Exo 30:1, 7-8, Num 16:7, 18, 46, Rev 8:3-4 | TSK | STEP | The altar of incense. The ransom of souls. The brazen laver. The holy anointing oil. The composition of the incense. The Samaritan inserts the first ten verses of this chapterafter ver. 32 of chap. 26. an altar. to burn incense.Where so many sacrifices were offered, it was essentially necessary to have some pleasing perfume to counteract the disagreeable smells that must have arisen from the slaughter of so many animals, the burning of so much flesh, the sprinkling of the blood. No blood was ever sprinkled on this altar, except once a year, on the grand day of expiation. It was called also the golden altar (Nu 4:11); and the incense was as constantly burnt on it every day, as the morning and evening sacrifice of a lamb was burnt on the brazen altar.

Exodus 30:1

1 The altar of incense.

11 The ransom of souls.

17 The brazen laver.

22 The holy anointing oil.

34 The composition of the incense.

The Samaritan inserts the first ten verses of this chapterafter ver. 32 of chap. 26.

an altar.

7,8,10; 37:25-28; 40:5; Le 4:7,18; 1Ki 6:20; 2Ch 26:16; Re 8:3

to burn incense.Where so many sacrifices were offered, it was essentially necessary to have some pleasing perfume to counteract the disagreeable smells that must have arisen from the slaughter of so many animals, the burning of so much flesh, the sprinkling of the blood. No blood was ever sprinkled on this altar, except once a year, on the grand day of expiation. It was called also the golden altar (Nu 4:11); and the incense was as constantly burnt on it every day, as the morning and evening sacrifice of a lamb was burnt on the brazen altar.

Exodus 30:7-8

sweet incense. Heb. incense of spices.

34-38

dresseth.

27:20,21; 1Sa 2:28; 3:3; 1Ch 23:13; Lu 1:9; Ac 6:4

lighteth. or, setteth up. Heb. causeth to ascend. at even.Heb. between the two evens.

12:6; *marg:

a perpetual.

Ro 8:34; 1Th 5:17; Heb 7:25; 9:24

Numbers 16:7

that the man.

3,5; Eph 1:4; 2Th 2:13; 1Pe 2:9

too much.

3; 1Ki 18:17,18; Mt 21:23-27

Numbers 16:18

Numbers 16:46

from off.

Le 9:24; 10:1; 16:12,13; Isa 6:6,7; Ro 5:9,10; Heb 7:25-27; 9:25,26

Re 8:3-5

and put.

Ps 141:2; Mal 1:11

an atonement.

Ex 30:7-10; Le 16:11-16; 1Jo 2:1,2

there is wrath.

1:53; 8:19; 11:33; 18:5; Le 10:6; 1Ch 27:24; Ps 106:29

the plague is begun.God now punished them by a secret blast, so as to put the matter beyond dispute; His hand, and His alone, was seen, not only in the plague, but in the manner in which the mortality was arrested. It was necessary that it should be done in this way, that the whole congregation might see that these men who had perished were not "the people of the Lord," and that God, not Moses and Aaron, had destroyed them.

Revelation of John 8:3-4

another.

7:2; 10:1; Ge 48:15,16; Ex 3:2-18; Ac 7:30-32

stood.

9:13; Ex 30:1-8; 2Ch 26:16-20; Ro 8:34; Heb 7:25

having.

Le 16:12; 1Ki 7:50; Heb 9:4

much.

Le 16:13; Nu 16:46,47; Mal 1:11

offer it with the prayers. or, add it to the prayers.

4; 5:8; Ps 141:2; Lu 1:10; Heb 4:15,16; 10:19-22; 1Jo 2:1,2

the golden.

6:9; 9:13; Ex 37:25,26; 40:26

3; 15:8; Ex 30:1; Ps 141:2; Lu 1:10