Lev 4:13-26, 2Sa 6:17-18, 1Ki 3:4, 8:64, 2Ch 7:4-5, 29:21-24, 32, 35 | TSK | STEP | the whole congregation.This may refer to some oversight in acts of religious worship, or to some transgression of the letter of the law, which arose out of the peculiar circumstances in which they were found, as in the case mentioned in 1 Sa 14:32, et seq. The sacrifices and rites in this case were the same as in the preceding; only here the elders laid their hands on the head of the victim, in the name of all the congregation. through ignorance. and are guilty.

Leviticus 4:13-26

the whole congregation.This may refer to some oversight in acts of religious worship, or to some transgression of the letter of the law, which arose out of the peculiar circumstances in which they were found, as in the case mentioned in 1 Sa 14:32, et seq. The sacrifices and rites in this case were the same as in the preceding; only here the elders laid their hands on the head of the victim, in the name of all the congregation.

through ignorance.

1,2; 5:2-5,17; Nu 15:24-29; Jos 7:11,24-26; 1Ti 1:13; Heb 10:26-29

and are guilty.

5:2-5,17; 6:4; Ezr 10:19; Ho 5:15; *marg:

1Co 11:27

young bullock.

the elders.

Ex 24:1,9; Nu 11:16,25; De 21:3-9

lay.

4; 1:4; 16:21

5-12; Heb 9:12-14

6,7

upon the.

and shall pour out.The reason for pouring out the blood, which is so constantly and strictly required by the law, was in opposition to an idolatrous custom of the ancient Zabii, who "were accustomed to eat of the blood of their sacrifices, because they imagined this to be the food of their gods, with whom they thought they had such communion, by eating their meat, that they revealed to them future things."--Maimonides

8-10,26,31,35; 5:6; 6:7; 12:8; 14:18; Nu 15:25; Ps 22:14; Heb 1:3

Heb 9:14

with the.

an atonement.

26; 1:4; 5:6; 6:7; 12:8; 14:18; Ex 32:30; Nu 15:25; Da 9:24; Ro 5:11

Ga 3:13; Heb 1:3; 2:17; 9:14; 10:10-12; 1Jo 1:7; 2:2; Re 1:5

as he.

11,12

a sin offering.

16:15,21; 2Ch 29:21-24; Ezr 8:35; Mt 20:28; 2Co 5:21; 1Ti 2:5,6

a ruler hath sinned.Under the term {nasi,} that is, one preferred or elevated above others, from {nasa,} to exalt, it is probable that any person is meant who held any kind of political dignity among the people; and it evidently means the head of a tribe as in Nu 1:4, 16; 7:2. But the Rabbins generally understand it of the prince of the great sanhedrin, who, when they were under the regal form of government, was the king. A kid of the goats was the sacrifice in this case; and the rites were nearly the same as in the preceding, only the fat was burnt as that of the peace offering. (ver. 26.)

Ex 18:21; Nu 16:2; 2Sa 21:1-3; 24:10-17

and done.

2,13

if his sin.

14; 5:4; 2Ki 22:10-13

a kid.

9:3; 23:19; Nu 7:16,22,28,34; 15:24; 28:15,30; 29:5,11,16,19

Ro 8:3

And he.

4-35; Isa 53:6

in the place.

1:5,11; 3:2,8,13; 4:4,15,29,33; 6:25; 7:2; 16:15; Ex 29:38

it is a sin.

3,21,31,35

put.

7,18,30,34; 8:10,15; 9:9; 16:18; Isa 40:21; Ro 3:24-26; 8:3,4; 10:4

the fat.

See on ch.

an atonement.

2 Samuel 6:17-18

they brought.

1Ch 15:1; 16:1; 2Ch 1:4; Ps 132:8

pitched. Heb. stretched. offered.

1Ki 8:5,62-65; 2Ch 5:6; 7:5-7; Ezr 6:16,17

as soon.

1Ki 8:55; 1Ch 16:2; 2Ch 6:3; 30:18,19,27; Ac 3:26

he blessed.

Ge 14:19; Ex 39:43; Le 9:22,23; Heb 7:1-7

1 Kings 3:4

Gibeon.

9:2; Jos 9:3; 10:2; 1Ch 16:39; 21:29; 2Ch 1:3,7-12

a thousand.

8:63; 2Ch 1:6; 7:5; 29:32-35; 30:24; Isa 40:16; Mic 6:6,7

1 Kings 8:64

hallow.

2Ch 7:7

the brasen.

2Ch 4:1

2 Chronicles 7:4-5

Then the king.They presented the victims to the priests, and they and the Levites slew them, and sprinkled the blood; or, perhaps, the people themselves slew them, and having caught the blood, collected the fat, etc., presented them to the priests to be offered as the law required.

a sacrifice.

1:6; 5:6; 15:11; 29:32,33; 30:24; 35:7-9; 1Ki 8:62,63; 1Ch 29:21

Ezr 6:16,17; Eze 45:17; Mic 6:7

twenty and two.The number of sheep and oxen here mentioned has to some appeared incredibly large; but it must be considered that a prodigious number of persons was now at Jerusalem, and that this was the amount of all the victims that had been offered during the seven days of the feast of tabernacles, as well as the time the feast of the dedication lasted.

dedicated.

2:4; Nu 7:10; 1Ki 8:63; Ezr 6:16; Joh 10:22

2 Chronicles 29:21-24

they brought.The law only required one bullock for the sins of the high priest, another for the sins of the people, and one he-goat for the sins of the prince: but Hezekiah offered many more, and the reason appears sufficiently evident: the law only speaks of the sins of ignorance, but here there were sins of every dye, idolatry, apostasy from the Divine worship, profanation of the temple, etc., etc. The sin offerings, we are informed, were offered, first, for the Kingdom, for the transgressions of the king and his family; secondly, for the sanctuary, which had been defiled and polluted; and for the priests, who had been profane, negligent, and unholy; and finally, for Judah, for the whole mass of the people, who had been led away into every kind of abomination by the above examples.

seven.

Nu 23:1,14,29; 1Ch 15:26; Ezr 8:35; Job 42:8; Eze 45:23

a sin offering.

Le 4:3-14; Nu 15:22-24; 2Co 5:21

sprinkled.

Le 1:5; 4:7,18,34; 8:14,15,19,24; Heb 9:21,22

forth. Heb. near. they laid.

Le 1:4; 4:15,24

reconciliation.

Le 6:30; 8:15; Eze 45:15,17; Da 9:24; Ro 5:10,11; 2Co 5:18-21

Col 1:20,21; Heb 2:17

to make.

Le 14:20

the sin offering.

Le 4:13-35

2 Chronicles 29:32

the number.Comparing the sacrifices offered on this occasion with those of Solomon at the dedication of the temple, we may form some idea of the decrease of the prosperity and riches of Judah, or of the decline of the general spirit of piety.

1Ki 3:4; 8:63; 1Ch 29:21; Ezr 6:17

2 Chronicles 29:35

the burnt.

the fat.

Ex 29:13; Le 3:15,16

the drink.

Ge 35:14; Le 23:13; Nu 15:5-10

so the.

1Ch 16:37-42; Ezr 6:18; 1Co 14:40