Leviticus 24 - Introduction
_OF THE OIL FOR THE LAMPS: OF THE SHEW-BREAD: THE BLASPHEMY OF THE SON OF SHELOMITH: THE LAWS CONCERNING BLASPHEMY AND RETALIATION._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
_OF THE OIL FOR THE LAMPS: OF THE SHEW-BREAD: THE BLASPHEMY OF THE SON OF SHELOMITH: THE LAWS CONCERNING BLASPHEMY AND RETALIATION._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
BAKE TWELVE CAKES THEREOF— The order given, Exodus 25:30 respecting the _shew-bread,_ is here repeated more particularly. The _cakes_ were to be _twelve_ in number, representing the twelve tribes, as is generally observed; each consisting of _two tenth-deals, i.e._ two omers, or two tenth _parts_ of... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SON OF AN ISRAELITISH WOMAN, &C.— Saurin observes, that this person was the son of one of those AEygptians, concerning whom Moses tells us, that a great number of them went out with the Israelites from the land of Egypt. Exodus 12:38. This man, who had married a woman of the tribe of Dan, named... [ Continue Reading ]
BRING FORTH HIM THAT HATH CURSED, WITHOUT THE CAMP, &C.— 1st, This was the custom in relation to accursed persons, and such as devoted themselves to destruction. Thus it was that _Joshua took Achan—and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen,... [ Continue Reading ]
BREACH FOR BREACH, &C.— These words fully prove that we are to take those in Exodus 21:24 in a literal sense. We are not to imagine that individuals were permitted to avenge themselves, they were to refer their injuries to the judges. There is no doubt, however, that reason, in various cases, requir... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL HAVE ONE MANNER OF LAW, AS WELL FOR THE STRANGER, &C.— This was a merciful provision that strangers might not be treated unjustly, God declaring that one and the same law should judge the native and the stranger. For _"I am the Lord your God,"_ says he; "a just and holy God, and who will ha... [ Continue Reading ]