Numbers 28:2

_COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM, MY OFFERING, AND MY BREAD FOR MY SACRIFICES MADE BY FIRE, FOR A SWEET SAVOUR UNTO ME, SHALL YE OBSERVE TO OFFER UNTO ME IN THEIR DUE SEASON._ Command the children of Israel, and say unto them. The repetition of several laws formerly enacted, which is made in this chapter, was seasonable and necessary, not only on account of their importance and the frequent neglect of them, but because a new generation had sprung up since their first institution, and because the Israelites were about to be settled in the land where those ordinances were to be observed. MY OFFERING, AND MY BREAD - used generally for the appointed offerings; and the import of the prescription is to enforce regularity and care in their observance....

1-8 God saw fit now to repeat the law of sacrifices. This was a new generation of men; and they were concerned to keep their peace with God when at war with their enemies. The daily sacrifice is called a continual burnt-offering; when we are bid to pray always, at least every morning and evening we should offer up solemn prayers and praises to God. Nothing is added here but that the wine poured out in the drink-offering is to be strong wine, to teach us to serve God with the best we have. It was a figure of the blood of Christ, the memorial of which is still left to the church in wine; and of the blood of the martyrs, which was poured out as a drink-offering on the sacrifice and service of our faith, Philippians 2:17....

Verse Numbers 28:2. _COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, C._] It is not easy to account for the reason of the introduction of these precepts here, which had been so circumstantially delivered before in different parts of the books of Exodus and Leviticus. It is possible that the _daily, weekly, monthly_, and _yearly_ services had been considerably interrupted for several years, owing to the unsettled state of the people in the wilderness, and that it was necessary to _repeat_ these laws for two reasons: 1. Because they were now about to enter into the promised land, where these services must be established and constant. 2. Because the former generations being all dead, multitudes of the present might be ignorant of these ordinances. _IN THEIR DUE SEASON_] Moses divides these offerings into: - 1. DAILY. The...

MY OFFERING, AND MY BREAD ... - Or, my offering, even my bread, etc. Offering is here קרבן _qorbân_ (compare Leviticus 1:2; Mark 7:11), a term in itself of quite general import, but often especially applied, as apparently in this instance, to the meat-offering which accompanied the sacrifices. This meat-offering connected itself, from its very nature, with the life of the Israelites in Canaan, not with their life in the wilderness; and it was annexed to the animal sacrifices as a token that the people must dedicate to God their property and the fruits of their labor as well as their own persons. See Numbers 15:2 note and...

EXPOSITION THE ROUTINE OF SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS (Numbers 28:1, Numbers 29:1). NUMBERS 28:1 THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES. It is impossible to say with any assurance whether the law of offerings contained in these two chapters was really given to Moses shortly before his death, or whether it was ever given in this connected and completed form. It is obvious that the formula with which the section opens might be used with equal propriety to introduce a digest of the law on this subject compiled by Moses himself, or by some subsequent editor of his writings from a number of scattered reg

COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM,.... For what follows concerned them all; namely, the offering of their daily, weekly, monthly, and anniversary sacrifices, which were not for private persons, but for the whole congregation; and these might be considered by them not merely as commands and duties to be observed, but as tokens of the divine favour to them, that notwithstanding all their rebellions and provocations in the wilderness, sacrifices for sin were ordered, continued, and accepted of by the Lord; and his acceptance of them, and well pleasedness in them, may easily be observed in the expressions used concerning them: MY OFFERING, AND MY BREAD; by "offering" may be meant in general all sacrifices which were offered to the Lord, and by his command; and more especially the burnt offering, which was wholly and peculiarly his, and is after explained by sacrifices made b...

SWEET SAVOUR Or, savour of satisfaction. (_ See Scofield) - (Leviticus 1:9). _...

5. THE OFFERINGS AND THE SET TIMES CHAPTER 28 _ 1. The daily offerings (Numbers 28:1)_ 2. The Sabbatic offerings (Numbers 28:9) 3. The monthly offerings (Numbers 28:11) 4. The Passover (Numbers 28:16) 5. The firstfruits (Numbers 28:26) CHAPTER 29 _ 1. The blowing of trumpets (Numbers 29:1)_ 2. The day of atonement ...

NUMBERS 28-29. THE NATURE AND AMOUNT OF THE OFFERINGS REQUIRED ON VARIOUS HOLY DAYS. The quantities prescribed for special festivals did not exhaust all the sacrifices offered upon them: on every festival the special sacrifices were supplemented by the daily offerings; on the first of the seventh month the distinctive offerings were supplemented by the offerings required for the first of each ordinary month; whilst on the tenth of the seventh month the sin offering of atonement (Leviticus 16) was supplementary to the other sacrifices here enjoined. For the ephah and hin, see Numbers 15:4 *....

CHILDREN. sons. OFFERING. approach offering Hebrew. _korban._ App-43. BREAD. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species), App-6, put for all kinds of food. SWEET SAVOUR. See note on Leviticus 1:9. OFFER. bring near. Hebrew. _karab._ App-43. DUE SEASON. appointed time. Hebrew. _mo'ed._ See note on Genesis 1:14....