Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 27:25
And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
On the shekel and the gerah, see Exo 30:13, note; Exo 38:24, note.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Lev 27:25
According to the shekel of the sanctuary.
Sanctuary measure demanded in small things
The law of the sanctuary is to regulate all. Full weight is sought for, but neither superfluity nor abatement. God loves a perfect balance and a just weight. We do not know whether or not there was a standard measure kept in the sanctuary; but it is very probable. Some, indeed, render the words, shekel of holiness, i.e., a true shekel; still it is every way likely that the other is the true meaning, admitting that this rendering be right. There was probably a standard measure kept in the sanctuary, by which all other weights and measures were regulated. Here would be a type to Israel of the Lords justice. Here, in the sanctuary of Jehovah, they found the source and regulating measure of all dealings in business between man and man, and of all similar dealings between God and man, through His priests. Would not this standard measure be felt to be a type of the Lords original attribute of righteousness? He it is that judges; He it is that fixes what is right and what is wrong; He it is to whom all Israel must come to have thought and action weighed. May not 1Sa 2:3 refer to this? Hannahs eye had rested on this standard measure, and so she sings, By Him actions are weighed. Who shall stand before this holy God? He perceives what is wanting the moment He has adjusted His balances. He detects the want of faith in Cain at the altar; of true godly zeal in Jehus heart; of love in Ephesus; of life in Sardis; of oil in the five virgins; of the wedding garment in the speechless guest: He judges according to the real weight–not the apparent. He judges according as the work has been, not according as the show has been (1Co 5:10; Rev 20:12; Rev 22:12). (A. A. Bonar.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 25. Shekel of the sanctuary] A standard shekel; the standard being kept in the sanctuary to try and regulate all the weights in the land by. See Ge 20:16; Ge 23:15.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And all thy estimation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary,…. The shekel kept in the sanctuary, which was the standard of all shekels; not that there was a shekel in the sanctuary different from the common one; for every shekel ought to have been as that, of the full weight and worth of it; and the estimation was to be according to such a shekel, and the money paid in such, even in full weight:
twenty gerahs shall be the shekel; which the Targum of Jonathan calls “meahs” or “oboli”, one of which was about three halfpence of our money, scarce so much, and weighed near eleven grains, as Bishop Cumberland i has calculated: see Eze 45:12.
i Of Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 111.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(25) According to the shekel of the sanctuary.As the proceeds of these vows were devoted to the maintenance and repair of the sanctuary, all the valuations are to be made and paid according to the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. (See Exo. 30:13.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
25. Shekel of the sanctuary This implies that a standard of weights was kept in the sanctuary to try and regulate all the weights in the land. Thus true religion provides things honest. For the value of the shekel see Num 3:47, note.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 27:25. And all thy estimations, &c. I find the following note on this verse in Dr. Church’s Bible, in which he follows the opinion of Bishop Wilkins. “So great care was taken among the Jews for the preservation of commutative justice from all abuse and falsification in weights and measures, that the public standards, by which all other measures were to be tried and allowed, were with much religion preserved in the sanctuary; the care of them being committed to the priests and Levites, whose office it was to look unto all manner of measures and sizes, 1Ch 23:29. Hence this frequent expression, according to the shekel, &c. which doth not refer to any weight or coin distinct from, or more than the vulgar, as some fondly conceive; but doth only oblige men, in their dealing and traffic, to make use of such just measures, as were agreeable to the public standards kept in the sanctuary.”
Note; Though we need not sell our houses now for God’s service, it becomes us to sanctify them to him, by constant worship and his fear in the midst of them.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
And all: Lev 27:3
to the shekel: A standard shekel; the standard being kept in the sanctuary, to try and regulate all the weights in the land by.
twenty: Exo 30:13, Num 3:47, Num 18:16, Eze 45:12
Reciprocal: Exo 38:24 – the shekel Lev 5:15 – the shekel Num 7:13 – the shekel
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 27:25. The shekel of the sanctuary About 2 Samuel 6 d.