Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadMatthew Poole Commentary - Leviticus 24:8 - 24:8
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Before the Lord, whence it was called the shew-bread, Heb. the bread of faces, or of presence, i.e. the bread which was put upon the table in the Lord’s presence.
Being taken; such supplements are not unusual. Thus in the floor, 1Ki_22:10, is put for sitting in the floor, 2Ch_18:9; and burdens, 2Ch_2:18, for carrying burdens, 1Ki_5:15. And these cakes are said to be received from or offered by
the children of Israel, because they were bought with the money which they contributed, as may be seen Neh_10:32,33; as Judas is said to purchase the field, Act_1:18, which was purchased by his money, Mat_27:7. By an everlasting covenant; by virtue of that compact made between me and them, by which they are obliged to keep this amongst other commands, and, they so doing, I am obliged to be their God, and to bless them. And this may be here called
an everlasting covenant, not only because it was to endure as long as the Jewish religion and polity stood, but also because this was to stand there everlastingly, or continually, as is here said, and therefore the new cakes were first brought before the old were taken away.