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The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:2
My offering, and my bread. Literally, "my korban, my bread." The general term korban is here restricted by the words which follow to the meat offering. "Bread" ( לֶחֶם) is translated "food" in Le Numbers 3:11, Numbers 3…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:3
This is the offering made by fire. The daily offering prescribed at Exodus 29:38-42, and which had presumably never been intermitted since, is specified again here because it formed the foundation of the whole sacrifici…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:7
In the holy place. בַּקֹּדֶשׁ. Septuagint, ἐν τῷ ἀγίῳ. Josephus paraphrases this by περὶ τὸν βωμόν (‘Ant.,' 3.10), and so the Targum of Onkelos; Jonathan and the Targum of Palestine render, "from the vessels of…
Matthew Henry on Numbers 28:9-15
Every sabbath day, beside the two lambs offered for the daily burnt-offering, there must be two more offered. This teaches us to double our devotions on sabbath days, for so the duty of the day requires. The sabbath res…
Matthew Henry on Numbers 28:9-15
The new moons and the sabbaths are often spoken of together, as great solemnities in the Jewish church, very comfortable to the saints then, and typical of gospel grace. Now we have here the sacrifices appointed, 1. For…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:9
And on the sabbath day. The special offering for the sabbath is ordered here for the first time. It does not say when the two lambs were to be slain, but in practice it was immediately after the morning sacrifice of the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:10
The burnt offering of every sabbath. Literally, "the sabbath burnt offering for its sabbath."
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:11
In the beginnings of your months. The new-moon offering also is here enjoined for the first time, the festival itself having only been incidentally mentioned in Numbers 10:10. There can be no doubt that this (unlike the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:15
One kid of the goats. "One hairy one ( שָׂעִיר) of the she goats ( עֵן)." See on Numbers 7:16. This was probably offered first in order, according to the usual analogy of such sacrifices (Exodus 29:10-14). There is no a…
Matthew Henry on Numbers 28:16-31
By the sacrifices enjoined in this chapter, we are reminded of the continued power of the sacrifice of Christ, and of our continual need to depend thereon. No hurrying employments, or perilous situations, or prosperous…
Matthew Henry on Numbers 28:16-31
Here is, I. The appointment of the pass-over sacrifices; not that which was the chief, the paschal lamb (sufficient instructions had formerly been given concerning that), but those which were to be offered upon the seve…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:17
In the fifteenth day of this month is the feast. The fourteenth day of Abib, or Nisan, the day of the passover proper, was not a feast, but a fast ending with the sacred meal of the evening. Only the ordinary daily sacr…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:18
In the first day, i.e; on the fifteenth (see on Exodus 12:16; Le Exodus 23:7).
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:19
Ye shall offer a sacrifice. This offering, the same for each day of Mattsoth as for the feast of the new moon, had not been prescribed before, and almost certainly not observed at the one passover kept in the wilderness…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:23
Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, i.e; in addition to, and immediately after, the usual morning sacrifice. Even when it is not expressly stated, the presumption is that all the sacrifices he…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:26
In the day of the first-fruits. The feast of weeks, or day of Pentecost (Le Numbers 23:15-21).
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 28:27
Ye shall offer the burnt offering. The festal sacrifice here prescribed is exactly the same as for the days of Mattsoth and for the feast of the new moon. It is not the same as that prescribed for the same day in Leviti…
Matthew Henry on Numbers 29:1-11
There were more sacred solemnities in the seventh month than in any other. It was the space between harvest and seed-time. The more leisure we have from the pressing occupations of this life, the more time we should spe…
Solemnities of the Seventh Month. (b. c. 1452.)
SOLEMNITIES OF THE SEVENTH MONTH. (B. C. 1452.) There were more sacred solemnities in the seventh month than in any other month of the year, not only because it had been the first month till the deliverance of Israel ou…
Matthew Henry on Numbers 29:12-40
Soon after the day of atonement, the day in which men were to afflict their souls, followed the feast of Tabernacles, in which they were to rejoice before the Lord. Their days of rejoicing were to be days of sacrifices.…
Matthew Henry on Numbers 29:12-40
Soon after the day of atonement, that day in which men were to afflict their souls, followed the feast of tabernacles, in which they were to rejoice before the Lord; for those that sow in tears shall soon reap in joy. T…
Matthew Henry on Numbers 30:1-2
No man can be bound by his own promise to do what he is already, by the Divine precept, forbidden to do. In other matters the command is, that he shall not break his words, through he may change his mind.
Concerning Vows. (b. c. 1452.)
CONCERNING VOWS. (B. C. 1452.) This law was delivered to the heads of the tribes that they might instruct those who were under their charge, explain the law to them, give then necessary cautions, and call them to accoun…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 30:1-16
EXPOSITION OF VOWS MADE BY WOMEN (Numbers 30:1-16).