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say...
_SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM, CONCERNING THE FEASTS OF THE LORD, WHICH YE SHALL PROCLAIM TO BE HOLY CONVOCATIONS, EVEN THESE ARE MY FEASTS._ Speak unto the children of Israel...
23:2 feasts (f-14) feasts. (f-29) 'Fixed times [for drawing near to God].' so vers. 37,44; Exodus 13:10 ; Numbers 15:3 ; Numbers 29:39 ;...
THE SACRED SEASONS These are the Sabbath (Leviticus 23:3), Passover and Unleavened Bread (Leviticus 23:5), Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost (Leviticus 23:15), Feast of Trumpets ...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. — As the festivals here discussed were to be solemnly kept by them, Moses is ordered to address these regulations to the people or their representatives. CONCERNING...
דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל ־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְ אָמַרְתָּ֣...
THE WEEKLY SABBATH Leviticus 23:1 "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, The set feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocat...
THE SET FEASTS OF THE LORD Leviticus 23:1 IT is ever an instinct of natural religion to observe certain set times for special public and united worship. As we should therefore anticipate, such obser...
SABBATH, PASSOVER AND FIRST-FRUITS Leviticus 23:1 The year of Israel's national life was marked out by high and blessed convocations, which preserved its unity, kept the people in mind of the great p...
The feasts of Jehovah were national l signs and symbols. These were now dealt with. The foremost place was given to the Sabbath. Its constant recurrence, governed not by the natural order, but by the...
_Holy. The Hebrew, Chaldean, and Septuagint add, "and meet together; or, these are my feasts of assembly." On these days the people were called together to hear the word of God, &c. (Menochius)_...
Let it be observed by the Reader, that all the sacred institutions of religion, derive their authority from the LORD. They are called his feasts, and consequently his appointment. What he sanctifieth...
We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
We have now come to the feasts (chap. 23). It is the full [1] year of the counsels of God towards His people, and the rest which was the end of those counsels. There were consequently seven-a number e...
SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM,.... Speak to them to gather together, and then say unto them what follows, they all being obliged to keep the feasts, and observe the solemnities...
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [Concerning] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts. Ver. 2. _To be holy convoca...
In this chapter Moses, by divine appointment, gives more particular directions about the observation of those solemnities which were before instituted. These, in our translation, are termed _feasts;_...
1 The feasts of the Lord. 3 The Sabbath. 4 The Passeouer. 9 The Sheafe of first fruits. 15 The Feast of Pentecost. 22 Gleanings to be left for the poore. 23 The Feast of Trumpets. 26 The day of...
THE SABBATH...
Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are My feasts. The word originally means fixed or app...
THE SET TIMES OF THE LORD (VV. 1-43) The times of special observance in Israel are called “feasts” in most translations, yet all were not feasts for Israel, as per the day of atonement (vv. 26-32), wh...
1-3 In this chapter we have the institution of holy times; many of which have been mentioned before. Though the yearly feasts were made more remarkable by general attendance at the sanctuary, yet the...
YE SHALL PROCLAIM, i.e. cause to be proclaimed by the priests. See NUMBERS 10:8. HOLY CONVOCATIONS; days for your assembling together to my worship and service in a special manner. THESE ARE MY FEASTS...
One of the most profound and comprehensive Chapter s in the inspired volume now lies open before us, and claims our prayerful study. It contains the record of the seven great feasts or periodical sole...
Leviticus 23:2 Speak H1696 (H8761) children H1121 Israel H3478 say H559 (H8804) feasts H4150 LORD H3068 proclaim...
INTRODUCTION WITH REGARD TO THE FEASTS AND THE SABBATH (LEVITICUS 23:1). Leviticus 23:1 ‘And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,' Once more it is stressed that we have the words of Moses as given to hi...
FEASTS The feasts of Jehovah. As given to Israel, these were simply seven great religious festivals which were to be observed every year. The first three verses of Leviticus 23 (Leviticus 23:1) do no...
CONTENTS: The feasts of Jehovah. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The Sabbaths of the Lord in our dwellings will be their beauty, strength and safety (by rising on the first day of the week and m...
Leviticus 23:3. _Convocation._ מקרא, _mickra_ is rendered _ecclesia,_ or church, seventy times, and _synagogue_ thirty seven times. In the next phrase it is changed for the word _dwellings,_ for the L...
_These are My feasts._ THE HOLY FESTIVALS I. Commentators generally on this part of Hebrew law have remarked upon the social, political, and commercial benefits resulting to the Jewish people from th...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 23:1 Holy Times. These chapters address holiness in relation to time. ⇐...
Israel’s Holy Festivals SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 23:2.—Concerning the feasts of the Lord. Religion has its joy seasons, its festive aspects. Israel’s sacred feasts symbolised the festivals of t...
PART IV. HOLY DAYS AND SEASONS: WEEKLY, MONTHLY, ANNUAL, SEPTENNIAL, AND EVERY HALF-CENTURY. EXPOSITION THIS Part consists of L
Chapter twenty-three, God outlines the various holidays, the feast days for the children of Israel. First of all in the first three verses, God deals with the Sabbath day once more. The seventh day is...
2 Chronicles 30:5; 2 Kings 10:20; Colossians 2:1; Exodus 23:14;...