Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Leviticus 23:4
These are the feasts of the Lord — Or rather, the solemnities: (for the day of atonement was a fast:) and so the word is used, Isaiah 33:20, where Zion is called the city of our solemnities.
These are the feasts of the Lord — Or rather, the solemnities: (for the day of atonement was a fast:) and so the word is used, Isaiah 33:20, where Zion is called the city of our solemnities.
The recurrence of the sabbatical number in the five annual days of holy convocation should be noticed....
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...
LEVITICUS 23:4 (P). THE PASSOVER (pp. 102f.), which was regularly followed by a week when no leaven was to be eaten (_cf._ Deuteronomy 16:1; Exodus 12:1). The first month (see on Leviticus 16) is Nisa...
THESE ARE THE FEASTS: thus marking the sabbath offering as distinct. FEASTS. Hebrew appointed seasons. FEASTS OF THE LORD. This was their true character. But in our Lord _'_. day they had degenerated...
b. PASSOVER AND THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD 23:4-14 TEXT 23:4-14 4 These are the set feasts of Jehovah, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their appointed season. 5 In the first...
_THESE ARE THE FEASTS OF THE LORD, EVEN HOLY CONVOCATIONS, WHICH YE SHALL PROCLAIM IN THEIR SEASONS._ Feasts of the Lord ... in their season. Their observance took place in the parts of the year corr...
23:4 feasts (f-5) 'Fixed times [for drawing near to God].' so vers. 37,44; Exodus 13:10 ; Numbers 15:3 ; Numbers 29:39 ; Deuteron...
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...
THESE ARE THE FEASTS OF THE LORD. — Because the following are the festivals proper as distinguished from the sabbath (see Leviticus 23:37), and because they are now enumerated in their regular order,...
אֵ֚לֶּה מֹועֲדֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה מִקְרָאֵ֖י קֹ֑דֶשׁ אֲשֶׁר...
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...
THE FEAST OF PASSOVER AND UNLEAVENED BREAD Leviticus 23:4 "These are the set feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their appointed season. In the first month, on the...
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...
These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their (a) seasons. (a) For the sabbath was kept every week, and these others were kept only once every year....
This is the second feast noticed in this chapter. Reader! search for JESUS as your passover, and remember what the apostle hath said on this subject, 1 Corinthians 5:7....
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...
4._These are the feasts of the Lord. _The other festivals which Moses here enumerates have an affinity to the Sabbath. In the first place the Passover is put, the mystery of which I have annexed, not...
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...
THESE ARE THE FEASTS OF THE LORD, [EVEN] HOLY CONVOCATIONS,.... What follow besides the sabbath mentioned: WHICH YE SHALL PROCLAIM IN THEIR SEASONS; the proper times of the year, the day or days, and...
These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. Ver. 4. _In their seasons,_] _i.e., _ Once a year....
_These are the feasts of the Lord The solemnities_, as the same word is rendered, Isaiah 33:20, where Zion is called _the city of our solemnities._...
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...
These are the feasts of the Lord, in the narrower sense, EVEN HOLY CONVOCATIONS, WHICH YE SHALL PROCLAIM IN THEIR SEASONS. This instruction was carried out with strict literalness in after-years, the...
THE PASSOVER AND THE OFFERING WHICH FOLLOWED IT...
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...
4-14 The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days, spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and t...
In their appointed and proper times, as the word is used GENESIS 1:14 PSALMS 104:19....
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 23:4 feasts H4150 LORD H3068 holy H6944 convocations H4744 proclaim H7121 (H8799) times H4150...
THE SET FEASTS. Leviticus 23:4 “These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.” The writer now goes on to outline the recurring feas...
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. ⇐...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 23:4 The Passover is also called THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD. See Exodus 12:1;...
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...
Exodus 23:14; Leviticus 23:2; Leviticus 23:37...