Leviticus 17:7 KJV,NLT

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:1-46

(Chs. 17-26) The Law of HolinessThis section of Leviticus occupies a position by itself, being distinguished from the rest of the book both by style and contents. A few only of its main characteristics may be noticed here. (1) Among a large number of phrases almost, if not entirely, peculiar to this part of the Pentateuch is the constantly recurring expression ’I am Jehovah,’ or ’I am Jehovah your God,’ or ’I your God am holy.’ This ’divine I,’ as it has been called, occurs forty-seven times is... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Leviticus 17:7

(7) And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils.—The word (sçirim) here translated “devils,” literally denotes hairy or shaggy goats, and then goat-like deities, or demons. The Egyptians, and other nations of antiquity, worshipped goats as gods. Not only was there a celebrated temple in Thmuis, the capital of the Mendesian Nomos in Lower Egypt, dedicated to the goat-image Pan, whom they called Mendes, and worshipped as the oracle, and as the fertilising principle in nature, but... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Leviticus 17:1-16

The Blood of Christ (for Good Friday and Easter) Leviticus 17:11 The thoughts of Easter and of Good Friday must keep close together. They are, of course, at first sight, poles apart. And yet they are two sides of one great event. Consider this by help which God Himself has given us in the Old Testament. The precious Blood of Christ, that certainly is a Good Friday thought, but yet that Blood is at the centre of our Easter feast. It is the power of eternal lite. In it are washed the robes of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Leviticus 17:1-16

HOLINESS IN EATINGLeviticus 17:1-16WITH this chapter begins another subdivision of the law. Hitherto we have had before us only sacrificial worship and matters of merely ceremonial law. The law of holy living contained in the following chapters (17-22), on the other hand, has to do for the most part with matters rather ethical than ceremonial, and consists chiefly of precepts designed to regulate morally the ordinary engagements and relationships of everyday life. The fundamental thought of the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Leviticus 17:1-16

2. The Testimony Concerning the Blood CHAPTER 17 1. Concerning slain animals (Leviticus 17:1-9 ) 2. Concerning the eating of blood (Leviticus 17:10-16 ) This chapter needs little comment. Everything in this chapter speaks of the sanctity of the blood, what great value God, to whom life belongs, places upon the blood and with what jealous care He watches over it. The center of all is verse 11: “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Leviticus 17:7

17:7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto {e} devils, after whom they have gone a {f} whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.(e) Meaning, whatever is not the true God, 1 Corinthians 10:10, Psalms 95:5.(f) For idolatry is spiritual whoredom, because faith toward God is broken. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 17:1-16

GOD'S RIGHTS WHEN AN ANIMAL WAS KILLED (vv. 1-16) This chapter is an appendix to chapter 16, though it does not deal with the sin offering. Rather, the Lord now strongly insists that any Israelite who would slaughter an ox or a lamb or a goat must bring it to the door of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord. Verse 5 adds that these were to be offered as peace offerings to the Lord. The offerer received most of the peace offering as food, but first the fat, the two... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Leviticus 17:1-16

ABOMINATIONS UNTO THE LORD The underlying thought of this section is in the words of Leviticus 18:1-5 . Israel is redeemed and separated unto God, therefore, she is to live consistently with that fact in all her ways. She is not to do after the heathen peoples round about her. THE QUESTION OF EATING (Leviticus 17:0 ) It looks as though the opening injunction of this chapter touched once more upon the ceremonial and recurred to a matter considered under the offerings. But in that case the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Leviticus 17:7

It is probable, that Israel had acquired from long sojourning in Egypt the horrid custom of sacrificing to devils. The sacred writer gives a melancholy account of Israel on this occasion. Numbers 25:3 ; Deuteronomy 32:17 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Leviticus 17:7

Devils. Hebrew schirim: which some translate goats, (the hairy ones,) satyrs, &c. The Egyptians adored the goat, (which they represented like the god Pan) particularly in the territory of Mendes, near which the Hebrews had dwelt. Its worship was very abominable and obscene. (Strabo xvii.) (Calmet) --- Ezechiel (xvi. 22) intimates that the Hebrews were given to idolatry in Egypt. They had also recently adored the calf. (Haydock) read more