Leviticus 23:41

_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ The feast of tabernacles, х_ CHAG_ (H2282) _ HA-CUKOWT_ (H5521), festival of the booths (see the notes at Exodus 23:16; Exodus 34:22, where it is called, _ CHAG_ (H2282) _ HAA'AACIYP_ (H614), feast of harvest; Septuagint, heortee skeenoon, skeenopeegia (John 7:2)], This festival, which was instituted in grateful commemoration of the Israelites having securely dwelt in booths or tabernacles in the wilderness, was the third of the three great annual festivals; and, like the other two, i

33-44 In the feast of Tabernacles there was a remembrance of their dwelling in tents, or booths, in the wilderness, as well as their fathers dwelling in tents in Canaan; to remind them of their origin and their deliverance. Christ's tabernacling on earth in human nature, might also be prefigured. And it represents the believer's life on earth: a stranger and pilgrim here below, his home and heart are above with his Saviour. They would the more value the comforts and conveniences of their own houses, when they had been seven days dwelling in the booths. It is good for those who have ease and plenty, sometimes to learn what it is to endure hardness. The joy of harvest ought to be improved for the furtherance of our joy in God. The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; therefore whatever we have the comfort of, he must have the glory of, especially when any mercy is perfected. God...

EXPOSITION LEVITICUS 23:8 The Feast of Unleavened Bread was instituted at the same time with the Feast of the Passover (Exodus 12:15-2), and from the beginning the two festivals were practically but one festival, never separated, though separable in idea. The Passover, strictly so called, lasted but one day, Nisan 14; the Feast of Unleavened Bread lasted seven days, Nisan 15-21. The whole made a festival of eight days, called indifferently the Feast of the Passover, or the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The bread to be eaten throughout the festival was unleavened, in order to remind the Israelites of the historical fact that on account of the urgency of the Egyptians, "the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their c

AND YE SHALL KEEP IT A FEAST UNTO THE LORD SEVEN DAYS IN THE YEAR,.... Every year it was to be kept for the space of seven days, beginning on the fifteenth and ending on the twenty second of the month Tisri or September; [IT SHALL BE] A STATUTE FOR EVER IN YOUR GENERATIONS; until the Messiah should come and tabernacle among men, the substance of this shadow, on whose coming it was to flee away: YE SHALL CELEBRATE IT IN THE SEVENTH MONTH; which is repeated for the confirmation of it, and that no mistake might be made....

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 firstfruits (Leviticus 23:9) 4. The feast of weeks (Leviticus 23:15) 5. The blowing of trumpets (Leviticus 23:23) 6. The day of atonement (Leviticus 23:26) 7. The feast of tabernac

THE FESTIVAL OF TENTS (pp. 1021). This the final harvest home (fruit and vintage). It would naturally be, as elsewhere, of a joyous character. The Hebrew countryside, indeed, had turned the vintage into an organised picnic and camped out for a week; the celebrations are referred to in Judges 21:19; 1 Kings 8:2; 1 Kings 12:32 (Jeroboam fixed the celebration in N. Israel, not unnaturally, a month later) and Ezekiel 45:25; Ezra 3:4 etc. It is definitely ordained in Deuteronomy 1

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_An Appendix, dealing with the Feast of Booths_(mainly H)...

DISCOURSE: 137 THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES Leviticus 23:39. Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath. And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations; ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths; that your generations may know, that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord

YE SHALL KEEP IT A FEAST UNTO THE LORD SEVEN DAYS IN THE YEAR— These days were spent in great festivity and joy; the highest part of which consisted in the drawing and pouring out of water: the Talmudists say of this, that he who never saw the rejoicing of drawing of water, knows not what rejoicing is. This custom is thought to have been in memory of the miraculous water which flowed from the rock in the wilderness; and undoubtedly was figurative of the gospel-grace; see Zechariah 14:16. The words of Isaiah 12:3 were sung during this ceremony; _With joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation:_ to which it is believed our Saviour alluded, when he cried out in the temple, on the last day of this solemnity; If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink: he that believeth on me, as the