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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Leviticus 24 This chapter treats of the oil for the lamps, and the ordering of them, Leviticus 24:1; of the making of the shewbread cakes, and the setting of them on the table, Leviticus 24:5; and an Israelite having blasphemed the name of the Lord, and inquiry being made what should be done to him, he, and so any other person guilty of the same, is ordered to be stoned to death,...
John Gill
And they put him in ward,.... In some prison, a place known in the camp, as Aben Ezra observes: that the mind of the Lord might be shewed them; for, though this was a breach of the third command, in which God declares he would not hold such an one guiltless, Exodus 20:7; yet no particular punishment being expressed, it was not a clear case whether the Lord would punish for it himself, by an...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter we have, I. A repetition of the laws concerning the lamps and the show-bread, ver. 1-9. II. A violation of the law against blasphemy, with the imprisonment, trial, condemnation, and execution, of the blasphemer, ver. 10-14, with ver. 23. III. The law against blasphemy reinforced (ver. 15, 16), with sundry other laws, ver. 17, &c. Laws Concerning the Lamps. (b. c. 1490.) 1 And the...