- in your set feasts:
- It appears from the account in these two chapters, that there were annually offered to God, at the public charge, independently of a prodigious number of voluntary, vow, and trespass offerings, 15 goats, 21 kids, 72 rams, 132 bullocks, and 1,101 lambs. But how little is all this compared with the lambs slain every year at the passover. Cestius, the Roman general, asked the priests how many persons had come to Jerusalem at their annual festivals. The priests, numbering the people by the lambs that had been slain, said, "twenty-five myriads, 5,000, and 600." "Speakª° unto¹ the childrenª of Israel,ª and sayª° unto¹ them, [Concerning] the feastsª of the LORD,ª which¹¹ ye shall proclaimª° [to be] holyª convocations,ª [even] these¹ [are] my feasts.ª" {Lev 23:2} + "And to offerª° all¹ burnt sacrificesª unto the LORDª in the sabbaths,ª in the new moons,ª and on the set feasts,ª by number,ª according to the orderª commanded unto¹ them, continuallyª beforeª the LORD:ª" {1Ch 23:31} + "[He appointed] also the king'sª portionª of¹ his substanceª for the burnt offerings,ª [to wit], for the morningª and eveningª burnt offerings,ª and the burnt offeringsª for the sabbaths,ª and for the new moons,ª and for the set feasts,ª as [it is] writtenª° in the lawª of the LORD.ª" {2Ch 31:3} + "And afterwardª [offered] the continualª burnt offering,ª both of the new moons,ª and of all¹ the set feastsª of the LORDª that were consecrated,ª° and of every one¹ that willingly offeredª° a freewill offeringª unto the LORD.ª" {Ezr 3:5} + "For the shewbread,ªª and for the continualª meat offering,ª and for the continualª burnt offering,ª of the sabbaths,ª of the new moons,ª for the set feasts,ª and for the holyª [things], and for the sin offeringsª to make an atonementª° for¹ Israel,ª and [for] all¹ the workª of the houseª of our God.ª" {Neh 10:33} + "Your new moonsª and your appointed feastsª my soulª hateth:ª° they are¹ a troubleª unto me;¹ I am wearyª° to bearª° [them]." {Isa 1:14}
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