Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 23:29
Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for [that which is baked in] the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;
29. for the shewbread ] i.e. for the preparation of the shewbread.
meat offering ] R.V. meal offering. Cp. Lev 2:1; Lev 2:4-5.
and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan ] R.V. whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan.
and for that which is fried ] R.V. or of that which is soaked. Cp. Lev 6:21 [14, Heb.] ( baken; R.V. soaked).
for all manner of measure and size ] i.e. for measuring the component parts of the meal-offering, etc.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 29. Both for the shew-bread] It was the priests’ office to place this bread before the Lord, and it was their privilege to feed on the old loaves when they were replaced by the new. Some of the rabbins think that the priests sowed, reaped, ground, kneaded, and baked the grain of which the shew-bread was made. This appears to be a conceit. Jerome, in his comment on Mal 1:6, mentions it in these words: “Panes propositionis quos, juxta traditiones Hebraicas, ipsi serere, ipsi demetere, ipsi molere, ipsi coquere debebatis.”
For all manner of measure and size] The standards of all weights and measures were kept at the sanctuary, and by those there deposited all the weights and measures of the land were to be tried. See Clarke on Ex 30:13.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
This is to be understood either,
1. Particularly of the measure or quantity of fine flour, and wine, and oil, which was fixed by Gods law. Or
2. Generally of all measures, used either in sacred or civil things, the public standards whereof were kept in the sanctuary or temple; of which see on Exo 30:13; and therefore the care of keeping them inviolable, and producing them upon occasion, must needs belong to the priests, and under them to the Levites, who were to examine other measures and all things by them, as oft as occasion required, that so the priests might be at more leisure for their higher and greater employments.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Both for the shewbread,…. Also to make and get that ready every week for the priests to set on the shewbread table, when they took off the other that had stood a week, see 1Ch 9:32
and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried; to deliver out the flour of which these several things were made, see 1Ch 9:31, and Le 2:1,
and for all manner of measures and size; as the hin and the ephah, and the several parts of them for things both liquid and dry, which were in their keeping, and according to which they gave out the proper quantity of oil, and wine, and fine flour, upon occasion.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(29) Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour.Rather, And over the shewbread, and over, &c. For (l) continues the sense of over (al). The Levitical assistants of the priests had to see to the preparation of the things here enumerated.
And for that which is baked in the pan.Literally, and over the pan (Lev. 2:5).
And for that which is fried.Rather, and over that which is soaked in oil (a kind of cake, Lev. 7:12).
And for all manner of measure and size.The flour and wine and oil, which were the complements of every sacrifice, were measured by the Levites in standard vessels, of which they had the keeping. Exo. 29:40 shows that the proportions were fixed for each kind of offering. Measure (msrh), a rare word, implies measure of capacity; size (middh), measure of length (Rashi).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ch 23:29 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for [that which is baked in] the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;
Ver. 29. And for all manner of measure. ] Sacred howsoever; whether civil or not, is uncertain. Some say the Levites kept the standards in the temple, that if the common weights and measures were by any means corrupted, they might thereby be rectified.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Both = And. See note above.
meat offering = meal offering. Hebrew. minha. App-43.
measure and size. The standards were committed to the Levites. Honesty in dealing is part of true religion. Compare Lev 19:36. Deu 25:15. Pro 11:1; Pro 16:11; Pro 20:23. Mic 6:11. If this be so in the secular sphere, how much more in sacred things.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
shewbread
(See Scofield “Exo 25:30”).
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
for the showbread: It was the priests’ office to place this bread before the Lord; and it was their privilege to feed on the old loaves when they were replaced by the new. 1Ch 9:31, 1Ch 9:32, Exo 25:30, Lev 24:5-9, 1Ki 7:48, 2Ch 13:11, 2Ch 29:18, Neh 10:33, Mat 12:4, Heb 9:2
the fine flour: 1Ch 9:29-34, Lev 6:20-23
unleavened: Lev 2:4-7, Lev 7:9
pan: or, flat plate
for all manner of measure: The standards of all weights and measures were in the sanctuary; and therefore the Levites had the inspection of weights and measures of every kind, that no fraud might in this way be committed. Honesty is inseparably connected with piety; and hence the Levites, being sufficiently numerous, were employed to superintend the former, as well as the latter. Lev 19:35, Lev 19:36, Num 3:50
Reciprocal: Lev 24:8 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 23:29. For all manner of measure All measures used either in sacred or civil things, the public standards whereof were kept in the temple; and therefore the care of keeping them inviolable, and producing them upon occasion, must needs belong to the priests, and under them to the Levites, who were to examine other measures, and all things by them, as occasion required, that so the priests might be at leisure for their higher and greater employments.