Bible Commentary

And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will. 5 8. See introd. note to ch. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Rather, ye shall offer it that you may be accepted. Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible Verse 5. Peace-offerings] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 19:5”

Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I [am] the LORD your God. 4. Turn ye not unto ] As in Lev 19:31 (A.V. ‘Regard not’), and Lev 20:6. idols ] ( ’l lm) things of nought R.V. mg. See reference there. The Heb. word occurs only here and Lev 26:1 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 19:4”

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I [am] the LORD your God. 3. his mother, and his father ] The command in the Decalogue is to ‘honour,’ here to ‘fear,’ or act reverently towards parents. The mother is put first, as in Lev 21:2. This order probably … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 19:3”

Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God [am] holy. Ye shall be holy … – These words express the keynote to the whole book of Leviticus, being addressed to the whole nation. There does not appear to be … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 19:2”

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, CHAPTER XIX Exhortations to holiness, and a repetition of various laws, 1, 2 Duty to parents, and observance of the Sabbath, 3. Against idolatry, 4. Concerning peace-offerings, 5-8. The gleanings of the harvest and vintage to be left for the poor, 9, 10. Against stealing and lying, 11; … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 19:1”

Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that [ye] commit not [any one] of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I [am] the LORD your God. Verse 30. Shall ye keep mine ordinance] The only way to be preserved from all false worship is seriously to consider … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 18:30”

For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall be cut off from among their people. To wit, by death to be inflicted by the magistrates, as it is apparent in case of idolatry with Moloch or other false gods; and in case of the magistrates neglect, by God … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 18:29”

That the land spew not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spewed out the nations that [were] before you. That the land spew not you out also, when ye defile it,…. By sinning on it, and so rendering it obnoxious to the curse of God, as the whole earth originally was for … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 18:28”

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled;) For all these abominations have the men of the land done,…. The then present inhabitants of Canaan, who dwelt in it before the Israelites came into it; these were guilty of unclean copulations, of incestuous, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 18:27”

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: Nor any stranger, in nation or religion, of what kind soever. For though they might not force them to submit to their religion, yet they … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 18:26”