Leviticus 24:2

_COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT THEY BRING UNTO THEE PURE OIL OLIVE BEATEN FOR THE LIGHT, TO CAUSE THE LAMPS TO BURN CONTINUALLY._ Command the children of Israel. This is the repetition of a law given, Exodus 27:20. PURE OIL OLIVE BEATEN - or cold-drawn, which is always of great purity....

1-9 The loaves of bread typify Christ as the Bread of life, and the food of the souls of his people. He is the Light of his church, the Light of the world; in and through his word this light shines. By this light we discern the food prepared for our souls; and we should daily, but especially from sabbath to sabbath, feed thereon in our hearts with thanksgiving. And as the loaves were left in the sanctuary, so should we abide with God till he dismiss us....

Verse Leviticus 24:2. _PURE OIL OLIVE_] See every thing relative to this ordinance explained on Exodus 27:20-2....

The oil for the lamps of the tabernacle and the meal for the showbread were to be offerings from the Congregation, like the meal for the Pentecostal loaves, Leviticus 23:17. It appears that the responsibility of keeping up the lights rested on the high priest, but the actual service might be performed, on ordinary occasions, by the common priests. Compare margin reference. Leviticus 24:5 Each cake or loaf of unleavened bread Leviticus 2:11 was to contain about six pounds and a quarter (see Exodus 29:40 note) of fine flour. The material was the same, both in quality

EXPOSITION A connection between Leviticus 23:1, and Le Leviticus 24:1 is found by Keil in the fact that the oil for the holy lamps and the shewbread were offerings of the people, a sacrificial gift with which Israel was to serve the Lord continually. "The offering of oil, therefore, for the preparation of the candlestick, and that of fine flour for making the loaves to be placed before Jehovah, formed part of the service in which Israel sanctified its life and labour to the Lord its God, not only at the appointed festal periods, but every day; and the law is very appropriately appended to the sanctification of the sabbaths and feast days prescribed in Leviticus 23:1." But it is better to conside

COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... Moses was the chief magistrate under God, and being clothed with authority from him, had power to command the children of Israel to do what the Lord required of them: THAT THEY BRING UNTO THEE PURE OIL OLIVE, BEATEN, FOR THE LIGHT; this was to be at the public expense, and it belonged to the community to supply the priests with oil for the light of the candlestick in the temple, Exodus 25:6; and this oil was not to be any sort of oil, as train oil, or oil of nuts, almonds, c. but oil of olives, and not any sort of that, but the purest, which was the first that was taken from them it seems there were three sorts, the first of which was pure, and this beaten in a mortar, and not ground in a mill; Exodus 27:20; to cause the lamps to burn contin

2. PRIESTLY DUTIES: THE LIGHT AND THE SHEWBREAD CHAPTER 24:1-9 _ 1. The light (Leviticus 24:1)_ 2. The shewbread (Leviticus 24:5) This chapter is not disconnected from the preceding one as some claim; nor is it the work of a redactor as the critics teach. It is most beautifully linked with the dispensational foreshadowings we found in the feasts of Jehovah. Between Pentecost and the blowing of the trumpets there is, as stated before, a long period of time. When the church was formed, after the sheaf of the firstfruits had been waved, Israel was nationally set aside and night settled upon them. Maintained by the high priest, a light was to be kept shining continually from evening till morning; it was the light of the golden lampstand with its lamps. The lampstand typifie

LEVITICUS 24. FOUR ADDITIONAL ORDINANCES. Leviticus 24:1. THE HOLY LAMP (P). Leviticus 24:2 f. is partially identical with Exodus 27:20 * a section which may not be in its right place. The candlestick with seven lights (_cf._ lamps, Leviticus 24:4) is represented on the Arch of Titus; 1 Kings 7:49 mentions ten candlesticks; Leviticus 24:2 f. probably represents the earlier custom of one lamp (_cf._...

COMMAND. Only twice, here and in Leviticus 6:9, is the word "command" used for communicating. CHILDREN. Hebrew sons. THE LIGHT. the light-bearer or lamp-stand. Compare Exodus 27:20; Exodus 27:21....

These _vv._agree almost _verbatim_with Exodus 27:20 f. The care of the lamps is also enjoined in Exodus 25:31 ff.; cp. Exodus 37:17 ff....