Thank Offering
Thank-offering
( , Lev 22:29; or briefly , 2Ch 29:3; Psa 56:13; Jer 17:26; literally praise or thanksgiving, as often rendered), a variety of the peace-offering (hence the full expression , Lev 7:13; Lev 7:15), the other two kinds being the votive offering, specifically such ( ), and the ordinary free-will offering ( ). As its name implies, it was a bloody or animal sacrifice, and its specific character was the praise which it embodied towards God. Like all the other divisions of the peace-offering, it was entirely voluntary, being placed in the light of a privilege rather than a duty. It is intimately associated with the meat-offering (q.v.).
The nature of the victim was left to the sacrificer; it might be male or female, of the flock or of the herd, provided that it was unblemished; the hand of the sacrificer was laid on its head, the fat burned, and the blood sprinkled as in the burnt-offering; of the flesh, the breast and right shoulder (the former of which the offerer was to heave and the latter to wave) were given to the priest; the rest belonged to the sacrificer as a sacrificial feast (1Co 10:18), to be eaten, either on the day of sacrifice or on the next day (Lev 7:11-18; Lev 7:29-34), except in the case of the firstlings, which belonged to the priest alone (Lev 23:20). The eating of the flesh of the meat-offering was considered a partaking of the table of the Lord; and on solemn occasions, as at the dedication of the Temple of Solomon, it was conducted on all enormous scale, and became a great national feast, especially at periods of unusual solemnity or rejoicing; as at the first inauguration of the covenant (Exo 24:5), at the first consecration of Aaron and of the tabernacle (Lev 9:18), at the solemn reading of the law in Canaan by Joshua (Jos 8:31), at the accession of Saul (1Sa 11:15), at the bringing of the ark to Mount Zion by David (2Sa 6:17), at the consecration of the Temple, and thrice every year afterwards, by Solomon (1Ki 8:63; 1Ki 9:25), and at the great Passover of Hezekiah (2Ch 30:22). In two cases only (Jdg 20:26; 2Sa 24:25) are these or any other kind of peace-offering mentioned as offered with burnt-offerings at a time of national sorrow and fasting. Here their force seems to have been precatory rather than eucharistic. The key to the understanding of this is furnished by Hengstenberg: To give thanks for grace already received is a refined way of begging for more. As prayer is founded on the divine promise, it may be expressed in the way of anticipated thanks.
Among thank-offerings, in the most extensive sense, might be reckoned the presentation of the first-born (Exo 13:12-13); the first-fruits, including the fruit of all manner of trees, honey, oil, and new wine (Lev 23:10-13; Num 18:12; 1Ch 9:29; Neh 10:37;. 2Ch 32:5); the second tithe (Deu 12:17-18; Deu 14:23); and the lamb of the Passover (Exo 12:3-17). Leaven and honey were excluded from all offerings made by fire (Lev 2:11); and salt was required in all (2, 13; Mar 9:49; Col 4:6). So also the Hebrews were forbidden to offer anything vile and contemptible (Deu 23:18; Mal 1:7-8). SEE PEACE OFFERING.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Thank Offering
(See SACRIFICE.) Eucharistic, indicating that the offerer was already by the atonement at peace with God (Leviticus 3; Lev 7:11-34; Lev 23:19-20). Spontaneous, “at your own will” (Lev 19:5); the only regularly recurring one was that of two firstling lambs at Pentecost. The meat offering on the other hand was regularly ordained. Periods of extraordinary solemnity or joy were the times of peace offerings: as Exo 24:5; Lev 9:18; Jos 8:31; 1Sa 11:15; 2Sa 6:17; 1Ki 8:63; 1Ki 9:25; 2Ch 30:22; see also Jdg 20:26; 2Sa 24:25.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Thank-Offering
THANK-OFFERING.See Sacrifice, 12.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Thank offering
See SACRIFICE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Thank Offering
This occurs in the A.V. only in the margin of Eze 43:27; Eze 45:15; Eze 45:17; Amo 5:22. The word is shelem, constantly rendered ‘peace offering,’ as it is in the text of these passages.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Thank Offering
Thank Offering. See Peace Offering.