Exodus 34:23 Deuteronomy 12:5 Deuteronomy 16:16 Deuteronomy 31:11 Psalms 84:7 Luke 2:42
This is the first mention of the three great Yearly Festivals. The feast of Unleavened bread, in its connection with the Paschal Lamb, is spoken of...
Exodus 23:10-19 E. Calendar and Rules for Worship. This passage may originally have followed Exodus 23-26 in the Covenant Book. It has been exp...
before . Hebrew "before the face of". THE Lord God . Hebrew. ha-'adon Jehovah. See App-4.
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD. All thy males - Old men, sick men, male idiots, and male children under thirt...
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD. All thy males shall appear before the Lord God. All the males who wer...
The Book of the Covenant (concluded) 1-19. Miscellaneous Laws.
Three times in the year ] These annual pilgrimages served to maintain a conscious unity of race and worship.
XXIII. (1-19) The “miscellaneous laws” are here continued. From Exodus 23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced; from...
(14-17) The first great festival — the Passover festival — had been already instituted ( Exodus 12:3-20 ; Exodus 13:3-10 ). It pleased the Divine Le...
Three times in the year. — The terms of this verse, as compared with Exodus 23:14 , limit the observance of the three festivals to the males, but...
Laws of Conduct and Worship Exodus 23:1-17 We may apply these various precepts to our own hearts. Many of them breathe the very spirit of Chris...
The enactments now recorded have to do with the administration of justice. A study of them reveals that true justice is always merciful and yet makes...
Those seasons were - in the spring, summer, and autumn, namely, the feast of the Passover, that of Pentecost, and that of Tabernacles. It is worthy o...
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord thy God. In the city of Jerusalem, when they were come into the land of Canaan,...
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD. Ver. 17. All thy males. ] The females are not required to appear, because...
All thy males All that were of competent years, and health, and strength, and at their own disposal. It is probable, servants were exempt: for none...
INSISTENCE ON HONESTY (vs.1-9) Consistently with the language of law, the question of honesty is looked at from a negative viewpoint, that is, em...
10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: 11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie...
To wit, such as are of competent years, and health, and strength, and such as were at their own dispose; for that servants were not bound to this may...
Expansion of the Ten Words of the Covenant ( Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 ). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly...
Regulations Concerning The Annual Feasts ( Exodus 23:14-19 ). The people have arrived at Mount Sinai and are preparing for what lies ahead. These...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 23:19 . Thou shalt not seethe, &c.]—This command, taken in connection with the preceding one, justifies the explanati...
Exodus 23:1 . Put not thine hand with the wicked, do not conspire or agree with them. Exodus 23:3 . Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man....
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT .— Continued . EXPOSITION Exodus 23:1-2 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS — continued . The same want of logical ar...
The Holy Periods and Feasts
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God. So it was specifically ordered that on the above-mentioned feasts the men of...
All thy males — All that were of competent years, and health and strength, and at their own disposal. 'Tis probable, servants were exempt: for none...
17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.