Leviticus 23:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. ”

Leviticus 23:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The recurrence of the sabbatical number in the five annual days of holy convocation should be noticed.
Leviticus 23:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their (a) seasons. (a) For the sabbath was kept every week, and these others were kept only once every year.
Leviticus 23:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 23:4-8 (P). The Passover (pp. 102f.), which was regularly followed by a week when no leaven was to be eaten ( cf. Deuteronomy 16:1-8 ; Exodus 12:1-14 ). The first month (see on Lev...
Leviticus 23:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

These are the feasts: thus marking the sabbath offering as distinct. feasts . Hebrew appointed seasons. feasts of the LORD. This was their true character. But in our Lord ' . day they had deg...
Leviticus 23:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. These are the feasts of the Lord. The other festivals which Moses here enumerates have an affinity to the Sabbath. In the first place the Passover is put, the mystery of which I have anne...
Leviticus 23:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
Leviticus 23:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. Feasts of the Lord ... in their season. Their observance took place in the parts of the yea...
Leviticus 23:4 - 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 23:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

These are the feasts of the Lord. — Because the following are the festivals proper as distinguished from the sabbath (see Leviticus 23:37-38 ), and because they are now enumerated in their regular...
Leviticus 23:4 - 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 23:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Sabbath, Passover and First-Fruits Leviticus 23:1-14 The year of Israel's national life was marked out by high and blessed convocations, which preserved its unity, kept the people in mind of th...
Leviticus 23:4 - 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 23:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This is the second feast noticed in this chapter. Reader! search for JESUS as your passover, and remember what the apostle hath said on this subject, 1 Corinthians 5:7-8 .
Leviticus 23:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

These are the feasts of the Lord, [even] holy convocations ,.... What follow besides the sabbath mentioned: which ye shall proclaim in their seasons ; the proper times of the year, the day or days...
Leviticus 23:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. Ver. 4. In their seasons, ] i.e., Once a year.
Leviticus 23:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

These are the feasts of the Lord The solemnities , as the same word is rendered, Isaiah 33:20 , where Zion is called the city of our solemnities.
Leviticus 23:4 - 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 23:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

4 These are the feasts of the L ORD , even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the L ORD 's passover....
Leviticus 23:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In their appointed and proper times, as the word is used Genesis 1:14 Psalms 104:19 .
Leviticus 23:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Set Feasts. Leviticus 23:4 “These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.” The writer now goes on to outline the recurri...
Leviticus 23:4 - 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 23:4 - 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 23:4 - 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 23:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

PART IV . HOLY DAYS AND SEASONS : WEEKLY , MONTHLY , ANNUAL , SEPTENNIAL , AND EVERY HALF - CENTURY . EXPOSITION THIS Part consists of Leviticus 23:1-3 , and Leviticus 25...
Leviticus 23:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

These are the feasts of the Lord, in the narrower sense, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. This instruction was carried out with strict literalness in after-years, t...
Leviticus 23:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 23:14 ; Leviticus 23:2 ; Leviticus 23:37
Leviticus 23:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

These are the feasts of the Lord — Or rather, the solemnities: (for the day of atonement was a fast:) and so the word is used, Isaiah 33:20 , where Zion is called the city of our solemnities.

Leviticus 23:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Leviticus 23:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Leviticus 23:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 23:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Leviticus 23:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 23:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Leviticus 23:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 23:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 23:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Leviticus 23:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Leviticus 23:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Leviticus 23:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Leviticus 23:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Leviticus 23:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Leviticus 23:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Leviticus 23:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 23:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 23:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Leviticus 23:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Leviticus 23:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 23:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Leviticus 23:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Leviticus 23:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Leviticus 23:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Leviticus 23:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Leviticus 23:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 23:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes