Leviticus 23:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. ”

Leviticus 23:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses contain a distinct command regarding the religious services immediately connected with the grain harvest, given by anticipation against the time when the people were to possess the pro...
Leviticus 23:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits [for] a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the (i) priest. (i) That is, offered to...
Leviticus 23:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Harvest Festival, or Weeks, i.e. of the completion of the corn harvest (p. 103, Numbers 28:26-31 ). In a country so varied topographically as Palestine, there may be two months-' difference...
Leviticus 23:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
Leviticus 23:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, a...
Leviticus 23:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sacred Seasons These are the Sabbath ( Leviticus 23:3 ), Passover and Unleavened Bread ( Leviticus 23:5-14 ), Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost ( Leviticus 23:15-22 ), Feast of Trumpets ( Leviticus...
Leviticus 23:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the priest shall wave them... with the two lambs. — During the second Temple this was done in the following manner : — The two lambs were brought into the Temple, and waved together or separate...
Leviticus 23:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE SET FEASTS OF THE LORD Leviticus 23:1-44 IT is ever an instinct of natural religion to observe certain set times for special public and united worship. As we should therefore anticipate, su...
Leviticus 23:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Wave-Loaves, Trumpets and Atonement Leviticus 23:15-32 The Hebrew feasts divide themselves into two groups, connected with the Passover and the Day of Atonement, respectively, and occurring in...
Leviticus 23:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The feasts of Jehovah were national l signs and symbols. These were now dealt with. The foremost place was given to the Sabbath. Its constant recurrence, governed not by the natural order, but by the...
Leviticus 23:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This is the fifth of those feasts, the solemnity of Pentecost, or as it is elsewhere called the feast of harvest. Exodus 23:16 . And what a pointed type was this of that glorious event in after ages...
Leviticus 23:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the priests shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits ,.... The two loaves called the two wave loaves, Leviticus 23:17 ; with which were waved the two lambs of the peace offerings; and...
Leviticus 23:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits [for] a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. Ver. 20. Wave them. ] See...
Leviticus 23:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wave them Some part of them, in the name of the whole; and so for the two lambs otherwise they had been too large and too heavy to be waved. For the priests Who had to themselves not only the bre...
Leviticus 23:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE SET TIMES OF THE LORD (vv. 1-43) The times of special observance in Israel are called “feasts” in most translations, yet all were not feasts for Israel, as per the day of atonement (vv. 26-32)...
Leviticus 23:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 16 Even unto the morrow afte...
Leviticus 23:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The priest shall wave them, i.e. some part of them in the name of the whole, and so for the two lambs, otherwise they had been too big and too heavy to be waved. So it is a synecdochical expression...
Leviticus 23:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Feast of Sevens (Weeks) or Harvest - Pentecost ( Leviticus 23:15-22 ). This was a one day feast ( Deuteronomy 16:9-12 ) to be held fifty days after unleavened bread. Leviticus 23:15-16 “A...
Leviticus 23:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Israel’s Holy Festivals SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 23:2 .—Concerning the feasts of the Lord. Religion has its joy seasons, its festive aspects. Israel’s sacred feasts symbolised the festivals...
Leviticus 23:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 23:3 . Convocation. מקרא, mickra is rendered ecclesia, or church, seventy times, and synagogue thirty seven times. In the next phrase it is changed for the word dwellings, for th...
Leviticus 23:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

These are My feasts. The holy festivals I. Commentators generally on this part of Hebrew law have remarked upon the social, political, and commercial benefits resulting to the Jewish people fro...
Leviticus 23:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Leviticus 23:8 The Feast of Unleavened Bread was instituted at the same time with the Feast of the Passover ( Exodus 12:15-2 ), and from the beginning the two festivals were prac...
Leviticus 23:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Feast of Weeks
Leviticus 23:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 9:11 ; Deuteronomy 18:4 ; Ephesians 2:14 ; Exodus 29:24 ; Leviticus 10:14 ; Leviticus 10:15 ; Leviticus 7:31-34 ; Leviticus 8:29 ; Leviticus 23:17 ; Leviticus 7:29 ; Leviticu...
Leviticus 23:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Wave them — Some part of them in the name of the whole; and so for the two lambs, otherwise they had been too big and too heavy, to be waved. For the priests — Who had to themselves not only the br...

Leviticus 23:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Leviticus 23:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Leviticus 23:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 23:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Leviticus 23:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 23:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 23:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Leviticus 23:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Leviticus 23:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Leviticus 23:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 23:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Leviticus 23:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Leviticus 23:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Leviticus 23:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 23:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 23:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Leviticus 23:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 23:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 23:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Leviticus 23:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 23:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Leviticus 23:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Leviticus 23:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Leviticus 23:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 23:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes