Leviticus 3:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD. ”

• Leviticus 3:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Burn it - See Leviticus 1:9 note.

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Sheep. Flock ( Leviticus 3:6 ) includes either sheep or goats, but note that by implication only lambs, and not full-grown sheep, are to be offered. The ritual is the same as for cattle, save that t...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  food. Hebrew "bread", put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6, for food in general. Compare Leviticus 21:6 ; Leviticus 21:8 ; Leviticus 21:17 ; Leviticus 21:21 ; Leviticus 21:...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD. It is the food of the offering - We have already remarked that God is frequently represented...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  It is the food of the offering made by fire— "The food or bread," says Dr. Beaumont, i.e. "the flesh, which the fire on the altar was to eat up and consume." In the same idiom of speech, the go...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. The two kidneys ... of the flock ... the whole r...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Peace Offering This form of sacrifice takes its name from a Heb. word meaning a 'requital' or giving of thanks, and is therefore called by some the Thank Offering. It is an animal sacrifice, t...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The food, or bread, that is, which the fire upon the altar was to consume for God, or the sacrifice. Hence that which was burnt unto God was called His bread ( Numbers 28:2 ; Ezekiel 44:7 ), and...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE PEACE OFFERING Leviticus 3:1-17 ; Leviticus 7:11-34 ; Leviticus 19:5-8 ; Leviticus 22:21-25 IN chapter 3 is given, though not with completeness, the law of the peace offering. The altern...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Peace-Offerings from the Herd and the Flocks Leviticus 3:1-17 The Lord Jesus has been set forth in Leviticus 1:1-17 as the burned-offering in relation to God; and in Leviticus 2:1-16 , as th...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In the peace offering new elements are manifest Here one part was to be burned with fire and thus offered directly to God, while another part was returned from the altar to the worshiper for his own...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Much the same observations meet us here as before. See Romans 8:3-4 .

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• Leviticus 3:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the priest shall burn it upon the altar ,.... The fat of the tail, of the inwards, the two kidneys, and the caul of the liver: [it is] the food of the offering made by fire unto the Lord ; or...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: [it is] the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD. Ver. 11. It is the food. ] That whereupon God himself seemeth to feed. Psa 50:13

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Leviticus 3:9 ; Leviticus 3:11 . The rump Which in sheep is fat and sweet, and in these countries was much larger and better than in ours. The food of the offering So called, to denote God'...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE PEACE OFFERING TAKEN FROM THE HERD (vv. 1-5) The peace offering was also a voluntary sacrifice. However, it could either be a male or female, but only an unblemished animal. Of course it spea...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

          6 And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the L ORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.   7 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then s...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The priest shall burn it, i.e. the parts now mentioned, and for the rest, they fell to the priest, Leviticus 7:31 . The food of the offering, i.e. the fuel of the fire, or the matter of the of...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  A Peace Offering of Sheep ( Leviticus 3:6-11 ). Leviticus 3:6 ‘And if his oblation for a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Yahweh be of the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemi...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  The Peace Offering of Thanksgiving SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 3:1 .—A sacrifice of peace offering. Happy are the truths made evident in this peace sacrifice; delightful to God, blessed for ma...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Leviticus 3:1 . Oblation, is variously rendered; sometimes an offering of any kind, sometimes, as here, a sacrifice of peace-offering. The LXX render it an offering of salutation; when a man had r...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  A sacrifice of peace-offering. The peace-offering The word peace in the language of the Scriptures, has a shade of meaning not commonly attached to it in ordinary use. With most persons it sign...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE PEACE OFFERING . The peace offering, though the instructions here given respecting it precede those relating to the sin offering (for a reason to be stated hereafter), is the...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Of the Flock

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:21 ; Ezekiel 44:7 ; Isaiah 53:4-10 ; Leviticus 21:17 ; Leviticus 21:21 ; Leviticus 21:22 ; Leviticus 21:6 ; Leviticus 21:8 ; Leviticus 22:25 ; Leviticus 3:16 ; Leviticus 3...

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• Leviticus 3:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Burnt it — The parts now mentioned; the rest fell to the priest, Leviticus 7:31 . The food — That is, the fuel of the fire, or the matter of the offering. It is called food, Heb. bread, to note Go...

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