Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Exodus 20:24
of earth... in all places. Shiloh was the first place, Jeremiah 7:12. Bethel, 1 Samuel 10:3. then Zion, Psalms 78:68. "Where'er we seek Thee Thou art found". sacrifice. Hebrew. zabach. App-43.
of earth... in all places. Shiloh was the first place, Jeremiah 7:12. Bethel, 1 Samuel 10:3. then Zion, Psalms 78:68. "Where'er we seek Thee Thou art found". sacrifice. Hebrew. zabach. App-43.
Verse Exodus 20:24. _THY BURNT-OFFERINGS, AND THY PEACE-OFFERINGS_] The _law_ concerning which was shortly to be given, though sacrifices of this kind were in use from the days of Abel. _IN ALL PLAC...
Nothing could be more appropriate as the commencement of the book of the covenant than these regulations for public worship. The rules for the building of altars must have been old and accepted, and a...
CHAPTER 20 THE COVENANT REVEALED _ 1. The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1)_ 2. Jehovah's gracious provision (Exodus 20:18) This law covenant is now stated. It was given three times. First orally here,...
EXODUS 20:22 E. LAWS OF WORSHIP. This begins the Book of the Covenant, a small collection of religious and moral laws. The reference to God as talking with the people from heaven (Exodus 20:22_ b)_ wa...
Altars, their construction, and the places at which they may be erected....
Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 _The Book of the Covenant_ The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The laws co...
The collection opens with directions respecting the manner which God is to be worshipped (other directions about religious observances follow in Exodus 22:20; Exodus 22:29-31; Exodus 23:10-19)....
_altar_ The word in Heb. (_mizbçaḥ_) means a -place of slaughter _or_sacrifice." Altars of _earth_were also common among the Romans (Tert. _Apol._25 attributes _temeraria de caespite altaria_to the ea...
Altars were to be of the simplest material, of earth, or, if of stone, of unhewn stone: they might be erected wherever Jehovah gave occasion for His name to be commemorated; and any Israelite might sa...
AN ALTAR OF EARTH THOU SHALT MAKE UNTO ME— The service of the tabernacle being not yet appointed, that there might be no superstition attached to any altars of a curious or costly sort, God enjoins th...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 20 AND GOD SPAKE ALL THESE WORDS, SAYING, (2) I am Je-ho-vah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of E-gypt, out of the house of bondage. (3) Thou shalt have no ot...
_AN ALTAR OF EARTH THOU SHALT MAKE UNTO ME, AND SHALT SACRIFICE THEREON THY BURNT OFFERINGS, AND THY PEACE OFFERINGS, THY SHEEP, AND THINE OXEN: IN ALL PLACES WHERE I RECORD MY NAME I WILL COME UNTO T...
20:24 peace-offerings, (e-19) Or 'thank-offerings.'...
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT This section comprises a number of laws designed to regulate the life of an agricultural community living under comparatively simple conditions. The laws are mainly of a civil...
AN ALTAR OF EARTH] i.e. of the simplest form and material, as a precaution against idolatrous representations: cp. Exodus 20:25 Deuteronomy 27:5; Deuteronomy 27:6. On the different kinds of sacrifice...
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (VV. 1-21) Exodus 20-23, containing (1) the Decalogue (Gk. = 'Ten Words' or 'Commandments') and (2) a code of laws regulating the religious and social life of the people, and call...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 20 GOD’S TEN *COMMANDMENTS – VERSES 1-17 V1 God spoke all these wor...
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT. (22-26) In the remainder of Exodus 20, and in the three Chapter s which follow, we have a series of laws delivered by God to Moses, immediately after the delivery of the Deca...
AN ALTAR OF EARTH THOU SHALT MAKE UNTO ME. — The earliest altars were, naturally, either of earth, or of unhewn stones, gathered into a heap, since these could be constructed with little labour, and w...
מִזְבַּ֣ח אֲדָמָה֮ תַּעֲשֶׂה ־לִּי֒ וְ זָבַחְתָּ֣...
THE LESSER LAW. Exodus 20:18 - Exodus 23:33. With the close of the Decalogue and its universal obligations, we approach a brief code of laws, purely Hebrew, but of the deepest moral interest, confess...
PART I.--THE LAW OF WORSHIP. Exodus 20:22. It is no vain repetition that this code begins by reasserting the supremacy of the one God. That principle underlies all the law, and must be carried into e...
THE PEOPLE FEAR; IDOLS AND ALTARS Exodus 20:18 When our Lord was on earth He was so attractive and winsome that the publicans and sinners drew near to hear Him, penitents wept at His feet, children n...
Here we have the Ten Words of the moral Law. They are introduced by a proclamation of God concerning Himself: first as to His name, "I am Jehovah"; second, as to His relation to them, "thy God"; and,...
CHAPTER XX. _ Earth, which may be destroyed with ease, to prevent any profanation. --- Place. Where the tabernacle shall be fixed, you shall offer sacrifice, and I will hear you. The ark was afterwar...
Is not this altar of earth intended to shew, that as the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof, and nothing of creature property is to be mixed with it, so salvation is all the Lord's; nothing...
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
24._An altar of earth thou shalt make. _This precept differs from the other, which I have just explained; because although it refers to the choice of a place, (111) yet the mention of a place is omitt...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...
AN ALTAR OF EARTH THOU SHALL MAKE UNTO ME,.... This was a temporary precept, and only in force until the tabernacle was built, and respects occasional altars, erected while on their travels, and were...
An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto th...
Exo. 20:24, 25, 26. "An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me - And if thou wilt make an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast pollute...
_An altar of earth_ It is meant of _occasional_ altars, such as they reared in the wilderness before the tabernacle was erected, and afterward upon special emergencies, for present use. They are appoi...
1 The ten Commandements. 18 The people are afraid. 20 Moses comforteth them. 22 Idolatrie is forbidden. 24 Of what sort the Altar should be. 1 AND God spake all these words, saying, 2 [NOTE: Deut...
THE PRECEPT CONCERNING THE ALTAR...
An altar of earth thou shalt make unto Me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep and thine oxen. Such offerings were a type and figure of the heart of man,...
B. THE FIRST COMPENDIOUS LAW OF SACRIFICE Exodus 20:22-26 22And Jehovah said unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 23Ye sh...
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (vs.1-17) Before God gives the ten commandments, He makes is abundantly clear that Israel's obedience to law had nothing to do with God's previous grace toward them in delivering...
22-26 Moses having entered into the thick darkness, God there spake in his hearing all that follows from hence to the end of chap. 23, which is mostly an exposition of the ten commandments. The laws...
AN ALTAR THOU SHALT MAKE for thy present use, or whilst thou art in the wilderness: this he commanded, partly, that they might easily and readily erect an altar upon all occasions, which it might be h...
It is of the utmost importance to understand the true character and object of the moral law, as set forth in this chapter. There is a tendency in the mind to confound the principles of law and grace,...
Exodus 20:24 altar H4196 earth H127 make H6213 (H8799) sacrifice H2076 (H8804) offerings H5930 offerings H8002 sheep
YAHWEH'S INSTRUCTION CONCERNING FUTURE WORSHIP (EXODUS 20:22). In view of their fears, and the commands that He has given in Exodus 20:3, Yahweh now makes provision for their worship. They are to reco...
CONTENTS: Ten commandments delivered to Moses at Sinai. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: A holy and righteous God has holy and righteous standards. Those who love God will constantly endeavor to...
Exodus 20:1. _God spake all these words._ In compassion to man, and the increasing weakness of human traditions, it has pleased the infinitely wise and Holy One to renew the evidences of revelation at...
_In all places where I record My name, I will come unto thee._ THE GOSPEL IN EXODUS I. That God demands from His creature man reverent and intelligent worship. II. That such worship, to be acceptab...
EXODUS 20:1 Covenant Words and Rules. This section records what will later be referred to as the “Book of the Covenant” (Exodus 24:7) and includes: the Ten Commandments ...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 20:22 These verses introduce the first section of laws following the Ten Commandments (Exodus 21:1), and...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 20:23. Ye shall not make with Me gods of silver, neither, &c.] We prefer the Massoretic punctuation of this verse, which reveals a delicate appreciation of the meaning, althoug...
EXPOSITION THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT, (Exodus 20:1. Exodus 20:22, to Exodus 22:1.
And God spake these words, saying (Exodus 20:1), Now the people said, "All that the Lord commands, we will do." All right this is what the Lord has spoken. Now these are the commandments of God. I am...
altar John 4:24 burnt Leviticus 1:1 Leviticus 3:1 in all places Deuteronomy 12:5...
An altar of earth — It is meant of occasional altars, such as they reared in the wilderness before the tabernacle was erected, and afterwards upon special emergencies, for present use. They are appoin...
Was the altar made of earth or of wood? PROBLEM: Here the altar is constructed of earth, but in Exodus 27:1 it was constructed of “acacia wood.” SOLUTION: The altar itself was only a hollow case made...