Deuteronomy 18:3

_AND THIS SHALL BE THE PRIEST'S DUE FROM THE PEOPLE, FROM THEM THAT OFFER A SACRIFICE, WHETHER IT BE OX OR SHEEP; AND THEY SHALL GIVE UNTO THE PRIEST THE SHOULDER, AND THE TWO CHEEKS, AND THE MAW._ This shall be the priest's due from the people. All who offered sacrifices of thanksgiving or peace offerings (Leviticus 7:31) were ordered to give the breast and shoulder as perequisites to the priests. Here "the two cheeks," or head, and dainty, are specified. But whether this is a new injunction, or a repetition of the old, with the supplement of more details, it is not easy to determine....

3._And this shall be the priests’ due. _It is not only for the sake of the priests that God enumerates what He would have them receive, that they may obtain what is their own without murmuring or dispute; but He also has regard to the people,lest the priests should basely and greedily take more than their due; which sacred history relates to have been done by the sons of Eli, (1 Samuel 2:23,) for they had advanced to such a degree of licentiousness, that, like robbers, they seized violently on whatever their lust desired. Lest therefore they should give way to this gross covetousness, God prescribes to them certain limits, to which they were to confine themselves, so that if they transgressed them, it was easy for any of the people to convict them of avarice....

1-8 Care is taken that the priests entangle not themselves with the affairs of this life, nor enrich themselves with the wealth of this world; they have better things to mind. Care is likewise taken that they want not the comforts and conveniences of this life. The people must provide for them. He that has the benefit of solemn religious assemblies, ought to give help for the comfortable support of those that minister in such assemblies....

Verse Deuteronomy 18:3. _OFFER A SACRIFICE_] זבחי הזבח _zobechey hazzebach_. The word זבח _zebach_ is used to signify, not only an animal sacrificed to the Lord, but also one killed for _common use_. See Genesis 46:1; Proverbs 17:1; Ezekiel 39:17. And in this latter sense it probably should be understood here; and, consequently, the command in this verse relates to what the people were to allow the priests and Levites from the animals slain for common use. The parts to be given to the priests were, 1. The _shoulder_, probably cut off from the beast with the skin on; so _Maimonides_....

For “maw” read stomach, which was regarded as one of the richest and choicest parts. As the animal slain may be considered to consist of three principal parts, head, feet, and body, a portion of each is by the regulation in question to be given to the priest, thus representing the consecration of the whole; or, as some ancient commentators think, the dedication of the words, acts, and appetites of the worshipper to God. The text probably refers to peace-offerings, and animals killed for the sacrificial meals held in connection with the peace-offerings....

EXPOSITION RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES. THE ARTS OF DIVINATION OF THE HEATHEN TO BE AVOIDED. PROPHETS PROMISED WHOM ISRAEL MUST HEAR. THE FALSE AND PRESUMPTUOUS PROPHET TO BE PUT TO DEATH. DEUTERONOMY 18:1 After the ruling powers, the judges and the king, come the priests and the

AND THIS SHALL BE THE PRIEST'S DUE FROM THE PEOPLE, FROM THEM THAT OFFER SACRIFICE,.... Not from the priests, as Jarchi observes, but from those that bring the sacrifices to the priests, particularly the peace offerings: WHETHER IT BE OX OR SHEEP; the one of the herd, the other of the flock, creatures used in sacrifice, and takes in goats and the kids of them, rams and lambs: AND THEY SHALL GIVE UNTO THE PRIEST THE SHOULDER, AND THE TWO CHEEKS, AND THE MAW; the first of these designs the upper part of the arm that joins to the neck and back, and the next the two cheeks with the tongue, as both Jarchi and Aben Ezra observe, and indeed the whole head is meant; the maw, which the Septuagint interpreters call ενυστρον, and other writers ηνυστρον, is, according to the philosopher p, the fourth and last ventricle or stomach, and which he thus describes; "after the echinus or rough tripe is...

14. THE RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES, THE TRUE AND THE FALSE PROPHET CHAPTER 18 _ 1. The rights of the priests and Levites (Deuteronomy 18:1)_ 2. Forbidden things (Deuteronomy 18:9) kite hate is stirred up in his wicked heart, and he became full of wrath. An unseen being, he who is the murderer from the beginning, told him to make this occasion for destroying all the Jews in the Persian Empire. Esther 3:7. And now Haman waits on his unseen master, the devil. They cast the lot before Haman, from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. He wanted to find out the month which would be best suited for the execution of his wicke

THE PRIESTS, THE LEVITES TO BE SUPPORTED BY ALTAR GIFTS. The Jerusalem priests are intended. Deuteronomy 18:3_ f_. Contrast the later laws of Leviticus 7:34; Numbers 18:18; Numbers 18:12 (all P)....

PRIEST'S DUE. priest's custom. Compare 1 Samuel 2:13 1 Samuel 2:28, 1 Samuel 2:29; Leviticus 7:33; Leviticus 7:34.Numbers 18:8. OFFER. sacrifice. See App-43....