Chapter 24:
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Leviticus 24
Laws concerning the lamps, ver. 1-4. The shew-bread, ver.
5-9. Blasphemy occasioned by that of Shelomith's son, ver. 10-16.
The law of retaliation, ver. 17-22. The blasphemer stoned, ver. 23.
Verse 2. To cause the lamps to burn - Hebrew. the lamp: yet ver. 4, it is
the lamps: The seven lamps made all one lamp. In allusion to
which, the Blessed Spirit is represented, Rev. iv, 5, by seven
lamps of fire before the throne. For there are diversities of gifts,
but one spirit.
Verse 3. Aaron - Either by himself, or by his sons, Exod. xxv, 37.
Verse 4. The pure candlestick - So called, partly because it was made of
pure gold, partly because it was to be always kept clean.
Verse 5. Thou - By the priests or Levites, whose work it was to prepare
them,
1Chr ix, 32. Twelve cakes - Representing the twelve tribes.
Verse 6. Two rows - Not one above another, but one beside another, as
the frankincense put upon each, ver. 7, shews.
Verse 7. Pure frankincense - Unmixed and uncorrupted, or of the best
sort, to be burnt before the Lord. On the bread - And this was
done every time that the bread was changed. For a memorial - For
that part which properly belonged to God, whereas the rest
belonged to the priests.
Verse 8. From the children of Israel - And these cakes are said to be
received from or offered by the children of Israel, bought with the
money which they contributed. By an everlasting covenant - By
virtue of that compact made between me and them, by which they
were obliged to keep this amongst other commands, and, they so
doing, I am obliged to be their God and to bless them. And this
may be here called an everlasting covenant, not only because it
was to endure as long as the Jewish polity stood, but also because
this was to stand everlastingly, or continually, and therefore the
new cakes were first brought before the old were taken away.
Verse 9. It - The old bread now to be taken away. Made by fire - The
incense was offered by fire, and that for or instead of the bread,
and therefore the bread was reputed as if it had been so offered.
Verse 10. Whose father was an Egyptian - This circumstance seems
noted, partly to shew the danger of marriages with persons of
wicked principles, and partly by this severity against him who was
a stranger by the father, and an Israelite by the mother, to shew
that God would not have this sin go unpunished amongst his
people, what-soever he was that committed it. Went out - Out of
Egypt, being one of that mixed multitude, which came out with
the Israelites, Exod. xii, 32. It is probable, this was done when the
Israelites were near Sinai.
Verse 11. The name of the Lord - The words of the Lord, or of Jehovah,
are supplied out of ver. 16, where they are expressed; here they
are omitted perhaps for the aggravation of his crime. He
blasphemed the name so called by way of eminency; that name
which is above every name; that name which a man should in
some sort tremble to mention; which is not to be named without
cause or without reverence. And cursed - Not the Israelite only,
but his God also, as appears from ver. 15, 16. And they brought
him - Either the people who heard him, or the inferior magistrate,
to whom he was first brought.
Verse 12. That the mind of the Lord might be shewed - For God had
only said in general, that he would not hold such guiltless, that is,
he would punish them, but had not declared how he would have
them punished by men.
Verse 14. Lay their hands upon his head - Whereby they gave public
testimony that they heard this person speak such words, and did in
their own and all the peoples names, demand justice to be
executed upon him, that by this sacrifice God might be appeased,
and his judgments turned away from the people, upon whom they
would certainly fall if he were unpunished. Stone him - The same
punishment which was before appointed for those who cursed
their parents.
Verse 15. Whosoever curseth his God - Speaketh of him reproachfully.
Shall bear his sin - That is, the punishment of it; shall not go
unpunished.
Verse 16. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord - This is a
repetition of the same sin in other words, which is common. As
this law is laid down in general terms, ver. 15, so both the sin and
the punishment are particularly expressed, ver. 16. All the
congregation - To shew their zeal for God, and to beget in them
the greater dread and abhorrence of blasphemy.
Verse 17. He that killeth - This law is repeated here, to prevent the
mischievous effects of men's striving together, which as here it
caused blasphemy, so it might in others lead to murder.
Verse 22. One law - That is, in matters of common right, but not as to
church privileges.
Verse 23. Stone him with stones - This blasphemer was the first that
died by the law of Moses. Stephen the first that died for the
gospel, died by the abuse of the law. The martyr and the
malefactor suffered the same death; but how vast the difference
between them.
Chapter 24:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Exodus Numbers
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