Lev 6:20-23, 1Ch 9:29-34 | TSK | STEP | the offering.This oblation, which the Jews call a {mincha} of initiation, seems to have been required of the high priest alone "on the day in which he was anointed," and from that time, every morning and evening, as long as he continued in office, and then in like manner of his successor; for, by "the sons of Aaron," may be understood his descendants and successors in the high priesthood, in their generations. in the day.The word {beyom} signifies not only in the day, but from that day forward; for it was a daily oblation, and for them and their successors, a statue for ever. the tenth. a meat offering.

Leviticus 6:20-23

the offering.This oblation, which the Jews call a {mincha} of initiation, seems to have been required of the high priest alone "on the day in which he was anointed," and from that time, every morning and evening, as long as he continued in office, and then in like manner of his successor; for, by "the sons of Aaron," may be understood his descendants and successors in the high priesthood, in their generations.

Ex 29:2; Nu 18:26-32; Heb 5:1; 7:27; 8:3,4

in the day.The word {beyom} signifies not only in the day, but from that day forward; for it was a daily oblation, and for them and their successors, a statue for ever.

the tenth.

5:1; Ex 16:36

a meat offering.

2:1-16; Ex 29:35-42; Nu 28:3,10

2:5; 7:9; 1Ch 9:31

is anointed.

4:3; De 10:6; Heb 7:23

wholly.

8:21; Ex 29:22-25; Isa 53:10

shall be.The meat offering of the people was eaten by the priests, who typically bore and expiated their sins; but as no priest, being a sinner, could make atonement for himself, his meat offering must not be eaten, but wholly burnt on the altar, which was a typical transfer of his guilt to the great antitype who actually bore and expiated it.

it shall not be.

16,17; 2:10

1 Chronicles 9:29-34

instruments. or, vessels. the oil.

Ex 27:20

the frankincense.

Ex 30:23-38

of the sons.

Ex 30:25,33,35-38; 37:29

Shallum.

17,19

set office. or, trust.

22,26

in the pans. or, on flat plates, or slices.

Le 2:5,7; 6:21

the sons.

6:33-48

shewbread. Heb. bread of ordering. to.

Ex 25:30; Le 24:5-8

the singers.

6:31-33; 15:16-22; 16:4-6; 25:1-31; Ezr 7:24

were free.

Ne 11:17,22,23

they, etc. Heb. upon them. employed.A number of Levites were employed by rotation in singing the praises of Jehovah; and they seem to have continued the service day and night: see the References.

Ps 134:1,2; 135:1-3

chief fathers.

13; Ne 11:1-15

Jerusalem.We have already seen the situation and extent of this ancient city, (Note on 8:28;) but the Jerusalem of sacred history is no more. After having been successively destroyed by the Babylonians and Romans, and taken by the Saracens, Crusaders, and Turks, in the possession of the latter of whom it still continues, not a vestige remains of the capital of David and Solomon, not a monument of Jewish times is standing. The very course of the walls is changed, and the boundaries of the ancient city are become doubtful. The monks pretend to shew the sites of the sacred places; but they have not the slightest pretensions to even a probable identity with the real places. The Jerusalem that now is, however, called by the Arabs {El Kouds,} or "the holy city," is still a respectable, good-looking town, of an irregular shape: it is surrounded by high embattled walls, enclosing an area not exceeding two miles and a half, and occupying two small hills, having the valley of Jehoshaphat on the east, the valley of Siloam and Gehinnom on the south, and the valley of Rephaim on the west; and containing a population variously estimated at from 20,000 to 30,000 souls.